GOOD INTERNET

THIS IS GOOD INTERNET.

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We’re right on track to break the Paris Agreement very, very soon: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/15c-when

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In which i read a lot: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/booksbooksbooks-052024

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On "locked in" climate change damages, who's gonna pay them, and the criminalization of climate activists: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/38000000000000

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In which i read a lot: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/booksbooksbooks-042024

Tiny reviews for Three Body Problem, The Future, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Termination Shock, three Reacher-novels and many more.

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Lies, damn lies, and Big Oil https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/lies-damn-lies-and-big-oil

How Big Oil is deceiving the public and politics, while cashing in on tax money and a "free-to-pollute business model".

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All Killers No Fillers feat. Hinds, Lambrini Girls, Oneohtrix Point Never, Squarepusher, Little Simz, Deltron 3030, Burial, Sheer Mag, Norah Jones, Mk.gee, Bonnie Light Horseman and many many more. https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/good-music-022024

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On Brain Computer Interfaces, the ethics of neuro-technology and how AI-enabled super-recognizers may cange society: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/my-brain-is-your-brain-and-your-brain

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In this roundup you’ll find: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/love-is-the-strongest-meme

A study showing that bonding voles had nearly identical patterns of brain activity which means that Love is the strongest Meme

Noninvasive BCI for VR is coming fast

RIP Vice Media

American AI-Psycho I + II

February 2024 beats record of heat records

Reddit made a deal with Google for AI training data worth 60 million bucks

Googles Gemini enters the Culture Wars

Jonathan Haidt talking about the fragmentation of everything

The Dark Forest Book

3D-Printer for Chocolate

Lab-grown ‘beef rice’

Apocalyptic Optimism

AI Girlfriend Data-Harvesting Horrorshows

Tiny Quadrotor Learns to Fly in 18 Seconds

Re-Insurance profits rise 580% and this is not good

New studies on AI and Tech impact on climate and environment

Four Fab Four Biopics from Sam Mendez

Synthballs for Musk

Minidocumentaries on streetartist collective Rocco and his Brothers and Grannies travelling beyond the limits of Red Dead Redemptions virtual world

AI-Emergence Voodoo

Neue Haas Grotest in PETSCII

OpenAI disrupted state-sponsored AI-misuse

Secret Mathematical Patterns in Bach's Music

Elle Cordova and inventions hanging out

and much, much more.

Enjoy and have a nice weekend!

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On Cultural Memory formation in digital informed societies, and why there is no canon of webculture: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/cultural-memory-in-the-digital

In memory of Jan Assmann, a giant of cultural studies, who died two days ago at the age of 85.

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OpenAIs release of its video model Sora made me think about the real and the fake again.

On the the weird and the eerie of AI, which goes beyond AI-tech and hallucinations alone, and the new postfictional Digital: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/the-postfictional-eerie

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How Air Canada proposed legal personhood for AI and lost 880 canadian dollars: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/air-canada-wants-personhood-for-ai

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Thoughts on Sora, AI-cinema and models of the physical world for AGI: Sora at the Movies - Sam Altman can't play a Schnitzel yet --> https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/sora-at-the-movies

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In this roundup, you’ll find stories about and links to: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/the-populist-ai-election-playbook

Schrödingers Artworks gets dissolved in acid when Julian Assange dies in prison

Preserving Banksy is impossible

Indonesia hints at the populist AI-election playbook

Judge throws out most of Sarah Silvermans ChatGPT copyright lawsuit

AI-Corps agree to develop anti-deepfake tech, again

The weird art of Niceaunties: Where you get your nails done?

Doom on Audio-Spectrograms

TikToks algo pushes rightwing media

Shut up and eat my trendbait

Art is old and doing Nothing is hard

Warner hates Looney Tunes now

Trailers for Sasquatch Sunset, Love Lies Bleeding, The Animals Kingdom, Late Night with the Devil, all the Superbowl-trailers and many more.

J.G. Ballards favorite books

and much, much more. Enjoy!

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William Baskerville is freaking out about AI reading ancient scrolls found in a library buried under the volcanic ashes of mount vesus: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/ai-reads-ancient-scrolls

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The broken 1.5°C limit, the rapidly approaching AMOC tipping point and new research into the wide support of the public for climate action show that this is the time to demand climate action, now: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/breaking-15c

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Instagram and Threads making Politics opt-in is fine - The golden rule of Pubs comes for Socmed: “I guess activists, journalists and politicians aswell as outrage junkies have to fight their culture wars elsewhere”. https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/instagram-and-threads-making-politics

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I pay tribute to my favorite bookstore in Berlin, which closes shop this month, featuring notes on every single item i bought during my last book haul there: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/my-favorite-bookstore-closes-shop

If you like academic, historic, scientific, cool, artful, interesting and sometimes weird or bizarre books out of the leftfield, you’ll love this store and if you’re in Berlin, you can still go there. It's right next to David Bowies appartment.