Victor Loux — bookmarks

Rather than humanoid bots, we should design mechanomorphs: bots that can create a different set of expectations around how we converse with them. If we make bots more machine-like, our conversations with them can have new boundaries, creating a new space less fraught with pre-existing social norms.

Refusal as Research Method in Discard Studies « Discard Studies

discardstudies.com/2016/03/21/refusal-as-research-method-in-discard-studies/

Ethnographic refusal is a practice by which researchers and research participants together decide not to make particular information available for use within the academy. Its purpose is not to bury information, but to ensure that communities are able to respond to issues on their own terms.

Barriers to Entry - Ruth Baril - CascadiaJS 2014

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Finding the Right Color Palettes for Data Visualizations — Graphiq Engineering — Medium

medium.com/graphiq-engineering/finding-the-right-color-palettes-for-data-visualizations-fcd4e707a283

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? - Edu News | NASA/JPL Edu

jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/

Test Pressing / A GOOD GOOD FEELING!

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Substance

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OpenFoundry / Hot 30

open-foundry.com/hot30

A new platform for open-source fonts in a noise-free environment, to highlight their beauty, extend functionality and encourage further exploration.

DADABOT. The role of algorithms in cultural production – We Make Money Not Art

we-make-money-not-art.com/dadabot-the-role-of-algorithms-in-cultural-production/

Comment l’obsession sécuritaire fait muter la démocratie, par Giorgio Agamben (Le Monde diplomatique, janvier 2014)

monde-diplomatique.fr/2014/01/AGAMBEN/49997

La formule « pour raisons de sécurité » (« for security reasons », « per ragioni di sicurezza ») fonctionne comme un argument d’autorité qui, coupant court à toute discussion, permet d’imposer des perspectives et des mesures que l’on n’accepterait pas sans cela. Il faut lui opposer l’analyse d’un concept d’apparence anodine, mais qui semble avoir supplanté toute autre notion politique : la sécurité. NB: see also website for relevant footnotes appearing on scroll

Conférence « La véridique histoire de l'arobase » par Marc Smith - YouTube

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Marc Smith, professeur de paléographie à l'École nationale des chartes, a donné une conférence, le mardi 29 janvier dernier, intitulée « La véridique histoir...