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Stuff I found on the Internet

No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression - The Citizen Lab

"[T]he intersecting identities of those targeted by gender-based digital transnational repression – namely, their gender, race, ethnicity, immigration status, and socio-economic class in the host country, among others – lead to compounded vulnerability. Exiled and diaspora women human rights defenders often lack robust social networks and support structures in their host societies, leaving them further isolated and exposed to state repression"

internet culture gender activism

X Cicéro

"Une série d’impressions des caractères disponibles a ensuite servi de point de départ au dessin de caractères numériques, qui a leur tour ont servi de modèles pour des essais de découpe numérique. Les objectifs, à long terme, sont de pouvoir réhabiliter ces caractères et d’en produire de nouveaux, et de faire vivre l’atelier d’impression typographique." downloadable "tels quels" and licensed with OFL

typography design letterpress fonts

The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly

"It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process"

music streaming data culture

Wild West Fonts

ttf fonts with wood type distressing and sort of an "overexposed microfiche" look?

typography mol

Ali Alkhatib: Defining AI

"Defining AI along political and ideological language allows us to think about things we experience and recognize productively as AI, without needing the self-serving supervision of computer scientists to allow or direct our collective work. We can recognize, based on our own knowledge and experience as people who deal with these systems, what’s part of this overarching project of disempowerment by the way that it renders autonomy farther away from us, by the way that it alienates our authority on the subjects of our own expertise." (I would add, though I'm sure Alkhatib would agree with this, that attributing authority to something that "learns from examples" is itself a political and ideological act!)

ai politics

Nature's Folly: A Response to "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably"

"Consider doing this same experiment, but, instead of poetry, it's literally anything STEM, and, when our criminally underpaid participants preferred ChatGPT, we gleefully write a paper titled 'AI-generated physics is indistinguishable from human-written physics.' It's unimaginable that such a paper would pass peer-review in any scientific journal."

poetry ai

The Enclosure of the Human Psyche - by L. M. Sacasas

"The individual human psyche does not seem like a thing held in common. But, in fact, that presumption may itself be a symptom of the enclosure of the psyche, although there are certainly many other forces leading toward that same conclusion.... From this perspective, the enclosure of the human psyche deprives us of a common world, which yields an experience of solidarity and belonging."

culture history technology

Places Overview

"100 million commercial points-of-interest (POI) worldwide and is rich with real-world information" some good open source data, but a lot of the actually interesting attributes (hours, tips, descriptions) are only available for $$$

datasets geography

The False Radicalism of Corporate Disability Literature ‹ Literary Hub

"[E]conomic elites have 'avoided questions of structural violence and a broader critique of power relations' by convincing historically marginalized individuals that 'telling one’s story' doesn’t just offer healing, it can also lead to personal advancement... Unfortunately... 'the majority of those who tell their stories are not able to improve their conditions.'"

disability justice capitalism