Links
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Rowboat
A lightning fast tool for understanding large datasets.
Very nice looking web and native app for exploring data files.
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Is AI Profitable Yet?
Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies (May 2026).
Spoiler alert, no.
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Technofascism Survival Guide by Kim Crawley on Kickstarter
Technofascism Survival Guide – Technofascism is here. From the Black Panthers to Anonymous to Julian Assange, what can we learn and how can we resist?
Heard about this on the Pivot to AI podcast, sounds great!
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The Blueprint for System Change | Ash Sarkar Meets Extinction Rebellion Founder Roger Hallam
An absolute surprise banger of a strategy and design podcast. So many sparks of ideas and quotes:
When you're developing a strategy you have to do some sub optimal things to get to a better place
Shut up and listen
- Remote enables a diverse audience
- The power of listening
- Nonviolent Communication
- Present something » move to a breakout space » do something… but NO q&a
- Building solidarity with people (in-person) by embodied ‘doing’
- Create a pathway to action – The Steps Collective
- Breakout groups FTW: create empowerment by enabling everyone gets time to speak – Liberating Structures
- A social conditioning that other people are disposable (similar topic in a recent Trashfuture
- First pancake theory: accepting that your first try at something is going to be crap
- Growth comes from working through the hard stuff
- Sortition
- Delegate conferences aren’t designed to foster deeper connection or change - Reminds me of a conversation with James Lang when curating Research by the Sea
Props to Tom Scott for the recommendation.
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Bored of it
MY GOD MAKE IT STOP! Paul perfectly expresses the increasing frustration caused by the monotonous creep of AI gobshite.
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The Documentary Podcast – Me and my digital twin
Listening to this I felt like an old man shouting at clouds. There was one interesting section about our digital legacy and how we might as citizens of the web might be custodians of our loved ones data and memories. I just felt extremely cynical about the other 97%.
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The Documentary Podcast – In the Studio: Brian Eno
A fascinating window into Brian Eno’s design process and using his work for social good.
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Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
Seeing as we’re facing the unfolding of a ‘Trump and Dump‘ disaster, it’s probably useful to familiarise ourselves with the holistic bullshit of the crypto scene.
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Receive Netlify Notification on Telegram
A clearly written guide for creating a Telegram bot to receive build notifications webhooks from Netlify.
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rolltime – HOPE XV (2024): AI, Solarpunk, and an Uncertain Future in Computing
One of my favorite and talks of 2024 is one that addresses LLMs, climate change, and energy consumption. The Solar Protocol was and approximate multipliers are fascinating. If you need a bit of hope in your life at the moment, watch this!