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  • Jim Campbell · Encoding Light

    bitforms gallery

    screenshot of the bitforms gallery website page showcasing the upcoming Jim Campbell show. On the right is a static poster image for a video which shows a piece of art hanging on the wall. the artwork has a blury front face and on the edge of the piece led lights are visible behind the frosted glass front. a bit of the next image is popping up above the fold below. to the right are details about the work

    luv luv luv me some Jim Campbell

    Opening: This Saturday, January 24th, 5 – 7 PM @ the lovely bitforms gallery

  • IS IT O.K. TO BE A LUDDITE?

    Thomas Pynchon · NYTimes

    One was the concentration of capital that each machine represented, and the other was the ability of each machine to put a certain number of humans out of work – to be ”worth” that many human souls.
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    It was open-eyed class war.
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    If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come – you heard it here first – when the curves of research and development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge. Oboy.

    Written in 1984 👆 heh

    IS IT O.K. TO BE A LUDDITE – Thomas Pynchon – The New York Times.pdfDownload

  • WE LIVE IN PRIVATE – Art Dirt NYC & the 90s online underground

    2026.01.21 7PM – 7:30PM · EARTH · 49 Orchard St

    flyer for event. top half over a pixelated/moire patterned background is the copy, "WE LIVE IN PRIVATE". below is the text over rectangles with more extreme moire patterns, "Art Dirt NYC & the 90s online underground". followed by names of artists, G.H. Hovagimyan, Josh Harris, Adrianne Wortzel, Michael Connor and Bri Griffin. At the bottom are the date, location

  • It’s Time for the VPN Industry to Innovate (Obscura Interview)

    Techlore Talks

    You don’t have to trust Obscura—you just have to trust that not both Obscura and Mullvad are compromised.

  • One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.

    M. Gessen · NYTimes

    Ask anyone who has lived in a country that became an autocracy, and they will tell you some version of a story about walls closing in on them, about space getting smaller and smaller.

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    The only way to keep the space from imploding is to fill it, to prop up the walls: to claim all the room there still is for speaking, writing, publishing, protesting, voting. It’s what the people of Minnesota appear to be doing, and it’s something each of us needs to do — right now, while we still can.

    Screenshot of the hero of the article. Split in half 50/50. Left side has the title "one year of Trump. The time to act is now, while we still can." above that are "opinion" and the author's name "M. Gessen". Right side is a collage of photographs. The images are from the various events over the last year, musk, trump making a fist, military members, prisoners in a concentration camp, etc.

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  • ‘pain point’ : the maximum amount you are willing to pay

    ‘pain point’ : the maximum amount you are willing to pay

    Noah Giansiracusa · Harvard Law Today

    Retailers are looking for what’s called the “pain point.” That’s the maximum amount that you as an individual customer are willing to pay for a specific product
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    [an app’s] knowledge of your phone battery’s life to determine how desperate you might be for a ride home, and therefore charge you more for it
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    now imagine … they look at me and they know every video I’ve watched on YouTube, everything I’ve searched in Google, and everything I have liked on Facebook, every conversation I’ve had with an AI chatbot. Does that feel like a fair situation?

    Does that feel like a fair situation?

    The wage slaves of the Gilded Age had it easy

  • At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich

    George Monbiot · The Guardian

    There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to

  • Joshua Citarella — A Multipolar Artworld, Friday January 16

    Rhizome · Zoom

    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

  • 39C3 – A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

    Cory Doctorow · 39C3

    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.

  • Vladimir Ivkovic at Draaimolen Festival 2024

    Vladimir Ivkovic & ISAbella · Soundcloud

    . . . 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