*It’s interesting how much variety there is in “luxury” knives. There’s the technical-prowess ones, the artsy decorated ones, the rare-materials ones (“mammoth uvory inlays”), the obscure-manufacturing=processes ones, auteur knives from prominent knife designers in the “art knife genre,” and even some knives that function particularly well. *Also, note the Italian manufacturers.

*Well, I wouldn’t dismiss those speculations, because the guy has been around.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/95/2/281/344231/Poetry-Will-Not-Optimize-or-What-Is-Literature-to Abstract Literature, poetry, and other forms of noncommercial creative expression challenge the techno-instrumentalist approaches to language, the predictive language generation, informing NLP (large natural language processing models) such as GPT-3 or -4 as well as, more generally, generative AI (text to image, video, audio). Claims that AI systems automate and expedite creativity reflect industry […]

*It’s a lot of work. https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/20/fore/#synthesis (…) Blogging has always been a part of this project. For nearly 20 years, I posted nearly every day on Boing Boing – 53,906 posts in all! – taking note of everything that seemed important. Keeping a “writer’s notebook” in public imposes an unbeatable rigor, since you can’t slack […]

*Today’s version of the California Ideology, etc. Time Passed and Something Happened A Brief Report from the Nettime Listening Post- This is an informal report from the nettime meeting in Berlin of two weeks ago. As it turns out I reluctantly found myself organising and moderating the final stages of the meeting. So this report […]

“I am currently sleeping here,” etc.

*It’s from several years ago. I wonder if anyone who owns one of these gilded tools has ever used it for any standard tool purpose.

https://gizmodo.com/flipper-zero-game-module-controller-raspberry-pi-1851248496 (…) Though the Flipper Zero is best known as a hacking or penetration testing device, you can do a lot more with the Flipper than hack your smart blender. Last year, Flipper Devices launched its own App Store, which is accessible via the tool’s mobile app, and offers various open-source plug-and-play software features. Presumably, […]

*I’m a little upset that I’ve never owned one or even physically touched one. *Of course there are YouTube tutorials.

*It’s alarming that maker people — including makertainment people — almost always have scarred hands or bandaged fingers. Not only do they commonly have these new or old injuries, they have them *on camera,* which is even more disquieting. *It’s not a matter of mere carelessness, it’s more a statistical matter of some slight risk […]