Citarella will give a presentation on his recent text A Multipolar Art World?, in which he argues that the era of globalization underpinning contemporary art as we know it is ending, giving way to a location-specific, multipolar art world.
2026-01-16 2PM – 3PM EST
Online via Zoom
https://luma.com/aw_Joshua_Citarella
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all of America’s trading partners from disenshittifying their internet: the US trade representative threatened the world with tariffs unless they passed laws that criminalized reverse-engineering and modding. By banning “adversarial interoperability,” America handcuffed the world’s technologists, banning them from creating the mods, hacks, alt clients, scrapers, and other tools needed to liberate their neighbours from the enshittificatory predations of the ketamine-addled zuckermuskian tyrants of US Big Tech.
Well, when life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla. The Trump tariffs are here, and it’s time to pick the locks on the those handcuffs and set the world’s hackers loose on Big Tech. Happy Liberation Day, everyone!
We’re very much aware of Cory’s Enshittification concept. With everyone up to speed in this audience he’s able to chart the path out with the people who will take us there.
. . . For the most part of the first 5 hours I figured out that it would be great to play for and with the sound guy, playing right and wrong records and figuring out which one sound good. Research and development mission for Addit Audio.
After 5 hours ISAbella joined for a brief back to back session. Everything can happen in the realm of paranormal. Luckily she stayed and we played together for the next 3 hours until the last song, the one for the deceased. Probably as close as it gets to transcendence.
My soundtrack for the next 8hrs
How does reCAPTCHA work without any user interaction?
The latest versions of reCAPTCHA are able to take a holistic look at a user’s behavior and history of interacting with content on the Internet. Most of the time, the program can decide based on those factors whether or not the user is a bot, without providing the user with a challenge to complete. If not, then the user will get a typical reCAPTCHA challenge.
If I were stopped and asked on the street to choose a CAPTCHA, image recognition reCAPTCHAs are by far my fav CAPTCHA. I consider it a success on my part whenever I’m confronted with these. Don’t get me wrong, these are annoying af, but it signals to me that they know little about me, something I go to great lengths, and forfeit a lot of convenience to achieve.
CAPTCHA me if you can.
Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the year 2025 (nearly triple their 2024 budget) and at least another $56.25 billion over the next three years, ICE’s budget would be the envy of many national militaries around the world. Indeed, this budget would put ICE as the 14th most well-funded military in the world, right between Ukraine and Israel.
Cory’s really gotten good at making this pitch. He’s always presented his case well, but this is a great gatling gun delivery.
The MSS has been operating Salt Typhoon for several years. It allows China to access the unencrypted phone calls, texts and voicemails of almost every American, and in some cases enables access to email accounts.
Senator Mark Warner still seems to be the only person concerned with this.
And while we’re talking Kubrick …
Lisa Leone on collaborating with Stanley Kubrick on the pre-production for Eyes Wide Shut. Wonderful insights into how he works.
