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nCHANT #01 - On Digital Gardens nCHANT's inaugural issue explores digital gardens as autonomous spaces for expression beyond platform capitalism. Features research with Trust community, essays on fractal structures, self-hosting gui...

nCHANT explores digital gardens as autonomous spaces for expression beyond platform capitalism, research w/ Trust community @trustsupport.bsky.social @yunglong.bsky.social fractal structures, self-hosting guides,philosophical dialogues

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Bring back web rings

UbuWeb Founded 1996 February 1, 2025 A year ago, we decided to shutter UbuWeb. Not really shutter it, per se, but instead to consider it complete. After nearly 30 years, it felt right. But now, with the political changes in America and elsewhere around the world, we have decided to restart our archiving and regrow Ubu. In a moment when our collective memory is being systematically eradicated, archiving reemerges as a strong form of resistance, a way of preserving crucial, subversive, and marginalized forms of expression. We encourage you to do the same. All rivers lead to the same ocean: find your form of resistance, no matter how small, and go hard. It's now or never. Together we can prevent the annihilation of the memory of the world.

What Ubuweb said.

YouTube video by Ruby Justice Thelot Sixposium 2024 - Alessandro Y. Longo - The Drake Era or the Logic of Cultural Fracking

Kendrick Lamar won the Grammy with his Drake diss.

In this talk at NYU, I try to make sense of the cultural implications of the iconic rap clash and the role of Drake in the streaming economy ❄️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojee...

@ranjodhdhaliwal.com killing it at @transmediale.bsky.social 🤖🤖

More exodus initiatives emerging

Reclaiming portions of relative opacity

these days you don't have to use any big tech of any oppressive imperial powers

alt tech:
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Nice to see friends on here ^_^ exodus is getting real

So interested about the Disco Elysium course, do you maybe have a syllabus?

Feel ya

Musical reference obv

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFc5...

DROP 21. 'Till We Gain Control Again On OpenAI and sabotage

I wrote about it in my latest piece titled 'Till We Gain Control Again 🃏

reincantamentox.substack.com/p/drop-21-ti...

Tech is not here to patronage the arts. Every inch of support we want, we will have to fight for it.

ASRG's work on Algorithmic Sabotage offers an actionable category to frame this (and others) rebellious gesture.

algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/manifes...

A group of artists, including CrossLucids and Memo Akten, leaked the API key of Sora, #OpenAI Text-To-Video model.

They did that as an act of sabotage against the art-washing practices of the company and their absolute disregard for artists

Congratulation! This looks fantastic ⚡️ would apply to that PhD position, but I couldn’t see the deadline

Interesting model

Drop #20. Blue Skies and Gilded Cages On X-odus, digital spaces and collective desire

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Drop #20. Blue Skies and Gilded Cages On X-odus, digital spaces and collective desire

"We find ourselves facing a dual knot. On one side, a new awareness of the political significance of digital dwelling is emerging in the collective consciousness. On the other side, the limit of this awakening immediately emerges: it translates into a simple choice of ethical consumption"

NEW DROP

🦋 Today we look at the X-odus phenomenon - the mass migration from Twitter/X and what it might tell us about digital spaces and collective desire.

Available in ITA and ENG ^^

Let’s not make the new wave of blogs dependent on Substack again

Jean Beaudrillard’s America opens up with “Caution: objects in this mirror may be closer than appear!”. I feel like I step on the other side of the mirror, where objects’ appearance is drastically altered.

🃏🃏🃏

Observing the Empire's electoral pageantry from this vantage point is a surreal spectacle. It feels hyperreal—like being a roommate in the Big Brother house or the unwitting protagonist of The Truman Show.

Drop #19. The American Refraction Alessandro happened to be in New York during the American electoral ritual. Today's DROP offers a ground-level view of this moment of surreal, social shapeshifting.

bluesky first self-promotion:

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I was in NYC during the American electoral ritual. Today's DROP offers a ground-level view of this hyperreal moment of social shape-shifting. I hope you find something in these observations ^^

verdad. ne scriverò qualcosa anche io

Una delle voci più lucide in Italia sul tema

(On blogging again and writing for relations)

Platform exodus: ✅