@marcell

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"Pirate carers are hybrid militant figures. [..] Their affective politics finds its nourishment in both spontaneity and organization, in both the boredom of cleaning toilets and the thrills of delivering a rousing public speech. [..] Pirate carers give themselves permission to be in the world otherwise, to appropriate and share knowledges, tools, and techniques needed for their task, even if these must be stolen from the master’s house."

https://www.e-flux.com/notes/651619/pirate-care-against-the-criminalization-of-solidarity

Pirate Care: Against the Criminalization of Solidarity - Notes - e-flux

Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak elaborate their concept of “pirate care.”

**Anna’s Archive Containers (AAC): standardizing releases from the world’s largest shadow library**

*"With this standard, we can make releases more incrementally, and more easily add new data sources. We already have a few exciting releases in the pipeline!*

*We also hope it becomes easier for other shadow libraries to mirror our collections. After all, our goal is to preserve human knowledge and culture forever, so the more redundancy the better." *- Anna and the team

https://annas-blog.org/annas-archive-containers.html

1.3B WorldCat scrape & data science mini-competition

Anna’s Archive scraped all of WorldCat to make a TODO list of books that need to be preserved, and is hosting a data science mini-competition.

"Design is the process of reifying ideology, encoding it into the interfaces and affordances. When an ideology is taken for granted, power is maintained, and commodity is produced. However, when metaphors are transferred from one side to the other, technology becomes praxis."

https://cristobal.space/writing/ubu

Among the shadow librarians

media theory for stoners (S07E07)

media theory for stoners (S07E06)

https://mastodon.world/@bkm/110047181266402602

bkm (@[email protected])

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Mastodon

media theory for stoners (S07E05)

> If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.

https://mastodon.social/@simevidas/109919980697679274