Daniel Wildberger
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Skyscraper Symposium Poster designs by Yusaku Kamekura Issue, 1994 scanned from Creation No.21, Yusaku Kamekura Issue, 1998
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May 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Skyscraper Symposium Poster designs by Yusaku Kamekura Issue, 1994 scanned from Creation No.21, Yusaku Kamekura Issue, 1998
designreviewed.com/artefacts/cr... #YusakuKamekura
designreviewed.com/artefacts/cr... #YusakuKamekura
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I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.
1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral
[rant]
1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral
[rant]
April 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.
1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral
[rant]
1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral
[rant]
Interesting take on software as identity and culture.
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April 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Interesting take on software as identity and culture.
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This looks quite promising from a research perspective: a preview STORM, the new knowledge curation AI tool developed by Stanford University is online.
storm.genie.stanford.edu
I want something like this with access to a sufficiently large corpus of in-depth academic literature on specific topics
storm.genie.stanford.edu
I want something like this with access to a sufficiently large corpus of in-depth academic literature on specific topics
I have carefully read the above and accepted all the terms and conditions
storm.genie.stanford.edu
August 23, 2024 at 9:47 AM
This looks quite promising from a research perspective: a preview STORM, the new knowledge curation AI tool developed by Stanford University is online.
storm.genie.stanford.edu
I want something like this with access to a sufficiently large corpus of in-depth academic literature on specific topics
storm.genie.stanford.edu
I want something like this with access to a sufficiently large corpus of in-depth academic literature on specific topics
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Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
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"Incoming transmission!" 📡
Classic Command and Conquer games are now open source—ready for modding, preservation, and innovation!
Read more: ea.com/games/comman...
Dive into the code: github.com/electronicarts
Classic Command and Conquer games are now open source—ready for modding, preservation, and innovation!
Read more: ea.com/games/comman...
Dive into the code: github.com/electronicarts
February 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"Incoming transmission!" 📡
Classic Command and Conquer games are now open source—ready for modding, preservation, and innovation!
Read more: ea.com/games/comman...
Dive into the code: github.com/electronicarts
Classic Command and Conquer games are now open source—ready for modding, preservation, and innovation!
Read more: ea.com/games/comman...
Dive into the code: github.com/electronicarts
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This week, #RightsCon descends on Taipei. To learn more about the dynamics in the civil society community working on digital rights and tech policy matters in Taiwan, Justin Hendrix spoke to experts from Article 19, Judicial Reform Foundation, and the Taiwan Association for Human Rights.
Digital Rights Activists in Taiwan Driven by Memory and Threat of Authoritarianism | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.
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February 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
This week, #RightsCon descends on Taipei. To learn more about the dynamics in the civil society community working on digital rights and tech policy matters in Taiwan, Justin Hendrix spoke to experts from Article 19, Judicial Reform Foundation, and the Taiwan Association for Human Rights.
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War is in the air more than peace these days. This reflects not only the salience of well-known strategic traps, but also the rapid emergence of cloud capital, which is in steering the world into these traps in four distinct ways www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/r...
Technofeudalism Is War’s Handmaiden | by Yanis Varoufakis - Project Syndicate
Yanis Varoufakis explains how the rise of cloud capital is steering the world toward well-known strategic traps.
www.project-syndicate.org
February 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
War is in the air more than peace these days. This reflects not only the salience of well-known strategic traps, but also the rapid emergence of cloud capital, which is in steering the world into these traps in four distinct ways www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/r...
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“This is simply the end.”
"We might lose the lead on an entire field of research."
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders by President Trump have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
"We might lose the lead on an entire field of research."
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders by President Trump have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“This is simply the end.”
"We might lose the lead on an entire field of research."
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders by President Trump have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
"We might lose the lead on an entire field of research."
Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders by President Trump have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.
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Letterpress posters by David Fullarton from Compound Gallery (just acquired for @letterformarchive.org) shopcompound.com/collections/... #Letterpress #Fascism #EatTheRich #DeathToFascism #Oakland #Emeryville #CompoundGallery #LetterformArchive
February 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Letterpress posters by David Fullarton from Compound Gallery (just acquired for @letterformarchive.org) shopcompound.com/collections/... #Letterpress #Fascism #EatTheRich #DeathToFascism #Oakland #Emeryville #CompoundGallery #LetterformArchive
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“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com
The US Government Is Not a Startup
Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
www.wired.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com
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The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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February 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Lest we forget: "Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from the occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, whatever the motive" - 4th Geneva Convention
February 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Lest we forget: "Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from the occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, whatever the motive" - 4th Geneva Convention
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As The Sims turns 25, the game designer Will Wright explains how the virtual dollhouse allowed players to act like gods and was a sandbox for the American dream. Read our interview.
25 Years of The Sims Turning Players Into Gods
As the virtual dollhouse turns 25, the game designer Will Wright explains how The Sims was a sandbox for the American dream.
nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
As The Sims turns 25, the game designer Will Wright explains how the virtual dollhouse allowed players to act like gods and was a sandbox for the American dream. Read our interview.
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Just to say it: Diversity is a good thing. Equity is a good thing. Inclusion is a good thing. Accessibility is a good thing.
January 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Just to say it: Diversity is a good thing. Equity is a good thing. Inclusion is a good thing. Accessibility is a good thing.
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This is delicious: how China's DeepSeek has blown a $1 trillion hole in the US Technofeudal Order. All it took was a smart tech solution that turned OpenAI's process of commodifying our data into a free good. Let's see how our technofeudalists respond www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Global tech shares fall as China AI chatbot DeepSeek spooks investors
Chinese startup’s $6m product raises doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is delicious: how China's DeepSeek has blown a $1 trillion hole in the US Technofeudal Order. All it took was a smart tech solution that turned OpenAI's process of commodifying our data into a free good. Let's see how our technofeudalists respond www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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This is magnificently helpful for those of us in education concerned by AI. by @eryk.bsky.social
Here’s a list of what I was reading about Generative AI in 2024 that didn’t make it into the Slop Infrastructures pieces. The rest have been sorted into categories with questions — covering AI’s anti-human streak, AI & imagination, environmental impacts, shared myths and more.
Things I Read in 2024
A Partial List of Writing on Generative AI
There has been some great critical writing about Generative AI this year. This is a long post with many quotations that tries to give a snapshot of what ...
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December 15, 2024 at 1:34 PM
This is magnificently helpful for those of us in education concerned by AI. by @eryk.bsky.social