flâneur

nivrithi krishnan

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  • The world’s first Museum of AI Arts and digital ecosystem dedicated to data visualization and AI-based creativity.
    About | DATALAND
  • Now much of the world's knowledge is online. However, many of the great books humanity has produced over time are still not easily accessible due to language or other constraints. With the rise of censorship and the rewriting of books posthumously by authors' estates, knowledge may still get lost. Generative AI provides a massive unlock of knowledge for humanity. We are hoping to use it to create a new, enduring digital Library of Alexandria accessible to everyone.
    Alexandria AI
  • Because at that time in history, people lived close to nature. Most people belonged to an inherited culture, a coherent culture. Art had not been turned into something conceptual, but was visceral and moving. Religion had not been presented as something that only a fool or an infant would believe. These are all very arrogant positions that we now hold. We know that some things are key to human flourishing: proximity to nature; a culture; some sense of something beyond this realm. They make people healthier, both physically and mentally. We’ve done away with that and now all we’re left with is …
    Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation - UnHerd
  • Once everything looked good, the code was sent to a Raytheon factory, where mostly women—many of them former employees of New England textile mills—wove copper wires and magnetic cores into a long “rope” of wire. With coding written in ones and zeroes, the wire went through the tiny magnetic core when it represented a one, and it went around the core when it represented a zero. This ingenious process created a rope that carried software instructions.
    Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon
  • Fast forward to today, and authenticity has undergone a startling metamorphosis. No longer the exclusive purview of deep thinkers and angsty creatives, it has been franchised, packaged, and sold back to us with a glossy finish and a hefty price tag. The pursuit of the genuine has become, paradoxically, one of the most artificial endeavors of our time.
    the authenticity industrial complex - by Maalvika
  • Everything is designed to lock users into an addictive cycle.
    The State of the Culture, 2024 - by Ted Gioia
  • You may have noticed, though, that you don’t have a safety parachute from your last name. It’s long, and it’s bulky, and it can’t be ignored. That’s also by design—my clunky gift to you. I wanted you to have my last name. And I wanted it to be a burden.
    A father's letter to an infant daughter: 'I wanted my last name to be a burden' - Macleans.ca