4 More Essential Tips for Using the Wayback Machine - GIJN
ProPublica’s Craig Silverman explains how to bulk archive pages, compare changes, and see when elements of a page were archived. The previous edition of Digital Investigations offered advice for getting the most out of the Wayback Machine. Now I’m back with even more tips, thanks to an interview with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine. He pointed to a few features I forgot to mention along with one I wasn’t aware of. We also talked about the challenge of archiving social media content. h/t @researchbuzz
Max is an infinitely flexible space to create your own interactive software. Each object does something. Max has objects that generate sound waves, represent hardware, or provide a UI for interaction. Patchcords connect one object to another. This connection lets objects share their output with connected objects. Connect UI objects like dials and sliders to provide control values or display results. Modulate, map and scale data to get just the right results.
Magazine Art: Advertising Art in Magazines : Internet Archive
Famous artists, when they weren't painting the covers for the magazines, paid their bills by doing art for advertisers. Some of the things they did can stand up with the best of their covers, and much of it is fascinating today for what it tells us about life and popular culture of the past. This is a small door that opens up into a very large cathedral of art. Over 2800 items available all in the public domain.
If there can be a CatGPT https://catgpt.wvd.io/ and many other copies thereof, why not a DogGPT to artificially render dog talk responses to all your questions? The fascination may wear off quickly with a smile, but isnt the internet made for silly stuff?
by Eryk Salvaggio Critical Topics: AI Images was an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It was an overview of the emerging contexts of AI art making tools that connected media studies and histories of new media art, with data ethics and critical data studies. Through this multidisciplinary lens, we examined current events and debates in AI and generative art, with students thinking critically about these tools as they learned to use them. They were encouraged to make work that reflected the context and longer history of these tools. As a final project, students collected 500-1000 of their own images, cleaning them to create a unique, personalized dataset. Then, using RunwayML, they extended StyleGAN2’s training data with their datasets to create a custom generative model. Along the way, we discussed the politics of image assembly and archives, the human labor of datasets and content moderation, and more. The course included interviews with AI artists from a variety of perspectives. Students responded to each with short essays highlighting the diversity of thoughts and opinions about what AI art means, how it is made, and the ethics that surround it. This website collects all of the asynchronous video lectures, alongside works referenced in the lectures. Guest lectures and artist talks are also archived, with permission.
Updates on the intersection of ML and open. "open" is a shortcut; a single word that sometimes refers to a mix of values, rules, and techniques. Like any cognitive shortcut, sometimes this aids efficiency by allowing people with slightly different rules and values to simply use "open" and get close enough to move forward together; at other times it creates friction when various similar-but-not-identical definitions create misunderstanding and even anger. I believe ML is likely to launch a third(ish) wave of open(ish), characterized by different economics, different development cycles, different communities of practice, and very different social impact from previous cycles. During this wave, the term "open" will be defined anew for—and by—a fresh influx of people; hopefully learning both from past lessons and from new contexts. Because the term is in flux, I do not want to waste my short life arguing over rigid rules, and this newsletter will try very hard not to gatekeep over "open". Instead, I want to focus on the values—both the broad social and economic values that make open important, and the very personal ones that have kept me eager to engage in liberatory software. This essay is a work-in-progress. One of my goals of writing the newsletter is to help sharpen my own intuitions on these hard issues in this new space, so I will likely return to and revise this on a semi-regular basis.
GitHub - EbookFoundation/free-programming-books: Freely available programming books
This list was originally a clone of StackOverflow - List of Freely Available Programming Books with contributions from Karan Bhangui and George Stocker. The list was moved to GitHub by Victor Felder for collaborative updating and maintenance. It has grown to become one of GitHub's most popular repositories, with 271,000+ stars, about 9,700 watchers, more than 8,300 commits, 2,400+ contributors, and 54,000+ forks. The Free Ebook Foundation now administers the repo, a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting the creation, distribution, archiving, and sustainability of free ebooks.
Midjourney at the College Level: Visual Representations Created by Artificial Intelligence - Eductive
Do you know Midjourney? This tool uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create images from the user’s written prompts. Since I discovered Midjourney, I have fallen into an abyss: I am constantly exploring the tool and playing with its different possibilities. I have been thinking about the various ways it could be used at the college level.
MoodleBox is a standalone small and cheap mobile device working without Internet. It combines a wireless access point with a full featured Moodle server. MoodleBox creates a Wi-Fi network Turn on MoodleBox to create a wireless local area network and enable learners to connect to it using their own devices to retrieve documents, collaborate in real time and take complete training courses using Moodle. Connect the box to the Internet via a wired network (Ethernet) and in addition give learners access to the Internet. MoodleBox is built around a mini-computer Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, 3A+, 3B, 3B+, 4B or 400 and the Moodle learning environment, the most used open source LMS in the world.
Stop searching for the song you need. Create it. Royalty-free music, AI generated for you. SOUNDRAW is an innovative composition tool for creators. Create songs that match your content perfectly in minutes and with no music composition knowledge!
Tracery is a JavaScript library, by GalaxyKate, that uses grammars to generate surprising new text. It's already been used to generate text in several released games and projects, but we're still discovering what it's for! Tracery is still a work in progress, and we hope to soon have a code-free, hosted online version, but this tutorial will help you get Tracery working with an existing Javascript project. This is an interactive tutorial that will teach you the basics of Tracery syntax. For a real project, you'd import the library, create a grammar, and then create new text with mygrammar.flatten('someRule'), with detailed instructions at the GitHub repo.
This project is a simulation of thousands of particles that reproduce gravity to simulate galaxies. It uses ThreeJS for 3D rendering and shaders to calculate the movement of particles in real-time.
Transcribe your Podcast with accurate speaker diarisation, for free, with Whisper
Thanks to AI, automatic transcription has become affordable and accurate. But getting a reliable speaker diarisation is not easy… until you use Mufidiwiwhi!
Archive.today is a time capsule for web pages! It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears. It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page including those from Web 2.0 sites h/t https://social.fossdle.org/@stevefoerster
The average website emits 2,112 kg CO2 a year.1 BACKSPACE measures your website's emissions and helps reduce them, making your website greener, faster & better for your visitors.
fediverse.space is a tool to visualize networks and communities on the fediverse. It works by crawling every instance it can find and aggregating statistics on communication between these.
Experiment, imagine, and make an infinite range of creations with Firefly, a family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products. Adobe is committed to developing creative generative AI responsibly, with creators at the center. Our mission is to give creators every advantage — not just creatively, but practically. As Firefly evolves, we will continue to work closely with the creative community to build technology that supports and improves the creative process. Learn more about Adobe’s approach to generative AI.
Hathi Trust 1927 Public Domain: Interactive Icicle Chart
This icicle chart shows 58,000 1927 published works found in Hathi Trust that they indicate will enter the public domain in January 2023. It's organized by their Library of Congress Classification. Click to view the nested topics in the hierarchy that flow left to right. When you select a topic it will load a list of those specific titles in a table below the visualization. h/t via @sleslie@mastodon.social
Glaze is a tool to help artists to prevent their artistic styles from being learned and mimicked by new AI-art models such as MidJourney, Stable Diffusion and their variants. It is a collaboration between the University of Chicago SAND Lab and members of the professional artist community, most notably Karla Ortiz. Glaze has been evaluated via a user study involving over 1,100 professional artists. At a high level, here's how Glaze works: Suppose we want to protect artist Karla Ortiz's artwork in her online portfolio from being taken by AI companies and used to train models that can imitate Karla's style. Our tool adds very small changes to Karla's original artwork before it is posted online. These changes are barely visible to the human eye, meaning that the artwork still appears nearly identical to the original, while still preventing AI models from copying Karla's style. We refer to these added changes as a "style cloak" and changed artwork as "cloaked artwork."
radio free fedi - sounds from the fediverse to the universe
This is small web, consent driven, artist populated, non-commercial mechanism, attribution promoting, community radio for the fediverse. As with everything your mileage may vary but let's try this out and hope we can discover some of the awesome talents that are on the fediverse. h/t again to @grantpotter who finds ~90% of my cool stuff
muffinlabs - feedsin.space -- RSS feeds on the fediverse
Introducing feedsin.space, a service for generating Fediverse accounts that post content from RSS feeds. Something that I've learned over the years of running botsin.space is that a lot of people want to be able to publish RSS feeds to Mastodon. A few months ago, I decided to implement a service to run alongside botsin.space that people could use to setup accounts for RSS feeds, but without needing to go through the work of setting up a full Mastodon account on botsin.space.
Make your own vinyl records! PO-80 record factory is a compact and portable record cutter, made in collaboration with yuri suzuki. Engrave and playback 5" discs with ultra-analog lo-fi sound - simply plug in any audio device to the 3.5 mm audio input and cut your own record in an instant. yep, it's really that simple. And you get to build it yourself
Up-to-date and curated list of Mastodon-related stuff! Forked from tleb/awesome-mastodon because that was no longer being updated. Mastodon is the world’s largest free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network. See the Official category to learn more about the network.
Welcome to GreatOpeningLines.com, history’s first website devoted exclusively to the celebration of great opening lines in world literature. Even though the site is still in its infancy (it was officially “launched” on Jan. 1, 2022), it is already the world's largest online database of literary history’s greatest opening words, with 1828 current entries. If you’re a writer or aspiring writer, an avid reader, an English teacher or creative writing instructor, a reference librarian, an editor, or simply a First Words junkie, think of this as your "Go-To" site on the subject. In addition to learning more than you now know about your current personal favorites, this site will introduce you to thousands of future favorites you might never have known about in any other way. Be careful, though, as you begin to peruse the twenty-five “genres” below. Robert McCrum, the legendary British editor of four separate Nobel Prize laureates has warned that this "brilliant and fascinating literary site...will soon become every freelance writer's guilty pleasure."
Free online word cloud generator and tag cloud creator - WordClouds.com
Wordclouds.com is a free online word cloud generator and tag cloud creator. Wordclouds.com works on your PC, Tablet or smartphone. Paste text, upload a document or open an URL to automatically generate a word- or tag cloud. Or enter individual words manually in the word list. Pick a shape, select colors and fonts and choose how to draw the words. Wordclouds.com can also generate clickable word clouds with links (image map). When you are satisfied with the result, save the image and share it online. h/t to Kristina H https://cloudisland.nz/@anitsirk/109867777407215769
