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hobby electronics ish
closing some tabs and I am reminded of the existence of the Most Dangerous Hobby Project: https://www.n5dux.com/ham/files/pdf/ATV%20Transmitter%20from%20a%20Microwave%20Oven.pdf
tech ideology
I've been reading some guff about cyberspace from 1994 and it's shocking (not actually shocking) how precisely the rhetoric parallels modern web3 nonsense. you could absolutely stick this table in a white paper about your new dao and nobody would blink
(from https://web.archive.org/web/20220427161734/http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/futureinsights/fi1.2magnacarta.html)
Two really wonderful presentations at WordHack last week.
- @mewo2 on Pangur, a new visual programming language for manipulating text in real-time
- @aparrish on developing a solar-powered device to generate dawn poems
Really good inspiring stuff: https://youtu.be/IMmBEbMUKCs?t=941
@Tarim 👋
artist residency ad
any "uk-based creative practitioners" want to come and do a residency with us in bristol? you get time, money, space in a cool creative community, and help from producers and technologists (including me)
https://www.watershed.co.uk/news/open-call-watersheds-winter-residencies-programme
the online showcase for our artist residency program is starting in ten minutes! (19:30 GMT, not that you have to turn up on time or anything) https://www.watershed.co.uk/pixel/ - talks will be live from 20:00
this tuesday at 7:30pm gmt, we're running an online showcase event for the artist residency program I co-organise! it's gonna be great, the artists have done some cool stuff, and I've made a whole thing for it to live in
you can "book tickets" here: https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/10627/watershed-mayk-present-art-climate-winter-residencies-showcase/#
(this just gets you emailed a link closer to the time)
I did a newsletter for the first time in a while. will I do more? who knows? https://mewo2.substack.com/p/the-long-haul
self-promotion
I'm on youtube in fifteen minutes, talking about the history of video calls, come join me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzni5ZxLcus
self-promotion
Tomorrow at 1pm UK time, I'm talking live on YouTube about the history of video calls. Topics include Jules Verne, the postal service of the Third Reich, Jane Jetson, and how to pirate MP3s circa 2001. Join me! Ask questions!
also I am quite enamoured with the idea of a writing tool which outputs modifies copies of itself, all wrapped up in a webpage
just spent a train ride playing with domino by @candle, wrote a big ol rant about ai: https://mewo2.com/domino/fakeai/
Hey! We're running a festival/exhibition/thing in Bristol in June! Do you like art and tech, but in a ~c r i t i c a l~ way? Do you like being paid for your work? Then please submit something to our open call! https://www.control-shift.network/call/
Hey! We're running a festival/exhibition/thing in Bristol in June! Do you like art and tech, but in a ~c r i t i c a l~ way? Do you like being paid for your work? Then please submit something to our open call! https://www.control-shift.network/call/
Gonna put out my first newsletter about this time tomorrow, sign up now if you want to know what this is about
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nanogenmo
a nano-nanogenmo entry:
cat 4300-0.txt 2814-0.txt|python3 -c "import sys,re;w=set(re.split(r'[^A-Za-z\'’.\-,?\!;:]',sys.stdin.read()));l=['Once']
while w:l.append(min(w,key=lambda x:len(set(x)^set(l[-1]))));w.remove(l[-1])
print('DUBLIN WALK\nMartin O\'Leary\n\n'+' '.join(l))"
walks through joyce's ulysses and dubliners, picking words with similar spelling to the previous word
output: https://gist.github.com/mewo2/3e6ad222e516367ada96fbd8c9a1106d
(cc @nickmofo)
I'm extremely pleased to launch Run Your Own Social: How to run a small social network site for you friends.
This is a guide book to running a small, tight-knit federated social network server. It comes from my year of experience running Friend Camp. It's focused largely on SOCIAL solutions, though it does touch on the technical.
I've tried to keep it technology-neutral, and it should be a pretty easy read for anyone who's been on the fediverse for a while.
Today is the last day that you can get 25% off art from my studio! Use the code MOVING on checkout. Everything has free shipping too, so it's doubly bargainous: http://shop.mewo2.com/
I make weird tech and I do art on and off the internet. I used to be a scientist, but I don't do that so much any more.