Oh you like: resilient decentralized networks
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finally, even if you're using LLMs chatbot to ask them to explain something and not do it, i think it's sad. search, searching is good practice, develop your own mental tools for understanding. even if it is "so slow" you'll get so rich from it.
in your quest, you'll end up on wikipedia rabbit hole and maybe one day starts editing a page? you'll find bad tutorial and ask yourself why they're bad and how you would explain it better. you'll develop a critical point of view in how knowledge is given to you, you'll start asking by who and for what reason? you'll take a sheet of paper and make some drawing to explain it to yourself and it will become a tool you'll often use until you need less and less paper to figure out things. you'll end up discovering niche blogs with some cool comments and start following the person who wrote that on social media and a few years later meet them and work with them. maybe you'll buy a book on the topic and that book contains wonderfull illustrations that will inspire you more than what you where trying to learn in the first place. you'll annotate the book and give it to a friend. they will give it back to you 10 years later.
So whenever you use AI, also think about what else you're NOT doing, in the meantime i'll romanticize the fuck out of practicing.
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i have conversations about students who rely on AI to make projects. they get things done sure, but they don't practice. they don't explore the materials or their own sensibilities. and it shows.
when they have to present a project in front of the classroom they often struggle to say anything about it, they're not confident. confidence is rooted in practice.
i don't know if it is a cliché but are younger generations going to be less confident? is AI going to give them big imposter syndromes for the rest of their lifes because they just learned how to output stuffs.
maybe they feel AI is doing a great job when the goal is to "get things done". but at some point in your life it is ok to have higher expectations: to know yourself - where you fail and where you're good, to develop an instinct for meaningfullness, to build through complexe balances of sensibilities and collaborations. you need to practice for that: to learn, to search, to be patient, to look into yourself, to look into the vastness of the world and not into a single grey interface.
i don't want students to "restraint" from using AI because it's morally "wrong". I want students to practice because it's like acquiring super powers. to learn things so cool that those who just use AI envy them for their intricate craft and conceptual eloquence.
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i'm just going to drop that here but since i'm getting haunted by conversation about AI on all side professionnals and intimates, i'd like to adress something too few people seems to care about.
we always speak about AI in pros/cons, the addict will say how it's fast, surprising, opening possibilities, and the wise will say how it's stolen data, computationnally intensive, corporations owned, etc.
but to me it's also about everything you DON'T do while you use AI. it's just like people loose their spatial feeling of a city because they always use google maps. it's creating generative numbness and dessensitivations.
even if an AI was the most pure "ethical" thing, open-source, people-owned, self-trained, well i don't want it to write my emails. even though it's doing it "well". it matters to me to write my email. yes slower, but to devellop an intricate knowledge on how to handle written conversations, to think about the words i use, to reflect on what i wanna say to someone and change my mind in the middle of it, to open one i wrote 2 years ago and realise how much i changed, to have a vivid memory of a random expression i used and use it back somewhere else. this is practice. i wanna practice stuff, not just getting them done.
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intensively addicted to this DÆMON song
https://intelligentmodels.bandcamp.com/track/in-app-purchases
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also, if you're bruxelles based and have been lurking over https://declarations.style research and are curious to learn more, on the 25th of February between 15h and 17h i'll be giving a presentation of the research at ERG (86 Rue de Page), in the context of the first year students "digital culture" class, feel free to join
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my heart is full of love for everything that happened this year and :before and :after, through https://declarations.style artistic research.
travelling through collective spaces to share and unfold web folkloric knowledge and weirdly shaped tools, infusing digital spaces with intimacy, attitude, personnality, and strong situated intentions.
gatering a multitude of stories of our inevitable shared boundaries with the web through its thin frontend, and giving spaces for conversation that don't revolve around (tech bros' typical) algoritmic complexities or novelty as solution discourses but around human sensibilities and self-initiated declarativeness.
i am immensely gratefull to see not only a fruitful research but a slowly building network of friends, crafts and divergent practices crossing paths over our ever-evolving language-technology relations.
thank you with all my heart so far to
@ccllaarraa @vinciane @simoon @karl @raphael @manetta @kazc @mk sohyeon lee, @clemtre gijs de heij, imane benyecif, natalia pageau, @ezn @bodypoetic, kim kleinert, polina lobanova, @chalinebang, @marieverdeil, lara dautun, @cudlak,
@blipblub @elliott
but also the collectivities hackers and designers,
@constant, open source publishing, @xpub, @offline
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i never posted a transition timeline pic but with the current political climate i think it's important to say how beautiful it is to be trans.
transitionning was the best thing that happened to me ever. i don't know if i was born trans but i remember having transness as an inner energy (invisible to the eyes of a cis person). An energy is not enough, i also made it happen: this requires courage, try and error, hope, commitment, anger, letting go, acceptance, and resilience. i know that going through all of that shaped me, as much as my my inner transness directed all those steps.
it's impossible for me to put in words the beauty of transness, but there is this quote by my friend oscar "i was made to see change as constant".
There is also those two "through transition i make myself, in painful awareness this is not a thing i am supposed to do", and "to be trans, one must accept the triumphant irruption of another future in oneself".
trans young people are more likely to call suicide hotlines right now. protect your trans peers. show them that they are worthy of love through specific actions. show them that they belong to their gender, no different from cis people. do this even more if you don't understand what they're going through. be patient and attentive, these are processes that take years and years.
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lately ive been listening a lot to TCF (aka larsholdhus) and it's making me soo emotional.
i used to listen to everything on his soundcloud around ~2014 and since then nearly everything has dissapeared which only add to the cryptic lore of the TCF project hehe. here's a beautiful album that remains on bandcamp https://tcfxyz.bandcamp.com/track/hgpei01saztlzwlmfg1r-immo0dfs8s19w5huslod9s
if you like crunchy digital melodic ambient some of his music is still available on other people's computer through soulseek or nicotine+ client :)))
i've some mp3 on my computer ripped from soundcloud which doesn't seems to be tracked in last.fm or discogs, or any other music database, but seems to have spread a bit amongst other p2p users.
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ive always had a crush the the SNCB (belgian trains) printed schedule, but then i saw they seems to have some overflow / padding / flex issues. i started thinking if those could actually be HTML/CSS and maybe (?), at least they have a strong web material feeling with those border and border-radius simplicity, and since they must be different for every stations, generating a pdf from the browser would allow them to automatize the template by directly linking it to their train API, so maybe SNCB actually needs some CSS mechanical help 🔩💅
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wish you all lot of transformative energy, hope & dreams
(html version on my website https://ungual.digital homepage)
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https://declarations.style/declarations-pen-pals-varia.html
Dear CSS writers, web-artisans and declarative artists,
Declarations is organising its first meetup at @varia in Rotterdam, on the 6th and 7th of December.
For that occasion we decided to focus two days on writing CSS inside emails!
Through non-linear cascading email conversation exercises, we'll questions ourselves on mode of address, low-tech & high-tech dichotomy, nostalgia-induced technology, spam, newsletters and forms of forwarded declarations.
Don't forget to send an email to Varia to register.
Please share and boost this post and let it drifts into distant networks.
💌 Declaratively, Yours
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The 6th and 7th of september the Website Fabulations workshop will take place at Constant, Bruxelles.
We'll explore browser extensions as a way of taking agency on already designed websites.
The workshop is part of an artistic research called Declarations where we research what it means that the web is designed through language.
Inspired by the notion of tactical design, we remix the web as a user-hacker through story telling, commenting, improving accessibilities, transforming websites into a poetic medium.
We create cross-websites fictions by applying new cascading stylesheets (CSS) simultaneously to every websites at once, or crafting your own intimate browser extension.
If you are interested to join, contact: imane@constantvzw.org. An indepth knowledge of CSS or coding is not required for this workshop, as we will provide basic ressources to play with and inspiring conversations.
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kind of the same vibe than taking a friend's language habits after hanging out a lot with them
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you know wath is really digital memetism coded? instead of looking up for an emoji in the emoji pop-up window, copy pasting it from another conversation because someone else sended it to me.
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