‘We produce more than ever before … but the things exist mostly in order to be captured in images again.’ www.ft.com/content/e637...

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woooooo whus.org

it starts w a cpu fault message

nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter

I'd love it if we had some remixes of this banger: soundcloud.com/heaven-17-of...

Albert Camus, Editor of the French Resistance Newspaper Combat, Writes Movingly About Life, Politics & War (1944–47)

For the latest issue of Artforum I wrote about the culture of “AI” in my sector of academia, arguing that a focus on what it does distracts attention away from examining the exploitative conditions that the hopeful rhetoric of its promise upholds. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

250512_134416_C.clj tweegeemee.com/i/250512_134416_C #ProceduralArt#generative

250923_234508_M.clj tweegeemee.com/i/250923_234508_M #ProceduralArt#generative

When CBS Canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for Criticizing the American Establishment and the Vietnam War (1969)

forgot to put this up somewhere so here you go. visualize your favorite zlib stream! lynn.github.io/flateview/

we love portrayals of technological transition and their epistemological boundaries don’t we folks

stretch related 2000black.bandcamp.com/album/27

Get ready, friends, this is going to be major. Next May. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611489...

In Jan., the Trump admin dismissed members of the Cyber Safety Review Board, created by President Biden to improve the nation’s digital security. Former CSRB member Jeff Greene explains the importance of the CSRB and explores how the admin could improve it. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

Ursula K. Leguin, 1929-2018. "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." (speech at the National Book Foundation, 2014) #teletext #ursulakleguin #sf #feminism #author

Artufical Intelligence was Invented To Block Wiener, Ensuing Comeuppance Hilarious.

Jean-Paul Sartre Rejects the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964: “It Was Monstrous!”

On Oct. 1, Lawfare will be hosting a special in person event marking the culmination of our multi-year project on Security by Design—a critical initiative that explores how law and policy can incentivize secure software development. Tickets are free, but registration is required.

*Prof. Peter Denning. I've always been impressed by this guy's sense of civilized decency. Life must be a trial for him nowadays denninginstitute.com/pjd/PUBS/CAC...

timely art

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

250903_064605_b.clj tweegeemee.com/i/250903_064605_b #ProceduralArt#generative

howie b youtube.com/watch?v=C5zD...

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. KURT VONNEGUT

My position on the "doomsday" risk of superhuman AGI is that if IQ offered you a decisive advantage, the world would be run by nerds. I think it's essentially a geek power fantasy. The returns on puzzle-solving skills rapidly diminish past some modest threshold.

Academic or student in the USA? Our research techniques can be useful in assessing fake news. We're helping students to investigate and better understand the anti-democratic online ideologies that threaten their communities with two free webinars on digital investigation skills this September 🧵

Behold the Sea Organ: The Massive Experimental Musical Instrument That Makes Music with the Sea

a clean rip of the blueprint surfaces youtube.com/watch?v=8Ou4...

Arguably one of the greatest shortcomings of today's intellectual environment is the widespread failure to understand how digital power works. You can reclaim a bar/town hall/public square by showing up. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT do that with a digital platform.

“Neologism” is recorded in English as early as 1772 (and earlier in French as néologisme), which is fun because in the 1700s, the word itself was an autological word (a word that describes itself) and it is now a heterological word (a word that doesn’t describe itself or contradicts itself).

nice 3d object here

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i will make a pcb for this lol, that's my opening

one hears little abt this

now do nancarrow

good post breaking down how payment processors work, what itch could practically do, etc voidfox.com/blog/payment...

the model is not the territory

new nu era on omniverse nu-era.bandcamp.com/album/electr...

Incredible circuit board illustrations, all full-page, from the first volume of Kazuo Umezz's manga My Name Is Shingo (1982–1986).