The Economist cover: Xi looking at Trump - NEVER INTERRUPT YOUR ENEMY WHENHE'S MAKING A MISTAKE

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AI Coding Tools in a Sandbox: Why Your File System Needs Protection | Dirk Holtwick AI coding tools like Claude Code or Copilot have full access to your file system. bx protects everything except the current project directory with a single command.

Are you reluctant—and rightly so!—to use AI programming on a Mac? I found following: holtwick.de/en/blog/bx-s...

GitHub - holtwick/bx-mac: Launch apps in a macOS sandbox — only the project directory is accessible Launch apps in a macOS sandbox — only the project directory is accessible - holtwick/bx-mac

No more AI yolo on your Mac! 🛡️
AI tools like Claude Code can read, write and delete any file your user can access. bx-mac gives you a native macOS sandbox to restrict any command to just the folders it actually needs.
github.com/holtwick/bx-mac
#macOS #opensource #security #AI #Apple #mac #privacy

I mean the less funny thing to consider is that the reason Sora got discontinued so shortly after OpenAI signed a military contract is that those GPUs are gonna be busy

What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government The long read: Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people

The article depicts DOGE as an experiment applying tech & gaming methods to governance. The result: a blurred line between public administration and digital siege. 🎮🏛️ #DOGE www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

39. gemeinsame Weltungtergangsverbesserung Ich bin in Hongkong und glaube, dass ich den Rachefeldzug der Männer zur Verteidigung "westlicher Werte" nicht überleben werde.

In Deutschland landet mein neuer Newsletter heute so früh, weil es bei mir schon so spät ist. Hier auf der anderen Seite der Welt fahre ich Fahrstuhl mit dem Amoklauf der westlichen Männlichkeit.

"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off AI Killed My Job: Educators.

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse.

The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

Archive of Archives A curated archive of digital projects, resources, and references.

Cool AF: a design archive of design archives, ℅ creative director/artist David Sizemore. Get lost in space exploration logos, chrome lettering, comix, flyers, matchbox art, more!

archiveofarchives.com#design #art #DesignArchives #archives

Diane Arbus, Portraits/Selfportraits.

(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm #Web37

Steven Shapin · Heart, Head, Life, Fate: Talk to the hand The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something...

‘Alison Bashford’s story is, on the one hand, just about a bit of the human body and, on the other, about the changing, contested and consequential practices through which we have sought to know ourselves and others.’

Steven Shapin on a new survey of the hand.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Photo of a narrow street blocked by a huge wall of stacked oil barrels

Christo & Jeanne-Claude, "Wall of Oil Barrels—The Iron Curtain" (1961–62), an installation of stacked oil barrels that completely blocked the historic rue Visconti, one of the narrowest streets in Paris, and slowed traffic through the city's Left Bank

Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Reality Properties: Fake Estates” (1973) Starting in the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark purchased fifteen lots in the city of New York, fourteen in Queens and one in Staten Island. The specificity of these plots is to be tiny resi...

Do you by any chance know about Gordon Matta-Clark's "Fake Estates" artworks? They were tiny, often inaccessible plots of land he purchased in the 1970s, publicly auctioned by the city of New York for a price ranging between $25 & $75 each. More info here: socks-studio.com/2014/10/22/g...

Developing an application using Claude Code / Codex.

Propellant. — ethanmarcotte.com We cannot separate the everyday use of “AI” platforms from their use in death and war.

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We cannot meaningfully separate everyday usage of “AI” from the machine of death and war. If you’re upset by the military-industrial complex? These tools feed it; they *are* it.

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...

Against Claude’s advice, by the way

Opinion | Germany Needs to Get Its Act Together. Under Him, It Won’t. (Published 2025)

ganz falsch lag ich vor 1 jahr nicht

‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became

This Is Real Life is at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton until 9 May. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Nach Tod von Khamenei: "Mit Eliminierung einer Person ist es nicht getan" Die Journalistin und Autorin Solmaz Khorsand sprach in der ZiB2 über mögliche Proteste im Iran, einen Regimewechsel und Reza Pahlavi.

Sehr gutes Interview mit der Journalistin @solmazkhorsand.bsky.social mit einer sachlichen, nüchternen Einschätzung der Lage im Iran.

kurier.at/politik/ausl...

Black-and-white photo of several people unrolling Picasso’s massive Guernica on a gallery floor, its dramatic, fractured figures spreading across the canvas inside a vast, empty hall.

Morning call, time to wake up. We’re already at war.

War is Peace

'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.

These thermal images of dozens of unauthorised mobile gas turbines powering an X-AI data centre in Mississippi really triggered me — there's something about the aesthetics that feels like a death cult. floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

Great portrait

This shot feels incredibly direct to me.

AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they ...

Pair of articles on slop developments on YouTube. Report from Kapwing about the most popular slop channels by country, and a finding of 33% of a new account's feed being brainrot (though it doesn't look like they replicated it). Bonus @eryk.bsky.social quote. www.kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop...

Live aus der Staatsoper Hamburg: Olga Neuwirth - "Monster’s Paradise" Live in Hamburg: Olga Neuwirth präsentiert ihre neue Oper "Monster’s Paradise" - eine Uraufführung an der Staatsoper.

New opera by Olga Neuwirth and Nobel Prize winner (!) Elfriede Jelinek (libretto) -> two female vampires travel around the world and observe the decline of humanity. Political grotesque as contemporary Grand Guignol. “Monster's Paradise” (audio only)

www.ndr.de/kultur/sendu...

The ‘Gigantic, Fecal Baby’ Inside Every Populist Ruler

The ‘Gigantic, Fecal Baby’ Inside Every Populist Ruler

Olga Neuwirth’s new opera, “Monster’s Paradise,” leans into the absurd to examine the phenomenon of the strongman leader (with added zombies). -> Germany, Hamburg State Opera

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/a...

Dorothea Lange

oh shit we got hennepin hannah