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notational: Today is Taeyoon Choi ’s Birthday. After following his work for years I finally met him, saw him present, and participated in his short work at the Eyeo festival earlier this Summer. ( I’d love to do a longer one, like a session at the School for Poetic Computation.) I was taken aback by…
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A new magazine announced by Hugo Gernsback
brucesterling: Amazing Stories, vol. 1, no. 1, April 1926 Another Fiction Magazine! At first thought it does seem impossible that there could be room for another fiction magazine in this country. The reader may well wonder, “Aren’t there enough already, with the several hundreds now being published?” True.1 But this is not “another fiction magazine,”…
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Days before elections, the official in charge of Kenya’s voting machines has been tortured and murdered
mostlysignssomeportents: Chris Msando is the Kenyan electoral commission IT manager who oversaw the country’s computerized voting systems; now, just days before a hotly contested election, his body has been found in the Kikuyu area in Nairobi’s outskirts, and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission says he was tortured and murdered. Previous Kenyan elections were plagued…
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How to Make a Movie Out of Anything — Even a Mindless Phone Game
How to Make a Movie Out of Anything — Even a Mindless Phone Game kenyatta: This trend toward I.P.-based movies has been profound. In 1996, of the top 20 grossing films, nine were live-action movies based on wholly original screenplays. In 2016, just one of the top 20 grossing movies, ‘‘La La Land,’’ fit that…