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There ought to be exhibitions on Myst and Surrealism; The Sims and interior design; Red Dead Redemption, Albert Bierstadt, and the American West. https://archive.ph/2FGaB

Exploring the tech behind concert led wristbands https://hackaday.com/2023/07/01/exploring-the-tech-behind-concert-led-wristbands/

Enslaved machine learning processes aren’t going to rise up in anger and overturn us, any more (or any less) than markets, bureaucracy and democracy have already. Such minatory fantasies tell us more about their authors than the real problems of the world we live in. https://crookedtimber.org/2023/07/03/shoggoths-amongst-us/

Tiny is a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the website which we feel best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt https://tinyawards.net/

The programmed monopolization of possibilities disables human agency by robbing it of any alternative competency. https://www.noemamag.com/post-anthropocene-humanism/

PhD Simulator https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html

Politics & Economics

Modern propaganda does not try to convert people to a coherent ideology or make them believe that there is a utopia behind the walls of some foreign dictatorship. Instead, it makes people enraged, confused and depressed, and conclude that no truths can be known. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/06/27/Education-Birth-Democracy-Will-Protect-It/

What if there is no crisis, but instead a housing market working exactly as intended? https://btlbooks.com/book/the-tenant-class

B.C.’s largest wildfire on record now eclipses the entire area of Prince Edward Island https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/donnie-creek-wildfire-aftermath-1.6892294

Gap between rich and poor widens at fastest pace on record https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230704/dq230704a-eng.htm

The question is: what kind of agriculture do Canadians want? Growing land inequality undermines the social, economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture. Progressive agrarian and food movements propose a different future — one based on food sovereignty. This would entail equitable access to land for farmers, sustainable livelihoods and valuing farmland for its social and ecological worth, as well as its productive value. https://thenarwhal.ca/prairies-farming-investors/

This kind of policy by Elsevier is not just aimed at Design Studies. Elsevier is already subject to various academic boycotts and editor walkouts around the world. https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-journal

Arguably, the craziest faction in right now isn’t red-hatted blue-collar guys in diners, it’s technology billionaires living in huge mansions and flying around on private jets. At one level it’s quite funny. Unfortunately, however, these people have enough money to do serious damage. https://archive.li/Idv9F

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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/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9oiFn_6EHk

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