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I'm writing a letter after more than two months. Mainly because too much work happened, all wrapped and surrounded by hideous heatwaves and longing for rain. This album makes for a great reminder of that atmosphere: small field recording performances by Kate Carr in parks near her home
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It is very to ultra hot when I put together this letter. About how more and more people do not bother to write themselves and likely not even read. An eternal problem, I guess, but with a little help from our AI friends, it has reached critical mass. The situation:
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Turning the internet into a living, shared space: we were online is an online multiplayer world: part game, artwork, and tool that turns the existing Internet into a living, shared world, actively shaped by its inhabitants | https://wewere.online/
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Out of K Wata's debut album Give U Space. Dubwise, dark and detailed. Both for basement and sofa. Perfect for the scene in autumn of 1992, because it "(...) unfolds slowly and fluidly, giving the listener the chance to access and open up to the deepness of the
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Hope you are well, my dear reader. This letter is based on notes recorded and pictures taken during a bicycle journey from the Italian mountain town of Tarvisio to the seaside city of Rovinj, Croatia. As usual, the letter is connected to one sentence of the Mirage Mir story, this
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A letter on robotic librarians, knitting your own yoghurt and embracing whimsy . . . The topics I like to write about here just got a new chapter & push: courtesy of Andrej Karpathy. His new idea moves the conversation about cognitive surrender, the importance of human mental effort and practice, the design
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By the end of March, I promised myself to write and publish the next chapter of the Mirage Mir story. So I went to the best kind of office I have known in recent years: a route along a river that I can ride by bike, alone, while working on
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‘Border as Interface’ is a video by Petra Szemán, an artist focusing on the borderlands of real and fictional, and the kind of lives and experiences that are possible there | interesting exploration of emotions and concepts around digital, linguistic, cultural and infrastructural interfaces | more details here | or play a game
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Recommended for "(...) sitting behind the desk and writing, in eerie calm, detached from the urgencies of the everyday, accessing the forces which govern mundane reality but which are ordinarily obscured."
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I embed my real-world inspirations into an invented (constructed) world, and that way I remember them better. Books, ideas, events & experiences, people, etc... At the same time, this invented alternate reality helps me model and think about ideal learning systems and tools for thought. Yeah, that’s what
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It feels mostly awful to go online these days + AI is getting better and scarier. But I'm optimistic. Everywhere I look I can see people joining a movement protecting and choosing human made art and experiences. Re-emerging weird and authentic. Or using AI to do personal projects
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Hello and welcome. Mirage Mir /mɪˈrɑːʒ mɪər/ is an experimental publishing project. It is centered around a book, supported by newsletters and a growing library of notes = you can move through in different ways and speeds: * read The book: currently ~16,000 words, * subscribe to The newsletter: an email you’