Jaron Lanier in the @nytimes on the machine-god cult:
"we need to be honest with ourselves. There is nothing wrong with a new religion, but there is everything wrong with an imposed new religion."
https://t.co/PfSalRbhiS
Having spent a good while with the @XREAL_Global AURA now, what sticks is how natural it feels. Pinching with your fingers feels smooth and easy, virtual elements blend into the real world, and hand tracking is effortless. Colors are really vibrant too. And its a gorgeous device, comfortable to use for long stretches.
LayerLoops is finally available on the App Store!
It's a fun iPhone app I've been working on that lets you create layered video compositions directly on your phone.
Record a video loop, draw on the screen, then press and hold to record new video inside your drawing. Repeat!
any Haeckel lovers here? you’ll be fascinated by what you can find in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. a truly precious place
1/ https://t.co/rFPudfSZuY
2/ https://t.co/COEl1E1lYF
3/ https://t.co/Zg0fssGWUG
4/ https://t.co/7DYNU34Bg0
Every treat felt like a risk for my rabbit Xiaosi, so for Meta's AI hackathon I built him FurSight. 🐰
It checks his food, spots what he could chew, watches him on a webcam and checks his poo.
What does your pet always try to eat?
@AIatMeta@cerebral_valley#bunny#rabbit
We are never going to know what's real again. This is a tragedy. This tech is going to do enormous harm to any sense of shared culture and even to the very notion of an objective reality.
This isn't quite true. The British Library is not being privatised, they are re-zoning some of their reader rooms for commercial use.
The British Library suffered a cyber attack in 2023 from which they still haven't covered fully. Their expenditure over the next two years is projected to outstrip income, in part because Grant-in-Aid funding hasn't kept up with rising costs.
So they are commercialising three Science and Social Sciences reading rooms in order to bring in further revenue. This will fund the remaining eight reading rooms to remain free to use (where Science and Social Science specialists will be relocated.)
This will also fund improvements to their e-collections, vital to researchers not based in London.
These decisions have been made in part because the rooms are not used to capacity. People might be angry now, but they were not visiting the rooms enough to bump up visitor numbers before. Room use has been in decline for several years.
I guess this is mostly fireworks. But we've been working on an app to help with air quality. Its such an important topic, especially in dense urban areas. Odd how little we actually know about the air.
I’m triggering a high air pollution alert for London on Tuesday 10 November.
I urge everyone in the capital, especially those most vulnerable, to stay safe and follow health advice to minimise their exposure.
Please switch off engines when idling and avoid burning garden waste, which contributes to pollution.
https://t.co/waVUBk0Qro
"I want to draw attention to the need for new archives of the future and new ways to think about a computational existence. The Red Earth Project is a speculative exercise about language, translation and data, and whose language, history, authority, and morality are now encoded into our digital realities." https://t.co/FbEtuohOGb
I'm releasing all my project files for free, under Creative Commons.
Since my disability makes it hard to make more art, this is a way for my art to continue to grow.
Remix them and have fun, using your agents or your human brain.
Download:
https://t.co/SpILpAVVAi
This kind of information is so dense, that it is easier to process in an interactive way. I created a small experiment, a simple scrollable version of basically this timeline. https://t.co/n7GB3z0f5f
Interactive posters & brand work for a running club.
A poster asks you to stand still but it's honestly a strange ask for a running club, so I designed posters you need to touch.
You can test them live, link of the Lab in the comments 💃
Did a bit of coding support for Sander Joon’s STRATACUTOSCOPE, an interactive strata-cut animation where you can spin like a turntable
https://t.co/wwvVA3NZWi