The truth is that whether or not AI determines our future will be decided by a confoundingly small minority of humans who nevertheless control a counfoundingly vast majority of the world’s wealth. This is not a technology issue, really, but one of structural inequality.
From Out Random the AI.
See also, Jon Stewart on the False Promises of AI
“looking down at an undulating fog bank that completely obscures the valley below. It’s like a mysterious sea with a forest-blanketed peak to the rear on a landmass ascending out of it. I don’t know what’s below the gray waves. Whatever is down there, it’s a different place from up here. I’m on a sky island”
“Night Driving” for Volkswagen. Man, I forgot ads used to have the capacity to be amazing. See “Milky Way” also for Volkswagen. Via @genmon on accessing something other: “escape time, escape selfhood, whether that’s driving in the dark or sitting in a hotel lobby or walking.”
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Cherry blossoms by @sadtearsfish
Exploring the Sky Islands of the Trans-Pecos
High up on the Chisos, Davis, and Guadalupe mountains, rarified ecosystems abound in the sky islands of the Trans-Pecos
Source: presentandcorrect.com
No joke, loveless grilled cheese sandwiches suck.
They Didn’t Just Want to Build a Housing Shelter. They Wanted to Shift Public Perception:
Changing the way the public perceives shelters informed the design. From the nearby highway, the first glimpse you get of the structure includes an impressive mural by Australian artist Guido van Helten stretched across its 3,000-square-foot facade. A passerby might think this is an art museum, a shop, or possibly a school.
Nice clouds tonight.
Cross My Heart is a fun Frogger remake.
Eucalyptus and Sagebrush via Floorless
(via Pacífico — Felipe Bedoya)
sheds, ghost networks & more
🏘️ Some of these Great British sheds are just awesome.
🎮 Cross My Heart is a fun Frogger “Demake” that you can play in the browser.
🛖 Bothies are “simple shelters in remote country for the use & benefit of all who love wild & lonely places.”
🤖 “Hiding on Slack isn’t all that hard, apparently; you just have to pretend you’re a bot. That’s what IT Brew’s Tom McKay did when he left Gizmodo in 2022, and he went undetected by the site’s management for months.”
📺 “Few cable and satellite networks are a force anymore, the byproduct of sudden changes in how people entertain themselves. Several have lost more than half their audiences in a decade. They’ve essentially become ghost networks, filling their schedules with reruns and barely trying to push toward anything new.”
Walden Pond “is a little paper zine that comes once a month in the mail. It’s full of a selection of the articles you’ve saved to Pocket.”
Jason Kottke on latest design of kottke.org:
In thinking about how I wanted kottke.org to look and, more importantly, feel going forward, I wanted more social media energy than blog energy — one could also say “more old school blog energy than contemporary blog energy”. Blogs now either look like Substack/Medium or Snow Fall and I didn’t want to pattern kottke.org after either of those things. I don’t want to write articles — I want to blog.
My response? 🤘!!!
Knowing Machines “is a research project tracing the histories, practices, and politics of how machine learning systems are trained to interpret the world.”
The art of Felipe Bedoya is pretty amazing. Example:
I’m always on the lookout for good instrumental music to work to and Modern Country by William Tyler is that.