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href weekly | Mar 2 – Mar 8 2025

Bits

“Over the course of six episodes, Evan’s voice agents talked to spammers and scammers, to Evan’s friends and family, to colleagues and sources, to other AIs, and even to a therapist—all to better understand what AI voice is able to do, what it can’t yet do, and what to expect from a future in which more and more of the people we encounter in the world aren’t real.” https://www.shellgame.co/

“It turns out that if there is anything more implausible than the idea that they might need to write as part of their jobs, it is the idea that they might have to write, or want to write, in some part of their lives other than their jobs. Or, more generally, the idea that education might be valuable not because it gets you a bigger paycheque but because, in a fundamental way, it gives you access to a more rewarding life.” teaching https://thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats/

Sound & Music

the Shangri-Las as played by the Stooges .. https://archive.ph/BF2JN

Laissez les bons temps rouler.

href weekly | Jan 19 – Jan 25 2025

Bits

“When users complain about their app being banned, a lot of them are also decrying the circumstances that make virality their best shot at economic security.” https://archive.ph/CKA5a

a real-time map of passenger in https://trains.fyi/

a speculative of computation https://research.antikythera.org/

Sound & Music

“a slick social climber, three good-time Charlies, and a genius https://www.theringer.com/2025/01/22/music/garth-hudson-the-band-obituary

Politics & Economics

“Movement organizations could fail to provide any real relief for those whose lives are most endangered and leave newly scared and angry people to the most passive and ineffective forms of expressing their opinions.” https://lib.edist.ro/library/gus-breslauer-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-liberalism

illionaires are on a mission to make the stories of science fiction a reality: space colonization, human/machine bio organisms, and living forever in a state of unhindered bliss. To most of us, this version of a far future utopia comes off as “billionaire boys and their toys” but critics say such a dismissive attitude is naïve. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16122923-techno-utopia-billionaires-wet-dream