Dear reader
I started to collect opportunities from the naive universe: a magazine accepting pitches, a school seeking students, a website inviting submissions, or a fair looking for exhibitors.
Many are smaller volunteer-led initiatives where the people behind meet in odd hours. It is fulfilling to bring something new to existence but also nerve-wracking —especially if your idea depends on the participation of others.
To support interdependent internet projects, I’ll start including these calls for participation. So if you want to share an opportunity with the other readers, you can email me or add it directly to the open Are.na channel.
Together, we can keep the web alive.
With care
Kristoffer
Wayside flowers
https://7-minutes-in-heaven.glitch.me
https://four-seasons.glitch.me
https://sonnys-emoji-ikebana.replit.app
Field notes
1.
Meg Miller on magnolias, memory and metaphors — and Alzheimer's and computers. It is touching and poetic. Thank you, Meg.
2.
Leaky is a webring where water fills the sites until visitors help bilge it away.
3.
»New chapters of life sometimes need new websites,« writes Reuben Son on his Colophon page. It is bordered by a lovely meandering architectural design motif from his apartment building.
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»If your full-time, eight-hours-a-day, five-days-a-week job were to look at each image in the dataset for just one second, it would take you 781 years.«
Models all the way down unfolds the assembly of one dataset used for training large language models.
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From the Poetic Web Calendar: Today (Sunday) it is time for Sunday Sites, Tuesday Gian hosts Joi Ito for a conversation about Japanese tea, and Wednesday Rhizome is launching ArtBase Anthologies.
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From Call for Participation: Indiecon is looking for exhibitors, School for Poetic Computation is seeking students, and Robida is accepting proposals.
Collections
Thank you for reading.
Last email was sent to 3008 inboxes. Logo by Dreams™. Photograph by Ana Šantl. And you can reach me at kristoffer@naiveweekly.com.