Tumblr are you aware of this nonfiction book on archaeologists recreating material culture from the past because I feel like the website that’s always showing me pictures of Pompeiian bread or ancient yeast might appreciate it
I have to confess “your web browser’s assistive AI can be instructed to steal your online banking password via prompt injection because it operates with full privileges and treats all text it ingests as equally authoritative sources of user instructions, including the text of web pages it’s summarising” is more surprising to me than it should have been. There really is no one involved at any point in the development of these tools who actually understands what they’re doing, huh?
‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
My mother used to make computer cores as a “work from home” side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don’t know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!
They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don’t know if it’s still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with “women’s work” like this.
Today’s art prompt was inspired by marine snow—the slow, steady shower of organic material that rains down to the deep sea from the surface. While most of the food that reaches the deep sea arrives as marine snow particles, a single whale carcass can provide as much organic material as several thousand years’ worth of marine snow when it sinks to the seafloor!
What’s the name of that one species of deer that has a big pore on its chest? It’s got a protruding collarbone, sort of like Gardevoir. I wanted to draw one, but whenever I try to find it, all that comes up is that deer with the growth in its chest, which isn’t super helpful.
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