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A use of I can get behind https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/

Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?
“The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.” .. a beautiful rumination on https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fhumor%2Fsketchbook%2Fis-my-toddler-a-stochastic-parrot

A man who struggles to survive after awakening alone, trapped in a society connected only by a primitive computer network, where the ability to entertain is the only currency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsEQXnddPa4

drawmyui.com sketch a which is then sent to vision model & converted to working code https://www.drawmyui.com/

Pulling off an advanced scam on Wikipedia and got blocked, made a new account and spent five years of pretending to be an indie singer, emotionally traumatizing the person who revealed their fake(!) identity, disappeared off the face of the earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-11-06/Arbitration_report

All that location data your mobile churns out .. creates quite a market https://www.placer.ai/the-square/industry-trends

“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.” https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/from-toy-to-tool-dall-e-3-is-a-wake-up-call-for-visual-artists-and-the-rest-of-us/

Sound & Music

a free, visual and lighting tool https://videosync.showsync.com/

The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field

Great Surface Noise show on @WFMU .. trucker tunes & ambient country https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/133857

Largely viewed as a nostalgic totem these days, the was revelatory and revolutionary in its time; its disruptive power anticipated the even greater tectonic shift that the digital age would bring to music. https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fculture%2Fcultural-comment%2Fthe-cassette-tape-revolution

Saddened and angered to witness this happening to https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/is-bandcamp-as-we-know-it-over/

Bob Mehr, author of “Trouble Boys: The True Story Of The Replacements” today on @WFMU with Michael Shelley https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/133868

Politics & Economics

“We’re in the year 2023 .. if we get through this century without a mass extinction event and social breakdown – that is utopia. So, the bar for utopia has been lowered.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF7j7J84Tdk

By removing the carbon tax on heating fuel, we now have the situation where far more than “8 out of 10” households in #novascotia will be receiving more money back than they pay for the carbon tax.

Unfortunately, the prime minister’s decision to “axe the tax” simply enhances Canada’s reputation as a climate laggard. https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/the-effect-of-the-heating-oil-carve-out-in-nova-scotia/

drawing on an extensive review of photographs, videos and police investigative files from 11 mass killings between 2012 and 2023, The @washingtonpost is publishing the most comprehensive account to date of the repeating pattern of destruction wrought by the — a weapon that was originally designed for military combat but has in recent years become one of the best-selling firearms on the U.S. market. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-force-mass-shootings/

In other cases, including lack of or delayed implementation of legislation, such as the Coastal Protection Act and regulations in – political interests hinder planning actions that would limit hard infrastructure and development along the coast. https://theconversation.com/let-coastlines-be-coastlines-how-nature-based-approaches-can-protect-canadas-coasts-217353

“If you have 40 per cent of your market that’s somehow able to keep prices really low, you’re not going to be able to keep your prices really high, because people are going to have this other option,” she says. “That’s precisely why people don’t want [the co-op] sector to grow.” https://ricochet.media/en/4003/people-love-living-in-co-ops-so-why-did-canada-kill-the-program

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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/

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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