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href weekly | Jan 19 – Jan 25 2025

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“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

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These are almost certainly plants that might be reasonable candidates for retirement if it weren’t for their use to supply miners. So, these miners are contributing to all of the health and climate problems associated with the continued use of fossil fuels. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/over-2-percent-of-the-uss-electricity-generation-now-goes-to-bitcoin/

Common Crawl’s mission as an organization does not easily align with the needs of trustworthy #AI #llm development. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/library/generative-ai-training-data/common-crawl

Music & Sound

“the instrument emerged in the shadow of the National Research Council, Canada’s federal agency for R&D in science and technology” https://spectrum.ieee.org/electronic-music

The Hugh Le Caine Collection https://soundandscience.net/collections/midcentury-electronic-musical-instrument-design/

I couldn’t care less about the .. but this performance from moved me https://networkeffects.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/joni-mitchell-feb042024.mp4

no riffs hint at the grittiness of navigating masculinity when you aren’t born of privilege. No key shifts evoke images of depression, anxiety and identity crisis. Combs’s interpretation of Chapman’s lyrics feels like an ode to an actual car. What a waste. https://archive.ph/FboEl

a voice of “the doomed, the damned, the weird.” https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F02%2F08%2Farts%2Fmusic%2Fmojo-nixon-dead.html

a site for making mixtapes together. Once it’s full, your mixtape will be automatically converted into a single, crossfaded mp3 that can be streamed or downloaded https://mixtapegarden.com/

If all my days was hills to climb and circles without reason,
If all I was was passing time my life was just a season .. https://youtu.be/7CekMoTerEM?feature=shared

Comics

One day Son, all this will be yours .. https://embed.tumblr.com/embed/post/-Qo_qojk7kK4BBQB3f2Sgw/741558348537888768

Film & Video

“We’re in a position where we’re kicking the door in. When you kick the door in, you should just put your foot in the door and stand there.” https://12ft.io/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/lily-gladstone-is-holding-the-door-open

Politics & Economics

I expect taking real steps to address by regulating monolithic supermarket chains would have gone a long way in this unrest .. but no, tax the farmers & ditch the sustainability commitments instead .. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/31/eu-delays-biodiversity-rules-amid-rising-protests-from-farmers

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/transportation/railroad-trilogy-2024-canadas-passenger-rail-service-past-present-and-future/