{"id":3290,"date":"2023-09-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3290"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:41:17","slug":"href-weekly-sept17-sep23-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3290","title":{"rendered":"href weekly | Sept17-Sep23 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

River is a visual connection engine … surf laterally through imagespace #web<\/a> #art<\/a> https:\/\/river.maxbittker.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the #ransomware<\/a> gang ALPHV #hacked<\/a> #hack<\/a> Caesars and MGM, taking down multiple systems across the #casino<\/a> giants\u2019 networks. https:\/\/www.404media.co\/inside-mgms-hacked-casinos\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new, more inclusive vision of #technology<\/a> can emerge only if the basis of social power changes. #ai<\/a> https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/175357\/big-tech-ruining-dream-ai<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

#LLM<\/a> are not search engines looking up facts; they are pattern-spotting engines that guess the next best option in a sequence. #generative<\/a> #ai<\/a> https:\/\/ig.ft.com\/generative-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music & Sound<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Create custom-length #generative<\/a> #music<\/a> with text prompts – powered by #audio<\/a> #ai<\/a> diffusion models. https:\/\/www.stableaudio.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cto be able to accept and move in both the world you were born into and the world you found on your own.\u201d https:\/\/bittersoutherner.com\/feature\/2023\/lucinda-williams-and-the-idea-of-louisiana<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

the album feels like a five-alarm blaze, prophesying an era of corporate-driven consensus and the outsourcing of America\u2019s manufacturing sector. https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/listening-booth\/the-replacements-are-still-a-puzzle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A #book<\/a> that arouses children’s interest in #tinkering<\/a> and encourages shaping #technology<\/a> https:\/\/fsfe.org\/activities\/ada-zangemann\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics & Economics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a> https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/175335\/crypto-ceo-appeal-sam-bankman-fried<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201csola-stalgia\u201d .. a term gaining traction in #climatechange<\/a> circles that loosely translates to the loss of a place that once brought you solace. https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/prince-edward-island-storm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn New York or Paris, if you do a horizontal, leaderless, and post-ideological uprising, and it doesn\u2019t 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.\u201d https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/175314\/decade-mass-protest-mass-disappointment<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[127,6,8,184,180,187,186,183,179,178,182,31,177,181,185,176],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-links","tag-ai","tag-art","tag-audio","tag-book","tag-casino","tag-climatechange","tag-crypto","tag-generative","tag-hack","tag-hacked","tag-llm","tag-music","tag-ransomware","tag-technology","tag-tinkering","tag-web","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}