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href weekly | June25-July1 2023

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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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href weekly | May28-June3 2023

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The resulting “photo” is not just a snapshot, but a complex and nuanced reflection of the location you are at, and perhaps how the AI model “sees” that place. https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/paragraphica

A world of deep fakes, mimicry loops and worsening inequality is not an inevitability. It’s a set of policy choices.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

Slide to Unlock https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/slide/

Only a comprehensive reconfiguration of property rights over the increasingly cloud-based instruments of production, distribution, collaboration, and communication can rescue the foundational liberal idea of liberty as self-ownership. https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2023/06/01/the-strange-death-of-the-liberal-individual-project-syndicate-op-ed/

Sound & Music

“Perhaps more than anything else, ambient country reflects the loneliness of America’s sprawling hinterlands. With no fences or neighbors comes freedom, but also pangs of desolation. Lassoing the ardor of post-rock, the zeal of experimental music, and the lyrical introspection of Americana, it’s the sound of the human vacuum that exists between heaven and ground, the liminal spaces untouched by boot heels and mile markers.” https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/ambient-country-list

#sunra was an experimental artist in the truest sense of the term. Unlike many others who adopt that name—posers who take few genuine chances despite all their posturing—Sun Ra actually conducted real-time experiments in the recording studio. If his laboratory blew up, it was okay. He would be moving on to something else, no matter what. https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-hit-singles-of-sun-ra


Comics

Big chunks of provincial history, Indigenous experience, and familial connections are all filtered through the near-psychedelic interpretation of Yahgulanaas’s visual style.” https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/05/31/Haida-Manga/

Politics & Economics

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-29-2023
1. pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity.
2. In place of international cooperation, seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count.
3. the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.