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href weekly | April 20 – Apr 27 2025

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Bits

“as long as anything is centralized it is subject to one day experiencing exactly what Twitter experienced and why using domains to verify anybody is who they say they are is so important bc it’s one thing the platform does *not* have a say over” https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.lol/post/3lndkshqgxs2r

“There’s camaraderie here. People come in to chat about their lives while we fix their items, and it does wonders for their mental health.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-13/fixing-more-than-broken-stuff-the-growing-impact-of-repair-cafes/104727868

“The deity of the Hebrew Bible should not be confused, of course, with GOD (the Generalized Omniscient Dialoguebot), which is included with your LMS. You can ask it for help with your homework, request advice about relationships or major life decisions, or simply talk to it when you’re lonely or afraid.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ten-commandments-annotated-for-use-in-your-ai-enhanced-classroom

Music! Art! Games! Poetry! Dreams beyond the Walled gardensl New programs daily! A celebration of the handmade web! A patchwork quilt of hypertext! Nothing on-demand! Nothing algorithmic! Enjoy the moment! https://hypertext.tv

Film & Video

“the government had created the incentive in 1975 wherein 100 percent of an investment in a film could be written off, the heyday of this inglorious period of Canadian filmmaking began toward the end of the decade, as word of this insane loophole spread, and continued through the early ’80s.” https://thewalrus.ca/david-cronenberg-cinema/

Music & Sound

Let me feel my dory lift
To the broad Atlantic combers
Where the tide rip swirls and the wild ducks whirl
And old Neptune calls the numbers
https://www.cshf.ca/let-me-fish-off-cape-st-marys-song-induction/

Politics & Economics

“What do we have if the freedom to read isn’t ours anymore?” https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16141613-libraries-fighting-freedom-democracy

tooth fairy .. https://thewalrus.ca/tax-cuts-election/

href weekly | Nov 24 – Nov 30 2024

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A and walkthrough of an – explore the algorithm down to every add & multiply, seeing the whole process in action. https://bbycroft.net/llm

“blogging plus feed readers started out a lot more decentralized than has, and having one big player enter the room and then exit effectively killed the system. And that’s even without feed readers being particularly expensive or challenging to run as independent software.” https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

“So long as can be a trap, I won’t let myself be tempted. My rule – I don’t join a service that I can’t leave without switching costs – is my Ulysses Pact, and it’s keeping me safe from danger I’ve sailed into too many times before.” https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

mastodon client https://phanpy.social

Sound & Music

My son’s latest track on https://gabriel-music.bandcamp.com/track/sacred-machine

The theme of the issue is “forgotten and re-emerging media formats,” but we’re seeking material on that, or any other culturally relevant or irrelevant topics. https://wfmu.org/lcd/

Kim Deal on her own https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/kim-deal-on-her-own

Love the way these are visualized https://youtu.be/FpaoCUEhZJM?feature=shared

Travel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda_Beach,_Victoria

Film & Video

“Self-destruction is by no means a uniquely British trait. But there is something about that pairing of aristocratic idiocy and condescension paired with an irreverent pantomime silliness that is utterly unique. We seem to have forgotten – or rather, repressed – this schizophrenia lately. I feel that The Wicker Man, and so many great folk horror films of the ‘60s and ‘70s, not only were all too aware of it, they recognised its destructive nature.” https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_last_sacrifice_rupert_russells_new_film_examining_the_murder_that_inspi

Politics & Economics

The Ballad of Barrett Brown https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-ballad-of-barrett-brown.html

Nordic countries are distributing these pamphlets to their citizens https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30874.pdf

“It tastes like the growing network of global shipping routes, and the increasing rotational speed of well-lubricated industrial machinery. It’s a flavour that announced the dawn of a new world, the flavour of mechanisation.” https://aeon.co/essays/extra-virgin-olive-oil-is-the-flavour-of-mechanisation

“What if the psyche were a thing held in common? That is to say, what if our purchase on reality and the emergence of the self depended on human relationships and communities? From this perspective, the enclosure of the human psyche deprives us of a common world, which yields an experience of solidarity and belonging.” https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclosure-of-the-human-psyche

“Almost 47 percent of all food produced for Canadians is wasted annually” https://thewalrus.ca/inside-second-harvests-fight-against-food-waste/