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href weekly | March 10 – 16 2024

Bits

A growing gallery of 404 page designs from around the internet. https://www.404s.design/

“It made the work of combing through the Mauritius Leaks not just more efficient, but actually just possible. We’re talking about 200,000 extremely technical documents. You can’t just read that page-by-page. You need the help of a machine.” https://www.zachseward.com/ai-news-thats-fit-to-print-sxsw-2024/

“a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other that it becomes an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die/

Sound & Music

audio was a game changer for me when I was struggling with many years ago .. provided me with restful sleep for a couple years, until I didn’t need them further https://this.org/2024/03/11/beat-generation/

They were a singular ensemble making new that had the sonic spirit and feel of rock but also stretched into avant-garde classical structural techniques and concepts, using drones, free improvisation, beat poetry, psychedelia, non-Western music, ambient sounds, and more.” https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/can-album-guide

Film & Video

The Eyes Scream: A History of The Residents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUQAXTkcMXU

Humor

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/office-jargon-pinball

href weekly | June4-June10 2023

Bits

https://aftersurveillance.net/observatory/ After Surveillance Observatory

HAX: The Killer https://gist.github.com/btopro/717fe6a29bb8d66cfaa0886c9e8baa72

a cloud-native workflow orchestration tool that can be used by developers, PMs, and designers alike. #reclaimopen https://www.sievedata.com/

https://beta.elevenlabs.io/ Instead of generating sentences one-by-one, it stays mindful of how each fragment ties to the surrounding context.

“Realistically and consistently synthesize new videos. Either by applying the composition and style of an image or text prompt to the structure of a source video (Video to Video). Or, using nothing but words (Text to Video).” https://research.runwayml.com/gen2

Andy Rush’s extensive list of AV resources from Fast, Cheap, and Under Control https://digitalmediacookbook.com/the-list/

Wax is a minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility.” https://minicomp.github.io/wax/ via: @Readywriting

Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill #generative https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/719295119072837632/adobe-photoshop-generative-fill

“Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!” https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1666615420667809792/pu/vid/1280×720/6Yg5dZr2qiI68Qgv.mp4?tag=12

Comics

“Leaning on the tropes of VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED, and THX 1138, this dark science fiction tale unfolds using imagery generated by Midjourney AI.” https://campfirenyc.com/comics/

Photos

“To each his reach
And if I don’t cop, it ain’t mine to have
But I’ll be reachin’ for ya
Cause I love ya, CC ..”
https://networkeffects.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/june-4-2023-DC.png

Rush Leaderboard https://networkeffects.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/rush-potter-bastille-scaled.jpg

June 8 in DC, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, AIM materials

DC Freemason bits for more see: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Secrets-of-Masonic-Washington/James-Wasserman/9781594772665

Politics & Economics

8 speculative futures for higher education – picking up on a number of the themes from @bryanalexandee keynote https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/news/higher-education-futures-8-scenarios-8-tarot-cards-and-8-short-stories HT: Anne-Marie

imagine a university where the administration bans, or severely limits, travel to academic conferences in far-flung but admittedly beautiful places, a perk on someone else’s dime that some faculty members treat as an entitlement, like parental leave and a dental plan. https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/universities-on-fire-is-brisk-inspiring-and-sobering/

The problem is not AI. It’s financial corporate capitalism, the root of most current human-created problems, which sped climate change, inequity, the refugee crisis, and the resurgence of fascism https://mastodon.social/@harold/110499816999861929

the role of emancipatory politics is to reveal that the things we are told are inevitable are in fact contingent.” https://archive.ph/y2Mjo

Vulnerable populations are keenly aware that you don’t have to cause extreme weather in order to suffer from it. For many in the United States, it can be easy to forget that emissions—and inaction around them—have consequences. https://heated.world/p/dont-blame-canada

“We know the story of the climate crisis, of how wealthy nations have burned fossil fuels at an astonishing rate, pushing our planet to the brink. Yet we live as though we do not, and we breathe the consequences.” https://archive.is/z3mOF

Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target, lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticise.” https://timcolwill.com/40K.html