Inside the Internet Archive: A Meat World Tour

...he building, our tour guide showed us the contraption they use to digitize books. He noted that the majority of the books they digitize are sent to the Philippines and digitized with cheaper labor. You can donate books and other materials to the Archive. They have an app that will tell you if they need a particular item and will sometimes pay for shipping. The Internet Archive is a throwback to the heady, more optimistic days of the Internet famil...

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Sorting the Digital Photos of a Digital Pandemic

...t fondling. Unlike the Matrix there’s no neat way out of the mirror house postmodernity of the eXistenZ universe. Ariadne has left no thread to escape the maze. The best you can do is to map the territory. Towards that end, instead of a photo sorting app, I’ll leave you with two book recommendations: K-punk : the collected and unpublished writings of Mark Fisher which contains the essay on eXistenZ that inspired this post (I’d recommend reading hi...

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Use Your Microwave as Dough Proofing Box

...bread baking after a pause, specifically making whole wheat breads. If you’d like to try baking yourself, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I highly recommend the Josey Baker Bread book. Why? It’s to the point, beginner friendly, has a lot of whole grain recipes, and is the book most likely to help you develop a regular bread baking habit....

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Escaping the AI Vampire Castle

...AI generated children’s stories. This is just part of a flood of scammy AI books on Amazon. The AI children’s books advertised on my Kindle combine titles that have an English-as-a-second-language vibe, vaguely Manga style cover illustrations and author names such as “Leanor Varelade” that either yield no search results or are close to the names of real people (Leonor Varela is a Chilean actress). In short these books are what you would get if you...

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Saturday Tweets: Parsley Poodle Sandwich

...https://t.co/AQdn2mRYWB — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) July 9, 2019 A new book I contributed to is out today! It’s an update to the 2006 book Vegetarian Sports Nutrition- which if you know me you know I recommended it often. Honored to have worked on this updated version. It’s PACKED with all the info you need.https://t.co/ow1PV9zdKv pic.twitter.com/XU5xwKrRUs — Matt Ruscigno (@MattRuscigno) July 12, 2019 The Pentel Graphgear 1000 Mechanical Penc...

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