Justin Ling, on January 12: In a hour-long special, I’m Glad I’m Dead, [George] Carlin returns to talk reality TV, AI, billionaires, being dead, mass shootings, and Trump. It premiered to horrified reviews. Carlin’s daughter called the special an affront to her father: “Humans ar … | Continue reading
Online Panel Discussion and Online Lecture Performance (7 and 15 February) CULTUS is the second instalment of the Silicon Traces trilogy, a series of moving image installations that contends with the beliefs, fantasies, and histories influential to Silicon Valley’s visions of the … | Continue reading
The too long, didn’t read is: if you want, but maybe not modern tapes! Wow that’s a terrible setup for a post; pretend I recorded something profound here instead. On Metal, with Dolby C. This transition from a general-interest blog of technology, development, and servers into a ( … | Continue reading
He’s faced death threats, had his home bombed, and witnessed a crash in biodiversity. How does the TV naturalist stay positive? The post Chris Packham on why he’s angry, yet hopeful appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
If you care about the indie web growing, by all means write, by all means create, by all means curate. But most of all, just read. Or listen, or experience. Spend an afternoon clicking around, like everybody used to. The more people who do that, the more everything else will slot … | Continue reading
Thursday 18th January 2024, 4PM – Auditorium Officine Garibaldi, Pisa The Alma Artis Academy of Pisa on Thursday 18 January, at 4 p.m., at the Auditorium of the Officine Garibaldi, is pleased to present the conference ‘The impact of NFT and AI in Art’, by Claudio Francesconi, Hea … | Continue reading
Uplifting headlines from Positive News will be displayed on screens in public spaces throughout the UK The post Positive news headlines to be shared with millions in the UK via outdoor screens appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
One of the biggest cognitive dissonances I’ve had in this pandemic is seeing almost everyone I know – including the most intelligent and the most socially responsible – throw away all covid precautions and live like the pandemic is over. People like to use the word endemic as tho … | Continue reading
Kevin Systrom announced the decision to shut down Artifact on Medium: While we’ve made this decision, we wanted to make sure that we allowed the community time to adjust. So, today we’ve decided to slim down the app’s complexity and operations by removing the ability to add new c … | Continue reading
I mention a lot of independent bloggers and videographers here, but in the paraphrased words of Highlander, there can be only one… favourite for 2023. It was a close race, yet picking the winner took almost no time. My favourite YouTube channel for 2023 goes to Jan Beta , everyon … | Continue reading
The concept of propaganda has a great deal of power to fascinate. So does the very word propaganda, which to most of us today sounds faintly exotic, as if it referred mainly to phenomena from distant places and times. But in truth, can any one of us here in the twenty-first centu … | Continue reading
I love the aesthetic appeal of pie charts, especially when they’re meme-related. But Adrian Barnett and Victor Oguoma at The Conversation reminds us all that they’re rarely useful, and usually misleading: Overall, it is best to use pie charts sparingly, especially when there is a … | Continue reading
I started something silly! Introducing FourMore: It’s four related things I find on my daily walk, every day, for no reason whatsoever. None of them are especially good photos, I just like collecting things. I’m hosting it on Tumblr because it’s easy to post from the phone, thoug … | Continue reading
Via Schnitter: For me, something about the Vulcans provides a hopeful quality. If we met them, we’d be better for it. First Contact expresses this hope. “It unites humanity in a way no one ever thought possible. When they realize they’re not alone in the universe…” By Ruben Scha … | Continue reading
Max Tani, Semafor: The board of the startup news organization The Messenger weighed shutting the publication down at a meeting on Friday, after learning that the company is on track to run out of cash at the end of January. The New York Times earlier reported Wednesday that The M … | Continue reading
Max Miller of Tasting History recently did a video with chef, historian, and author Michael Twitty about making Hoppin’ John , a New Year food I’d never heard of, having grown up on the other side of the planet. I expected it to be interesting, but not to end up with a lump in my … | Continue reading
I have previously linked to Bloomberg’s annual “jealousy list” of articles from other outlets they wish they had published; it is mostly an excuse to ask about the Supermicro fiasco. This year, though, no snark and no Bloomberg. This year, Rest of World — a website you really oug … | Continue reading
Budapest, November 13 – 15 2024 Languages & The Media, the Biennial International Conference on Audiovisual Language Transfer in the Media, is gearing up for its 15th edition “New Frontiers in Media Localization“, scheduled from November 13 to 15, 2024, in Budapest. The event … | Continue reading
Hyundai and Kia have been producing some of the best electric cars on the market for the past decade, and ... [continued] The post Hyundai & Kia Win A Bunch Of Awards For Their New Electric Vehicles appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
It’s been a while since we’ve had an Unsub Me Already post. The only acceptable outcome from clicking unsubscribe in an email footer is immediately being unsubscribed! Let’s see how Todoist goes. Here’s the email: The Todoist Monthly I didn’t subscribe to this. Footer: Inspiratio … | Continue reading
I’ve mentioned a few times now why I push back on the label content creator. My assertion that Michelangelo wasn’t creating content is the most popular quote from it, but I want to emphasise this isn’t limited to famous or globally influential people. If you’re an artist, writer, … | Continue reading
Scott gives a thorough step-by-step walkthrough of building an HTML web component, in this case for responsive video: In this post, I’m going to talk briefly about responsive video, but most of the post will be about using HTML web components to extend native video behavior in … | Continue reading
Emily Badger, Ben Blatt, and Josh Katz, New York Times (via Clive Thompson):1 Sometime around 2009, American roads started to become deadlier for pedestrians, particularly at night. Fatalities have risen ever since, reversing the effects of decades of safety improvements. And it’ … | Continue reading
Surely by now you have seen Google’s Gemini demo. The company opens the video with this description: We’ve been testing the capabilities of Gemini, our new multimodal Al model. We’ve been capturing footage to test it on a wide range of challenges, showing it a series of images, a … | Continue reading
From plantable calendars to prescription poetry, as well as timely books, here are 33 positive presents to give this Christmas The post Presents with purpose: 33 sustainable gifts to give this Christmas appeared first on Positive News. | Continue reading
23 November 2023, Round table in teh frame of Participatory research : knowledge and recognition conference On November 22, 23 and 24 2023, Bibracte, partner of the INCULTUM project, participated in the conference “Participatory research: knowledge and recognition” organised by t … | Continue reading
An interview with Nicolas Barral “Art and territory” is a participatory approach adopted in the pilot running in Bibracte, Morvan, in the frame of the INCULTUM project. The approach is using scientific methods and artistic practices to analyse the challenges of a shared heritage … | Continue reading
I was on Google News and I saw a headline “8 Electric Cars to Avoid Buying.” I couldn’t help myself, ... [continued] The post List of 8 Electric Cars to Avoid Buying is Stupid appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
A few months ago I witnessed someone get chewed out on a social network for mentioning they read an audiobook. Shocking, I know! I was glad to be sitting down at the time, because I’m not sure I could take such an assertion sitting down. Wait, standing. I can’t stand for it. Whil … | Continue reading
The Postal Service requested that the PRC initiate a rulemaking proceeding to consider a change to rural carrier costing on November 21. The post USPS Proposes Revisions to Rural Carrier Costing Methodology Resulting in Lower Periodicals Costs appeared first on News/Media Allianc … | Continue reading
Journalism is important. When you look at societies throughout history, the flow of information, and misinformation, can be pointed to ... [continued] The post ESG Misreporting by Popular Podcast Shows the Perils of Unprofessional Journalism appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Michael Geist, responding to the news that Google and the Canadian government have struck a deal for the Online News Act: I’ve been asked several times today if the Canadian approach will be a model for other countries. While I suspect that many may be tempted by the prospect of … | Continue reading
Daniel Thibeault and David Cochrane, CBC News: Google and the federal government have reached an agreement in their dispute over the Online News Act that would see Google continue to share Canadian news online in return for the company making annual payments to news companies in … | Continue reading
Maggie Harrison, Futurism: According to a second person involved in the creation of the Sports Illustrated content who also asked to be kept anonymous, that’s because it’s not just the authors’ headshots that are AI-generated. At least some of the articles themselves, they said, … | Continue reading
When it comes to articles on a website like CleanTechnica, there are two kinds of articles. First, there are the ... [continued] The post YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
You are probably sick of hearing about OpenAI palace intrigue; I am, too, but I have a reputation to correct. I linked favourably to something published at Fast Company recently, and I must repent. I have let you down and I have let myself down and, happily, I can fix that. On Mo … | Continue reading
The tech world was all a dither over one specific company and its beleaguered CEO this week, with all the suspense and intrigue of a damp sponge. Even non-technical news outlets were keen to report on what amounted to a game of musical chairs, regurgitating the same opinions and … | Continue reading
The exhibition deals with diverse perspectives surrounding digital death, renewal and reincarnation in the virtual domain. arebyte and Shanghai-based Chronus Art Center (CAC) collaborate to develop, curate and produce a hybrid group exhibition: For Data You Are, And To Data You S … | Continue reading
Ted Johnson, Deadline: Members of a special House committee fired off a letter to Apple, questioning whether the decision to end The Problem with Jon Stewart was due to concerns over the company’s relationship with China. […] The committee is asking for a briefing by the company … | Continue reading
Has the rapid availability of images generated by A.I. programs duped even mainstream news into unwittingly using them in coverage of current events? That is the impression you might get if you read a report from Cam Wilson, at Crikey, about generated photorealistic graphics avai … | Continue reading
Adam Gabbatt, the Guardian: Jezebel, a feminist US news site, was shut down by its owners on Thursday, with 23 people laid off and no plans for the outlet to resume publication. G/O Media, which owns Jezebel and other sites including Gizmodo and the Onion, announced the closure i … | Continue reading
The News/Media Alliance submitted comments to the Postal Regulatory Commission on November 6 regarding the continuing concern of rate increases on periodicals. The post The Alliance Submits Comments on Postal Rate Increases appeared first on News/Media Alliance. | Continue reading
Some ex-writers from Kotaku launched a new site: Welcome to Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported news site covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that surround them. Aftermath exists in the same realm as Defector and the Autopian, both of which were created b … | Continue reading
Dan Milmo, the Guardian: Microsoft’s news aggregation service published the automated poll next to a Guardian story about the death of Lilie James, a 21-year-old water polo coach who was found dead with serious head injuries at a school in Sydney last week. The poll, created by a … | Continue reading
Today’s Music Monday is a shameless ripoff of Wouter’s latest post about his greatest albums of all time. Today we have part one, because I couldn’t fit all my joy into one. I limited myself to one album per act, to prevent this just being a wall of a few artists. I shamelessly a … | Continue reading
Clara and I booked tickets to see Paul McCartney’s sold-out Friday show in Sydney, and deliberately avoided reading about his US tour so as much of it would be a surprise as possible. It was… I can’t summon the words. Even Clara’s bear cat came! Paul and his incredible band playe … | Continue reading
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing was the subject of the latest Freakonomics episode. I really enjoy economics, and was happy to see an economics podcast I respect do a show on the subject. My interest quickly turned to disappointment, however, as the show’s h … | Continue reading