MachineMachine /stream - search for internet https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage | Popular Science]]> https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-trained-on-ai-gibberish/

Large language models like those offered by OpenAI and Google famously require vast troves of training data to work. The latest versions of these models have already scoured much of the existing internet which has led some to fear there may not be enough new data left to train future iterations.

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Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:32:48 -0700 https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-trained-on-ai-gibberish/
<![CDATA[You’re wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories]]> https://thenextweb.com/news/youre-wrong-about-how-the-internet-fuels-conspiracy-theories

Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy theories have found a natural home online.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:57 -0800 https://thenextweb.com/news/youre-wrong-about-how-the-internet-fuels-conspiracy-theories
<![CDATA[The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/spam-twitter-account-horse-ebooks-human-internet-relationship/661409/

Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any other time in history.

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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:51:39 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/spam-twitter-account-horse-ebooks-human-internet-relationship/661409/
<![CDATA[The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/spam-twitter-account-horse-ebooks-human-internet-relationship/661409/

Though everybody complains about Twitter, no one can deny that it has brought some amazing phrases into our lives—things we can’t imagine having read in any other place, or at any other time in history.

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Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:51:39 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/spam-twitter-account-horse-ebooks-human-internet-relationship/661409/
<![CDATA[Working with Zotero: from A to Z]]> https://darcmode.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DARC-Zotero-Guide-Web.pdf

In this document, you’ll learn many new tips for using Zotero, ranging from the fundamentals to advanced integrations, and discover the myriad ways Zotero can benefit, enhance and streamline your research.

This guide was originally compiled for a D/ARC workshop, designed for graduate students working in internet studies. However, researchers from all fields and levels of study will hopefully find this guide useful.

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Wed, 04 May 2022 08:33:18 -0700 https://darcmode.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DARC-Zotero-Guide-Web.pdf
<![CDATA[False Futurism — Real Life]]> https://reallifemag.com/false-futurism/

By many accounts, the internet is entering a new stage that will completely alter how we experience it. At its core it’s “a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before” that is focused on “tearing down the traditional barriers that have kept companies safe.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:03 -0800 https://reallifemag.com/false-futurism/
<![CDATA[All new MiSTer Shareware DOS Pack with new MyMenu Front end!!!!!!]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNWNHwluRzk

Today I am releasing the new AO486 DOS Shareware pack to the public. This includes an all new DOS Frontend interface developed by BBond007 (https://www.youtube.com/user/binarybond007). The pack is 100% shareware and opensource so it can be shared freely to give a great base for future packs and to show off all the new features. There are no Commercial products in this release. Over 100 games, 30 DOS shareware screensavers, MOD and MIDI Music, Music Players, and shareware DOS applications all built on the FreeDOS OS.

Shareware Pack includes: Over 100 DOS Shareware titles that have been tested and configured for the MiSTer AO486 PC Core. ANSI art and gamecards built for each game. MyMenu Features: MyMenu is a DOS frontend designed to allow you to quickly launch DOS games, applications, scripts, and music.

Launch scripts, exe, bat, or any custom extension that you configure in the MyMenu.ini configuration file. Add any game to C:\Games\My Cool Game Name\ and it will now show in MyMenu automatically. We have tested up to 10,000 games in the list!

Other Feature: DOS Long File Name support Autorun.bat -- Autorun any game Readme.ans -- ANSI Readme and gamecard for each game! ANSI and ASCII art support for browsing ANSI and creating custom game cards for the interface ANSi Terminal (COM) and (Console) support Quickly set MiSTer core speed and cache options Screensavers CGA/VGA Support Music player integration for MOD, MIDI, XM, A2M, and MP3. Terminal Support for MidiLink, Serial, and BBS connection.

Github scripts integration and updates coming!

bbond007's MidiLink: https://github.com/bbond007/MiSTer_MidiLink

Latest release located at: https://github.com/flynnsbit/DOS_Shareware_MyMenu Under Releases.

Introduction and History lesson 00:00 Pack Demonstration: 05:00 MyMenu DOS Interface: 06:00 Autorun.bat and README.ANS Demo: 10:05 Doom Demo: 11:23 Edit Autorun.bat: 12:30 Broken games moved: 12:55 MyMenu ANSi: 13:11 MyMenu Apps/Games/Music/Ansi: 14:00 MyMenu Music and MIDI Demo: 14:23 MyMenu ANSI Art examples: 15:51 MyMenu Quick feature list and readme: 16:21 MyMenu F1 Menu: 17:20 MyMenu MT32-Pi Integration Menu: 17:58 MyMenu Screensavers: 18:21 MyMenu.ini configuration options: 18:45 MyMenu Screensavers config and demo: 19:40 MyMenu Utilities and Memory Management: 22:37 Explosiv! Screensaver Setup: 24:00 MP3's and Internet Radio on MiSTer: 25:14 Download Midilink: 25:41 MP3 Music Tracks and Internet Radio in AO486: 26:00 WHAT IS THIS SONG!!? : 28:06 Mp3 songs as Music track in DOS games: 28:25 MyMenu MP3 Quicklinks: 29:15 Internet Radio Playlists as Music Track in DOS: 29:31 Internet Radio in DOS - Classic Rock: 30:38 Internet Radio in DOS - Dance: 31:48 MyMenu Color Templates and Themes: 32:20 MiSTer console control of MP3s from batch scripts in DOS: 33:56 DOS Doom w/ Doom Eternal Mp3 Soundtrack in DOS Demo scripted: 35:57 DOS Earthworm Jim w/ MP3 Music Playlist: 38:02 DOS SimCity 2000 w/ MP3 Music Playlist: 39:23 Conclusion and Download: 40:00

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Mon, 01 Nov 2021 10:57:07 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNWNHwluRzk
<![CDATA[The First Horror Movie Written Entirely By Bots]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzbxNoMjGM

We worked with Keaton Patti to make a bot watch over 400,000 hours of horror movies and then write its own horror movie. This is what it came up with.

NetflixByBots #KeatonPatti #Horror

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About Netflix Is A Joke: The official hub of Netflix stand-up, comedy series, films, and all things funny — curated by the world’s most advanced algorithm and a depressed, yet lovable, cartoon horse. Their unlikely friendship is our story…

About Netflix: Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 209 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.

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Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:00:00 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzbxNoMjGM
<![CDATA[A Critique of Memes and Meme Culture]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qXvnA8P1k0

This video critiques memes. It doesn't aim at judging which memes are based and which are cringe, nor at declaring this or that meme to be dead, but rather at explaining and critiquing the concept of the meme, starting with the original meaning as Richard Dawkins defined it.

Relevant Titles

The Memeing of Mark Fisher by Mike Watson https://www.waterstones.com/book/memeing-of-mark-fisher-the/mike-watson//9781789049336

Support Zero Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books

Zero Books Manifesto:

The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.

Zero Books aims to work against this trend.

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Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:29:26 -0700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qXvnA8P1k0
<![CDATA[The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Thu, 08 Jul 2021 23:55:19 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/
<![CDATA['Remember the Internet': An Encyclopedia of Online Life - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/03/remember-the-internet/618350/

For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home. Our communities are here, because many of them could not exist any other way.

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Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:31 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/03/remember-the-internet/618350/
<![CDATA[Bloomberg - Are you a robot?]]> https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=03d111c0-aa9e-11eb-9b2f-0d637d2a473b&url=L3ZpZXcvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAxNy0wMy0yNC9hbGdvcml0aG1zLWNhbi1iZS1wcmV0dHktY3J1ZGUtdG93YXJkLXdvbWVu

Your browser is no longer supported. You can still use the site, but some features may not work as expected. Please consider upgrading to one of the following browsers. Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera or Edge / Internet Explorer. Algorithms from the 1950s.

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Sat, 01 May 2021 05:55:21 -0700 https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=03d111c0-aa9e-11eb-9b2f-0d637d2a473b&url=L3ZpZXcvYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAxNy0wMy0yNC9hbGdvcml0aG1zLWNhbi1iZS1wcmV0dHktY3J1ZGUtdG93YXJkLXdvbWVu
<![CDATA[Patricia Lockwood on Her Novel, No One Is Talking About This]]> https://www.vulture.com/article/patricia-lockwood-no-one-is-talking-about-this.html

No One Is Talking About This is out February 16. The internet deprogrammed Patricia Lockwood. It didn’t happen all at once.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:55:59 -0700 https://www.vulture.com/article/patricia-lockwood-no-one-is-talking-about-this.html
<![CDATA[What Does It Mean To Buy a Gif? | Jack Rusher]]> https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gif.html?s=09

It’s everywhere on the Internet right now—NFT this, Rarible that. Tokens, tokens, come get your tokens! We’ve got people shouting that the whole idea is an absurdity or an abomination, others saying it’s only a cynical cash grab, or that it is yet another harbinger of ecological disaster.

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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:55:33 -0700 https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gif.html?s=09
<![CDATA[The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram]]> https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/

Search Google Images for ‘counterculture’ and it overwhelmingly returns black-and-white photos of young people all now over 60.

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Tue, 19 Jan 2021 23:55:14 -0800 https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/
<![CDATA[Otherkin Are the Internet’s Punchline. They’re Also Our Future]]> https://www.dailydot.com/irl/otherkin/

Rhia is queer, trans, and nonbinary. They are also otherkin, or an individual who identifies as nonhuman on a non-physical level, according to the Otherkin Wiki.

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Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:19:44 -0800 https://www.dailydot.com/irl/otherkin/
<![CDATA[How Memes, Lulz, and "Ironic" Bigotry Won the Internet - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/09/how-memes-lulz-and-ironic-bigotry-won-internet/616427/

In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously? Updated at 4:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 4, 2020.

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Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:13:36 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/09/how-memes-lulz-and-ironic-bigotry-won-internet/616427/
<![CDATA[Not ok, internet. Not ok.]]> https://www.instagram.com/p/CDHg4RjDe8SYG8BAp2hC1Fw7cQ3awhZVH29B2s0/ ]]> Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:41:38 -0700 https://www.instagram.com/p/CDHg4RjDe8SYG8BAp2hC1Fw7cQ3awhZVH29B2s0/ <![CDATA[Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/

Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers, exposed bullies—and, sometimes, ruined the lives of the innocent.

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Sun, 26 Jul 2020 02:13:28 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/
<![CDATA[Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/

Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers, exposed bullies—and, sometimes, ruined the lives of the innocent.

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Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:13:28 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/