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href weekly | Aug 25 – Aug 31 2024

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Bits

If you were suspected of a crime, would you trust a chatbot to accurately explain what happened? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/chatbots-offer-cops-the-ultimate-out-to-spin-police-reports-expert-says/

“interactive HTML apps, Markdown, HTML, SVG, Mermaid diagrams and React Components.” https://www.anthropic.com/news/artifacts

“Reading widely about things that don’t seem immediately or practically useful, in the hope that what you learn now may prove meaningful later—that’s pretty much the definition of a liberal-arts education.” https://archive.ph/owJ8Z

We’re a cross between a band, a hackathon team, and an ephemeral research lab. We’re musicians seduced by math. We do the science, we engineer the software, we make the music. All in one project. Don’t need nobody else. Except we do, because we’re standing on the shoulders of giants, and because the whole point is to collaborate with more artists. https://www.dadabots.com

AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism https://danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcherism.html

Sound & Music

Great Techtronic conversation with Jon Leidecker on https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=142638&archive=256757

href weekly | Jan 21 – Jan 27 2024

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an image of a female crested black macaque monkey is at the heart of a legal row between UK wildlife photographer David Slater and Wikimedia Commons over its status https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2018/01/article_0007.html via https://bionicteaching.com/weekly-web-harvest-for-2024-01-11/

This desire to automate what can and must be human response is also simply a further indication of the dismissal of the importance of the labor of the primarily non-tenure-track faculty who teach courses like first-year writing … even entertaining the notion that the work can be done by generative AI shows the depth of scorn some administrators have for work that should be viewed as central to the institution. https://archive.ph/pBs1X

when disinformation is free, how can we restrict quality information to the privileged who choose to afford it? https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/01/24/the-information-grey-goo/

Music & Sound

A fantastic talk with Mark Hosler and Jon Leidecker of on https://www.wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=136214&archive=247346&starttime=1:02:04

The History of the Mellotron https://www.gearnews.com/british-giants-the-history-of-mellotron-the-worlds-first-sampler/

“accommodate many levels of attention without enforcing one in particular.” https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/music-for-airports-list

I somehow missed this 2021 https://www.npr.org/2021/05/06/993927925/negativland-tiny-desk-home-concert .. this is the bar by which live, online performances should be measured

Film & Video

I am Philbert now, but soon
I will be Whirlwind Dreamer.

https://www.criterionchannel.com/powwow-highway

Powwow Highway .. the older cousin of

Politics & Economics

“We are seeing accidents happen. We are frightening the public. We are getting laws passed [banning the drug]. We are not using the anthropological approach of insinuating a valuable drug of this sort into our culture . . . gradually demonstrating the goodness of the thing.” https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2024%2F01%2F29%2Ftripping-on-utopia-margaret-mead-the-cold-war-and-the-troubled-birth-of-psychedelic-science-benjamin-breen-book-review