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These are almost certainly plants that might be reasonable candidates for retirement if it weren’t for their use to supply miners. So, these miners are contributing to all of the health and climate problems associated with the continued use of fossil fuels. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/over-2-percent-of-the-uss-electricity-generation-now-goes-to-bitcoin/

Common Crawl’s mission as an organization does not easily align with the needs of trustworthy #AI #llm development. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/library/generative-ai-training-data/common-crawl

Music & Sound

“the instrument emerged in the shadow of the National Research Council, Canada’s federal agency for R&D in science and technology” https://spectrum.ieee.org/electronic-music

The Hugh Le Caine Collection https://soundandscience.net/collections/midcentury-electronic-musical-instrument-design/

I couldn’t care less about the .. but this performance from moved me https://networkeffects.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/joni-mitchell-feb042024.mp4

no riffs hint at the grittiness of navigating masculinity when you aren’t born of privilege. No key shifts evoke images of depression, anxiety and identity crisis. Combs’s interpretation of Chapman’s lyrics feels like an ode to an actual car. What a waste. https://archive.ph/FboEl

a voice of “the doomed, the damned, the weird.” https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F02%2F08%2Farts%2Fmusic%2Fmojo-nixon-dead.html

a site for making mixtapes together. Once it’s full, your mixtape will be automatically converted into a single, crossfaded mp3 that can be streamed or downloaded https://mixtapegarden.com/

If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason,
If all I was was passing time my life was just a season .. https://youtu.be/7CekMoTerEM?feature=shared

Comics

One day Son, all this will be yours .. https://embed.tumblr.com/embed/post/-Qo_qojk7kK4BBQB3f2Sgw/741558348537888768

Film & Video

“We’re in a position where we’re kicking the door in. When you kick the door in, you should just put your foot in the door and stand there.” https://12ft.io/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/lily-gladstone-is-holding-the-door-open

Politics & Economics

I expect taking real steps to address by regulating monolithic supermarket chains would have gone a long way in this unrest .. but no, tax the farmers & ditch the sustainability commitments instead .. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/31/eu-delays-biodiversity-rules-amid-rising-protests-from-farmers

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/transportation/railroad-trilogy-2024-canadas-passenger-rail-service-past-present-and-future/

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a cassette player with added pitch/speed control, delay and echo, a light sensor to change volume with, and the option to record from an audio input or the built-in microphone. https://lara-grant.com/portfolio/rachels-cassette-player-mod/

031 Tiny SciFi Stories

“We’ve seen demonstrably, intellectually, that word processing is a good thing for everybody. Now let’s admit it in our heart of hearts we may not exactly be crazy about changing over to it but probably the best course of action is to learn how to use it anyway.” https://youtu.be/9rAu23esnQc

Today, most people take it for granted that the Web, and indeed the Internet it is built on, is, by its nature, anti-contextual and devoid of provenance. We assume that decontextualization is intrinsic to the very idea of a digital network. https://archive.ph/e6w5m

This is a Social Network for .. No humans allowed https://chirper.ai/

There is no blockchain. No proprietary social sign-in. No “real-name policy” No distributed hash table, onion routing, raft consensus, or peer-to-peer protocol. There is just a method of providing simple digitally signed text, and a simple, scalable search service. https://wiki.wellorder.net/post/nostr-intro/

He was very, very good at liberating other people through his example. He was not good at liberating himself. https://archive.ph/8Uiv0

117 Tiny SciFiStories

a $1200 (USD) microphone https://teenage.engineering/store/cm-15

Politics & Economics

Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is launching a new campaign today, titled Books UnBanned, to help teens combat the negative impact of increased and book bans in across the country. For a limited time, young adults ages 13 to 21 nationwide, will be able to apply for a free eCard from BPL, unlocking access to the library’s extensive collection of eBooks. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-94

The thing that scares me is that we don’t fall for them, or most of us don’t fall for them, but they just continuously pop up one by one over time. And we’re constantly fighting over whether or not we believe in the latest instance of media .. that cumulative effect over time of lots of little instances of that, and some big ones too, eventually to build up to the point where we stop trusting media in general. https://thewalrus.ca/ai-and-politics-how-will-we-know-what-and-who-is-real/

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The National Farmers Union (NFU) has submitted data to the House of Commons agriculture committee which details how much retail prices have risen compared to the prices that farmers receive for their goods. https://www.nfu.ca/gap-continues-to-widen-between-food-prices-that-consumers-pay-retailers-and-prices-farmers-receive/