February 2012
68 posts
Legal Censorship: PayPal Makes a Habit of Deciding... →
PayPal has instituted a new policy aimed at censoring what digital denizens can and can’t read, and they’re doing it in a way that leaves us with little recourse to challenge their policies in court.
“This is why early on, Turing disagrees with Ada Lovelace’s definition of a...”
– Algorithm and Contingency / Machinic Intelligence: An Important Argument from Turing.
“The entanglement of our loves (or, likes) and our identity on social media has,...”
– What do I Like When I “Like” on Facebook? » Cyborgology
AROMAPOETRY →
Aromapoetry is a new kind of poetry in which the compositional unit (the poem) is made up of smells. The poet “writes” the smells by conceiving the poem as an olfactory experience and then employing multiple chemical procedures to achieve his poetic goals. It goes without saying that, as in any kind of poetry, the reader is an active participant that interprets and thus ascribes his...
Watchnew-aesthetic:
“I don’t even like Celeriac… I am at war with a robot version of myself.”
Esc and Ctrl: Jon Ronson v ‘Jon Ronson’ spambot - video | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
WatchIndeterminate Hikes Plus (IH+) (by ecoarttech)
Myrtilles News →
Glitch Spam
Post Position » Codings →
Wearable Kinetic Rings Mimic the Flight of Birds |... →
“Code can speak literature, logic, maths. It contains different layers of...”
– code {poems}
“Forbes has joined a group of 30 clients using Narrative Science software to...”
– Forbes Among 30 Clients Using Computer-Generated Stories Instead of Writers - GalleyCat (via new-aesthetic)
Good Listeners | visualizing the (forced)... →
Good Listeners is a browser plugin that exposes the secret ways in which our browsing habits are shared with and mined by 3rd party web trackers (like Google Analytics and Facebook “Like”) without our consent or knowledge. Whenever a site exposes the visitor’s data to a third party service a confessional booth window is opened and the priest in the window offers words of...
“Object elicitation can provide insights into the functional relationships...”
– Evocative Objects: the case for object elicitation: Menticulture Blog
“One objection to world-as-narrative (even before we get to what we mean by...”
– World / Text: Menticulture Blog
Zen-Like Artist Creates Intricate Pencil Tip... →
WatchIn Your Voice (by Machine Libertine)
The Curious Assemblages of J. Shea | Colossal →
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I-IV →
It’s impossible: no one could create a script this contrived. Yet, apparently, it happened. William Basinski’s four-disk epic, The Disintegration Loops, was created out of tape loops Basinski made back in the early 1980s. These loops held some personal significance to Basinski, a significance he only touches on in the liner notes and we can only guess at. Originally, he just wanted to...
“Every world is a sort of disclosing, a way of rendering itself intelligible....”
– Clearing: Menticulture Blog
WatchThe Animals House of the Rising Sun Old School Computer Remix (by PURETUNE)
Farming the Unconscious - we make money not art →
As long as their brain stem is intact, the homeostatic functions of the chicken will continue to operate. By removing the cerebral cortex of the chicken, its sensory perceptions are removed. It can be produced in a denser condition while remaining alive, and oblivious.
The feet will also be removed so the body of the chicken can be packed together in a dense volume.
Food, water and air are...
Gorgeous Macro Photographs of Snowflakes by... →
“There is nothing better than imagining other worlds … to forget the painful one...”
– Umberto Eco, Baudolino (via stoweboyd)
“Users, it’s time to wise up. It’s not just about being open,...”
– Scripting News: Glad I don’t use Path
World / Nowhere: Menticulture Blog →
The world is a whole one, continuous if uneven. This wholeness can’t very well be broken into parts without the kind of effort that pushes the parts out of joint, like cracking a rock to expose the fossil: what wonder to see the shell that has lurked for a million years bound up in the bonds of the rock! But also something is now over and done in that hammer blow, a deliberate stroke, over...
Warren Ellis » DARPA’s Half-Smart Robot Packhorse →
Watchslavin:
via Timo: OpenCV Face Detection: Visualized (by Adam Harvey)
Like the 2D Boxcar visuals that bring Genetic Algorithms to life, I can watch this for a long time. It’s a glimpse into vision itself, and where we may never be able to see how humans really see, in 2012 we are finally getting a glimpse at how we are seen.
There are more things to this video than I can articulate quickly, but...
Louis Vuitton Fall 2011 →
new-aesthetic:
“There are objects, and space and time flow from them. So to move is not to float...”
– ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Walking, Stumbling, Falling
World: Menticulture Blog →
The world I mean is the one which allows me to say of myself or others, that we are worldly, or that we are men of the world, or that we know something of the way of the world. It is a world that has mood and colour, it has a certain underlying sort of flavour - a complexity below the many notes which is nevertheless its own. It is the sort of world that one could imagine being otherwise, if one...
DAILY SERVING » Here Be Dragons: Google Earth As... →
North Korea is a starving nation. It has been reported that in 2011, authorities reduced the daily caloric intake for each individual to 700, or one Venti Double Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino from Starbucks. The average official salary for workers is $2 per month. The country is wracked by poverty and oppression, but Google Earth provides scant acknowledgement of this. To the uninformed, the...
Scientists use brain activity analysis to... →
When the electrodes’ data was applied to a computational model, the computer was able to actually reproduce the sounds that had been heard - sort of. Although the noises made by the computer were somewhat garbled, they were close enough to the original words that the scientists were better able to identify those words than would be possible otherwise.
