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mostlysignssomeportents: Impossible Programs: a great lecture on some of computer science’s most important subjects Here’s a 40-minute video in which Tom Stuart gives a talk summarizing one of the chapters from him new book Understanding Computation, describing the halting state problem and how it relates to bugs, Turing machines, Turing completeness, computability, malware checking for various…
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hyperallergic: This month the Smithsonian Libraries Artists’ Books Collection launched an online platform that unifies artists’ books from across several Smithsonian collections. The site was announced last week, with a search that gathers over 600 titles. READ MORE
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booksfromthefuture: Superbold — Book about heavy fonts by Christoph Laurisch
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hyperallergic: Jeremy Bailey has intense, questioning blue eyes. They peer at me from banner space as I wander across the far flung reaches of the Internet, trying my very best to ignore them. In one Facebook ad, he holds a geometric sculpture in his palm, inviting me to purchase a $25 tote bag printed with the…
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Explaining his ideas to Japan Times in 2001, Ekuan said, “Design to me has always meant making people happy. Happy in the sense of creating items that provide comfort, convenience, function, aesthetics and ethics. I used to do a lot of research, fieldwork, wanting to understand the psychology of human needs and response.”
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If dishwashers were Iphones
If dishwashers were Iphones mostlysignssomeportents: My latest Guardian column is design fiction in the form of an open letter from a dishwasher company whose kitchenware marketplace and Dish Rights Management system is under fire. * The Kitchen Store and Speckless Disher are the best dishwashing experience in the world Before the…
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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective…
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I wonder if it’s possible to create an art, a business, that’s more welcoming to the talented people we lose during the grind. I wonder if we can be honest about how difficult it is while also being supportive to those who struggle, instead of telling them to suck it up. The profession we’ve chosen…
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Not all hostages or prisoners evoke the same national outcry. Not all command the same price. And not all are slated for release. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which turned kidnapping and ransom negotiations into an efficient business and took hundreds of captives, held tiers of hostages. Celebrity hostages—including politician Ingrid Betancourt, who…
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