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Die Zeit berichtet vom #Luddite Meetup in Brooklyn – auf den Punkt, und auf die Barrikaden. Ein good read, als Gift-Artikel: www.zeit.de/kultur/20…
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A distressing story about how #car battery #recycling (not of the electric car ones!) poisons workers and people across the planet, and companies have known this for 3 decades. Lead, the ignored matter. www.nytimes.com/interacti…
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The chat interface was a marketing bet. Selling #AI as if it is not auto complete. It still is. #ChatGPT shifted the user’s relationship to text, moving the prompt from a ‘piece of writing for the model to finish’ to a ‘question calling for an answer’. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-was-…
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Remember Gathertown? 🚶‍♂️🧟‍♂️
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Delightful 💩: dana boyd, Lee Vinsel & Cory Doctorow on #Enshittification It feels odd that Cory assumes that platform things were good for a start. Still insightful. athenaeum.vt.domains/peoplesan…
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Out now, Call for Case Participation (CfCP?) and CfP for “Before Ruins” in Bochum. Together with students, I will organise a case on vacant houses. Or, in the words of a recent controversy: “#Leerstand im #Stadtbild” stsing.org/before-ru…
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Yet another storm troubles #Vietnam, or as Mike puts it, the typhoon season is actually supposed to be over, but such is #climatechange open.substack.com/pub/thevi…
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A tiny side-project that I can hopefully pull through: reverse engineering an audio box for kids that works with proprietary “tokens.” Like a cassette player but rigid af. Use and dispose. #hackerspace #netz39 First stop, getting info about chips and pins. A cheap USB microcontroller it is