Edition-146 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About project HOME, a school for culturemakers, and some of the origins of the Extinction Rebellion: https://dark-mountain.net/after-we-stop-pretending/ Joi Ito (Director MIT Media Lab) says we should challenge the cult of Singularity. AI won’t… Read more

Edition-145 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About  the connections between infrastructure and code, state surveillance and corporate power, social prejudice and algorithmic bias, and the environment and computation, by @jamesbridle: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/16/new-ways-of-seeing-john-berger-digital-age-decode-radio-4 About a 29 minutes breathtaking video Timelapse of… Read more

Edition-144 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About moving into a “designer reality.” Cool mash-up song feat by Douglas Rushkoff & R.U. Sirius: https://youtu.be/V4pvIcFIm1k About poetic computation, a coder’s form of artwork: http://poeticcomputation.info/chapters/ch.1/ About radical data science: a data science… Read more

Edition-143 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About the difference of three kinds of designers out there today: classical designers, design thinkers, and computational designers (by @JohnMaeda): https://qz.com/1585165/john-maeda-on-the-importance-of-computational-design/ About “The New Organs”, a project to gather, archive and investigate the… Read more

  Edition-142 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! Bizarre video about consciousness in an AI-driven world. Alienating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpHy73N1BgE Another video, this time about dance: how did this ultimate frivolity become a human necessity? Every culture dances: https://youtu.be/FyTqEl1yKbQ Why the institutional… Read more

  Edition-141 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About smaller groups creating more innovative work than larger groups: https://eighteenthelephant.com/2019/03/14/science-small-groups-and-stochasticity/ About coders’ addiction to efficiency. There is more to life than efficiency: https://www.wired.com/story/coders-efficiency-is-beautiful/ About the evolution from an attention economy towards… Read more