Worldwide Story Structures - 김윤미 Kim Yoonmi Author
useful collection of descriptions and resources, good bibliography (cites 'The Myth of Universal Narrative Models' which I assign in CAtN)
Stuff I found on the Internet
useful collection of descriptions and resources, good bibliography (cites 'The Myth of Universal Narrative Models' which I assign in CAtN)
dream OS tbh
fedora stops accepting code licensed as CC0. the concern seems to be about the patent rights clauses, which may expose users of the code to patent litigation later on
lots of good little pixel art tutorials
"[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"
good overview of some dungeon generation techniques
"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
"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"
"In a recent press release, the company insisted that 'we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.)' For what it’s worth, that press release also announced they’d raised $15 million in Series A funding from Blockchain Capital." lmao
ttf fonts with wood type distressing and sort of an "overexposed microfiche" look?
good thread on the use of "public" social media posts in ML datasets
"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!)
"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."
"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."
"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 $$$
"Their results say that 3% of participants' actual lives might've been saved by Replika. That means 3% of participants are tethered to life by a venture funded tech company that can simply disappear at any time, or, more likely, decide to charge more money, because they can. How much are you willing to pay to not die tomorrow?"
"[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.'"
nyu library has this online, but it's in the goofy o'reilly ebook reader thing
these are kinda fun
"over 4 million frames of motion capture data for 100 different styles of locomotion"