Weekend reading / viewing
Essay: The meme economy Or, a personal journey through 21st-century capitalism.
Read: The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship
Panel: “We lose so much more than data. We lose the freedom to be human.”
– Tim Cook at Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference this week
A path to empowering user choice and boosting user trust in advertising
Search: Three-dimensional search engine Physna wants to be the Google of the physical world
Deck: Six emerging technologies trends changing our world [PwC]
Report: Schibsted Future Report 2021
The Great Unbundling [Benedict Evans]
Technology
Omega Mart: Grand Opening with Deepfaked Willie Nelson
Collection of Deep Learning implementations with side-by-side notes
Curated CS papers from last week.
Researchers found programmers spend 58% of their time on comprehension.
Arts
An Art Revolution, Made With Scissors and Glue NYT (Can never get enough collage)
Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access initiatives impressive – Public Access to Our Public Presence: Sharing Our API
Yuri Pattison the engine Gallery 1
In the newspapers
Artificial Intelligence Will Define Google’s Future. For Now, It’s a Management Challenge. WSJ
Personal liberty is another, unsung victim of the pandemic FT
Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins: ‘We’re on the precipice of the misinformation age’ [Lunch w/ FT]
Random Links
Excellent example of a vision and mission statement or words in the right order.
Muscle wiki is a simple and useful reference to build and stretch your mortal coil
Facebook oversightboard.com website