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87% Missing: The Disappearance of Classic Video Games https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

To further the understanding of training data, the Knowing Machines Project developed see:set, an investigative tool for examining the training datasets for via: @maryakem https://knowingmachines.org/publications/9_ways_to_see_a_dataset

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Sound & Music

Consistently get fantastic recommendations from .. the latest https://jennydontandthespurs.bandcamp.com/album/the-singles-roundup

Arts

Two years in the making, “Takrar” spotlights the mélange of Islamic, Ottoman, Greek, and Byzantine influences throughout Istanbul https://vimeo.com/839085383

Politics & Economics

And still, it got warmer and warmer. https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-generations-climate-rebellion/

The median square footage of an American house built in the nineteen-sixties was fifteen hundred square feet, compared with about twenty-two hundred today—and the earlier model was home to more people. Before 1972, more than half of Americans had never taken a plane trip, much less more than one a year. https://archive.ph/RasyG

He chose the name of the Deuter album, and in four days he sold five thousand units of Ecstasy. https://archive.ph/g0uTi

“I was speechless. We’ve lost almost 30 percent of an entire class of organisms in less than the span of a human lifetime, and we didn’t know it.” https://nautil.us/a-third-of-north-americas-birds-have-vanished-340007/

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Volunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation.” https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart

Gold rushes always finish ugly, and this AI rush is another one of those. It will resemble that glamorous Atomic Age transition from “energy too cheap to meter” to “garbage too expensive to bury.” https://www.newsweek.com/2023/07/21/ai-scariest-beast-ever-created-says-sci-fi-writer-bruce-sterling-1809439.html

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Utilizing a technique called “Adversarial Patch” that induces false recognition by adding a specific pattern to an image or video. This method lets AI cause misrecognition, miss objects or recognize objects as different. https://unlabeled.jp/en/camouflage

Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been. https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

The NABU Network was an obscure, forgotten part of Canadian tech history—until the day the internet noticed that thousands of NABU machines were being sold on eBay at rock-bottom prices. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3k34/2200-forgotten-vintage-computers-are-being-liberated-from-a-barn-in-massachusetts

Comics

Goodnight Phone https://www.theverge.com/c/23558791/goodnight-phone-comic-interactive-gina-wynbrandt

Sound & Music

It’s a haven for Centrist Dad and people who say ‘It’s Wine ‘o’Clock’ https://flashbak.com/the-battle-of-the-beanfield-1-june-1985-461713/

Public Enemy’s Chuck D … We Wreck Stadiums pays homage and salute to some of the baseball greats and the undeniable impact they’ve had on the game and the world .. https://chuckdasmistachuck.bandcamp.com/album/we-wreck-stadiums

Millions of songs on Spotify have been forgotten. Let’s give them new life in new ears – yours. http://www.forgotify.com

Photos

July 1 2023 Annapolis Royal Glass Blossoms

July 1 2023 East Coast Binary Suns

Politics & Economics

Climate Parables is a series of short, speculative stories from some of the most talented climate-fiction writers. We ask them what life could be like after technological and societal shifts have actually mitigated climate change—and we’ve adapted to chronic environmental stresses. https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/category/climate-parables/

Rest in Power Sue Johanson .. I remember seeing her bits on zed.cbc.ca in the early 2000’s .. fearless, funny, and direct .. a gifted educator https://youtu.be/kDs2tIrBfEo

Gaucher said he’s not totally opposed to LNG Canada and Coastal GasLink but he doesn’t stand for colonial violence against Indigenous people. Speaking out publicly alienated him from much of his community, he said, who he described as “too afraid to speak.”

“What’s crazy is being classified as one of those ‘crazy anti-pipeline people’ because not once did I say I was against it,” he said, his fists clenched on the table. #canada
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