Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 88

The Euro-Japanese data pool

*It’s a press release. Without any Americans, Chinese, Russians, or Britons in it. European Commission – Press release European Commission adopts adequacy decision on Japan,...

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Computer Human Interface research for evil

*Do be evil. It’s an issue otivation: The history of HCI reveals a sustained, if uneven, focus on the social consequences of technology. This is...

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Professional Starcraft e-athlete playing Starcraft II vs AlphaStar

*Interesting human angles here. Signing the nondisclosure agreements, booking the London hotel, the Google DeepMind office with eleven floors….

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Data Feminism

I took pity on them and didn’t post this until the “community” could no longer “review” this Welcome to the community review site for Data...

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The Near Future Laboratory “Slow Messenger”

*If the “Slow Messenger” had sent an SMS ten years ago, it would be about time for it to start arriving now. One letter at...

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Slithy Toves open-source desk toy

*I should collect examples of device art like this… But how would I organize and categorize it?

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Jan Švankmajer – “The Alchemist Wedding” in Amsterdam

*That one’s gonna be mighty strange. Jan Švankmajer The Alchemical Wedding December 15, 2018–March 3, 2019 Artist talk: March 3, 4–7pm, Jan Švankmajer talks in...

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The Safe Face Pledge

*Well… The Safe Face Pledge about face recognition Commitment One: Show Value for Human Life, Dignity, and Rights Signatories of the Safe Face Pledge agree...

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Hundreds of years of dystopias

Yeah, that’s kind of a lot of ’em (…) The word “dystopia,” meaning “an unhappy country,” was coined in the seventeen-forties, as the historian Gregory...

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Florence Knoll is no longer with us

*Wow! She was a hundred and one. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/st... (…) Ms. Knoll learned her art at the side of Modernist masters. She was a protégé of...

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