Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jaranta@scholar.social

I don't know who needs to hear this advice today, but you're welcome.

Do not buy NFT made with my art.
Do not make NFT with my Creative-Commons artworks.
If you respect my art, remember and apply this.

Here is my article about what just happened: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article864/dream-cats-nfts-don-t-buy-them

#NFT #NFTCommunity

She could easily
kill him, but decides not to
do it in the end

the delicious irony: creators of industrial language models are now worried about no longer being able to use the web as their "commons" (i.e. other people's labor that they appropriate and commercialize) because their own outputs are "polluting" it (via https://mailchi.mp/jack-clark/import-ai-266-deepmind-looks-at-toxic-language-models-how-translation-systems-can-pollute-the-internet-why-ai-can-make-local-councils-better)

"This game I and all my players are trapped inside is a poignant, trenchant metaphor for humanity writhing under late capitalism's iron boot of structurally incentivised mutual antagonism and violence", says Enlightened Modern Videogame Protagonist, "and therefore as a revolutionary act of noncompliance I intend to break this dark cycle once and for all by (checks notes) upgrading my gear until I can kill eight minibosses within a single loop."

"The lifespan of bitcoin mining devices remains limited to just 1.29 years. As a result, we estimate that the whole bitcoin network currently cycles through 30.7 metric kilotons of equipment per year." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/17/waste-from-one-bitcoin-transaction-like-binning-two-iphones

From what I can tell,
this site is reliable,
but I'm not quite sure

Blog post: "On leaving Gemini: a friendly farewell"
https://cadadr.dreamwidth.org/4123.html

#blog #gemini

*reading a joke about learning mandarin now before it's compulsory*

yeah, i know the feeling, i learned english before it was compulsory. my kids couldn't do it voluntarily any more.

Yeah, Linux is difficult to use.

But Windows is impossible, so Linux still wins out.

What happens when coinbros buy a ship to build a libertarian utopia?

If you ever wondered that, well, here's your answer:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voyage-satoshi-cryptocurrency-cruise-ship-seassteading

Spoiler warning: it didn't work out.

This is awesome. Write about a forgotten game.
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RT @_KRITIQAL
Through the month of September, KRITIQAL is hosting the forgotten games essay jam. If you have been looking for a chance to write about that game nobody else seems to remember, maybe now's the time.

All the details on the itch jam page: https://itch.io/jam/forgotten-games-essay-jam
https://twitter.com/_KRITIQAL/status/1429564485363240969

Poetry, videogames and the phenomenological tensions between them... Says a poet and academic:

http://gamestudies.org/2102/articles/jon_stone

#poetry #videogames #academics