Bits
Excellent background of a fully online conference run with #opensource platforms https://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2023/04/10/
Technologies change our collective sense of what’s possible and, in doing so, they change our sense of how things should be. https://aeon.co/essays/what-drum-machines-can-teach-us-about-artificial-intelligence
Sound & Music
Enjoyed a #roadtrip with a friend up the coast to catch an Adam Baldwin show in Liverpool https://youtu.be/Fxxi57jQWUM
Arts
The brilliant #aljaffee .. his illustrations and work were such a big part of my childhood and adolescence .. still have all my #MAD magazines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK6xE-9sdI
Four office co-workers live and work in #calgary downtown where virtually all the office buildings, malls and apartments are connected by a maze of glassed-in bridges. The friends have all staked a month’s salary on a bet to see who can stay indoors the longest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1cNFDzPt
WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whaamblam
Politics & Economics
The analysis found that the 34 mines’ power use was causing nearly 16.4 million tons of carbon pollution each year.” https://archive.is/iWpoR #crypto #energy
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/
#Libraries have stored and cared for physical books for decades, and if readers are becoming more comfortable with online formats, why can’t a #library digitize the volumes it owns and loan the digital copies in lieu of the physical ones? https://archive.ph/Qnbq8
This would be the perfect time to fund what could easily be a self-sustaining #cooperative #coop that sets up and operates instances on behalf of journalism organizations that could verify their own journalists. That would solve a lot of problems, and restore (some) genuine independence to the craft .. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journa
On March 28, the Canadian government’s budget announcement introduced a plan to implement a #righttorepair for electronic devices and home appliances in 2024 https://theconversation.com/giving-can
The truth of the matter, when it comes right down to it, is that most homeowners don’t want #housing to be more affordable if it means the value of their property has to go down in the process, or that more people are going to move into their neighbourhood. And that, of course, is exactly what has to happen. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/04/13/opinion/we-are-all-blame-canada-brutal-housing-market
How a peripheral ideology becomes mainstream: Strategic performance, audience reaction, and news media amplification in the case of QAnon Twitter accounts … “future performance of group identity” #socialmedia #politics https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221137324
The primary reason for our stalled progress on #poverty reduction has to do with the fact that we have not confronted the unrelenting exploitation of the poor in the labor, #housing and financial markets.” https://archive.ph/a569K