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These technological infrastructures may disproportionately harm communities by making their private and sacred knowledges legible by . Data collection for AI could lead to the commodification of this sacred knowledge for profit. https://theconversation.com/zooms-scrapped-proposal-to-mine-user-data-causes-concern-about-our-virtual-and-private-indigenous-knowledge-211577

In this study, you will be asked to rate 20 news headlines as real or fake and answer a few optional questions about your background. It should take 2-3 minutes to complete.” https://yourmist.streamlit.app/

our findings suggest that new modalities provide substantial opportunities to increase the impact and accessibility of scholars, build and empower diverse research communities, and improve the sustainability of societies. https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/of-meetings-and-members/

Datasette Cloud is the new hosting platform for the project. It enables teams to create a private collaboration space, upload and share data securely with each other, and then selectively publish that data to the world. https://www.datasette.cloud/blog/2023/welcome/

the site is a one-man battle against entropy, constantly battling domain registrars, anti-scraping systems, copyright enforcement, easily spooked advertisers, and global financial system payment rails designed to obstruct Russian citizens. https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/

FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance. https://blog.thms.uk/fedifetcher

combine.social polls your home timeline and notifications and fetches replies to all posts as well as all recent messages by any user who shows up in your notifications (e.g. likes, boosts or follows).

Music & Sound

harmonai.org tools

The new Rhodes MK8 is brilliant .. but the $$ is dizzying .. https://rhodesmusic.com/product/rhodes-mk8/?i4hA-1vET=bfDd-dyhq&bfDd-dyhq=vXx7-ybKl&j6ze-8Vlt=zgqv-XOaX&oK6Y-asRb=HUiz-sgeB&jG7J-ExmY=iQzh-TJM5&YwO3-BFJw=eCWS-zAkw&xs4p-XS62=W0P1-nCKw&W0P1-nCKw=EVri-vfvu&lbEE-ArPs=CG2D-gpja

“The music sounds old, but in the way a landscape can feel old; in the same way that a landscape promises it will renew itself, the music points to the future.” https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/americana-indigenous-roots-robbie-robertson/

Art

Amazing awards https://droneawards.photo/gallery

Politics & Economics

the structure of the industry colliding with the socioeconomic reality of defaulting debtors basically ensures that it will be a miserable place populated by miserable people who will project leveraged amounts of misery into the outside world in the hopes of collecting a tiny sliver of defaulted debts. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-waste-stream-of-consumer-finance/

Great chat between @blindboyboatclub & Manchán Magan .. “mythology is the fruiting body of the human unconscious” https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/mythology-rewilding-forests-and-indigenous-knowledge-with-ma

There is no province in where workers can afford an apartment at minimum wage. https://monitormag.ca/reports/cant-afford-the-rent/

“if you don’t do the impossible, we’re going to wind up with the unthinkable ..” https://unevenearth.org/2019/10/bookchin_doing_the_impossible/

The burden of student threatens to exacerbate existing income and wealth inequality in American society, as these borrowers have to choose between paying off the cost of their own education and saving for their own children’s college expenses. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/business/generation-x-retirement-student-loan-debt.html

“People change unconsciously before they change consciously. They begin to float dreams—daydreams are dangerous. Daydreams are pieces of imagination, they are bits of poetry. They are the balloons that fly up in history.” https://unevenearth.org/2019/10/bookchin_doing_the_impossible/

represent the best of our efforts to take care of one another. Their ongoing existence is a reminder that—not just in some far-off future, but even today—other ways of being are possible. https://popula.com/2023/08/07/are-libraries-the-future-of-media/

came before publishers. We came before copyright. But publishers now think of libraries as customer service departments for their database products. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/internet-archive-emergency-lending-library.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-wildfire-season-worst-ever-more-to-come-1.6934284

promoting social connection is key to reducing the harmful effects of #climatechange including its effect on . Other studies also show that the more connected we are, the better we will be able to discuss and respond to climate change. https://theconversation.com/it-is-not-just-heat-waves-climate-change-is-also-a-crisis-of-disconnection-210594

Whatever you may think of individual celebrities—I certainly admire a few—the phenomenon of celebrity is a grave social ill https://longreads.com/2023/08/17/lorne-michaels-saturday-night-live/

We are not convinced by the intertwined educational and data futures that investors are creating, as it is a reductionist view of the purposes of education, focusing on efficiency gains and learning as an individual activity that is primarily carried out for economic purposes. https://educationdatafutures.digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/essays/competing-interests-in-education-data/investigation-financial-power-brokers-edtech

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is more like an answer to a question everyone has already answered, every single year, for four decades, and to which no one is willing to take no for an answer. https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41163076.html

How can we apply storytelling as a tool for imagining and shaping the future of technology? https://csi.asu.edu/applied-sci-fi/

Tiny SciFi Stories #117

FotoAutomat has been working to preserve this photographic heritage by restoring and maintaining the last original analog photobooths in Paris, Nantes and Prague, mainly in spaces dedicated to art and culture. https://fotoautomat.fr/en/

“There is a window of time when the mammalian brain is far more susceptible and open to learning from the environment .. this window will close at some point, and then, the brain becomes much less open to new learning.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06204-3

The fact that crucial decisions about whether to keep or destroy data are kept in the hands of actors with profit motives, autocratic aspirations or other self-serving ends has a huge implication not only for individuals but also for the cultural at large. https://archive.ph/9T0cu

Sound & Music

a multitouch string simulator with a common chord progression #audio https://string.spiel.com/chords.html

A node-based graphical synthesizer https://saharan.github.io/GraphSynth/

a reasonably violent interactive audio experience https://asimplecardgame.com/

Confronted by increasing social dislocation and an escalating cost-of-living crisis, these artists are turning to the arcane mysteries of yesteryear to alleviate modern malaise. https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/new-dark-folk-uk-ireland-scene-report

Keysette is an unholy combination of the 80s and 90s worst cheap technology with the worst cassette adapter technology and – is kind of impossible not to love. https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1671176034035675136/pu/vid/480×510/UhuzsQYHdah-SE1Q.mp4?tag=12

new technologies to capture and analyze sound are leading to startling discoveries about what the eyes cannot see https://www.noemamag.com/the-sounds-of-invisible-worlds/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9oiFn_6EHk

The life of musician Connie Converse easily reduces down to one of those Hemingway length sad stories: Before Dylan there was Connie Converse and then she disappeared. https://beta.prx.org/stories/472881

Arts

Conjurers of impossible visuals, Hipgnosis were at the white-hot center of the maddest, funniest and most creative era in the history of popular music. https://www.squaringthecirclefilm.com/synopsis/

“When we learn about that supposed golden age of globe-trotting American adventuring and archeology, and about how it felt to the people being “collected,” Indy becomes a sort of fun-house mirror.” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/burying-indiana-jones

in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter? https://publishing.tor.com/apsalmforthewildbuilt-beckychambers/9781250236210/

We are still, in many ways, living in the world Reagan and Thatcher built—a neoliberal world of growing precarity, corporate dominance, divestment from the welfare state, and social atomization. https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/hopepunk-cyberpunk-solarpunk-science-fiction-broken.html

Politics & Economics

Dundon provides both a glimpse of a unique historical moment in American politics and an exploration of an American cultural phenomenon that might be more pervasive and longer-lasting. https://archive.ph/y42iD

Each stripe represents the average temperature for a single year, relative to the average temperature over the period as a whole. Shades of blue indicate cooler-than-average years, while red shows years that were hotter than average. The stark band of deep red stripes on the right-hand side of the graphic show the rapid heating of our planet in recent decades. https://showyourstripes.info/

Global primary energy consumption by source #energy https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution