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Federico Tobon’s Handcrafted Password Generator

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Design
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Federico Tobon is one of my favorite artist-makers. He was a guest on episode 8 of the Opposable Thumbs podcast, a show which issues a creative challenge for their guests to complete. Federico had to tackle the topic of “crafting security.” His response was to make this beautiful wooden object that, when manipulated, generates strong, multilingual passwords. Federico’s inspiration was an xlcd comic that has some excellent password security advice...

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The Question Concerning Technology: Heidegger on Tech

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Goats, Thoughtstylings
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...r considering the notion of Acedia, heaven help me, I thought I’d look at Martin Heidegger’s take via his essay, “The Question Concerning Technology.” To summarize that essay in a blog post is to miss its point by falling into the error of treating everything and everybody as some kind of means to an end that, constitutively, is a world shaped by technology. But if I were forced into giving a “takeaway” (ugh) I’d say that Herr Doktor Heidegger is...

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Fifty Shades of Gray Water

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Water and Power
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...ut of the three American experts: Brad Lancaster and Greywater Action (the artists formerly known as the Guerrilla Graywater Girls). Art Ludwig rolls with “grey water.” As for our competition to swap out the unappetizing “greywater” for a sexier new word, Root Simple reader Johnny (who has a terrific blog you should read called Granola Shotgun) suggests “H2Over” or “Rewater.” I’m going to go with “Rewater.” At least it would eliminate the grey vs....

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Escaping the AI Vampire Castle

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Thoughtstylings
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...t are just a kind of summary of the most uninteresting “illustration” type artwork. Not surprising as this kind of boring art is likely the majority of the visual content of the internet. I especially hate that moment when you spot it and have to spend precious brain time discerning if its AI or not. AI reminds me of the vampires and daemons joked about by both Marx and St. Paul. As Zizek puts it, A dead person loses the predicates of a living bei...

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