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href weekly | Oct 6 – Oct 12 2024

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A journalist asked him, “Professor Feynman, can you explain — in just a couple of minutes — what you won the for?” Feynman apparently replied, “Listen, buddy, if I could explain it in a couple of minutes, it wouldn’t be worth the Nobel Prize.” https://archive.ph/iD1Tn

The OER Knowledge Cloud – a curated database and repository to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate documents related to open educational resources. There are currently 2807 published records by 4731 authors from 990 sources https://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/

a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written generated content on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup

Sound & Music

… join the car crash set … https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=144850&archive=259860&starttime=2:39:36

Attended a wicked show with my daughter in this weekend https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6514062

Inspired by Sinclair Lewis’ dystopian novel, It Can’t Happen Here, Dresser offers a glimpse of what could happen after the 2024 election if fascism creeps into the USA. Told through the voices of a fragmenting American family, It Happened Here 2024 describes a country that still has Netflix and free two-day delivery, where the only thing lost is freedom. https://www.ithappenedhere2024.com/2402472/about

Politics & Economics

“Students in the survey also questioned the seamlessness of the systems. Clinton-Lisell said many students feel that because publishers are the ones creating the exercises, professors end up not being knowledgeable about the problems their students are working on or they are unable to help troubleshoot technical issues that might come up.” https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64833/why-are-students-paying-fees-to-access-homework-assignments

1. Physics cannot be wished away.
2. invites a game of weighted choices.
3. wields the energy of atomic bombs.
5. Our slowness to adapt incurs tremendous future costs.
4. Extreme storms kill slowly.
6. Every event reveals another fragility.
7. The crisis grows exponentially.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/07/Future-Named-Helene/

href weekly | Sep 15 – Sep 21 2024

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“In the same way that English language emotion concepts have colonized psychology, AI dominated by American-influenced image sources is producing a new visual monoculture of facial expressions.” https://medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf

“As data collection technology hollows out our inner worlds, all of us experience the working artist’s plight: our lot is to numericize and monetize the most private and personal parts of our experience.” https://thewalrus.ca/collapse-of-self-worth-in-the-digital-age/

“The reactor that will be reopened to power Microsoft’s data centers was not involved in the accident.” https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai

Sound & Music

Manu Chao, “Viva Tu” https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/manu-chao-viva-tu-review

A film about The Sonics https://sonicsfilm.com

showcases the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette http://www.tapedeck.org/

My son introduced me to the music of Jesse Welles

Photos

Sunflowers on the last day of Summer 2024

Comics

https://www.citationneeded.news/hachette-v-internet-archive/

Politics & Economics

“My beliefs are simple, and hardly radical: are critical infrastructure. Access to information is a human right. When you buy a book you should truly own it. When a library buys a book, they should be able to lend it. Readers should be able to read without any third parties spying over their shoulders, or preventing them from accessing the materials they have legally obtained.” https://www.citationneeded.news/hachette-v-internet-archive/

This decision also renders the doctrine—legally crucial in everything from parody to to news reporting—almost unusable.” https://archive.is/kuKT5

“The suburban family’s other choice was the full-size van—a big, boxy transport or utility vehicle. The gas for these was also pricey, and their aesthetic felt unsuited to domesticity. By cultural consensus, vans were made for plumbers, kidnappers, or ex-Special-Forces domestic mercenaries.” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/minivan-suv-family-car/679919/?gift=YhIlBfX2ziuhQFM_AR5y-OR2mRqWW9bj0CS-UGmmI2Y