Recap
Last weekend we were up in West London for a friend's 50th birthday party. This week has been pretty quite. I continue to enjoy the cooler conditions and getting into an autumnal vibe. Been enjoying a lot of telly - Traitors, Bake-Off, Slow Horses.
Links
Eternal Family - The Hidden-Gem Media Club. Join the Family and Discover Unique & Rare Films, Ad-Free.
Commodified Intelligence - the bare minimum you should be horrified of is a commodification of intelligence, and what that means in a world with an uneven distribution of power and resources.
Design Fiction - There’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers." — Octavia Butler
GlobalCity - The whole Earth is one giant SimCity map shared by everyone online. Claim a 64×64 plot (your first one is free), then zone, wire and pave it to grow a city — neighbours can build right next to you. Zoom in to build, zoom out to see every city on the planet.
You Can See Everything - Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait becomes a mind-bending three-year journey.
OP-XY - An interactive browser interpretation of the Teenage Engineering OP-XY. Explore the device, play its controls, and build or play featured tracks.
Free Poem - Create poetry from snippets from TV
mapsnap - See what almost any city or town in the United States looked like 100 years ago, building by building. mapsnap places the Library of Congress's Sanborn fire insurance maps on today's map automatically
Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for the public trust on AI.
How wavetables work - An interactive guide to wavetable synthesis. Play, draw, and turn real wavetables in 3D, from a single cycle to scanning, morphing, 2D tables, and aliasing.