The Infinite Conversation – A never-ending conversation between Bavarian director Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. (Via conspirator0.substack.com).
This project aims to raise awareness about the ease of using tools for synthesizing a real voice. Right now, any motivated fool can do this with a laptop in their bedroom. This changes our relationship with the media we consume online and raises questions about the importance of authoritative sources, breach of trust and gullibility.
Just a phase they’re bro-ing through.
Even the most cynical of us have to agree that Zuck’s new workout regime, haircut and gold chains are a dramatic change for the better. Elon’s penchant for leather jackets considerably less so. But the gold medal for dramatic self-case surely belongs to Peter Thiel who reportedly takes blood transfusions from youngsters to keep himself spritely.
kuenstlerbundbadenwuerttemberg 3 x 48 Stunden: Rückblick auf die Woche 3.
Relevant: tine-schumann.de.
McBroken – Is the McDonald’s ice cream machine broken?
Relevant: What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?
Vai, abandona a morte em vida em que hoje estás
Há um lugar onde essa angústia se desfaz
E o veneno e a solidão mudam de cor
Há ainda o amor
— Taiguara
Relevant: The movie Omni Loop – with more wonderful soundtrack by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith!
Sell your big stupid car.
Just stumbled over the Rye language and glancing over its examples I thought to myself, this looks familiar! And indeed:
Rye is a high level, homoiconic dynamic programming language based on ideas from Rebol, flavored by Factor, Linux shell and Go.
Write Bug Reports Developers Love.
A simple checklist of the essential items to include in your bug reports.
Incubating a humane dynamic medium.
TIL Anton Bruckner “had a compulsion to count things continually”:
In medical terms, this is called “numeromania” and professionally classified under compulsive disorders. He obsessively counted windows of building, cobblestones on the road, and number of bricks in a wall. Even worse, he continually counted the number of bars in his enormous orchestral scores to make sure their proportions were statistically correct.
Relevant: The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990).