Self playing violin at Museum Speelklok

Ludwig Hupfeld’s Model A self playing violin and piano. More details https://speelklok.adlibhosting.com/ais6/Details/collect/10814 […] Link

Rat Chaos

Rat Chaos is a 2012 stream of consciousness[1][2]art and browser game created by Winter Lake. While learning the software Twine, author Winter Lake[4][5] made the game “in a couple hours” on July 18, 2012.[2] Originally, the game was available via Winter Lake’s website monster killers. […] Link

Debussy plays Debussy | Clair de Lune (1913)

Claude-Achille Debussy - Clair de Lune (Mondglanz, Mondschein, Moonlight), Suite Bergamasque, Debussy, piano. The Suite bergamasque was first composed in 1890-1905. “Claude Debussy Plays His Finest Works” Claude Debussy, Piano Roll, 1913.

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

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

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

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

Avant-Garden- Cool Unique Games

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

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

Navajo Nation Bans Uranium, Radioactive Substances from Entering Its Land

“Dynamite Nashville”: FBI Role in Civil Rights-Era Bombings Revealed, Linked to Later Racist Attacks […] Link