(Dialing this back to a bimonthly post. I want to try and maintain a minimum ratio of one regular post for every link post and that wasn’t happening. Plus February was busy.)
“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed (arstechnica.com)
Live every day like you’re going to give a deposition about it.
The Lunacy of Artemis (idlewords.com)
Idlewords has an absolute way with analogies. Really worth reading just for those.
anubis.techaro.lol
“Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers” kinda says it all. Not totally unlike a cloud flair Captcha thing, another measure to secure your site from inhuman traffic.
Immaterial Sensations (exple.tive.org)
The best response to the notion of AIn”democratizing” art I’ve seen so far.
Lanner Chronicle’s series on Aphex Twin’s SoundCloud tracks (lannerchronicle.wordpress.com)
Lanner Chronicle has done something really useful here by gathering up what we know about each individual track from Aphex Twin’s daunting SoundCloud dump. This is much more accessable than the spreadsheet… I’m still contemplating doing a wiki though.