MachineMachine /stream - search for name https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender]]> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Nobody likes an I-told-you-so.

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Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:37:34 -0800 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
<![CDATA[Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat]]> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcSupkNs8

Become a Patron https://www.patreon.com/bobbyfingers

Or you can buy me a coffee here. https://ko-fi.com/bobbyfingers

UPDATE : THE TREASURE HAS BEEN FOUND BY A PATRON!!!

Produced by Rob Sutton and Bobby Fingers.

Thanks to the good people of ODYSSEY STUDIOS https://www.odysseystudios.ie/

Click for KING KONG COMPANY https://youtu.be/_A13Mv5dchI?si=C2wBpJBQPnsj4dr8

Big thanks to L. Sierakowski for the use of his beautiful music. https://furniture-music.bandcamp.com

Thanks to Esref Akinci, Ossman Yetkin and Dr. Nihat Cicek at Holiday Estetic https://holidayestetic.com/

Amazon march footage courtesy of Shabbir Lakha/Rank and FIle Combine https://www.instagram.com/shabbirlakha/ CHECK HIM OUT!!!! AMAZING PERSON!!!

Director of Photography - Shane Serrano - https://www.shaneserrano.com/

Additional Camera work by Rob Sutton https://www.instagram.com/rob.sutton/ Clem McInerney (Water Cinematography) https://clemmcinerney.com/ Shane Joyce https://www.instagram.com/shanej0yce/ Alex Genn-Bash https://www.instagram.com/shuttermug/ Berke Beyazpınar https://www.instagram.com/berkebeyazpinar/ Emma McNamara https://www.instagram.com/rc86maker/ Jason Flood (whats your social Jason?)

Music by Bobby Fingers Cillian King https://www.instagram.com/cillianking/ Daniel luke https://open.spotify.com/artist/7MqR9hflQxb3YzurijtPB3 Luís Sierakowski https://furniture-music.bandcamp.com Boris Sevastyanov https://www.fiverr.com/composerr Michael Hennessy and all the guys in Harmony Bro, Mens Choir in Ennis.

Sound Recordist - Eoin Gleeson https://www.instagram.com/eoingleeson/

Visual Effects by Ray Sullivan https://www.instagram.com/directedbyray/

Additional editing by Rob Sutton and Nathan Campion https://www.instagram.com/nathanthecampionoftheworld/

Makeup by Sadhbh Nic Uidhir https://www.instagram.com/sadhbhniqueer/ Clodagh McInerney

Costumes by Gerdi McGlynn Pamela McGlynn Grace Burke Sarah Allen

Jet Ski Operator - James Monaghan

The Pirates were played by Jean McGlynn Michael O'Donoghue Mike Finnernanan Martin Cooke Nhlanhla Banda Cein Daly Shane Davis Luke McEvoy Isaac Bryant Cian Egan Matt Kelly Darren O'Carroll Tobi Omoteso Conor McNelis Robert Walsh

Special thanks to Shirani Bolle, Díní McGlynn, Romee Mcglynn, Antoinette Bolle, Wayne Cuddy, Dominic Yard http://www.thisisyard.com/ Ali Day, Rebecca Ní Churnáin, Mick Dolan and all the gang at Dolans, Rebecca Pearson, Bec Hill, Matt Parker, Dr. Billy Fingers, Gary MacMahon, Brian O'Brien, Mike Hogan, Bono Kavanagh, Emma Tierney, Steve Lock and the gang at Soho theatre, Conor O'Brien, Laura Davoren, Paul Ryan from Film In Limerick, Keelan Christie, Mary Gallagher Cooke, Brendan Kennedy from Panda.ie. Thanks to John and all the lads in Mungret Civic Ameneties, Elle Coughlan, Alan Ward and the guys in the National 50m Pool in UL.

If I've forgotten anyone, please let me know, I can add your name in here very easily.

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Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:00:06 -0800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcSupkNs8
<![CDATA[MeFi: Advanced Lawn Mower Simulator, and other deliberately crap games]]> http://www.metafilter.com/199880/Advanced-Lawn-Mower-Simulator-and-other-deliberately-crap-games

Guardian: 'The annual CGC (Crap Games Competition) has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years' ... "What makes the CGC entertaining is the self-deprecating, sardonic British humour," explains 43-year-old Paul Collins from Reading, who first entered the CGC in 2000 with Pear-Shaped ("a simple maze game where you try to collect as many pears as possible") and Crap Football, featuring a digitised Des Lynam. "There are ideas that can't possibly work, eg Sim City: The Text Adventure or Blind Flight Simulator. Or names that are just funny, like Whack a Nun II and European Sandwich Hunt."

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Thu, 06 Jul 2023 23:35:16 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/199880/Advanced-Lawn-Mower-Simulator-and-other-deliberately-crap-games
<![CDATA[The age of average — Alex Murrell]]> https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire most in a work of art. Over 11 days the researchers at Marttila & Kiley Inc.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:52:42 -0700 https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
<![CDATA[The age of average — Alex Murrell]]> https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire most in a work of art. Over 11 days the researchers at Marttila & Kiley Inc.

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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:52:42 -0700 https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
<![CDATA[Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net]]> https://www.eurogamer.net/lord-dunsanys-chess-variant-is-grim-and-kind-of-brilliant

I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:51:35 -0700 https://www.eurogamer.net/lord-dunsanys-chess-variant-is-grim-and-kind-of-brilliant
<![CDATA[Lord Dunsany's chess variant is grim and kind of brilliant | Eurogamer.net]]> https://www.eurogamer.net/lord-dunsanys-chess-variant-is-grim-and-kind-of-brilliant

I first read about Lord Dunsany - I am happy to report his full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - in a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's non-fiction.

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Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:51:35 -0700 https://www.eurogamer.net/lord-dunsanys-chess-variant-is-grim-and-kind-of-brilliant
<![CDATA[How to Change Your Mind About COVID-19 - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/05/covid-opinions-school-closures/629736/

In the spring of 2020, as Americans continued to proclaim their excitement for basketball games and parades, an ER doctor named Dylan Smith watched in dismay. Was everyone else ignoring reality? That March, New York City hesitated to close its schools during the city’s first COVID wave.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:15 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/05/covid-opinions-school-closures/629736/
<![CDATA[How to Change Your Mind About COVID-19 - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/05/covid-opinions-school-closures/629736/

In the spring of 2020, as Americans continued to proclaim their excitement for basketball games and parades, an ER doctor named Dylan Smith watched in dismay. Was everyone else ignoring reality? That March, New York City hesitated to close its schools during the city’s first COVID wave.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:15 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/05/covid-opinions-school-closures/629736/
<![CDATA[How Octavia E. Butler Reimagines Sex and Survival | The New Yorker]]> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/how-octavia-e-butler-reimagines-sex-and-survival

In Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Parable of the Sower” (1993), a climate-change Book of Exodus set in a scorched mid-twenty-twenties California, a preacher’s daughter named Lauren Oya Olamina tries to convince a friend that their world has veered off course.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:43 -0800 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/how-octavia-e-butler-reimagines-sex-and-survival
<![CDATA[Inside the world of foley artists: ‘Watermelons are brilliant for the sound of brains hitting the floor’ | Movies | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/12/inside-the-world-of-foley-artists-watermelons-are-brilliant-for-the-sound-of-brains-hitting-the-floor

Monday morning in the small Essex town of Coggeshall, and in an unassuming building that used to be a laundry, a man named Barnaby is trying to sound like a horse. Trying and succeeding, uncannily. Not neighing or whinnying, just making the sound of the hooves on the ground.

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:51:11 -0800 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/12/inside-the-world-of-foley-artists-watermelons-are-brilliant-for-the-sound-of-brains-hitting-the-floor
<![CDATA[It's Possible to Run Doom on 16 Billion Crabs]]> https://gamerant.com/doom-16-billion-crabs/

Of the many beloved and influential franchises to come out of the medium of video games, Doom is a name that comes to mind for a lot of players.

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:51:38 -0800 https://gamerant.com/doom-16-billion-crabs/
<![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[AI DECOLONIAL MANYFESTO]]> https://manyfesto.ai/index.html?s=09

AI Manyfesto signed , ... Sign your name This manyfesto is a provocation, a question, an opening, a dance about a future of AI technologies that is decolonial.

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Sat, 02 Oct 2021 01:33:26 -0700 https://manyfesto.ai/index.html?s=09
<![CDATA[Exiting The Anthropocene and Entering The Symbiocene. | Psychoterratica]]> https://glennaalbrecht.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/exiting-the-anthropocene-and-entering-the-symbiocene/

It has been proposed that humans are now living within a period of the Earth’s history appropriately named ‘The Anthropocene’ (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000).

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Tue, 22 Jun 2021 21:55:14 -0700 https://glennaalbrecht.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/exiting-the-anthropocene-and-entering-the-symbiocene/
<![CDATA[NFTs might not solve the digital art authenticity problem.]]> https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html

When Christie’s auctioned for $69 million a “nonfungible token,” or NFT, linked to the digital collage Everydays: The First 5000 Days, many people asked WTF was an NFT? And why was a relative unknown artist by the name of Beeple now the third-highest selling living artist—for a digital work

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Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:37 -0700 https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html
<![CDATA[Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - Architecture - e-flux]]> https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/positions/191258/is-ornamenting-solar-panels-a-crime/

We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone has time for.

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Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:55:16 -0800 https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/positions/191258/is-ornamenting-solar-panels-a-crime/
<![CDATA[When Futurism Led to Fascism—and Why It Could Happen Again | WIRED]]> https://www.wired.com/story/italy-futurist-movement-techno-utopians/

In 1909, a poet named Filippo Marinetti was driving along in his brand new Fiat when he came across two cyclists in the road. Marinetti swerved to avoid hitting his fellow travelers, sending his car into a ditch and completely destroying the vehicle.

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Mon, 18 Jan 2021 06:55:08 -0800 https://www.wired.com/story/italy-futurist-movement-techno-utopians/
<![CDATA[Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen]]> https://aplusa.org/courses/critical-designer-slash-activist-engineer/

What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this class explores the equally compelling history of engineering and design projects that raise difficult questions, aid marginalized communities, address urgent social issues, or create new social conditions.We’ll talk to designers, artists, and engineers who work on issues of sustainability, power, health, education, and more. And we’ll run our own experiments in creative design work for the public good. The class includes significant reading, field trip(s) and guest lectures, short experiments, and a culminating project.We want you to witness and be inspired by the exciting, expansive fields of what are variously called social design, engineering for the public good, socially engaged art practices, and many other names. However, we also want you to be well versed in the many, many pitfalls of so-called “activist” work with technology—when it’s under-informed, poorly researched, focused on form and not on substance, it risks not only being ineffective, but can lead to actual harm. We take this risk seriously, so this course will have you mostly listening, learning, listening and learning some more, and, finally proposing—not carrying out fully-fledged projects in one semester. Trust us on this: We can have fun and be at play with ideas while also operating with due diligence as socially-minded engineers and designers. Humility and questions are your trusty companions here, your true north. We want to help you to lay a foundation; you will have many, many future opportunities to build the house.

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Wed, 09 Sep 2020 03:59:27 -0700 https://aplusa.org/courses/critical-designer-slash-activist-engineer/
<![CDATA[When The World Isn’t Designed for Our Bodies | The New Yorker]]> https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/when-the-world-isnt-designed-for-our-bodies

“What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World,” a new book by the artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, opens with a challenge. A curator named Amanda has come to Hendren’s classroom at the Olin College of Engineering, where the author teaches courses on technology and disability.

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Sat, 05 Sep 2020 08:13:14 -0700 https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/when-the-world-isnt-designed-for-our-bodies