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href weekly | May 5 – May 11 2025

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Bits

“It is not necessary to bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old. One of the tools for building the new world has been here all along.” https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-anti-capitalist-case-for-standards/

“Over time, technical necessities become conventions, conventions become habits, and habits eventually fade away when they no longer serve a purpose.” https://hackaday.com/2025/05/05/what-happened-to-www/

“The invisible hand isn’t invisible because it’s magical; it’s invisible because we’re not supposed to see whose hand it actually is.” https://www.chrbutler.com/we-cannot-talk-about-ai-without-talking-about-capitalism

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/i/160889241/flyover-country

Film & Video

“Certainly he remembers everything he reads. Not only that, he makes cross references which produce logical conclusions.

Then he has a mind? A human mind?

Well, basically, yes, l suppose he is human. l’m teaching him to think, to reason, to perform. But he’s still a creation,a machine. lf he has any emotional responses, they’re the ones he acquired from me.”

“Certainly he remembers everything he reads. Not only that, he makes cross references which produce logical conclusions.

Then he has a mind? A human mind?

Well, basically, yes, l suppose he is human. l’m teaching him to think, to reason, to perform. But he’s still a creation , a machine. lf he has any emotional responses, they’re the ones he acquired from me.”

https://archive.org/details/the-outer-limits-s02e09-i-robot

Music & Sound

Monotheism, but in Stereo https://youtu.be/YPzwHGOZ8gI?feature=shared

Politics & Economics

“That myth of cowboy individualism became central to the culture of Republican politics as a way for Republican politicians to convince voters to support the destruction of federal government programs that actually benefited them.” https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/heather-cox-richardson-phil-lend-lecture-1.7522817

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