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A Pioneering Wizard of West Coast Photo-Conceptualism
A Pioneering Wizard of West Coast Photo-Conceptualism | The New Yorker
Robert Cumming didn’t achieve lasting fame during his lifetime, but in the years since his death, in 2021, he’s experienced a much deserved mini-revival.
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Ghazal by Agha Shagid Ali
Ghazal by Agha Shagid Ali | Poetry Foundation
The god of small things is not consoled in real time.
New Young Pony Club
Here’s New Young Pony Club’s “The Get Go.” The groove on this one is terrific. It’s more or less the groove from Bryan Ferry’s “Don’t Stop the Dance,” except that since it’s not Bryan Ferry, it’s playful and not threatening.
Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? | Locus
AI companies are implicitly betting that their customers will buy AI for highly consequential automation, fire workers, and cause physical, mental and economic harm to their own customers as a result, somehow escaping liability for these harms. Early indicators are that this bet won’t pay off. Cruise, the “self-driving car” startup that was just forced to pull its cars off rthe streets of San Francisco, pays 1.5 staffers to supervise every car on the road. In other words, their AI replaces a single low-waged driver with 1.5 more expensive remote supervisors — and their cars still kill people.
via Alan Jacobs
What’s Inside This Crater in Madagascar?
What’s Inside This Crater in Madagascar? | Kottke.org
I wonder if profiling this village on the internet is a good thing to do. This isn’t some YouTube bro helicoptering into the village unannounced — the Vox team worked with locals, received permission, etc. — but these villagers are a minority group who have chosen to live in a remote area with particularly good natural resources…and now their secret is out.
Weapon or Considering the Evidence Against Me
From Weapon or Considering the Evidence Against Me by Justin Rovillos Monson
…later, I read about Evangelista Torricelli, who reasoned that we live “at the bottom of an ocean of air.”
Melanie, Singer Who Made a Solo Splash at Woodstock, Dies at 76
Melanie, Singer Who Made a Solo Splash at Woodstock, Dies at 76 | The New York Times
Just 22 when she charmed the festival crowd, she went on to enjoy success with songs like “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” and “Brand New Key.”