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In March, I sent a handmade 32 page zine to somewhere in America and haven't heard of its whereabouts since. If you should happen to come across the original, please be careful and recycle as mail art. Otherwise, the digital scan has been released, which you find here:
https://ristoid.itch.io/insert-title-here
Encore un nouvel zine, cette fois-ci crée en un seul exemplaire et envoyé quelque part dans les Ameriques du nord. J'ai aucune idée où est arrivé ce zine, mais si tu l'attrapes, prends soin. Recycler comme art postal.
AI update
I've been quiet on gemini for a while, for a variety of reasons. In December last year I submitted an article on AI to Artstyle, and now in March it got published. With the rapid development in the field, a few months should be enough to make some finer points obsolete. Briefly, I'm criticising generative AI for its negative impact on the environment, as well as on society and individuals. You find it at either of these links:
https://ristoid.substack.com/p/wasteful-computation
https://zenodo.org/records/18875854
Possibly I'm underestimating the existential risks of which some AI experts desperately try to raise alarm. But I also suspect that some of these worried experts are too myopic in their focus on AI. Data centres may run into bottlenecks of energy and material access. Has anyone noticed that the toll booth in the Strait of Hormuz is about to cause a shortage of helium, which is used in the production of microchips? (That particular geopolitical crisis, I believe, threatens to disrupt the world economy and food production in particular, in ways that will dwarf whatever short-term disadvantages AI and big data centre businesses have.) Are they aware of the bizarre financing model of AI companies investing mutually in each other with unrealistic profic expectations?
Meanwhile, the nuclear threat is urgent in this tense moment, acerbated by no longer operational treatises that won't be renewed and perverse incentives for non-nuclear nations to acquire nuclear weapons. Various ecological crises add to the bleak picture. Big AI accelerates most of these problems more than it creates any solutions.
On the smolweb I just joined a webring against AI, one that turns out to be pretty well populated. No wonder that many are already fed up.