Brendan Howell @praxeology@post.lurk.org
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Some you might have wondered where I was going with my questions yesterday about the web browsers on e-readers.
I was trying to work out how many people either currently use them, or would be open to using them.
It's for this new side project: https://eink.link
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"scarcity" right here
RT @RamzeeRawkz@twitter.com
My fav Bowie clip ever is him talking about how the Art establishment co-opts particular voices out of a fertile art movement to kill off that movement by creating singular voices to perpetuate the idea of Art as rare commodity by geniuses rather than something within all people
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RamzeeRawkz/status/1365959785204637697
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Artists!
Food Not Bombs of South Central Wisconsin is looking for zines for our community library. If you would be willing to donate some printed zines or give us permission to make copies of your work, let me know!
Biology grows on you.
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Online lecture by interdisciplinary, intersectional, digital media scholar and digital herstorian Dr Kishonna Gray whose areas of research include identity, performance and online environments, embodied deviance, cultural production, video games, and Black Cyberfeminism co-organized by Page Not Found and the Master Experimental Publishing (XPUB) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy will be happening tomorrow at 4:00 PM (CET):
Totally free!
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It’s very funny to me that over the past ~15 years, internet libertarianism has moved from “copyright is obsolete, information wants to be free” to recreating copyright from first principles, except the copyright registry sets the planet on fire.
Most of us have been trained from birth to expect concepts to be framed in the form of a "product". So when things like objects, software or hobbies fail to fit into tidy marketing-defined categories, they are often met with derision or even hostility.
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How long have you been using your current daily use smartphone? What model is it? How did you manage to keep it going? What repairs did it need? Boosts appreciated!
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Clubhouse Is Recording Your Conversations – Not Even Its Worst Privacy Problem - https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/clubhouse-is-recording-your-conversations-thats-not-even-its-worst-privacy-problem.html
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How dark money influences the Unicode Consortium’s decisions on new emoji; in particular, how Ford successfully pushed for a pickup truck emoji:
https://text.npr.org/963370085
For anybody using LUKS to encrypt a hard drive on a low-RAM #linux machine. This was very helpful: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/issues/488
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Könnte auch #thomasTappe (@CDU) #oberbürgermeister von @westf_halle genau so für den nächsten Wahlkampf bestellt haben oder @fff_werther ?
#SteiniBleibt #StorckStoppen
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RT @ExtinctionR_DE
.@CDU_BW, was ist denn mit euch los?
Diese Plakate sind erstaunlich ehrlich.
#CDUmalEhrlich
Die hier sind aus Konstanz. Hat noch jemand welche gesehen davon?
https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR_DE/status/1364831722525851654
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Vous vous souvenez peut-être du documentaire #Hypernormalisation, rapidement culte il y a quatre ans et réalisé comme chacun des films du réalisateur uniquement par des footages très divers et une voix off. On peut discuter les thèses avancées, mais c'est au moins intéressant dans les rapports entre images, réel, mythe et fiction.
Un nouveau documentaire de #AdamCurtis est sorti il y a une dizaine de jours (et c’est au moins aussi bien qu’une série de la BBC). "'Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World' is a six-part BBC documentary television series [...] It attempts to explain how " #modernsociety has arrived at where it is today by tracing various topics such as, 'the strange roots of modern #conspiracytheories, the history of #China, #opium and #opioids, [and] the history of #ArtificialIntelligence'."
Je n'ai pas encore tout vu mais c'est déjà super.
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bud9zF8e1zU - Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GeDN9Jw4E0 - Shooting and F**king are the Same Thing
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmTzGcDboME - Money Changes Everything
Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vrqGlGnBUg - But What if the People are Stupid
Part 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AI2lRVifwg - The Lordly Ones
Part 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_XdqHP5EUg - Are we Pidgeon or are we Dancer
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"Inside the ‘Wikipedia of Maps,’ Tensions Grow Over #Corporate Influence
As Apple, Facebook, Amazon and other private companies play larger roles in #OpenStreetMap, some volunteers worry that the open-source project is losing its way."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/openstreetmap-charts-a-controversial-new-direction
#osm #cartography
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It seems to me that we aren't hearing about the "Computing within Limits" discourse as much as we should. Even I wasn't aware of this until recently, even though much of their research strongly resonates with my own ideas about the ecology of computing ("permacomputing", "digital degrowth" etc). Sadly, many of their past papers barely scratch the surface of their respective topics. Nevertheless, I've been planning to participate in their next virtual workshop. https://computingwithinlimits.org/ #permacomputing #computingwithinlimits *LIMITS 2021 -- Workshop on Computing within Limits* computingwithinlimits.org https://computingwithinlimits.org/2021/
It seems to me that we aren't hearing about the "Computing within Limits" discourse as much as we should. Even I wasn't aware of this until recently, even though much of their research strongly resonates with my own ideas about the ecology of computing ("permacomputing", "digital degrowth" etc). Sadly, many of their past papers barely scratch the surface of their respective topics. Nevertheless, I've been planning to participate in their next virtual workshop. computingwithinlimits.org/ #permacomputing #computingwithinlimits
LIMITS 2021 -- Workshop on Computing within Limits
LIMITS 2021 -- Workshop on Computing within Limits
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✔ Mastofication of #Germany ~ 81% complete
Original SVG source by Roman Poulvas, David Liuzzo (Wikipedia)
If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock.
Or some joker who is slicker,
will trick you of your liquor,
if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
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