🔖 To Re-experience the Web: A Framework for the Transformation and Replay of Archived Web Pages | ACM Transactions on the Web ift.tt/S9rV132 The process of replaying mementos and the modifications made to the representations by web archives varies between archives…

🔖 Sans Soleil (Sunless) - Chris Marker youtube.com/watch?v=fdusEg… via ift.tt/5YsvJ1d Sans Soleil is a 1983 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker. It is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of mem…

Translation - ift.tt/iaet2X6 I recently bought a copy of The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry to supplement my Duolingo excursions into French (which I never really learned well, and am trying to relearn). Generally I like the experience of using …

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🔖 wikihistories 2023: Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting) ift.tt/8UotZuw In this first annual workshop of the wikihistories project, we will take stock of what we know and what we still need to know about Wikipedia as a history-making platfo…

🔖 From Bias to Repair: Error as a Site of Collaboration and Negotiation in Applied Data Science Work ift.tt/FZUeEp3 ... artful living with error can better support the creative strategies of negotiation and adjustment which data scientists and their collaborators …

🔖 Unmaking as Emancipation: Lessons and Reflections from Luddism ift.tt/f0MPeYU In this account, we show that the goals and tactics of Luddism have signifcant alignments with current HCI work in the areas of unmaking and social justice. Through articulation of six…

Have you been using our pywb toolset your web archive replay system? If so, please take a moment to answer this quick survey! We hope to use results to inform our development roadmap and possibly broaden group of contributors! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

pymarc 🛠 - ift.tt/Ta4MWpv There’s a new major version of pymarc out today. This was largely the work of Andrew Hankinson, David Dowling and Jon Stroop, as well as the generous people who discussed the proposed changes on the mailing list. I don’t think I could ha…

🔖 Mean Images by Hito Steyerl ift.tt/lUOVnA8 "But it is more likely that many of them will be forced to ‘upgrade’ by renting services built on their own stolen labour, in order to remain ‘competitive’, than that they will be replaced fully by ml automation."

A sibling team at work posted two jobs that may interest some of you kind folk: * UI/UX Designer: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/user-expe… * Software Developer: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/digital-l… Feel free to share widely, if you are inclined.

🔖 Technological Futures: A Letter to the Smolnet gopher://perma.computer:70/0/letter.txt Computing can be more than the ever-growing techno-capitalist juggernaut. It can be about things other than speed, or scale. It can be about human creation, and human interaction. It ca…

Future - ift.tt/NOwHmVb I had high expectations for the The Ministry for the Future, and it really exceeded them. I liked how the narration shifted between 3rd and 1st person – some narrators weren’t people at all and were things/concepts lik… theguardian.com/cities/2018/ma…

ReSpec Writing - ift.tt/exFkT2L Technical writing is something I’ve gotten more enjoyment out of the longer I’ve been working professionally as a software developer. Although, maybe it has been an interest all along, and I’ve only recently begun to recognize it. I thi…

🔖 On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models ift.tt/ALuPo1n Large AI Models (LAIMs), of which large language models are the most prominent recent example, showcase some impressive performance. However they have been empirically found to pose serious security iss…

🔖 Google Bard is a glorious reinvention of black-hat SEO spam and keyword-stuffing ift.tt/wildI1c "Moreover, researchers have also discovered that it’s probably mathematically impossible to secure the training data for a large language model like GPT-4 or PaLM 2. …

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The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers. Microsoft Microsoft Teams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"