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href weekly | August 11–17, 2025

Bits

“In practice, the scaling laws worked until they didn’t. The whole enterprise of teaching computers to think remains mysterious. We should proceed with less hubris and more care.” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/what-if-ai-doesnt-get-much-better-than-this

“For the Torment Nexus to get built it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to build the Torment Nexus, much like an AI company telling us that the only path to solving the climate crisis is to use what’s left of Earth’s resources to power its AI in the hope that it will come up with a solution to the climate crisis.” https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-not-build-the-torment-nexus

“Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.” https://github.com/bellingcat/auto-archiver

Sound & Music

A platform for synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists and researchers working with sound. #synth https://supercollider.github.io

“a friendly yet powerful creative coding platform that lets you and your friends and even AI agents jam together in real time by writing code that drives sound, visuals and a wide variety of connected devices such as MIDI synths – all staying perfectly in sync.” https://tau5.live/

href weekly | June 16 – June 22 2025

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Bits

“data centres owned by Google alone used nearly five billion gallons of fresh water for cooling in 2022. A recent study concluded that global growth will command 1.7 trillion gallons of water by 2027. That’s half of the total annual withdrawal of the United Kingdom. .” https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/06/10/AI-Demands-Be-Fed-All-Servers-Now/

“In the 2025 update of GifCities, we used AI tools to create a semantic-based search index to supplement the original search index to improve discoverability. Each GIF in the search results also links back to the original GeoCities page on which it was embedded (and some of these pages are even more awesome than the GIFs themselves).” https://gifcities.org/

“Things won’t change, because people are adaptable and want the system to succeed. We consequently take on the responsibility for making things work, through ongoing effort and by transforming ourselves in the process. Through that work, we make the technology appear closer to what it promises than what it actually delivers, which in turn reinforces the pressure to adopt it.” https://ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine.html

Sound & Music

A Beginner’s Guide to Northern Soul

There have been many and tributes over the last few weeks, but this #wfmu show from Dave The Spazz was my fav https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=153042&archive=271782

https://nativenorthamerica-variousartists.bandcamp.com/album/native-north-america-vol-1-aboriginal-folk-rock-and-country-1966-1985

Poilitics & Economics

” Due to a fluke of publishing and law, the shark is ” https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-the-jaws-shark-became-public-domain/