weekly reel July 16, 2023
Hey geeks, and music with PJ Harvey:
I inside the old year dying by PJ Harvey (bandcamp.com)
News
Nautilus: A third of North America’s birds have vanished.
“Brossez vous les dents sous la douche”.
Real Engineering: The questionable engineering of Oceangate.
Tech
Anil Dash: “VC qanon” and the radicalization of the tech tycoons.
Legal Lullabies, a 50 minutes-long reading out loud of the Instagram Terms of Use. Via waxy. If this makes you giggle, see also Robert Sikoryak’s “Terms and Conditions”.
The Linux Experiment: Prospectives about the crumbling ad-based internet.
AI
There I ruined it, AI-generated mashups of classic singers singing modern songs. Via Nelson.
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