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MEDIAEATER DIGEST – TUESDAY 13TH OCTOBER, MMXVIII
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NEWSLETTER: The Creative AI newsletter

NEWSLETTER: PARQOR  a newsletter about the digital video supply chain

MEDIA: Money for nothing: copyright law, YouTube, and the future of music [Part I]  to earn the US minimum wage, an artist needs 610,465 streams on Spotify per month.

PRIVACY: Personalized Advertising is an Oxymoron or: How We Forgot That Minority Report Was A Dystopian Vision

TV DATA: How Netflix drives culture, in one chart [Recode]

NETWORK: PeerTube 1.0: the free/libre and federated video platform (framablog.org)

NETWORK: Data mining has revealed previously unknown Russian Twitter troll campaigns (technologyreview.com)

NETWORK: Solid is a new decentralized identity platform from WWW Creator Tim Berners-Lee which provides a mechanism for users to own and better control the usage of their data. [solid]

OBIT: Gone too soon –  What I loved about Paul Allen [Bill Gates]

HUMOR: New Social-Media User Guidelines  [New Yorker]

ART:  Robots Love Music at Museum Speelklok,  Robot Love exhibition, Eindhoven.

 

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Photo mdg – sequence series, ‘gotham 18’ 

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MEDIAEATER DIGEST – TUESDAY 13TH OCTOBER, MMXVIII
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Ed note:  Jury duty this week, next to voting its one of the best ways to participate in the democracy.   

MAN-MACHINE:  ABOT  The Anthropomorphic Robot Database   The ABOT (Anthropomorphic roBOT) Database is a collection of real-world anthropomorphic robots that have been created for research or commercial purposes. Currently, our core collection features more than 250 robots.

MAN-MACHINE:  RI Seminar: Bertram F. Malle : What People See in a Robot: A New Look at Human-Like Appearance . [YouTube]

MAN-MACHINE: The Crisis of Intimacy in the Age of Digital Connectivity [lareviewofbooks] the essence of the human will become what is not information, and the essence of intimacy will be in sharing what cannot be shared over the networks. Secret names have always stood at the center of what is holy.

INFO-SEC: (video talk )Bruce Schneier: “Click Here to Kill Everybody”| [YouTube] Talks at Google Computer security professional, privacy specialist and writer Bruce Schneier discusses “Click Here to Kill Everybody”, his latest book exploring the risks and security implications of our new, hyper-connected era.

INFO-SEC: Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google’s Nest To Hand Over Data 300 Times “People who use Nest must be told that very private information about what is happening in their homes is being recorded and could be shared, without prior notice, with law-enforcement when it obtains proper legal process.

ART:  Orbital Reflector site, video and this reflector shot Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector, co-produced and presented by the Nevada Museum of Art,   Why I care,  right nexus of art, eng and space. – “Making Visible The Invisible” is also straight up perfect.   Launching soon.

MUSIC/AI:  Piano Genie – Piano Genie allows anyone to improvise on the piano.

LEXICON:

“Moral Laryngitis”

” federation (identity)”

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Photo :  MDG –  Sequence Series ‘Runway 22R’ 

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MEDIAEATER DIGEST – SATURDAY 13TH OCTOBER, MMXVIII
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INTERNET: Internet Relay Chat turns 30—  [ArsTechnica]

INTERNET: FCC: court it has no “legal authority” over net neutrality rules  [ArsTechnica]

MUSIC: IFPI Music Consumer Insight Report 2018  (PDF)

INFO-SEC:  Publicly Available Tools Seen in Cyber Incidents Worldwide Alert (AA18-284A)

DATA: Are Influencers Overrated? [gsb.stanford.edu]

AI:  Applying Deep Learning to Metastatic Breast Cancer Detection [ai.googleblog]

BOOK: Spreadsheet of Steven Pinker’s book recommendations [docs.google.com]

ART: Contemporary Art Star Brian Donnelly Mixes High and Low [WSJ]

MACHINE LEARNING: From Media to Meaning: Classic Machine Learning, [youtube]
– Model-Based Machine Learning Book (mbmlbook.com)  

 

 

 

 

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Image : MDG sequential series / Whitney- Programed show. Oct 18

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MEDIAEATER DIGEST – FRIDAY 12TH OCTOBER, MMXVIII
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SERVICE: Google One (subscription service) Expanded storage, access to experts, and more — all in one shareable plan.  The biggest news here is –  wait for it,-  people you can access!  .Get direct access to people who speak fluent Google. If you need help with our products and services, our team of experts is here for you.

PRIVACY: Stop Saying Privacy Is Dead [Evan Selinger] As privacy scholar Josh Fairfield says, while some dismiss privacy concerns by saying they have nothing to hide, we shouldn’t accept that argument from anyone wearing clothes.

PRIVACY: Big Brother Watch Privacy Report (PDF) [brotherwatch]The chilling effect resulting from extensive surveillance in 2018 Britain affects us all. Our report demonstrates the breadth of those targeted by the UK Govt. – Schoolchildren – Workers – Welfare claimants – Journalists – Lawyers – Activists – Migrants 

BLOCKCHAIN:  Gary Cohn has joined fledgling fintech firm Spring Labs. [FT].. developing ways to use the blockchain to allow lenders and data providers to exchange credit and identity information more efficiently,

CRYPTO: Criticism Should be Welcome: Roubini Crypto Edition  [continuations.com]

BOOK: Haruki Murakami Says He Doesn’t Dream. He Writes. [NYT]  What do you dream about?I don’t dream, except maybe once or twice a month — or maybe I dream more but I don’t remember the dream at all. But I don’t have to dream, because I can write.

BOOK: Leonard Cohen The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings.  [NPR] Poem...Kayne West Is Not Picasso [Twitter Moments]

INFO-SEC Internet Hacking Is About to Get Much Worse  [NYT] We can no longer leave online security to the market….These are problems that the market will not fix. Buyers can’t differentiate between secure and insecure products, so sellers prefer to spend their money on features that buyers can see.

TV/VIDEO: asiCast 84: Innovations in television and video . [mp3] .  As the technologies transforming all communications have converged, we need to revise our understanding of viewing behaviours.

MUSIC: Playlist Shuffle – [GITHUB] Novel approach at shuffling a looping sequence.  compares various ways of generating a shuffled looping sequence, measuring statistics on the distance between duplicate entries. The application example of a music album (~12 songs) being played in a loop is not as contemporary as it used to be. This paper disregard that an easy way out of the problem is to add more songs, such that the shuffled sequence never needs to loop in one listening session.

MUSIC: Music industry hails passage of the Music Modernization Act  [LA TIMES] Guarantees that writers of pre-1972 songs receive federal copyright protection,

CLASS:  MIT 6.S974 Decentralized Applications, Fall 2018; A preliminary schedule and reading list for 6.S974, Decentralized Applications  Paper List + Schedule

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Photo credit (m.ghuneim)  Ugo Rondinone work from .. KNOCK KNOCK: Humour in Contemporary Art in a former Peckham Road Fire Station.

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MEDIAEATER DIGEST – THURSDAY 11TH OCTOBER, MMXVIII
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DISCOURSE: Removing Additional Inauthentic Activity from Facebook  [Facebook]; Facebook takes down pages spreading fake news and clickbait  [FT]  The disinformation included false stories spread about Christine Blasey Ford Facebook removed 559 pages and 251 accounts, including Right Wing News, which had more than 3.1m followers, Resistance, with 240,000 followers, and Reverb Press, with 816,000.

PRIVACY: Equity and Digital Privacy in NYC    [digitalequitylab.org]  Anyone interested in the digital welfare of NYC communities should take a hard look at how cities collect, control, and share out data that is collected from the public, in public spaces. Yet the City also has a responsibility to protect residents from digital risks and harms emerging from their contracts with franchisees for private home internet service.\

BLOCKCHAIN: DHS Science & Technology Directorate Flowchart – Do you need a share consistent data store? [IMG] I recommend this Vinton G Cerf  – Simple Flowchart 

INFO-SEC:  Joint report on publicly available hacking tools [PDF] [National Cyber Security Centere]

MAN-MACHINE: The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains [theatlantic] The mission is to make human beings something other than what we are, with powers beyond the ones we’re born with.

MAN-MACHINE: Atlas does parkour [youtube] control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace. Atlas uses computer vision to locate itself with respect to visible markers on the approach to hit the terrain accurately.

CONFERENCE: DIGITAL ART #MIRA2018  Barcelona’s digital arts festival 8-10 November: Strong lineup 

CONFERENCE: PRIVACY Reconfiguring Anonymity 

VIDEO ART:  Tony Oursler : Tear of The Cloud  [Oct 10, 2018 – Oct 31, 2018 7 – 10PM, Tuesday–Sunday Riverside Park South / Hudson River]   Five digital projections superimposed onto the landmarked 69th Street Transfer Bridge Gantry, the surrounding landscape, and the flowing water of the Hudson River itself. These spectral images combine with an evocative soundscape to create a dramatic experience that transforms Riverside Park each night.

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MEDIAEATER DIGEST – TUESDAY 2nd OCTOBER, MMXVIII
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DATA:  More than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued [Internet Archive Blogs]

ART-DATA: Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018 [Whitney] establishes connections between works of art based on instructions, spanning over fifty years of conceptual, video, and computational art. The pieces in the exhibition are all “programmed” using instructions, sets of rules, and code, but they also address the use of programming in their creation

DARPA: 60 Years of Challenges and Breakthroughs [DARPAtv] This short documentary debuted at DARPA’s 60th anniversary symposium, D60, which took place Sept. 5-7, 2018, at Gaylord National Harbor, Oxon Hill, Maryland.

STREAMING: Pushing the limits of streaming technology [Google Blog] streaming such graphically-rich content that requires near-instant interaction between the game controller and the graphics on the screen” ( Streaming the game not the play. -ed “)

PROGRAMING: Inform: Past, Present, Future [Emily Short] This is the talk and slides from the June 2018 London IF meetup, held at Elephant Studios in London South Bank University on 9 June 2018. I was invited to speak about Inform, past, present and future

MACHINE LEARNING:  Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis [ARXIV] Despite recent progress in generative image modeling, successfully generating high-resolution, diverse samples from complex datasets such as ImageNet remains an elusive goal. To this end, we train Generative Adversarial Networks at the largest scale yet attempted, and study the instabilities specific to such scale

INFOSEC: Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever [krebsonsecurity]

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MEDIAEATER DIGEST – MONDAY 1ST OCTOBER, MMXVIII
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INFO-SEC:  Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds This never gets old, just keeping it current.  BBC today –  US mid-terms: Hackers expose ‘staggering’ voter machine flaw –  and this DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure [pdf] (defcon.org)

LIVE: #BITS18  Listen in .

DATA: This is what filter bubbles actually look like– MIT

SERVICE:  Project Atlas 
Project Atlas will connect the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network and the TRON blockchain network via a set of bittorrent protocol extensions, a custom token, and an in-client token economy to address existing limitations and open a new borderless economy for exchanging value for computer resources on a global scale.

ADDRESS:  Plus Codes   [Google] like a street address for people or places that don’t have one. looks like a regular address, but with a short code where the street name and number would be. These addresses exist for any location, even for places where there are no roads.

LAW: California the first state with an Internet of Things cybersecurity law:  The bill, SB-327 . They also just signed nation’s strictest net neutrality rules into law 

CULTURE (LOW) : Save Elon  from the SEC Bikini . This bikini swimsuit is designed for fashionable women; stylish and personalized. Because of an advance heat sublimation technique, it will not fade in water.”

PAPER SOURCES: Distill, the arXiv, Fermat’s Library, Sci-Hub

ART NYC: In ‘The Mile-Long Opera,’ All the High Line’s a Stage [NYT]