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“I’ve found when travelling, a sketchbook makes you friends, a camera enemies.” — Allan Sealy
Ai Weiwei visits China for the first time in 10 years
Berliner Zeitung
Ai Weiwei besucht nach zehn Jahren China: „Man fühlt sich in Deutschland eingeengt und prekär“
Ai Weiwei hat mit seinem Sohn seine 93 Jahre alte Mutter besucht. Kurz nach seiner Rückkehr vergleicht er China mit Deutschland, Peking mit Berlin.
Many good writers are now using Substack for their microblogging, not just newsletters.
All those Git projects started back before “main” became the default branch, I like to call Old Masters
Police shootings are considered seizures under the Fourth Amendment, since the state is literally seizing a body with deadly force.
Happy Nostr New Year
‘“Slop,” the term of (not) art for content churned out with A.I., became ubiquitous in 2025, inspiring new sub-coinages such as “slopper,” derogatory shorthand for someone who relies on A.I. to think for them.’
Kyle Chayka on “The Year in Slop” for the New Yorker
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The New Yorker
The Year in Slop
This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment.
‘Slopism’ finally enters the art lexicon with Aimee Walleston writing for Ocula, with a big lift from Maya Man’s little AI dancers
https://ocula.com/magazine/opinions/why-ai-slop-is-the-dark-future-of-art/
I can accept this AI bot commenting once on my post. But you can’t fool me twice. MUTED
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if Facebook (I mean Meta) is abandoning the “metaverse” maybe it’s time we reclaim it
Good artists cry. Great artists squeal.
what…
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We don’t even want viruses to be viral. So why should media be?
nostr knows an npub and an event and not much more
also, read counts are equally nonsensical on Nostr
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nostr exists. therefore purple exists. QED
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I didn’t account for Cloudflare’s self-sabotage
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Cloudflare’s misconfigured bot list caused a cascading failure that at first looked just like the kind attack it was designed to prevent.
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It turns out that Cloudflare programmed its own demise. As Virilio knew, every technology invents its very own accident.