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Skyscraper Symposium Poster designs by Yusaku Kamekura Issue, 1994 scanned from Creation No.21, Yusaku Kamekura Issue, 1998
designreviewed.com/artefacts/cr... #YusakuKamekura
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]
Interesting take on software as identity and culture.
x.com/omeruzvn/sta...
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
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.
15.03.2025 18:14 — 👍 69998 🔁 12143 💬 2069 📌 712
Screenshot from the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
Screenshot from the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
Screenshot from the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
"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
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.
23.02.2025 06:23 — 👍 30 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
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...
21.02.2025 10:04 — 👍 143 🔁 57 💬 4 📌 0
“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.
Poster with black and red type on a yellow background. Text reads: “GROCERIES ARE SO EXPENSIVE WE DECIDED TO EAT THE RICH” next to a black-and-white photo of a woman in glasses, probably from 1950s.
Poster with black type on a white background. Text reads: “THIS IS A LITTLE TUNE THAT I CALL DEATH TO FASCISM” next to a black-and-white photo of a man playing accordion, probably from 1950s.
Letterpress posters by David Fullarton from Compound Gallery (just acquired for @letterformarchive.org) shopcompound.com/collections/... #Letterpress #Fascism #EatTheRich #DeathToFascism #Oakland #Emeryville #CompoundGallery #LetterformArchive
16.02.2025 18:34 — 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
“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
08.02.2025 17:59 — 👍 3976 🔁 825 💬 257 📌 55
The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
08.02.2025 05:32 — 👍 2805 🔁 602 💬 99 📌 43Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Looking forward to feedback.
thebullshitmachines.com
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
07.02.2025 00:03 — 👍 346 🔁 130 💬 8 📌 3
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.
04.02.2025 16:41 — 👍 163 🔁 15 💬 12 📌 8De-Nazify shit.
31.01.2025 18:16 — 👍 29081 🔁 2582 💬 399 📌 70Just to say it: Diversity is a good thing. Equity is a good thing. Inclusion is a good thing. Accessibility is a good thing.
31.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 1092 🔁 232 💬 2 📌 4
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...
27.01.2025 14:14 — 👍 462 🔁 139 💬 10 📌 17This is magnificently helpful for those of us in education concerned by AI. by @eryk.bsky.social
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