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Inside the cavernous former train station that now houses Hamburger Bahnhof, 400,000 wooden cubes stack and topple into piles. Conceived by Lithuanian artist Lina LapelytÄ— and commissioned by Chanel, “We Make Years Out of Hours” is a large-scale installation that invites the public to remake structures from these 10-centimeter blocks made of pine and spruce.
LapelytÄ— often combines sound and performance and collaborates with both professionals and novices. This participatory work continues the artist’s interest in collective making and caretaking, particularly as it relates to shared authorship and how we might amend and reshape what currently exists.
A trio of weekly performances on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays will feature a libretto with the words of 15 writers, including Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong, Lebanese-American painter Etel Adnan, Iranian filmmaker
Forugh Farrokhzad, and Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Centered around community, love, and loss, these songs create another dimension in the space to consider agency and hope.
“We Make Years Out of Hours” opens on May 1 and is on view through January 10, 2027, in Berlin. Explore more of LapelytÄ—’s multi-disciplinary works on her website and Instagram.
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AP report King Charles III addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress today, only the second British monarch to do so after Queen Elizabeth II in 1991. Speaking during the 250th year of American independence, he invoked Magna Carta, Oscar Wilde's line about being "divided by a common language," and framed the relationship as "A Tale of Two Georges" — Washington and George III. An interesting blend of speechwriting, symbolism, diplomacy, and royal theatre. Curious what others made of the speech.
Read article | Sheer luck means Anguilla's domain is .ai - so many tech businesses are rushing to use it. The island is happy to shut up and take their money!
"In its draft 2025 budget document, the Anguillian government says that in 2024 it earned 105.5m East Caribbean dollars ($39m; £29m) from selling domain names. That was almost a quarter (23%) of its total revenues last year. Tourism accounts for some 37%, according to the IMF. The Anguillian government expects its .ai revenues to increase further to 132m Eastern Caribbean dollars this year, and to 138m in 2026. It comes as more than 850,000 .ai domains are now in existence, up from fewer than 50,000 in 2020. As a British Overseas Territory, Anguilla is under the sovereignty of the UK, but with a high level of internal self-governance."
"In its draft 2025 budget document, the Anguillian government says that in 2024 it earned 105.5m East Caribbean dollars ($39m; £29m) from selling domain names. That was almost a quarter (23%) of its total revenues last year. Tourism accounts for some 37%, according to the IMF. The Anguillian government expects its .ai revenues to increase further to 132m Eastern Caribbean dollars this year, and to 138m in 2026. It comes as more than 850,000 .ai domains are now in existence, up from fewer than 50,000 in 2020. As a British Overseas Territory, Anguilla is under the sovereignty of the UK, but with a high level of internal self-governance."
PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role
The US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address. …
Google has reportedly signed a classified agreement allowing the Pentagon to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose." While the deal is said to discourage domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons without human oversight, it apparently does not give Google the power to block how the government actually uses its models. The Verge reports: The agreement was reported less than a day after Google employees demanded CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using its AI amid concerns that it would be used in "inhumane or extremely harmful ways." If the agreement is confirmed, it would place Google alongside OpenAI and xAI, which have also made classified AI deals with the US government. Anthropic was also among that list until it was blacklisted by the Pentagon for refusing the Department of Defense's demands to remove weapon and surveillance-related guardrails from its AI models.
Citing a single anonymous source "with knowledge of the situation," The Information reports that the deal states that both parties have agreed that the search giant's AI systems shouldn't be used for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons "without appropriate human oversight and control." But the contract also says it doesn't give Google "any right to control or veto lawful government operational decision-making," which would suggest the agreed restrictions are more of a pinky promise than legally binding obligations.
Citing a single anonymous source "with knowledge of the situation," The Information reports that the deal states that both parties have agreed that the search giant's AI systems shouldn't be used for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons "without appropriate human oversight and control." But the contract also says it doesn't give Google "any right to control or veto lawful government operational decision-making," which would suggest the agreed restrictions are more of a pinky promise than legally binding obligations.
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Omdat het ook wel een keertje aardig is, bespreken we hedenavond enkel goed nieuws in ons StamCafé. Wat blijkt nou: na het beëindigen van om en nabij 47 oorlogen, het redden van de economie en het bevrijden van de Iraniërs werpt Trump zich nu op tot redder van de bijen. Dat maken wij althans op uit bovenstaande plaat, gemaakt tijdens het staatsbezoek van het Britse koningspaar aan de VS. Weer een banger van een foto van de vredespresident, een ongetwijfelde gamechanger voor de Midterms. Ander goed nieuws uit Amerika: ICE bewijst weer eens hartstikke NICE te zijn door een 19-jarige meid uit het Overijsselse De Krim (ja zo heet het daar. afblijven Poetin) vast te zetten. Hoe durven ze!! Zomaar Nederlandse tienermeisjes in de bak gooien! Die had zeker iets gemeens getweet over Trump!! Euh, nee. De meid in kwestie kwam aan op het vliegveld van Dallas met een koffer vol drugs, maar liefst 67 kilo. Ze zou eerst jarenlang de bak in moeten, maar sloot met justitie om daar slechts 4 maanden van te maken. Die 4 maanden zaten er er al op, maar nu zit ze dus vast in een detentiecentrum van ICE. Altijd weer die jongeren uit De Krim. Hoe dan ook lekker gewerkt ICE! Tenslotte drinken we een rondje extra voor alle patiënten bij zorginstellingen die gebruik maken van patiëntenportalen van ChipSoft. Nadat begin deze maand daar allemaal patiëntgegevens gehackt waren, meldt het bedrijf nu dat die gestolen gegevens allemaal vernietigd zijn. Of ChipSoft de cyberpikkeboeven daarvoor een geldbedrag heeft overgemaakt willen ze niet zeggen, maar we vermoeden: wel. Ja, jammer van je principes maar wel een nieuwe, zoveelste, dataramp afgewend. Kan ook gewoon, Odido. Enfin, tot zover het goede nieuws, na de breek wat miems en uiteraard goedenacht.
Ook niet onbelangrijk!
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