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href weekly | April 20 – Apr 27 2025

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“as long as anything is centralized it is subject to one day experiencing exactly what Twitter experienced and why using domains to verify anybody is who they say they are is so important bc it’s one thing the platform does *not* have a say over” https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.lol/post/3lndkshqgxs2r

“There’s camaraderie here. People come in to chat about their lives while we fix their items, and it does wonders for their mental health.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-13/fixing-more-than-broken-stuff-the-growing-impact-of-repair-cafes/104727868

“The deity of the Hebrew Bible should not be confused, of course, with GOD (the Generalized Omniscient Dialoguebot), which is included with your LMS. You can ask it for help with your homework, request advice about relationships or major life decisions, or simply talk to it when you’re lonely or afraid.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ten-commandments-annotated-for-use-in-your-ai-enhanced-classroom

Music! Art! Games! Poetry! Dreams beyond the Walled gardensl New programs daily! A celebration of the handmade web! A patchwork quilt of hypertext! Nothing on-demand! Nothing algorithmic! Enjoy the moment! https://hypertext.tv

Film & Video

“the government had created the incentive in 1975 wherein 100 percent of an investment in a film could be written off, the heyday of this inglorious period of Canadian filmmaking began toward the end of the decade, as word of this insane loophole spread, and continued through the early ’80s.” https://thewalrus.ca/david-cronenberg-cinema/

Music & Sound

Let me feel my dory lift
To the broad Atlantic combers
Where the tide rip swirls and the wild ducks whirl
And old Neptune calls the numbers
https://www.cshf.ca/let-me-fish-off-cape-st-marys-song-induction/

Politics & Economics

“What do we have if the freedom to read isn’t ours anymore?” https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16141613-libraries-fighting-freedom-democracy

tooth fairy .. https://thewalrus.ca/tax-cuts-election/

href weekly | Jan 5 – Jan 11 2025

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/whats-happening-to-the-internet

“It was never a terrible idea, at least, to use computers to connect to one another on occasion, for justified reasons, and in moderation (although the risk of instrumentalizing one another was present from the outset). The problem came from doing so all the time, as a lifestyle, an aspiration, an obsession. The offer was always too good to be true, but it’s taken us two decades to realize the Faustian nature of the bargain.” https://archive.ph/US4Na

A conversation with CEO Jay Graber https://www.wired.com/video/watch/social-media-reboot-a-conversation-with-jay-graber

..” is a platform that resolutely wishes it wasn’t. And that has profound implications for what its users want the platform to be, and what it can’t; in short, why it will not save us. … excessive dependence on platforms creates an ugly feedback loop that can swallow our dreams whole.” https://www.liberalcurrents.com/bluesky-wont-save-us/

Film & Video

“It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.”

“In short, Sun Ra had a religious cult. Only instead of killing people, or drinking Kool-Aid, or committing mass suicide in preparation for some comet flyby, or trying to take over society through covert operations and all-out extortion of members … Sun Ra’s cult played jazz. They played jazz constantly, they played jazz with determination and fervor, and they played jazz in hats made of tin foil, sequins, duct tape, and purple rayon.” https://www.metafilter.com/79781/The-Sun-Ra-Quilt-of-Joy#2479221

Sound & Music

What we have now is a perverse, frictionless vision for art, where a song stays on repeat not because it’s our new favorite but because it’s just pleasant enough to ignore.” https://archive.ph/5Lx61

Politics & Economics

“I think of our move as being more than just ‘protest’, which implies that we academics lack the power to change the publication system directly … by starting new journals that are open, not-for-profit, and have high academic standards.” https://carbonchemist.com/journal-editor-mass-resignations-what-do-they-achieve/

“.. the only tool that can secure economic justice for workers who truly can’t help but do their jobs is solidarity.” https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blockheads-r-us/#vocational-awe