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The work of art has two aspects, one that is turned towards representation and one that is turning away from it. We may call them the
pheno-layer and the
geno-layer respectively. Art that is leaning towards discourse, art that moralizes and politicizes, has no
geno-layer. It has opinions but no
desire. The geno-layer, the place of the secret, resists the assignment of meaning, and so lends the work of art the aura of the NON-THING. The NON-THING
impressesbecause it does not inform. It is the
reverse, the mysterious backyard, the ‘subtle
beyond’ (
borschamp subtil) of the artwork, even its
unconscious. It resists the disenchantment of art.
Byung-Chul Han. 2022.
Non-things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld. Cambridge: Polity Press.
From 1968 to 1999 have been manufactured around 7,500 units of the K67 all around Yugoslavia. Some of them were also exported to Poland, Japan, New Zealand, Kenya, Iraq, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The system permitted unlimited configurations and variations, therefore is perfect for different types of adaptation and programs. You might find the Kiosk K67 in the collection of the Museum of Architecture and Design MAO in Ljubljana.
K67 as an installation by Marjetica Potrč in Modern Gallery Ljubljana. | Photo via Next Stop Kiosk
Kiosk K67 was also adapted for different uses, from border patrol stations, ski lift ticket booths, flower shops, to retail and fast-food stands. And after more than 50 years it is still present and becoming popular in many cities.
The first K67, which became a part of the design collection of MoMA in 1970, was at the beginning set on the 53rd Street sidewalk. It got finally its place in the museum during the MoMA exhibition
Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980as an object of mass design
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The catalogue from the exhibition Systems, Structures, Strategies in the Museum of Architecture and Design MAO, Ljubljana.
Maja Vardjan, our of the curators of the exhibition
Systems, Structures, Strategiesin the Museum of Architecture and Design MAO,
describes why the K67 is so persistent in many cities. She evaluates it as a piece that with
“its position between architecture and industrial design, embeddedness in the framework of a modern city and society, the rituals of daily life, and, last but not least, its persistent capacity to reinvent itself.”
The reinvention of K67 in Berlin in 2018. | Photo by Marc Brinkmeier
The ability to reinvent itself makes the kiosk fresh in many settings and configurations. Martin Ruge created a kioski in Berlin. He brought one of the K67 although the transportation was difficult and the connection with freshwater, sewage and electricity to the Mykita building took more effort than expected. But he thinks it was worth it. And freshwater, sewage and electricity shall become matter of the new design issues for K67 to solve in the future.
The metamorphosis as a constant change of shape, idea, social and political reality shaped K67 to the point that is again in use. As Maja Vardjan said, a
kiosk is phenomena, always alive and never the same.
I love that the way “everything” broke unpublishing in npm sounds insane, unless you’re already familiar with npm’s unpublishing policies, which themselves sound draconian, unless you’re already familiar with leftpad, which was a farce.
“everything” is an npm package that depends on, well, everything: every other npm package. Its purpose is purely artistic; there’s no practical reason to install literally everything.
By design, it depends on every package. It even depends on every version of each package, for technical reasons.
However, npm only allows removing a package or version if nothing depends on it. Since the everything package depends on every version of every package, then no one at all could remove anything from npm.
The authors of everything also couldn’t remove their own package themselves. So everyone was stuck waiting for help from npm.
But why is npm so fussy? Why not allow everyone to remove their own work whenever they like?
In 2016, many npm packages suddenly stopped working. This was because they depended, directly or indirectly, on the tiny utility package left-pad. Its author removed all his packages from npm, breaking them all.
Why did the author, Azer Koçulu, remove all his own work from npm? He owned the package named kik, and npm took it away from him to grant ownership to kik.com instead. He was disappointed and decided he didn’t want to contribute to npm anymore.
In the elevated Indus Valley of Pakistan, you’ll find some of the world’s most intricate and diverse petroglyphs. Specifically, the ancient Shatial glyphs along the Karakoram Highway in the Gilgit-Baltistan region stand out. Dating back to the Stone Age, these glyphs adorn rocks and boulders, extending for over 100 kilometers. Encompassing various languages, religions, and the symbolism of peoples spanning 10,000 years, these remarkable writings and designs face potential threats from modern hydropower projects planned in the Indus Valley.
Environmental messages can reach people who are only looking out for themselves – but only if the messages tap into people’s drive for personal security or fun, according to a new study. The findings add heft to an emerging line of research that suggests appealing to personal values can help get skeptics on board with climate action.
Past research has shown that people’s values influence their attitudes about climate change. Some people are motivated by a drive to benefit others (altruistic values) or appreciation for nature (biospheric values) – which together can be classified as self-transcendent values. Others are motivated by a drive to increase their own resources (egoistic values) or doing what feels good (hedonic values) – which are both self-enhancement values.
In general, people who hold self-enhancement values are less supportive of environmental efforts and climate action that people who hold self-transcendent values. But a few studies have hinted that for people who hold self-enhancement values, directly appealing to their desire for personal security or pleasure can bring them around to various pro-environmental positions.
The posters depicted a picture of the Earth taken from space accompanied by text reflecting one of four different types of values:
“Because everyone will benefit—Protecting our planet means: Doing something good for everyone—Save our planet” (altruistic values)
“What’s good for the planet is good for you—Protecting your planet means: Protecting your own well-being—Save your planet” (egoistic values)
“Because earth is where the fun is—Protecting our planet means: Doing everything you like in the future—Save your planet” (hedonic values)
In the simplest terms, people who hold altruistic or biospheric (that is, self-transcendent) values respond to any sort of pro-environmental message, the researchers report in the journal
Scientific Reports. But people who hold egoistic or hedonic (that is, self-enhancement) values only respond to environmental appeals that tap into these values.
“Thus, it is not contradictory, but rather entirely possible, for individuals to agree with pro-environmental efforts for selfish or self-enhancement reasons, such as safeguarding their own well-being and standard of living,” the researchers write.
When the researchers performed another analysis to control for a person’s overall agreement with pro-environmental messages, it emerged that people who hold self-transcendent values respond best to posters that match their values.
This second analysis also indicated, in one study, that posters featuring self-enhancement values could actually be a turn-off for people who hold self-transcendent values and, in the other study, vice versa.
I posted a comment as a joke response to a friend years ago, definitely before COVID, I wanna say like 2018, saying that you can hold a raw potato to the “vaccine wound” and someone thought I was being serious, screenshot it, and spread it everywhere. So if you ever hear that people believe a potato will remove a vaccine, you now know who to blame for that.
This was 100% made up by me. I posted this. I personally am responsible for a small conspiracy theory.
An article someone wrote about it, apparently it was early 2019.
This is exactly how easily misinformation gets spread around btw. Like there are multiple articles about this half-assed shitpost. I absolutely 100% invented it out of thin air. Zero basis. Just was going through my “potatoes are funny” phase.
you’re the person to blame?! lol, same shit with stuff like “8 spiders a year”. it’s weird how critique/parody of misinformation ends up becoming its own misinformation.
This is brilliant though because maybe anti vaxxers will go ahead and get vaccinated in the belief they can undo it with a potato. Job done.
if you’re just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial
This is of no surprise if you know JKR has been hanging around with literal Nazis for years, while George Takei is a gay man who spent some of his childhood in an American internment camp.
I’m glad to see more of the disguise slip from JKR, but can only hope more people listen to George than to her.
[Edited to expand on this because a lot of people in the notes seem not to realise:] she is not being ignorant. She is not a benighted fool who didn’t take her own advice and check the sources. THIS IS DELIBERATE.
This is a Nazi talking point. This is a technique for conversion and indoctrination designed to shame YOU into not checking your sources. After all, a famous person in a position of authority (whether we like that or not) is shaming the very idea that Nazis persecuted trans people, or that trans people have a history that goes back more than a few decades.
If you haven’t watched Shaun’s JK Rowling’s New Friends and think talk of her hanging around with Nazis is hyperbole, this video is for you:
She is in deep. She is literally friends with known Nazis. She will have been told that the people saying Nazis burned books have unreliable sources. That is why she’s saying this.
You’ll note that George doesn’t @ her. Apart from the fact that literally starting beef with her is likely not something he needs, he knows she is a lost cause. She is primed to dismiss the actual sources. He is sharing the true information, with sources, because her statements mean that other people will now be wondering about this and he’s offering those people an alternative famous person authority AS WELL AS the facts.
From: Rich Kulawiec rsk@gsp.org Date: March 13, 2024 22:19:03 JST
To: Dave Farber farber@gmail.com, Warren Gif
Subject: Re: [IP] Re robots are about to get really good counterintuitively quickly
(For IP if you wish)
The AI folks are doing the same thing that the IOT folks are doing: don’t bother to seriously test anything, just ship it and forcibly conscript
everyone into being part of their beta test…then blame the device/robot/LLM/etc. for everything that goes wrong.
They’re also going to copy the IOT practice of abandonment: what’s going to happen to everything deployed in the field when these companies get tired of supporting it and declare that it’s hit EOL, or when they go out of business? What’s going to happen when third parties jump into the market, offering updates/fixes that may or may not actually be updates/fixes? Do we all just get to live indefinitely with same kind of detritus that the IOT has foisted on us?
One of the big problems with LLM-style AI is that it’s impossible
to find all embedded erroneous or malicious behavior until it manifests itself. In other words, if I trained a dinner-making robot that it should just make dinner as expected unless it was asked to do so by a guy in a sweater and stocking cap, both with broad horizontal red and white stripes (I’m describing “Waldo” here) – in which case it should grab two steak knives and plunge them into him… how would anyone be able to tell until it happened? No human being is capable of detecting that anomaly in the billions of coefficients that make up the model.
The Gwangyang Steel Works in Gwangyang, South Korea is the largest facility of its kind in the world. It outputs an average of 18 million tons of steel per year, producing parts for bridges and other infrastructure, cars, refrigerators, and more. The plant even serves as a tourist attraction, receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world.
“When people say that a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors over a given category they mean that a monad is a monoid object in the monoidal category of the endofunctors.”
“Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order.”
I apologize.
insert that YOU chihuahua post where theyre being pinned down i cant for the life of me find it
This one?
Oh, Charles. The
hubris. Honey. You had to know this was a possibility. Why would you tempt Apollo like that.
I love how we don’t even need Apollo to be captioned, it’s just “he’s holding a dodgeball and looks Greek statue, of COURSE it’s Apollo delivering the gift of prophecy unto unsuspecting tumblr users”
He’s fine btw. They expected his immune system to react in weird ways but mostly he’s fine and at lower risk of catching and transmitting COVID, and of developing long COVID. He’s fine.
I’m listening to John Coltrane through my headphones as I type, in an effort to stay calm enough that I don’t just start sputtering. You might want to do likewise as you read.
Because last week the CEO of Exxon gave an interview that amounts to an attempt to pawn off the climate crisis on everyone else, and also to map out the road he sees ahead—a road that involves wasting huge amounts of money subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. Darren Woods was talking to Fortune magazine reporter Michal Lev-Ram and editor Alan Murray, who began by explaining that Exxon was a group of charming “Texas tough boys” before teeing up one of the classic softball questions of all time. Some people, he said, were thinking that perhaps Exxon wasn’t entirely “serious about addressing climate change. Tell me why they’re wrong.”
Well, Woods explains, Exxon is a
molecule company, by which he means it’s interested in transforming molecules—’and they happen to be hydrogen and carbon molecules’—to ‘address the needs of our society.’ What he’s saying, quite explicitly, is that Exxon is not an
electron company, i.e. a company interested in building out wind or solar power.
And when Fortune asks him why not, he lets slip the basic truth of our moment: “we don’t see the ability to generate above-average returns for our shareholders.”
For everyone who’s ever asked themselves, why isn’t Exxon (and Chevron and the rest) leading the charge to renewable energy, there’s the answer: you can make money doing it, but not as much as they’ve made traditionally. That’s because the sun and the wind deliver the energy for free, and all you need is some equipment to turn it into electrons. But Exxon
controls the molecules—that’s what oil and gas reserves
are. And that control means they can make outsize profits—as long as they can persuade the world to keep burning stuff.
And it’s the story of that persuasion where Woods’ words go from galling to really really gross.
Because he explains to his nodding interlocutors that the world “waited too long” to start developing renewables. Or, in his particular brand of corporate speak: “we’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets terms of what we need as a society.”
To keep those returns coming, Exxon—working mostly through Senator Joe Manchin (D-Pollution)—larded the Inflation Reduction Act, which was supposed to be about electrons, with as many gifts as possible for molecules.
That’s what the taxpayer money for carbon capture and other such schemes is all about: a way to keep burning stuff, at a moment when it would be cheaper to just let the sun burn. Remember: Exxon has trillions of dollars in oil and gas reserves. We no longer need it, but they need it—and they can game our political system to keep us using it.
The thing that “brought me to this company is integrity,” Woods said. “Not just being honest and ethical, but being intellectually honest and saying the hard things.”
Thank God for John Coltrane. Our job is to stay calm enough to keep taking on these gentlemen with all we’ve got, till their political power is broken and we have a fighting chance.
Literally getting weepy by zooming into the Art Nouveau details on these c. 1900-08 house numbers by Hector Guimard. The world is so screwed up right now, but at least there are these ten beautiful cast iron numbers.
Sisters of the Solstice. Sweden, 1975. Rumors swirled for centuries about a secretive community of women who harnessed the power of the Solstice for dark magic that granted them eternal life. Hushed whispers called them a coven of witches and warned of ritual sacrifice, cannibalism, walking dead, communications with the devil, and a bloodlust towards any man who would dare enter their territory… but was any of it true? By the 20th century, the Sisters had long been relegated to a dusty old myth, until photographer
Sera Clairmont published these photos in her
Spectagoria magazine.
Clairmont gave sparse details about her time with the Sisters of the Solstice, saying she was only given access to their rituals under a vow of secrecy. “These women have only ever asked for privacy,” she wrote, “and because they protect that fiercely, they are called evil. Are they practitioners of magick? Certainly. They give themselves to the earth, and the earth returns them to life. One cannot make such exchanges without sacrifice, but that is their way. Many generations ago, these women turned to the dark arts for protection when the world of men would offer them none. Men hurt them, so they adapted to survive. That the Sisters found the devil a safer bedfellow says more about men than it does about the Sisters. And as the soil grows their bodies anew, Midsommar after Midsommar, don’t be surprised if Mother Earth is taking notes. After all, who has a world of men hurt more than she?”
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Industrial lithium mining in Salar de Atacama, Chile, began in the mid-1990s and has expanded consistently over the last 30 years. The demand for lithium, a key ingredient in rechargeable batteries, has grown with the ubiquity of smart phones, laptop computers, electric cars and other personal electronics. Salar de Atacama contains the world’s largest and purest active source of lithium, as well as more than one-quarter of the world’s lithium reserves.
The army’s interests, as summarized by ARi. included more efficient learning, improved motor skills, altered mental states, stress reduction, interpersonal influence, group cohesion, and certain parapsychological processes. More specifically, the army was considering the possibilities that learning could take place during sleep, that learning might be accelerated via packaged programs designed for that purpose, and that motor skills might be enhanced by guided imagery, mental practice, visual con- centration, and biofeedback. Further, it wished to pursue the possibility that mental states could be altered by self- induced hypnotism, meditation, focused concentration, or the integration of activity in the brain’s hemispheres, in order to promote periods of peak performance. The army was also interested in whether biofeedback and methods that purport to alter mental states might be use- ful in managing stress. Certain aspects of interpersonal and group processes were under examination as well, including whether group cohesion, which might be fostered by keeping army units intact, enhances group and individual performance.
Finally, the army had an interest in such parapsychological processes as remote viewing and psychokinesis, or mind over matter, especially mental influence on the functioning of remote machines.
During the 19th century, body snatchers would follow armies into battle and steal the teeth from dead soldiers which they would then sell to dentists for a large sum of money. They became known as
“Waterloo Teeth” and would be used to create expensive dentures.
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