Bits
River is a visual connection engine … surf laterally through imagespace #web #art https://river.maxbittker.com
Last week, the #ransomware gang ALPHV #hacked #hack Caesars and MGM, taking down multiple systems across the #casino giants’ networks. https://www.404media.co/inside-mgms-hacked-casinos/
A new, more inclusive vision of #technology can emerge only if the basis of social power changes. #ai https://newrepublic.com/article/175357/big-tech-ruining-dream-ai
#LLM are not search engines looking up facts; they are pattern-spotting engines that guess the next best option in a sequence. #generative #ai https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/
Music & Sound
Create custom-length #generative #music with text prompts – powered by #audio #ai diffusion models. https://www.stableaudio.com
“to be able to accept and move in both the world you were born into and the world you found on your own.” https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/lucinda-williams-and-the-idea-of-louisiana
the album feels like a five-alarm blaze, prophesying an era of corporate-driven consensus and the outsourcing of America’s manufacturing sector. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/listening-booth/the-replacements-are-still-a-puzzle
Comics
A #book that arouses children’s interest in #tinkering and encourages shaping #technology https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann/
Politics & Economics
The claim that the region remains relatively undisturbed, given the 70,000-person party that rolls in every year, rang particularly hollow. https://grist.org/culture/burning-man-protest-mud-geothermal/
It occurred to shockingly few people that the guys at the top made all that money not because they were smart, not because they were good, but because they were thieves. #crypto https://newrepublic.com/article/175335/crypto-ceo-appeal-sam-bankman-fried
“sola-stalgia” .. a term gaining traction in #climatechange circles that loosely translates to the loss of a place that once brought you solace. https://thewalrus.ca/prince-edward-island-storm/
“In New York or Paris, if you do a horizontal, leaderless, and post-ideological uprising, and it doesn’t work out, you just get a media or academic career afterward. Out here in the real world, if a revolution fails, all your friends go to jail or end up dead.” https://newrepublic.com/article/175314/decade-mass-protest-mass-disappointment