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href weekly | April 7 – April 13 2024

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Sound & Music

In 1974, musician Connie Converse drove away from home and was never heard from again. https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-259-if-im-long-unheard-from

This 2,000-Year-Old Peruvian Rock Art May Depict Psychedelic Music https://www.iflscience.com/this-2000-year-old-peruvian-rock-art-may-depict-psychedelic-music-73677

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God?”

Nightfall – Issac Asimov

https://archive.org/download/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/XMinusOne55-12-07028Nightfall.mp3

Comics

https://xkcd.com/2914/

Politics & Economics

“by the end of the decade, barring some massive cash infusion of grants, we’re probably going to see rises in average student debt on the order of 20-25%, meaning the national average student debt for a bachelor’s degree (among those who borrow) would top $35,000. And that’s without factoring in much in the way of tuition or other cost increases.” https://higheredstrategy.com/why-student-debt-might-be-about-to-rise/

Terms like “record” or “outlier” start to sound inapt, less than fully accurate. The charts are hilariously underpowered attempts to depict just how out-of-balance we have rendered the world. https://www.splinter.com/the-climate-charts-are-not-okay

Great series from Canada Commons .. the history and ever-changing present of what it means to be a worker in https://www.canadaland.com/shows/commons/

The low snowpack would be a challenge for electricity producers in some areas of the province, he said. BC Hydro relies on melting snowpacks to fill reservoirs and allow power generation. https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/04/12/How-Lowest-Snowpack-50-Years-Will-Hit-BC/

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love this application of https://www.tiktok.com/@thereiruinedit/video/7341212496226995499

We have to keep our heads about us because when opportunities do arise to voice our concerns, or propose alternatives, we need to be able to calmly and clearly describe the future we’d rather have instead. https://cohost.org/mtrc/post/4279028-ai-is-already-better

“the equivalent of adding a new heavily industrialized country, like Sweden or Germany, to the planet.” https://newrepublic.com/article/179538/environment-artificial-intelligence-water-energy

Unlimited AI-generated practice problems and answers https://www.wolframalpha.com/problem-generator/

“Don’t bookmark. Download. Hard drives are cheap. Fill them up with everything you think you might need to consult, watch, read, listen to, or cite in the future.” https://ubu.com

“Ransomware also tends to be the bill collector for technical debt.” https://www.bl.uk/home/british-library-cyber-incident-review-8-march-2024.pdf

According to a new study by University of California Riverside researchers, roughly two weeks of training for GPT-3 consumed about 700,000 liters of freshwater. The global AI demand is projected by 2027 to account for 4.2-6.6 billion cubic meters of water withdrawal, which is more than the total annual water withdrawal of Denmark or half of the United Kingdom. https://www.noemamag.com/thirsty-bots-are-drinking-our-scarce-water/

Music & Sound

ambient.garden is a musical landscape in a website. The music is laid out in a landscape which can be explored, either interactively, or automatically when the autopilot is left on.

Politics & Economics

“the relatively new revenue source for landlords across Canada has been a major cause of housing financialization, where is treated as a commodity, or a vehicle for profit and investment, rather than a social good.” https://thewalrus.ca/airbnbs-canadian-housing/

More than 20 communities in Manitoba and nearly 70 northern communities nationwide are fly-in only for most of the year, and rely on a window lasting just six to eight weeks in the winter to import their annual supply of food, fuel, medical supplies, construction materials and other vital infrastructure on a network of roads built from ice and snow. https://thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-ice-road-emergency/