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href weekly | March 3 – 9 2024

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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/

href weekly | Sept17-Sep23 2023

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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

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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