Salamander Days (September)

Salamander Days in Banská Štiavnica remind the former fame of the most beautiful mining town in Slovakia, inscribed in the List of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of the UNESCO. The Days are concluded by a carnival procession. […] Link

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a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks

If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underlying infrastructure and then chronologically. […] Link

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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. […] Link

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Challenging The Myths of Generative AI

Aside from the physical heft of data centers seen from highways and the fiber optic cables crawling into homes and offices, the digital world mostly exists in our imagination. That imagination is shaped by the people selling services that rely on that infrastructure. […] Link

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Avant-Garden- Cool Unique Games

Nice itch collection of unusual games, including some stuff from Thecatamites, Sokpop, and other usual suspects.

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The Web We've (Never) Lost

Doesn’t it feel like the web is getting worse every day? Do you miss the days when Google wasn’t a garbage factory, Twitter wasn’t a cesspool of Nazis, and you weren’t treated like a pair of eyeballs with a wallet? Don’t worry, the web of yore is still alive and kicking – in fact, it’s thriving. […] Link

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