I never knew

I love MUTEK Forum.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we are always charging our electronics, some days feel like we’re working for them, not the other way around.

I haven’t read the whole thing, it’s too loony and bonkers, I just breezed.

I’m not sure if I agree, but it’s an intriguing take, and I’ve been saying that the main question for the near and medium future of AI is where we are in the s-curve, where in the steep part?

Un article dense et fouillé par Robin Berjon qui permet de donner un cadre de réflexion sur la souveraineté numérique.

Driving back from family travels for the holidays, two things happened on the way, which I thought connected in a useful way.

This hex (tweet) circulated a bit over the last few weeks. https://bsky.app/profile/karenattiah.bsky.social/post/3ld2et5ighs24 I don’t really have an “official” list of “personal foundational texts,” especially not books I reread, there are so many things…

Comme bien des montréalais depuis quelques années, des travaux sont en cours sur notre rue depuis deux semaines.

Two weeks ago Jason celebrated the 25th anniversary of his blog.

Over at Sentiers, I’ve turned some of the different “buckets” of writing into just a blog and I’ve been writing a bit there, if you want to follow that too.

Once in a while, I’ll read an article that makes me take stock (again) and realise how absolutely insane our* civilization (species) is.

After a very quiet summer, suddenly a few excellent meetings / opportunities this week, and a couple of fun calls.

Yesterday a friend mentioned he was kind of disappointed at the level of “pandemic anniversary” articles he was seeing and asked what we take away from that year.

Nice way of framing what many indie publishers feel but don’t necessarily put into words.

Realizing I’d completely forgotten about this series!!

Love this quote!

Hallin’s spheres is a theory of media objectivity posited by journalism historian Daniel C.

This Guardian piece has been making the rounds, they title it like it’s written by a “robot” by itself but it’s actually eight different “essays” edited together.

Very interesting thought by Robin Sloan, on what he calls orthographic media.

Interesting mini-trend with a couple of countries offering new year-long “digital nomad” visas.