🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
My first visit to the ‘sevens’.
UPDATE: 230427
… and immediately went back into the eights - until 7th April.
Sculpture
“I think the relationship of a warm-blooded creature versus an object that is still and silent—which is essentially what I think sculpture is—for me is the sort of fundamentals. Sculpture is in our everyday lives the whole time. Crossing the road with a lorry coming towards you is, in my opinion, a sculptural experience, where you as a flesh-and-blood object [are] up against the thing that isn’t. And one’s emotional and psychological assessment of that all happens in a flash.
To me, there is a big, sculptural presence there because of the way that large lorry is constantly displacing space as it comes towards you—so the track that is left behind, which is now empty, was once filled. And that’s what I think we do when we’re interacting with sculpture: the space is filled. As we walk around it, we are constantly losing an image of it and finding a new image. So quite a large part of what sculpture is, [is] not necessarily visual. And I think that’s quite shocking. [It’s] a state of affairs that we’re assessing.”
💬 Phyllida Barlow
🔗 At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree.
… because even donkey’s deserve to know their roots.
I will share the recording link when it is available … but just listening to Doc Searls’ Ostrom workshop with Cory Doctorow .. if he’s half right … good luck with the future.
UPDATE, March 21st, 2023
“Alas, the beginning is missing due to a technical glitch.”
💬 Doc Searls
Society is way behind in adapting its rules to this new liquid culture. It makes everything precarious for everyone. Sam Bankman-Fried went from the Forbes 400 to a jail cell in a few weeks. I don’t think he has yet to get his head around how destroyed his life is. (Have a suicide watch ready when he figures it out.) There are a few industries that still resist this facet of Moore’s Law. Education is one. Health care is another. Law is a third. We have yet to see Trump’s perp walk, and legal delays make new infrastructure almost impossible to build.
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
🔗 Prison Abolition Even For Elizabeth Holmes.
Clearly. I have no idea who Elizabeth Homes really is, though I do have my own biased opinions that she is a con artist, but Nathan Robinson highlights a conundrum that goes beyond her case. That said - what would be very wrong is for Holmes to be the one that breaks the mold.
Half of me already thinks that she planned this pregnancy yo use it as a ‘get out of jail’ card.
“Managers were apparently instructed to provide lists of people who should be promoted, only for those managers to then be fired and replaced by the lower-paid people they’d recommended for promotion.”
I heard that he thought Squid Game was real.
There’s an entire section in the bookshop called Self-Help, but there is no section called Help Others.
💬 Simon Sinek
Oh the irony.
🔗 Amazon to pay $150,000 over Kindle removing 1984
One of the plaintiffs, Justin Gawronski, has a compelling story about his experience with Amazon’s memory hole. Apparently, he was reading his copy of 1984 as a summer assignment for school, and had been using one of the Kindle’s selling points—the ability to attach notes to specific parts of the e-book text—to prepare for his return to school. Since he was actively reading the work when Amazon pulled the plug, he actually got to watch the work vanish from his screen.
🔗 I hope I am not restricting myself here, because it could get challenging.
Updates:
March 3rd - yup - already widened the definition.
March 5th - I think I’ve nailed it. (Though I had to retake a couple of images to get the consistency I was seeking.) Let’s see how it holds up. Then I will explain.
March 11th - it’s a ‘bit of a cheat’ … but arguably still fits into the ‘rules.
March 31st - we did it!
🔗 Is this the best comment on Rishi Sunak’s new Northern Ireland deal?
“if food is available on supermarket shelves in Britain”
‘If’ … not ‘when’.
Strikes me as a good list for any country to aspire to.
Lovely.
🔗 ChatGPT is basically a user interface for search.
.. maybe more a UI for answers?
🔗 An American healthcare story; A Whole Lotta Nothing via @dave
“ The entire world except the US figured out the cost of medicine is easy to handle if it is shared by all. I don’t think anything will change in the US in my lifetime, if I really want health security as I get older, I would have to leave the country.“
The American way is ‘I’, whilst a lot of the rest of world is ‘we’ … though in the U.K. at least, the government is moving as fast it can towards ‘I’ and away from ‘we’.
The 51st state is alive and well.