Pico as Z80 RAM & RAM: Homebrew Retro Computer Part 2 – Maker Hacks
with just a little bit of micropython code. neat!
From Faceless to FaceTime: installing webcam drivers on a Debian-powered MacBook Air | Andrea Fortuna
will probably need this later
Permacomputing as a practice for digital Graphic Design
wonderful manifesto + sketches on the topic of sustainable computing and graphic design. importantly: "permacomputing requires thorough consideration to prevent it from becoming a hobby for the privileged or glorifying and aestheticizing poverty"
Agnès Varda, Pragmatic Dreamer
review of new Agnès Varda biography
Writing a C Compiler | No Starch Press
"For those eager to truly grasp how compilers work, Writing a C Compiler dispels the mystery. This book guides you through a fun and engaging project where you’ll learn what it takes to compile a real-world programming language to actual assembly code."
Library Field – Syllabus
Shannon Mattern: "What if we imagined that Field as a Library: a public space, a social infrastructure, an intellectual and ecological commons, a site for the convergence of myriad ways of knowing?"
AI, LLMs, and BS – Data Visualization with R
a wonderful, thoughtful, and down-to-earth statement on LLM use in educational contexts. "I’m a super straight-laced Mormon and, like, never ever swear or curse, but in this case, the word [bullshit] has a formal philosophical meaning... so it doesn’t count :)" lmao.
History of Abacus and Ancient Computing - KASS
fascinating overview w/bibliography concerning tally sticks, tokens, counting boards, abaci, etc
Trilling, 2006 (continuous loop) on Vimeo
"Trilling scrolls right to left across the screen, recombining footage from the early 80s television program "Three's Company" into a sequence of traveling gestural loops."
reMarkable Connection Utility (RCU)
"All-in-one offline/local management software for reMarkable e-paper tablets (RM1 and RM2). RCU ensures the user's data is never out of their control, completely unshackled from the manufacturer's proprietary cloud."
System Sleep States — The Linux Kernel documentation
useful info on how sleep states are advertised and controlled
Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions | WSU Insider | Washington State University
hahahaha "When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions"
American Suburbs Are a Horror Movie and We’re the Protagonists
"American suburbs are full of ugly, empty, liminal spaces: spaces you are not meant to linger in or enjoy. They’re the creepy hallways of the built environment, and you can’t feel comfortable traversing them unless you’re zooming past them in a car. Why should we fill our cities and towns with places like this?"
Imitating generative AI videos English added by me :) – @rongzhi on Tumblr
i think what the "eventually generative ai will be indistinguishable from human-made things" folks are failing to understand is that not only do the methods of creation leave traces in the media they create, you can't predict beforehand what those traces will be; also, people are really really good at recognizing these traces
Pluralistic: AI’s productivity theater (25 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
"Working at an AI-equipped workplace is like being the parent of a furious toddler who has bought a million Sea Monkey farms off the back page of a comic book"
American academic freedom is in peril | Science
"researchers—from tenured professors to undergraduate students—have been subjected to online harassment, lawsuits, and repeated smears in partisan media. Some have received physical threats to their safety in comments, emails, phone calls, and even letters"
Despair underlies our misinformation crisis: Introducing an interactive tool | Brookings
"Increasingly, despair is considered a national security issue as well as a health crisis." no of course we don't live in a dystopia, why do you ask
Fora • Conversation Platform
(proprietary) platform for qualitative research from conversations
FIRE weather: Big insurance companies can see the risks on their books, but banks can't
"Right now [California insurer of last resort FAIR] is facing $340bn in exposure against just $250m in cash, so a single $8bn fire around Lake Arrowhead would wipe it out" yikes
The Dungeon Mode
html excerpt from wiley's mfa thesis: "A dungeon raid is a violent archaeology carried out within a hostile system of architecture rather than in a specific place. The “place” of a videogame dungeon lies in a form of visionary architecture, created by some imperial force positioned in a hierarchy of power that is part of a fantasy world... Adjacent to fantasy and architecture, dungeon games have an opportunity to critique history, power, place, and orientation."