i am still on the hunt for artists for my vending machine artist residency programme based in norwich, UK. if you make works on paper, small multiples, have big ideas about public works and how lots of small pieces can make a whole, or just think this sounds cool, please get in touch! specialdispensations@gmail.com
i am currently seeking residents for july 2022 onwards. the residencies are monthly, and can be completed from anywhere in the world where you can post things that reach the uk.
more info: https://www.honorash.com/special-dispensations-call-for-artists
linux, boots appreciated
Does anyone know of a tutorial on how to set up a shell script to automatically FTP the updated files to your web server whenever you build a page? Copying and pasting by hand is tedious https://ageofdatini.info/essays/how-do-i-make-this-site.html
The EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of your private communication – or total surveillance in the name of child protection. This would be the worst surveillance apparatus outside of China:
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-surveillance-csam
#Fight4Privacy #No2Backdoors
AI, visual arts, textocentrism
Tools like DALL-E 2* make me think that writing is becoming, paradoxically, the main medium of visual art. The input is text, the output is an image – and then more text is needed to make sense of such image, which functions as interface between texts. The image processing also happens via text, namely, code.
* https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
(I automatically posted this to birdsite and regretted it, as I don't want to post 'original' thoughts there, hence the pseudo-repost here)
I'm starting a small call for entries for a yet-to-exist 'zine on tech for resting, being lazy, letting be, and having a break. Share wide and far.
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For the first Fallow Zine, la Jachère is interested in contributions about the following topics, but not limited to them.
- Lazy tech or tech for the lazies
- Tech that falls into place, fits, is just enough
- Tech for rest, pause, have a break, take a breath
- Tech for preservation, of the status quo, of energy, of a moment, of equilibrium
More on https://jache.re/notes/call-fallow-zine-1.html
- Deadline: 21. June 2022 (more or less… deadlines are thresholds to play with)
the people's ventilator is now ~peer review official~ 😌
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0266810
Worse: immunocompromised people take longer to recover from covid, meaning they have a higher chance of incubating new strains, and when those new strains emerge, they rip through immunocompromised, unvaccinated populations.
Just in case you've encountered the racist lie that poor brown people in the global south are too primitive to make their own vaccines, waivers or no, here's a debunking of that particular pile of bigoted garbage:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bruno-argento/#pharma-death-cult
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@az Totally. I'd say that a "platform" is basically a system for managing and policing people.
@az I feel you. I "grew up" with IRC and handles. During that time being myself afk wasn't that easy. Not having to be myself online was fantastic. Clearname/photo practices enforced by larger platforms are a terrible thing.
On the other hand, I experience the fediverse at times as very safe spaces. And I was wondering if for some of us, it actually is the other way around. That for once, being able to be oneself is actually a very nice thing.
if you're on mastodon you probably possess the sicko urge to run janky community tools yourself, so i present for your consideration: our small-scale self-hosted streaming platform: https://gitlab.com/egirls/dios
uk pol
Yesterday, the UK government has criminalised the culture and practices of Gypsy Roma Traveller people living in this country. https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/news/fft-statement-on-pcsc-bill/
All of us who are members of groups that have faced past or present attempts at government annihilation should stand together as allies. An attack on the GRT community is an attack on all of us.
can't spell, won't spell