@dackdel

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since writing on toilet walls is neither done for critical acclaim nor financial rewards, it is the purest form of art - discuss

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A Sense of Rebellion - Episode 1: A Bookstore in Paris

PARIS, 2014: A serendipitous visit to a quaint Parisian bookstore sends renowned tech critic Evgeny Morozov down an unexpected rabbit hole. He stumbles upon the mystifying legacy of Warren Brodey, a 1960s psychiatrist whose path intertwines with shadowy CIA operations and radical Maoist movements. Is Brodey a visionary tech pioneer lost to history, a modern-day shaman, or a cunning charlatan?

"Because our computers are Turing-complete universal von Neumann machines. That means that any enshittificatory alteration to a program can be disenshittified with another program.

When Tesla installs code that says you have to pay an extra monthly fee to use your whole battery, they invite a modder to start selling a kit to jailbreak that battery and charge it all the way up."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/

Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die” (17 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Timeline cleaning
As AI consolidates, it's important to map its connections with human activities. What extractions, agencies, and resources enable us to converse online with a text-generating tool? Check the Cartography of generative AI project by Estampa: http://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
Cartography of generative AI

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Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)

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