Visit the Museum of All Things, a nearly-infinite virtual museum generated from Wikipedia!

You can find exhibits on millions of topics, from the Architecture of Liverpool to Zoroastrianism. Search for the topic you want to learn about, or just wander from topic to topic as your curiosity dictates!

I made a generic tool to create such comedy-like / play discussions. It’s called Piece https://gitlab.com/raphaelbastide/piece
I used Piece later in other work, such as https://together.an.otherti.me/ (a discussion between Content and Style) and some quick (and incomplete) tests like that one, about a jealous bot https://raphaelbastide.com/piece/index

Slop is everywhere on Pinterest, frequently ranking in the top results for common searches. It persists across classic Pinterest categories like home inspiration and DIY hacks, fashion, beauty, food and recipes, art, architecture, and more — and often links back to AI-powered content farming sites that masquerade as helpful blogs, using Pinterest as a tool to draw in viewers to useless chum content just to cash in on lucrative display ads.

Pinterest users are frustrated, saying the AI onslaught is making the platform less useful and harder to navigate. But SEO spammers powering Pinterest's slopageddon say they're raking in cash.

LivingPath is a tool designed to make typographic forms more fluid and constantly evolving. Rather than drawing new shapes, it generates alternatives that allow the characters to adapt to new contexts. In this sense, choosing open-source input typefaces is essential, not only from a legal point of view, but also because their freedom was intended from the beginning. In that way typographics shapes act like a stream following their own path without restrictions.

Artists like Anadol are useful because, to borrow a phrase from Karl Marx, they can’t help but blurt out the stupid contradictions of the late capitalist brain. But more sophisticated and creative uses of this technology are also troubling. How machine-learning technology is used matters, but the fact that it is being used, full stop, merits equal attention.

Erratic Elon Musk Waves Chainsaw Around While Ranting About Memes and Fort Knox

Emerald Black Latency is a project that takes the Medusa Submarine Cable System as a starting point to explore the representation and material dimension of data circulation on the internet.

The Medusa Submarine Cable System is a telecommunications infrastructure consisting of an 8,700 km underwater fibre optic cable, planned for 2026, designed to improve connectivity in the Mediterranean and link Europe with North Africa. This network enables high bandwidth, supporting growing internet traffic and facilitating data transmission. Currently, submarine cables support 98% of international internet traffic.

The project takes as its reference a 7 km stretch between the coastline of Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), where one of the landing points is located, and the Balearic Sea. This segment, documented in official reports, is reproduced on Google's global map, incorporating studio-generated images that can be viewed in street view mode. Through this process, a crossover between reality and fiction is created, simulating the impossible experience of walking along a fibre optic cable, which can be less than 1 mm thick.

Like the mythological figure of Medusa, whose face could only be seen through her reflection, the interior of the Medusa cable can only be perceived through its representation. The project thus operates at the intersection between the material and the virtual, the real and the fictitious.

Publish short texts and links, and socialise in the Social Web (a.k.a. the Fediverse).

All by renting a 🏡 web space, uploading a single file and you're set!

You can do this yourself without the help or permission of others (But feel free to get advice and assistence).

Description

This pull request overloads scheduled_at to allow creating statuses with creation times and ULIDs backdated to a previous time in scheduled_at, with the following caveats:

• Backfilled statuses aren't inserted into home or list timelines on the instance, and don't generate - - - Backfilled statuses aren't pushed to other instances through federation (but may be federated normally later through boosts, searches, etc.)
• Backfilled statuses may only mention or reply to the account creating them
• Backfilled statuses can't contain polls

d'azur au chevron d'or, accompagné de trois chats d'argent assis, la tête de front. Cimier : un chat de l'écu, tenant entre ses dents une souris de sable

An easy and stress-free way of choosing a Fediverse server

Fedi.Garden is a small human-curated list of nice, well run servers on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. All of them have opted-in and promised to obey specific standards of reliability and responsible moderation.

(avec des VPS HDD plutôt que SDD pour plus de stockage)

recommended by nanoraptor!

In any event, the new situation is even more deceptive. By featuring the same song under so many different names, the platform prevents us from knowing how many streams it is getting. If that weren’t the case, this one song might get noticed as a huge viral hit—which could be embarrassing, given the bizarre circumstances surrounding it.

A model in which the imperative is simply to keep listeners around, whether they’re paying attention or not, distorts our very understanding of music’s purpose. This treatment of music as nothing but background sounds—as interchangeable tracks of generic, vibe-tagged playlist fodder—is at the heart of how music has been devalued in the streaming era. It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process. It’s not hard to imagine a future in which the continued fraying of these connections erodes the role of the artist altogether, laying the groundwork for users to accept music made using generative-AI software.