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href weekly | July9-July15 2023

Bits

87% Missing: The Disappearance of Classic Video Games https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

To further the understanding of training data, the Knowing Machines Project developed see:set, an investigative tool for examining the training datasets for via: @maryakem https://knowingmachines.org/publications/9_ways_to_see_a_dataset

Great TV build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luxFdsAkG80

Sound & Music

Consistently get fantastic recommendations from .. the latest https://jennydontandthespurs.bandcamp.com/album/the-singles-roundup

Arts

Two years in the making, “Takrar” spotlights the mélange of Islamic, Ottoman, Greek, and Byzantine influences throughout Istanbul https://vimeo.com/839085383

Politics & Economics

And still, it got warmer and warmer. https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-generations-climate-rebellion/

The median square footage of an American house built in the nineteen-sixties was fifteen hundred square feet, compared with about twenty-two hundred today—and the earlier model was home to more people. Before 1972, more than half of Americans had never taken a plane trip, much less more than one a year. https://archive.ph/RasyG

He chose the name of the Deuter album, and in four days he sold five thousand units of Ecstasy. https://archive.ph/g0uTi

“I was speechless. We’ve lost almost 30 percent of an entire class of organisms in less than the span of a human lifetime, and we didn’t know it.” https://nautil.us/a-third-of-north-americas-birds-have-vanished-340007/

href weekly | Mar26-April1 2023

Bits

scrapeghost is an experimental library for websites using https://jamesturk.github.io/scrapeghost/

“I’ve stuck around because, well, I’m dogfooding it. I am using it. It’s my daily driver and I have a home feed that I look at every day.” https://www.theverge.com/23658648/mastodon-ceo-twitter-interview-elon-musk-twitter

“a knitwear project exploring the benefits and costs of technological progress” great poster from the Teaching, Learning & Research: Student Showcase https://libguides.vcc.ca/StudentShowcase/2023Posters

Sound & Music

When Farkas buys a robot to help him get rid of the musicians of Faffner Hall on Make a New Sound Day, the gang borrows some parts from the robot to construct a synthesizer so they can make all kinds of new sounds. Fughetta doesn’t understand how a synthesizer works so the Wild Impressario turns to his best source, Thomas Dolby, to explain it to her. https://youtu.be/dR-Qf1vwd28

Automatonism is a modular that runs in the open source programming language Pure Data. https://www.automatonism.com/the-software

Politics & Economics

The pearl clutching over after 15 years of social media

are more than the customer service departments for corporate database products. For democracy to thrive at global scale, libraries must be able to sustain their historic role in society—owning, preserving, and lending books. This ruling is a blow for libraries, readers, and authors and we plan to appeal it. https://web.archive.org/web/20230326093647/https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

Through predatory tactics, the dollar chains are killing off grocery stores and other local businesses, leaving communities with fewer jobs, diminished access to basic goods, and dimmer prospects for overall well-being. https://ilsr.org/report-dollar-store-invasion/