The Male Hysteric

Hello, happy Friday! (Had to double-check that, I thought it was Saturday.) Here's some links for you!

Community

• Found two websites that map out fruit trees/free wild food you can presumably get if you're in the right area: Endless Orchard and Falling Fruit
• Meshtastic is a thing that lets you use LoRa radios as long-range off-grid communication platform

Music

• Intertapes is a collection of found cassette tapes and the recordings on them!

Books

Recently (okay not that recent) added to Project Gutenberg and that I found interesting in some way:

• A lady's cruise in a French man-of-war by C. F. (Constance Frederica) Gordon Cumming
• Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter
• Romantic castles and palaces: as seen and described by famous writers
• How to speak with the dead by Sciens
• Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs and excavations in Egypt and Nubia; vol. 1: and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice; and another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon (what a title!)

Also the Johnny.Decimal workbook has been released into the Creative Commons.

AI Sucks

• Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee (need free account to read or else try here). It doesn't surprise me than an AI exec would force others to use their shitty bot, what DOES surprise me is that he's basically in AI psychosis. Shouldn't an exec know better? (And yet it seems to be common.)
• AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism from Are.na. An interesting visual log.

and: On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI from Eruditorum Press. I liked this quote:

There is a tedious point that advocates of AI art will periodically articulate to the effect of AI rendering art accessible to more people—ones lacking in time or ability to otherwise produce it. The response to this is generally that the time and labor involved is fundamental to art. But even more fundamental is the thought involved. At the end of the day what defines art is the existence of intention behind it—the fact that some consciousness experienced thoughts that it subsequently tried to communicate. Without that there’s simply lines on paper, splotches of color, and noise. At the risk of tautology, meaning exists because people mean things. Nobody else is going to do that work for us. If we don’t do it, really, what’s the fucking point?

More?

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