Accidents on Purpose returns Monday, a course on procedural art and creativity. Show & Tell: Creative Coding runs Wednesday, a night for creative coders, node-based algorithmic artists, and anyone drawn to the beauty of code-driven art. Material Chess closes the week Friday, a chess night to see how people make the game their own. Open house Thursday. Links below.

Udara Jay (@TGUPJ) is a designer, engineer, explorer, and the founder of UNMS. In this conversation, Udara walks us through New Dawn Protocol, a globe-scale civilization sandbox game about rebuilding shared systems and living with what they make possible. What once took a triple-A studio, Udara is now building on his own. The game opens onto a larger question: what does this technology make possible, and what is it changing that we can’t see? The GPU was built to draw games and now runs AI. A phone sets a photo’s exposure without asking, and without our noticing that a decision was made at all. Agents will soon make choices for us the same way. Udara argues that most people experience AI only through their social feeds or a narrow slice of the world as it currently is, and that even the people building it can’t see where it’s going. internetVin and Udara push the question as far as it goes: what do people become once machines run the systems we built, and why learn anything once knowing is no longer an advantage? The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin, a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New. — Timestamps 00:00:00 Growing Up Making Things in Sri Lanka 00:15:22 Where New Dawn Protocol Came From 00:31:47 Demo: How New Dawn Protocol Works 00:51:59 Making Games to Understand Complex Systems 00:55:47 Building the Game Alone with AI 01:04:07 Should Games Ship with Their Own AI? 01:16:45 Why Build a Game in the Browser 01:24:11 How Games Built the GPU That Runs AI 01:37:53 When Anyone Can Mod Any Game 01:45:31 What We’ll Value When Software Is Free 01:55:51 How AI Changes Things Without Us Noticing 02:06:07 Why Learn Anything If AI Knows It? 02:11:23 What We Do Once AI Runs the Systems 02:17:33 A Family Agent with Its Own Phone 02:24:58 Local Networks and Keeping Your Own Context 02:33:19 What Tracking Yourself Can Tell You 02:51:10 ESP32s: Tiny Computers for Everything 03:11:50 Udara’s Home Lab and Personal Agent 03:28:34 Distill: A Private Twitter for Ideas 03:37:18 Predictions for What Comes Next

Clement Leung makes food videos as insta.noodls. He is an investigator and storyteller whose focus is uncovering dishes and cuisines worth trying. We started by cooking Shin Ramyun on the table, and he showed us his hack: crack two eggs into the leftover broth and microwave it. Clement walked us through how he started documenting food and why. Then we talked about Toronto, which Clement thinks might be the best food city in the world because it's the most diverse. We got into the economics of running a restaurant, how competitive it is to start one, and the food court stalls of Markham. Clement also reflected on the journey of documenting food, shared the stories he's picked up from getting closer with restaurant owners through his work, and told us what helping Mark Wiens taught him about what makes something legendary. The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin, filmmaker and entrepreneur and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New. Timestamps 00:00:00 Becoming the Ramen Guy 00:04:25 Cooking Shin Ramyun 00:23:30 Gong Zai Mein and Curry Cubes 00:31:28 Stitching Through the Noodle Era 00:42:16 Best Food City in the World 00:56:29 A Map Drawn by Immigration 01:10:00 The Plaza Is a Tournament 01:22:24 No Ratings, No Free Meals 01:30:40 One More Year, Then Mary Brown's 01:45:37 Bifana, Shawarma, and Knafeh 01:57:22 Mark Wiens 02:16:59 Mark's Legendary Toronto Crawl 02:38:09 China, Ten Years Ahead 02:47:46 Eating Through China 03:01:30 Respect the Dish

In Toronto, on Saturday Oct 24 I will be presenting the best work of my life at @newsystems_ It’s an interactive lecture on how to accelerate culture in a city. It will consist of 5 chapters, with short discussions after each, and an intermission in the middle. Tickets below.

ARTIFACTS 02 is tonight at New Stadium in Toronto! Join to see people chat about their cool gadgets, like this minidisc player & recorder from the first edition. Details → luma.com/b90pgd5l