broadband equity, access and deployment: Trump administration thinks the BEAD programme of the Infrastructures Investment and Jobs Act is too woke
fermata: a thousand artists release a ‘silent’ album to protest changes to UK intellectual property rights to attract AI companies interesting in training their models on copyrighted material—via the New Shelton wet/dry—also more music without sounds
late stage capitalism: Washington Post owner Bezos will only allow editorials that defend “free markets” and “personal liberties”—see also
annual reformulation: important meeting of the US Centres for Disease Control to discuss strains for next season’s influenza vaccine cancelled, confirming fears that the new health secretary will pivot away from proven preventative medicine
rif me daddy: what Trump’s AI enhanced shitpostings reveal about the administration and plans for the future of Palestine
absalom, absalom: William Faulkner’s record-setting run-on sentence
torus and tokamak: a German fusion startup is lauded for its plans, peer-reviewed, to launch a functioning power plant
only the markets can save us: America’s total economic boycott planned for the last day in February
touch grass: an app that blocks screentime and doomscrolling until one has proven one’s gone outside—via Waxy
snoopers’ charter: Apple’s capitulation to the UK’s Investigative Powers Act is Chekov’s Gun for privacy worldwide
by the people and for the people: dossiers of the people working for the Department of Government Efficiency
synchronoptica
one year ago: ceramicist Yoonmi Nam (with synchronoptica) plus the age of ludicrous inventions
seven years ago: A Million Random Digits plus assorted links to revisit
eight years ago: more misattributed quotes
nine years ago: Sàmi tone poems
ten years ago: theodicy, get anything delivered, more links to enjoy plus RIP Leonard Nimoy
