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This is a collection of resources and thoughts on emergent technologies, ecology, philosophy, economics and ethics. => blog/gemini-faq.gmi What is Gemini? => https://chris-ernst.github.io/dozen-things-digital What do I work on? ___ # Reading ## Books * A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel) * Humankind - Solidarity with non-human people (Timothy Morton) * New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future (James Bridle) * Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (Mark Fisher, Matt Colquhoun) * The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff) * Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby) * Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Robin Wall Kimmerer) * The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A. Norman) * Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Nir Eyal) * Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth (Matthew Fuller, Eyal Weizman) * A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens (Nicolas Nova, Disnovation Org) * Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: the Search for a Planetary Intelligence (James Bridle) * Manifestly Haraway: Volume 37 (Posthumanities) (Donna J. Haraway, Cary Wolfe) * Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Donna J. Haraway) * Altered States (Sarah Shin, Ben Vickers) * Shamans and Robots (Roger Bartra) * Autopoiesis (Humberto Maturana) * All Good Things (Stephen Ellcock) * Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Norbert Wiener) * The Cybernetic Hypothesis (By Tiqqun) * The Network State: How To Start a New Country (Balaji Srinivasan) * Adversarial Design: Design Thinking, Design Theory (Carl Disalvo) * Things We Could Design: For More Than Human-Centered Worlds (Ron Wakkary) ## PDFs => https://ejcj.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1972.-Gregory-Bateson-Steps-to-an-Ecology-of-Mind.pdf Steps to an Ecology of mind (Gregory Bateson) => https://distributeddesign.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/This-Is-Distributed-Design-Book-by-Distributed-Design-Platform.pdf Distributed Design (Various) => https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf Cyborg Manifesto (Donna Haraway) ## Articles => https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/design-as-participation/release/1 Design as Participation (Kevin Slavin) => https://sts-news.medium.com/design-thinking-is-kind-of-like-syphilis-its-contagious-and-rots-your-brains-842ed078af29 Design thinking is like Syphilis (Lee Vinsel) => https://www.matthewball.vc/the-metaverse-primer Metaverse Primer (Matthew Ball) => https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-ai-is-an-ideology-not-a-technology/ AI is an Ideology, Not a Technology (Jaron Lanier) => https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/journal/between-species-animal-human-collaboration-in-contemporary-art Between species: animal-human collaboration in contemporary art (Chad Elias) => https://medium.com/wonk-bridge/pokemon-and-the-technological-organism-part-2-4b4e6c7a3aec (Luan van Pletsen) => http://foundsubjects.blogspot.com/2008/07/interview-with-victor-papanek-1988.html?m=1 Interview with Victor Papanek => https://excavating.ai Excavating AI: The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets (Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen) => https://humans-of.ai/editorial/ Humans of AI (Philipp Schmitt) ## Papers => https://www.academia.edu/42555199/Programming_Intelligence_consciousness_of_material_algorithms Programming Intelligence, consciousness of material algorithms (Thomas Vivanco) => https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303749640_Shamanism_Art_and_Digital_Culture_Cause_and_Effect Shamanism, Art and Digital Culture: Cause and Effect (Detlef Schlich) => https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9065/8/Animistic_design_how%20to%20reimagine%20digital%20interaction_UAL.pdf (Betti Marenko & Philip van Allen) => https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/thesis/Designing_with_Animism/6723284 Designing with Animism (Jiyoung Ko) => http://www.philvanallen.com/articles/aaai-sss17-vanallen.pdf Reimagining the Goals and Methods of UX for ML/AI (van Ellen) => https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2468356.2468746 AniThings: animism and heterogeneous multiplicity (van Ellen, McVeigh-Schultz, Brown, Kim, Lara) ## Manifests => https://criticalengineering.org/en Critical Engineering => https://ind.ie/ethical-design/ Ethical Design => https://www.technorealism.org Principles of Technorealism ## Publications => https://web3isgoinggreat.com Web3 is going great => https://www.technologyreview.com MIT Technology Review => https://www.matthewball.vc Matthew Ball => https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/ Crypto Syllabus => https://theoutline.com The Outline ## Other Links => http://tarotcardsoftech.artefactgroup.com => https://www.over-view.com/daily/ ___ # Machine Learning ## ML Tools => https://github.com/dvschultz/ml-art-colabs => https://github.com/amrzv/awesome-colab-notebooks => https://openai.com => https://runwayml.com/training/ => https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com => https://magenta.tensorflow.org => https://replicate.com => https://knowyourdata-tfds.withgoogle.com => https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone => https://paperswithcode.com => https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ => https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2-ada-pytorch => https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/welcome.ipynb Google Colab => https://jupyter.org => https://philosopherai.com ## ML Datasets => https://globe.adsbexchange.com => https://image-net.org/index.php => https://wordnet.princeton.edu => https://github.com/NVlabs/ffhq-dataset => https://nvlabs-fi-cdn.nvidia.com/stylegan2-ada-pytorch/pretrained/ StyleGAN 2 Ada Pytorch ## ML-related Art & Artivism => https://holly.plus => http://annaridler.com/bloemenveiling => https://www.instagram.com/stephenellcock/?hl=en => https://dinakelberman.tumblr.com => https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten => https://www.eatock.com/participate/no-photo/ => http://www.dear-data.com/theproject => https://www.domestika.org/en/projects/128408-datos-en-los-bolsillos => http://feltron.com/FAR14.html => http://www.tomiyasuhayahisa.com/ttp/ => https://refikanadol.com/works/latent-history/ => https://www.jakeelwes.com/project-zizi-show.html => https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/fashion/do-androids-dream-of-balenciaga-ss29 Do Cyborgs dream of Balenciaga? => https://tallerestampa.com/en/estampa/espais-latents/ => https://exposing.ai => https://vframe.io/research/3d-printed-training-data/ => https://forensic-architecture.org => https://anatomyof.ai/img/ai-anatomy-map.pdf => http://www.sheriff-v2.dynu.net/views/home => https://fdvt.org => https://applymagicsauce.com/demo ## ML Interactive Experiments => https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com => https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/ => http://formafluens.io/doodlemap.html => https://deepdreamgenerator.com => http://fontmap.ideo.com => https://experiments.withgoogle.com/drum-machine => https://experiments.withgoogle.com/bird-sounds => https://dadabots.com ___ # Fabrication & Open Source ## PCB Design & Fabrication => http://modsproject.org ModsProject => https://jlcpcb.com JLC Production => https://fritzing.org Fritzing ## 3D Scanning & Photogrammetry => http://www.makerscanner.com MakerScanner => https://alicevision.org AliceVision => https://www.agisoft.com Agisoft => https://www.autodesk.com/products/recap Autodesk Recap => https://www.regard3d.org Regard3d => https://sketchfab.com Sketchfab => https://skanect.occipital.com Skanect (with Kinect) ## Additive Manufacturing => https://www.stoneflower3d.com/store/print-head/ Stoneflower Clay Printer => https://www.thingiverse.com ## 3D Modeling & Parametric Design => https://www.rhino3d.com Rhino 3D => https://www.food4rhino.com/en Food4Rhino => http://grasshopperprimer.com/en/1-foundations/1-foundations.html Grasshopper for Rhino (Tutorial) => https://openscad.org OpenSCAD => https://www.blender.org Blender => https://nortikin.github.io/sverchok/ Sverchok for Blender => https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview Autodesk Fusion 360 => https://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD => https://www.solidworks.com Solidworks => https://www.onshape.com/en/ Onshape ## Build and Repair => https://www.appropedia.org => https://www.instructables.com => https://www.hackster.io => https://www.ifixit.com => https://www.makerfabs.com ## Open Source Hardware: Microcontrollers & SBCs => https://nodered.org Node Red (on Raspberry Pi) => https://open-smartwatch.github.io Open Smart Watch => https://tienda.bricogeek.com/compatibles-raspberry/1651-rock-pi-4-modelo-b-4gb-v14.html Raspberry Pi 4 Alternative => https://beagleboard.org/ai => https://www.crowdsupply.com/hackboard/hb2#products Open Source Windows 10 SBC => https://hackaday.io/discover ___ # Intersecting Tech & Nature ## Generative Art => https://p5js.org => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art Generative Art => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_computation Evolutionary Computation => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_art Evolutionary Art => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_morphogenesis Digital Morphogenesis => https://medium.com/@jason.webb/space-colonization-algorithm-in-javascript-6f683b743dc5 Jason Webb's organic branching ## Academic Fields => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosemiotics Biosemiotics Biosemiotics is a field of semiotics and biology that studies the prelinguistic meaning-making, or production and interpretation of signs and codes and their communication in the biological realm. => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetics Biomimicri & Biomimetics Biomimetics or biomimicry is the emulation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems. => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionics Bionics Bionics or biologically inspired engineering is the application of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. ## Interspecies Collaboration => https://www.interspecies.io => https://www.wildlabs.net ## Shamanism & Tech Animism => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_shamanism Korean Shamanism => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa Santeria ___ # Decentralization ### Basic Concepts => https://medium.com/swlh/what-web3-is-and-what-web3-is-not-my-trip-down-the-rabbit-hole-78bf84f4f546 => https://medium.com/hackernoon/how-the-utopian-vision-of-web-3-0-clashes-with-reality-60a8dfb2fb3b => https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html => https://subconscious.substack.com/p/dunbar-scale-social?s=r => https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/ra95vi/easiest_explanation_of_how_cryptocurrencies_work/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Great Blockchain Explainer Video ### Web3 Primers => https://consensys.net/knowledge-base/a-blockchain-glossary-for-beginners/ => https://www.ledger.com/academy/blockchain/web-3-the-three-blockchain-generations => https://www.coindesk.com/learn/how-do-ethereum-smart-contracts-work/ => https://www.divydovy.com/2021/11/a-crypto-web3-primer/ Crypto and Web3 Primer => https://nakamoto.com/beginners-guide-to-defi/ A beginner’s guide to DeFi => https://linda.mirror.xyz/Vh8K4leCGEO06_qSGx-vS5lvgUqhqkCz9ut81WwCP2o A beginner’s guide to DAOs => https://kinjal.mirror.xyz/eD3-Sgv2h50j-kwjHQCOnwqMKqSLTfnrqrtNypU-P5k DAO & Creator Ressource => https://www.one37pm.com/nft/tech/what-are-layer-2-solutions-and-why-are-they-important Layer 1 vs. Layer 2 ### DAO Tools & Other Platforms => https://www.fxhash.xyz => https://www.jpg.store => https://app.ens.domains => https://eth.build/ => https://buildspace.so/ => https://daohaus.club => https://daostack.io => https://syndicate.io => https://aragon.org ___ # Music ## Musik Making ### DYI => https://www.samplerbox.org/gallery => https://zynthian.org => https://github.com/sle118/squeezelite-esp32 => https://bela.io/products/ => https://blokas.io => http://www.axoloti.com => https://github.com/marcel-licence Marcel Licene (A ton of mircocontroller-based snyths!) ### Synths => https://noise.kitchen/bastl-instruments/kastle-15.html => https://www.thomann.de/de/teenage_engineering_po_12_rhythm.htm => https://www.thomann.de/de/teenage_engineering_po_14_sub.htm => https://www.thomann.de/de/boss_ds1_distortion.htm => https://www.thomann.de/de/harley_benton_mini_looper.htm => https://www.thomann.de/de/roland_tr_8s.htm => https://www.thomann.de/de/moog_werkstatt_01_and_expander.htm => https://www.thomann.de/de/arturia_minibrute_2_noir.htm ### Software => https://www.ableton.com/en/ Ableton Live => https://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=layout_notemap Scales => https://vcvrack.com VCV Rack => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGixS70ThQM ___ # Other ## Encryption => https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-thermal-printer-one-time-pads ## Institutions => https://www.strelka.com/en/ ___ # Digital Design & Collaboration ## Behavioral Psychology & UX Design => https://www.notion.so/Behavioral-Psychology-2db40216530e4a3d89bd286c40fa88e4 Personal Behavioral Psychology Collection => https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691160887/addiction-by-design Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Natasha Dow Schüll) [Book] => https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3 How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind (Tristan Harris) => https://books.google.ch/books?id=xctyCQAAQBAJ Schedules of Reinforcement (B. F. Skinner) => https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7973618_Bottomless_Bowls_Why_Visual_Cues_of_Portion_Size_May_Influence_Intake Bottomless Bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May Influence Intake (Wansink, Painter, North 2005) ## UI Design => https://www.designnotes.co ## Fonts & Typefoundries => https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32051/lyno => https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/7709/playfair-display => https://www.typografische.com => https://www.f37foundry.com/fonts/f37-bella => https://supertype.de/fonts/hothouse => https://www.hvdfonts.com => https://www.jakobfangmeier.de/gemeine/ => https://www.colophon-foundry.org/typefaces/apercu/ => https://typetype.org/fonts/tt-travels-next/ => https://www.grillitype.com => https://lineto.com/typefaces => https://www.ludwigtype.de/fonts => https://thedesignersfoundry.com/typefaces/ => https://www.fontshop.com/families/ff-mark => https://optimo.ch => https://commercialtype.com/catalog => https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Poppins => https://processtypefoundry.com/fonts/ ## Documentation & Collaboration => https://dillinger.io Dillinger => https://hackmd.io HackMD => https://pages.github.com Github Pages => https://about.gitlab.com GitLab => https://mattermost.com Mattermost => http://git-cheatsheet.com Git Cheat Sheet => https://dangitgit.com Dangit Git! => https://ish.app Linus Shell in iOS => https://obsidian.md Obsidian => https://www.loom.com Loom (Video Presentations) ## Visual References => http://www.onlab.ch Onlab => https://ia.net Information Architects => http://www.estudiopum.com Estudio Pum => https://www.does-work.com DOES Work => https://www.strelka.com/en/ Strelka Institute => http://www.baubauhaus.com Baubauhaus => https://www.designspiration.com ## Project Management Best Practices * triage * supply-side time management * parallel development * spiral development * bottom-up vs top-down debugging * hierarchy, modularity * document as you work _.~"~._.~"~._.~"~._.~"~._.~"~._ cernst 2022