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More than 200 years of computer diseases
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The C.U.P. Runneth Over
The C.U.P. Runneth Over | Dave Infante
Busch Light’s C.U.P.s are full to the brim with reactionary politics.
It’d be wrong to say Busch Light—a frat-party fixture virtually since Anheuser-Busch introduced it in 1989—is “for men,” but its sales have skewed that way for decades. Its marketing has followed likewise. Higher-end brands like Michelob Ultra find traction with women on the basis of sleek packaging, “super-premium” pricing, and what the industry calls the “perceived ‘better-for-you’ health halo.” Busch Light has bachelor-pad pricing, bottom-of-the-cooler utility, and . . . not much else. In seeking to zhuzh up its commodity pedigree with a shot of the coed zeitgeist, Busch has turned an envious eye to Stanley’s success with the ladies. Call it “Maslow’s hammered”: when all you’ve got is a bro brand, there’s only one way to nail a trend. You make it familiar for the fellas.
AI as Normal Technology
AI as Normal Technology | Knight First Amendment Institute
The normal technology frame is about the relationship between technology and society. It rejects technological determinism, especially the notion of AI itself as an agent in determining its future. It is guided by lessons from past technological revolutions, such as the slow and uncertain nature of technology adoption and diffusion. It also emphasizes continuity between the past and the future trajectory of AI in terms of societal impact and the role of institutions in shaping this trajectory.
With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster
With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
But whatever the intent of its creators, this torrent of AI content leads to the desensitisation and overwhelming of visual palates. The overall effect of being exposed to AI images all the time, from the nonsensical to the soothing to the ideological, is that everything begins to land in a different way. In the real world, US politicians pose outside prison cages of deportees. Students at US universities are ambushed in the street and spirited away. People in Gaza burn alive. These pictures and videos join an infinite stream of others that violate physical and moral laws. The result is profound disorientation. You can’t believe your eyes, but also what can you believe if not your eyes? Everything starts to feel both too real and entirely unreal.
Kim Yun Shin Has Been Sculpting in Solitude for Decades. The World Has Finally Noticed.
The World Is Finally Noticing Korean Sculptor Kim Yun Shin
The 90-year-old artist has made sculptures, paintings and prints for 60+ years in Paris, Seoul, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires
After five years in the French capital, she moved back to Seoul and taught sculpture at Seoul’s Sangmyung University until 1983. During this time, she also started the Korean Sculptress Society, which is still active today. The next year, Kim decided to move to Buenos Aires after an initial visit to see a nephew. She lived and worked there until 2022, the year she moved to Paju, a city located about an hour outside Seoul. Between the late 1980s and early 2000s, Kim also spent time in Mexico and Brazil. In 2008, she founded a namesake museum in Buenos Aires, the first one in the world to be focused on Korean immigrant art. She now splits her time between two studios in Buenos Aires and Seoul.
Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/mutual-aid-in-the-age-of-fascism/But mutual aid is more than glorified good neighborliness. The response to the Somerville abduction is a case in point: such projects can channel rage and fear into disciplined, concrete action, linking movements and bringing new individuals into them. Rather than sidestep politics, it can make politics happen. The LUCE group encompasses immigrant rights and tenants’ rights, prison abolition and workplace safety; it unites communities from Asian Pacific Islanders to Dominicans, Muslims to Unitarians.
How to Be Kind in a World That’s Always Monitoring You
How to Be Kind in a World That's Always Monitoring You | TIME
If we want to live in a more ethical data-driven world, we’re going to have to manage it ourselves.
Unfortunately, if we want to live in a safer, more ethical data-driven world, we’re going to have to manage it ourselves. And because most of us lack the political power, economic might, or technical expertise to change the system we live in, we’re going to have to do it from the ground up, through our shared cultures and social norms. We need to start collectively practicing “data kindness.”
What is data kindness? As its name suggests, it’s just regular old human kindness, but taking into account the invisible webs of data that now surround every action and interaction. Thankfully, this is something we’re good at. Historically, when people are confronted with new circumstances, we find a way to integrate them into our practices of kindness towards one another.
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The Trump Tariffs Will Kill The Guitar Industry
259. After Virtue
How To Get Cocteau Twins Guitar Tone in 10 Minutes!
Wax: browser-based audio synthesis environment
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Molly and I are about 40 hrs into Blue Prince, after having beaten the games central puzzle at about hr. 20, and we are not showing any signs of stopping.
I’m also replaying Citizen Sleeper when I have a few moments here and there.
I’ve played a few minutes of Oquonie – originally rel. 2014, and “best described as ‘Animal Crossing in a K-Hole’” – and am looking forward to doing some more clicking around later.
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Never Post won a Webby! For Best Live Podcast Recording, which is wild. A new ep came out last week, wherein Jason talks with design historian Hannah Pivo about the use of charts to create truth throughout history; Georgia talks with WIRED reviews editor Julian Chokkattu about what it does to our brains and bodies when all our devices are smooth glass slabs.
Fun City put out a Fun Chatty at the end of last week and the next ep should be out this week. We’ve also got a new RIP Corp in the works, probably another week or two for that one.
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That’s what I have for you; hope you had a great weekend and have a wonderful week. Good luck out there.