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Watching some https://reclaim.tv archives today & learned about https://apps.yunohost.org/catalog

cara.app a social media and portfolio platform for artists. “With the widespread use of generative AI, we decided to build a place that filters out generative AI images so that people who want to find authentic creatives and artwork can do so easily.”

Sound & Music

The innards of a are mesmerizing https://www.gearnews.com/british-giants-the-history-of-mellotron-the-worlds-first-sampler/

Comics

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Politics & Economics

“As Canadian news media becomes even more concentrated in Ontario, this local provincial voice is even more needed.” https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/top-10-reasons-you-should-subscribe-to-the-halifax-examiner/

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less than one per cent of rentals are both vacant and affordable for the majority of Canadian renters. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2024/rentals-affordability-crisis/

“If you want a picture of the future,” George Orwell wrote in “1984,” “imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” But it seems to me instead that in 2035 will be more like an aging relative, increasingly lost in memories and fantasies and complaining that you don’t take them as seriously as they take themselves https://www.noemamag.com/china-in-2035/

Professional wrestling’s profitable use of also offers a prism for understanding the trajectory of conservative today. https://www.publicbooks.org/permission-to-jeer/

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void extrusion is a prototype exploring both digital signal processing and 3D printing. The algorithmic composition is built around two ever-evolving sequencers programmed on a Daisy Seed, with a Nano Every driving the 32×8 LED matrix, changing patterns and colors based on musical cues. https://eirikbrandal.com/space-cat-01/

“a secure backup facility for the world’s crop diversity” https://virtualtourcompany.co.uk/GlobalSeedVault/index.html

Arts

A document of the last days West Coast punk rock #film https://vimeo.com/234722907

Much of the plot setup and some of the dialogue in Martin Scorsese’s excellent 1985 film After Hours—a significant portion of the movie’s first 30 minutes, in fact—were brazenly lifted from “Lies,” a 1982 NPR Playhouse monologue by Joe Frank https://andrewhearst.com/blog/2008/05/the-scandalous-origins-of-martin-scorseses-after-hours

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A day off to roam the coast

Politics & Economics

Chinese people are moving from the invested into the investors, from the subjects of global capitalism to its protagonists. https://www.noemamag.com/chinas-fifth-star-rises/

The question is: what kind of agriculture do Canadians want? Growing land inequality undermines the social, economic and environmental sustainability of https://thenarwhal.ca/prairies-farming-investors/

The American Association reports that during 2021-22 there were more than 2,500 book bans in 138 different U.S. school districts and libraries, spread across 32 states covering four million pupils.” https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/libraries-richard-ovenden-1.6785115