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"...LLMs, like Kanye West, are not self aware.."

https://briefs.video/videos/whats-the-deal-with-large-language-models/

čestitke, Robertina!

[...] projekt [Robertine Šebjanič Odmevi brezna (Echoes of the Abyss)] preučuje ekološke in politične posledice podvodnih vojaških ostankov in zapuščenih neeksplodiranih ubojnih sredstev. Z zvokom, morskimi raziskavami, spekulativnim pripovedovanjem in prostorsko instalacijo Šebjanič razkriva, kako ostanki vojn še dolgo po tem, ko konflikti izginejo iz javne zavesti, vplivajo na vodne ekosisteme.

"V času vse številnejših vojaških konfliktov po svetu je žirijo posebej prepričala sposobnost dela, da poveže znanstveno raziskovanje, poetično občutljivost in geopolitično kritiko. Morje se v tem delu ne kaže kot prazen prostor, temveč kot živa priča in hranilec spomina na vojne ter njihove še vedno nerešene ekološke posledice,"

https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/vizualna-umetnost/robertini-sebjanic-odmevna-nagrada-festivala-ars-electronica/786141

incredible.

https://lynyn.bandcamp.com/album/ixona

#music #electronicMusic

So in order for human cultures to fully embrace the networks and data of the information revolution, perhaps we should take lessons from the Luddites. Because they were not just agents of disruption, but also agents against disruption, not campaigning against technology, but for technology as a positive cultural force.

—Alex McLean ( @yaxu )

Furtherfield
https://www.furtherfield.org/lessons-from-the-luddites/

via https://forum.toplap.org/t/live-coding-and-language-models-speculative-query/2547/2

constellation records on @mirlo wow. that's big.

all three performances from last week's Kamizdat Rentgen are now published and collected in a playlist, featuring Palmovka, Babilonska, and prince lucija:

https://vid.pretok.tv/w/p/vcSsFHt9fXcEXaPthWCGgV

#music #ElectronicMusic #kamizdat #slovenia

discovering keyboard shortcuts of #phanpy. this looks promising.

EDIT: nearly not enough shortcuts tbh

yesterday was performance day today is travel day

#rawField

new snapseed app is pretty good

Within Open Cobalt, programmers may edit the source code of the 3D world from within the world, and immediately see the result while the world is still running. The running program does not have to be ended, and there is no compile-link-run-debug development loop. Any part of the program may be edited, down to the virtual machine (VM) and OpenGL calls. Open Cobalt's reliance on Squeak's generalized storage allocator and garbage collector makes it highly efficient in real-time and allows reshaping of objects to be done safely.

Open Cobalt - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt

just had a drops everything, drops jaw, wide eyes in shock moment

🧠:

• hedonism & resistance
• community as survival
• the scene as a network
• techno body politics

join my membership project newsletter -- called "The Backstairs Tone"

https://prin.lu/backstairs/

I make computer music and post all of my work online for free (name-your-price, free Creative Commons downloads) and you can help me to continue doing so by becoming a member of The Backstairs Tone as a way to fund the artist studio through monthly subscriptions.

beautifully said. by @brennan

I'm interested in the confessional, the vulnerable. I'm interested in the new sincerity movement. In the stubborn insistence that earnestness is not naïve, that care is a form of courage, that the Internet is still a place where people tell each other the truth. I'm interested in stories that begin with a forum post or a strange subreddit, and end somewhere near the bone.

I want writing beginning with a GIF and ending in grief. I want reported pieces that start with a server error and arrive at loneliness. I want personal essays from people who are making websites in their bedrooms and can't quite explain why it matters. The digital and the human should be indistinguishable from each other.

The IndieWeb is real to me because the people in it are real to me.

A New IndieWeb Publication? or: I Want to Start Something and Be Bad at It
https://brennan.day/a-new-indieweb-publication-or-i-want-to-start-something-and-be-bad-at-it/

this album gave me so much at the end of 90s

Anastasia: Nocturnal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCxXmflMoj4

Anastasia (Macedonian: Анастасија, romanized: Anastasija) was a Macedonian music group. The band was formed in 1987 as Apokrifna Realnost and changed their name to Anastasia in 1989.

Their music is a blend combining Byzantine past, through Eastern Orthodox Church music with a rich gamut of ethnic Macedonian music rhythms.

Anastasia have written several music scores for films, theater performances and TV programs. Their soundtrack for the Academy Award-nominated movie Before the Rain was released in 1994 by Polygram and sold thousands of copies worldwide. ... their last album to date, "Nocturnal," saw the band including electronic elements in their music as well.

Discography
Na rjekah vavilonskih (1988, self-released)
Na rjekah vavilonskih (1990, DOM)
Before the Rain (1994, PolyGram)
Melourgia (1997, Libra Music)
Nocturnal (1998, Third Ear Music)

#Macedonia #northMacedonia #electronicMusic #music

today i came across original painting that was used as a cover to 1980's Den Za Den S/T infuential/representative yugoslav jazz rock scene

we had this album at home. i don't know how much i listened to it as very young but as i'm listening now it feels like it is quite familiar -- actually just spoted a part that i'm 100% myself and Miklavž Pirnat aka Trypno Nu Psylocybe sampled circa 97'

the album is pretty amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u07PSHe3V1U

it was a weird dejavu/image-spotting. of course also because the painting is futuro/sci-fi/gothic in content,... it is called CRUCIFIXION XX and is by Slobodan Zhivkovski and is dated 1976. digging around about Zhivkovski gets his behance and instagram as best sources, albeit poor and not resembling that painting much. he must have been very young when paiting it.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/23245149/Drawings
https://www.instagram.com/techno_neolith/

oh, and if you want to locate the paiting, it is in Restaurant Pelister right in the center of Skopje, on top of stairs otherwise leading to toilets, but well visible from the terace too.

#JazzRock #JazzFusion #yugoslavia #ExYu #macedonia #music #jazz #skopje @altbot

performance day

#rawField