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for 25. 12. 2025
In this heart-over-head time of year — an ideal we want to see honoured more often in its observance than breach — it is striking that the unlovable tech revolution underway treats us as if only our brains mattered. Our intelligence. And then, a curious symmetry is playing out. As machines try [ ]
for 20. 4. 2025
Let the accelerating AI annexation stay regulation-free as ‘it’s just version 2.0 of the Industrial Revolution’? Geoffrey Hinton, the newest physics Nobelist, is telling us why that’s a fool’s argument
Reader, may your 2025 begin well, continue better and make you resolute. May you be especially determined and resilient if you can see this as an all-hands-on-deck time unless you don’t mind watching what we dread most about the AI revolution coming true. A time of orcs and goblins when [ ]
for 25. 12. 2024
Christo preceded Banksy in wresting material security or ‘business models’ from ephemeral, unshackled art — offered to all with no admission fee
Christo could have no equal in his extravagantly inventive reinvention of payment for art. Applying artistic license to finance, he exercised it to the limit. Heaven only knows how he worked out his methods of getting paid not for his barely-there/short-stay/vanishing/ephemeral works of ‘land art’, seemingly dreamt up at [ ]
for 31. 3. 2024
Climate change, climate confusion. No snow at Christmas. The land was all khaki, brown and shades of defeated green — as if swaddled in military camouflage for a Christo spectacular. Someone must have been dreaming of a white spring. A snowstorm last Wednesday night knocked out the lights an hour before midnight [ ]
Proofs of concept for a keiretsu-cooperative to succeed the data collection and ad-dependent legacy publishing model— from TikTok, the online Daily Mail … and Shakespeare
Real-life counterparts of conceptions of things to come can appear in unlikely places, including some in the past. But, you may say — surely not the online Daily Mail coupled to the Chinese user-videos-plus-shopping platform, TikTok? Yes, and yes. But also from, of all people, the supreme William Shakespeare — or what literary [ ]
The proof that newspapers’ reader-commenters are data-collection gold is in site-owners’ tightening restrictions; attempts to control the historical record; and seizing gifts to the commons for themselves
The tiger mural is a reminder that our most ordinary actions, from shopping to pumping fuel ( above and below ) are being included in data-gathering for AI everywhere. In an old Chinese philosophical text, tigers spy with ‘sharp eyes’ — the official name of China’s nationwide surveillance system The Wikipedia uses this [ ]
for 25. 12. 2023
They are out there and high up a long way from the electricity grid, the inspirations for the artificial indoor lights of this season. They are there just as art is — for art’s sake, and no reason we can discern by reasoning. The man-made tributes to them, no matter how ingenious [ ]