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On artificial intelligence, murderous elephants & Elizabeth Bishop

A story about quarks and antiquarks, beauty quarks and strangelets, gluons, muons, prions, hadrons and charms.

Lose, delete, restore. What to remember when everything is always, forever, in a digital now?

Google’s rise to dominance can seem inevitable, and its power over publishers monolithic. Yet Google’s wanton disruption of publishing resembles evolution more than intelligent design. Journalists, publishers, regulators, and scholars are left grappling with our new, random god.
Googles Dominanz erscheint heute unausweichlich. Googles mutwillige Störung des Verlagswesens ähnelt eher der Evolution als intelligentem Design. Journalisten, Verleger, Regulierungsbehörden und Wissenschaftler müssen mit ihrer neuen, chaotischen Gottheit zu Recht kommen.

On multinational packaging systems, « inflated fictions of transparency », desire and fulfillment.

On orthodoxies & heresies of typography. To serif, or sans-serif?