Craig Mod on taking responsibility for rubbish in Japan, and a reflection on modern western culture lack of ‘adulting’. <via Kottke>
Author: Evan Menogue
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Bruce Schneier on AI mistakes vs human mistakes
AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes – Schneier on Security
Bruce presents a nice analysis on how AI mistakes are different.
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The leading AI models are now good historians
https://open.substack.com/pub/resobscura/p/the-leading-ai-models-are-now-very
Benjamin Breen reviews OpenAI and Claude for historical analysis at a higher-education level and finds they do a pretty good job!
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Digitising analogue video tapes
Chris Person describes the process and tools used to digitise analogue video tapes, and the problems with encoding noise in low-bit rates.
Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants – kottke.org
Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants [1996] – RF Rip : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Includes recipes for Vapoursynth and QTGMS for de-interlacing.
The Person Saving The Media You Love Is You – Aftermath
Jason Scott (@textfiles.com) — Bluesky
Domesday duplicator – RF sampler capture for analogue digitisation
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Gregory Bateson – Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Why Gregory Bateson Matters – by Ted Gioia
Once married to Margaet Mead — any relevance to MFA archive?