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January 7, 2020

Web Semantics: AI-speak

*As is common on the ol’ blog here, we’re less interested in what they’re saying than the way they talk. And this is some pretty...

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Published on January 07, 2020 00:03

January 6, 2020

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doing Green New Deal design fiction

*Well, that’s what it is. You couldn’t properly call that video anything else.

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Published on January 06, 2020 00:02

WELL State of the World MMXX on the way tomorrow.

*We’ve got a lot on our minds.

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Published on January 06, 2020 00:02

Joanne McNeil says blogs might return because they’re like blogs

*Presumably they won’t be the SAME blogs, but the same thing with different names. Kind of like a “distributed cloud,” which is basically a computer....

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Published on January 06, 2020 00:02

Musica Globalista: The Texmaniacs, “Departee” (featuring Lyle Lovett)

*I really didn’t expect to stumble over this mournful Texan track on SoundCloud today. There it is, though, along with two other Texmaniacs songs

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Published on January 06, 2020 00:02

January 5, 2020

Rodney Brooks predicting that AI and robot hype was hype

*Well, that was entertaining. He claims it’s boring, but it’s not. Especially if you were fully invested in the hype, in which case it’s gotta...

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Published on January 05, 2020 00:02

Archiving, Collecting and Preserving Digital Art Summit at ISEA2020

*The noble effort of making that dead media rather less dead. Archiving, Collecting and Preserving Digital Art Summit at ISEA2020 *Announcement & Call for Participation*...

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Published on January 05, 2020 00:02

January 4, 2020

Hiring William Gibson characters for purposes of governance

*Well, he won the election, so I guess he can do what he wants. https://dominiccummings.com/2020/01/0... (…) There are many brilliant people in the civil service...

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Published on January 04, 2020 00:03

US Embassy in Baghdad Travel Alert

https://iq.usembassy.gov/security-ale... Location: Iraq Event: Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region, the U.S. Embassy urges American citizens to heed the January 2020 Travel...

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Published on January 04, 2020 00:03

January 3, 2020

The hypersurface of that decade

*That was some decade. *I composed this piece back in 2010 and practically every part of it was tech jargon that people in various specialized...

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Published on January 03, 2020 00:05

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