Guy Debord: Die Gesellschaft des Spektakels (1967).
Lost among tangles of rhubarb, consumed by roots, thinking about how a precious, “uncivilized” drug made its way from ancient China to a backyard garden in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
How Evolution Invented Faith: The Patience of the Penguin and the Art of Withstanding Abandonment.
Penguins mate for life and lay one egg per year, which the parents take turns incubating and nursing for long stretches as each ventures into the sea hunting for food. The separation can last for months, during which the starving parent protecting the egg must retain unfaltering faith in the mate’s return — for if they too leave the nursery and go in search of food, the egg will perish.
Note the black musician in the orchestra? Yeah, me neither. I was lucky to hear Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances for the first time performed by Chineke! Orchestra in Vienna’s Konzerthaus. Goosebumps.
Image Spam Errors in the Age of Hyperconnection.
Image spam is “one of the many dark matters of the digital world”1 and for this reason the following pages endeavor to articulate an account of its errors. Image spam may have a lot to tell us about contemporary culture and it may likewise reveal the issues underlying the resources used to power this dark matter that permeates the digital world.
Europaschutzgebiet Breitenlee auf iNaturalist.
Ein schon 80 Jahre der Natur überlassenes Gelände soll "der Natur überlassen" werden: Weil das ehemalige Bahnhofsareal heute das wichtigste Naturbiotop, einen zusammenhängenden Komplex aus Trockenrasen und Gehölzen, in Wien zwischen Bisamberg und Lobau darstellt.
Some articles I read on the (still fresh) Nerve website:
- Cory Doctorow: Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them \
Altman can't stop fantasising about a world in which all the productive work is done by his software, and the state's sole purpose is to supply us – the unnecessariat – with vouchers we can only redeem for services provided by Altman's robot army. It's charter schools for everything, with Altman at the top, all wrapped up in a layer of dystopian retinal scanning.
- ‘What’s happening is horrifying’: the rebel film-maker challenging AI’s march into Hollywood \
While pro-Silicon Valley documentaries got major distribution deals, Valerie Veatch had to struggle to get her film1, about Big Tech’s dark past and future, into the world.
- ‘Her silence was more powerful than words’: how I interviewed a Facebook whistleblower who wasn’t allowed to speak.
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Veatch’s movie, Ghost in the machine, will be presented in Vienna on 2026-06-24 during the Digital Humanism conference. ↩
Villa Rezek, built in 1934 by Hans Glas for Anna and Philipp Rezek, is an outstanding example of modern residential architecture in Vienna (via taz.de).
Liquid gold.
Mānuka honey (Māori pronunciation: [ˈmaːnʉka]) is a monofloral honey produced from the nectar of the mānuka tree, Leptospermum scoparium.
The mānuka tree is indigenous to New Zealand and parts of coastal Australia. The word mānuka is the Māori name of the tree.
Say precisely what you mean.
The words designers use when they know what they’re looking at.