No. 021
The Ed Hardy shirt of argumentative figures (17.7.2023–30.7.2023)
How Large Language Models work, the era of global boiling, passport privileges, a swan song to masculinity, and Barbie’s merchandise.
Around the Web
A digest of interesting links from – you might have guessed it – around the web.
No. 020
You can’t spell AI without C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-M (27.3.2023–16.7.2023)
Not-so-news from your favourite AI shovel sellers, beaver bombing, how screen readers work, and the physics of riding a bike.
No. 019
Generally Pretty Tired 4 (4.2.2022–26.3.2023)
ProfitAI, generating disinformation, Okra against microplastics, and filming the speed of light.
No. 018
Nothing to lose but our fear (15.1.2022–3.2.2023)
A crisis prayed into existence, the end of writing, how not to fight the climate crisis, and mechanical cows.
No. 017
Disgusted, but not surprised (14.12.2022–15.1.2023)
Police violence for fossil future, stochastic parrots doing cybercrime, TikTok’s secret, Tesla’s magic, and why peer review failed.
No. 016
Overpowered Communism (28.11.2022–13.12.2022)
German’s law enforcement and its bullshit, a new stochastic parrot, Mastodon’s first main character (it’s a cop), and a lawsuit because cooking pasta takes too long.
No. 015
Prime time in diversity theatre (14.11.2022–27.11.2022)
Another attack on queer spaces, diversity theatre, border regimes, maps of the world, and cows surviving a hurricane.
No. 014
Just go ‘aahh!’ Hardcore! (31.10.2022–14.11.2022)
Twitter, Facebook, how Apple broke its privacy promise, and GitHub getting sued. But a good news interlude, too.
No. 013
Do robots eat electric salad? (16.10.2022–30.10.2022)
A lettuce, machine learning’s stealing problem, an update on humanity’s end of life, and pictures from the beginning of life.
No. 012
30.9.2022–15.10.2022
Bots, AI regulation advances, Facebook does not find its legs, cops are disgusting, and how QR codes work.
No. 011
29.5.2022–2.10.2022
Summer is over. Winter is coming. Around the Web is back. AI art, deep fakes, and David Attenborough.
No. 010
16.5.2022–28.5.2022
Rentier capitalism and expropriation, AI models large and larger, the EU tightens its border regime, Elon Musk speed-runs fascism, and what prison inmates did to police cars.
No. 009
2.5.2022–15.5.2022
Roe v Wade & privacy, crypto & and its big crash, Europe & an attack on encrypted messaging, how a mechanical clock works, and an anthem to women riding bicycles.
No. 008
19.4.2022–1.5.2022
Facebook does not know what it is doing (with your data), someone bought a website, others have no internet, and 185 hellos from British Columbia.
No. 007
10.4.2022–18.4.2022
AI keeps snake-oiling, bankrupt surveillance, cultivating memory, evading algorithms, how space became a billboard, and a browser mitigating tremors.
No. 006
3.4.2022–9.4.2022
Gig work regulation, Mark Sauron, Elon from Twitter, the AI of Google, the Fuckups of Crypto, 25 years of web accessibility, and a different look on earth.
No. 005
25.3.2022–3.4.2022
The joy of unionisation, the catastrophe in Tigray, the PR bullshit of Facebook, and Saturn losing its rings.
No. 004
19.3.2022–26.3.2022
The war in Tigray, the effort of resposible AI, digital gardens, dead internet, aesthetics of NFTs and why «My body, my choice» feels out of date.
No. 003
12.3.2022–19.3.2022
Predictive policing without oversight, the wall in which Deep Learning crashed, cryptocurrencies in wartime, and billionaires won’t save us.
No. 002
4.3.2022–12.3.2022
The war and the cyber, impeding climate doom, working on the web, and a ship underneath the arctic sea.
No. 001
22.2.2022–4.3.2022
States of Surveillance, AI legislation, Contileaks, the dumbest vending machine in the history of ever. And war.