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3 March 2026

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The Grand Budapest Hotel Soundtrack - a nearly perfect soundtrack for writing or editing.

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Hey babe, RU ok? You’ve barely touched your genuinely terrifying glimpse of the future of digital information:

Might be time to move to the woods?

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A nice little piece about the current VHS/Betamax battle playing out between two kinds of machine vision seeking to control the cars of the future:

🚩 https://asteriskmag.com/issues/13/seeing-like-a-sedan

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AI has been embraced by young men with poor social skills, bad style and extreme political views, but in some circles there’s a growing awareness of a need for rules of engagement.

🚩 https://www.politico.eu/article/isis-teaching-recruits-how-to-use-ai-responsibly/

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While Europe and the US are tearing themselves apart about AI’s dangers and potential, China seems to have a very different attitude. Totally unrelatedly, the Chinese state is well known for its cheerful willingness to destroy any company that threatens its monopoly on power, narrative or violence.

🚩 https://afraw.substack.com/p/an-ai-maxi-new-year

Like anybody who wants art and beauty to exist in the world, I hate Spotify with a passion. I am also a subscriber to it, because this is how we live now. But this piece filled me with hope, at least for a moment.

🚩 https://joelgouveia.substack.com/p/the-death-of-spotify-why-streaming

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This is a side project of some members of the Image Matters research group at Aalto University. We do it out of spite, mostly.

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