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Using as a medium to promote digital among young people in https://tacticaltech.org/news/stories/partners-impact-story-cauce-ciudadano/

Cathode Retro is a collection of shaders that combine to emulate the properties and artifacts of a color NTSC TV signal as well as the visual look of a Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT) TV https://github.com/DeadlyRedCube/Cathode-Retro

“This is me saying we’ve worked on for four years with ~200 people full-time, and spent well north of $100M above revenue trying to turn the site around, but it hasn’t yet. That sucks, but I also want to recognized the effort of everyone who tried and gave their best.” https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/733551497286172672/translation-of-internalspeak-to-externalspeak

he careened from drug-running pilot to alleged CIA asset, only to be reborn as the pioneering computer programmer known as the father of data fusion. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250209276/thehankshow

Sound & Music

The @wfmu Festival Tee https://suss.bandcamp.com/merch/ambient-country-festival-tee

One year, he was just different. He traded in his red baseball cap for a tartan beret, grew a huge handlebar mustache, and let his hair grow out. Not long, exactly, but certainly on the long side for an attorney. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/thanksgiving-is-always-ruined-by-that-one-uncle-obsessed-with-steely-dan

“There were so many people at who were musicians themselves, or knew musicians or operated labels or made vinyl for people. I worry that this multinational corporation swooping in to buy Bandcamp and lay off half the staff maybe doesn’t fully understand what Bandcamp was.” https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Faftermath.site%2Fbandcamp-just-trying-to-keep-the-lights-on-following-epic-sale-layoffs

Politics & Economics

When created its own pension plan, in 1965, to address the growing poverty of retired Canadians sixty-five and older—thank you, Lester B. Pearson, for my monthly CPP cheque—the life expectancy of men, who made up the bulk of the workforce, was sixty-eight. https://thewalrus.ca/the-end-of-retirement/

“Higher Education for Good courageously offers critique, hope, and purpose for the practice and the trajectory of ” https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363

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River is a visual connection engine … surf laterally through imagespace https://river.maxbittker.com

Last week, the gang ALPHV Caesars and MGM, taking down multiple systems across the giants’ networks. https://www.404media.co/inside-mgms-hacked-casinos/

A new, more inclusive vision of can emerge only if the basis of social power changes. https://newrepublic.com/article/175357/big-tech-ruining-dream-ai

are not search engines looking up facts; they are pattern-spotting engines that guess the next best option in a sequence. https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

Music & Sound

Create custom-length with text prompts – powered by diffusion models. https://www.stableaudio.com

“to be able to accept and move in both the world you were born into and the world you found on your own.” https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/lucinda-williams-and-the-idea-of-louisiana

the album feels like a five-alarm blaze, prophesying an era of corporate-driven consensus and the outsourcing of America’s manufacturing sector. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/listening-booth/the-replacements-are-still-a-puzzle

Comics

A that arouses children’s interest in and encourages shaping https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann/

Politics & Economics

The claim that the region remains relatively undisturbed, given the 70,000-person party that rolls in every year, rang particularly hollow. https://grist.org/culture/burning-man-protest-mud-geothermal/

It occurred to shockingly few people that the guys at the top made all that money not because they were smart, not because they were good, but because they were thieves. https://newrepublic.com/article/175335/crypto-ceo-appeal-sam-bankman-fried

“sola-stalgia” .. a term gaining traction in circles that loosely translates to the loss of a place that once brought you solace. https://thewalrus.ca/prince-edward-island-storm/

“In New York or Paris, if you do a horizontal, leaderless, and post-ideological uprising, and it doesn’t work out, you just get a media or academic career afterward. Out here in the real world, if a revolution fails, all your friends go to jail or end up dead.” https://newrepublic.com/article/175314/decade-mass-protest-mass-disappointment