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XR data flows + Privacy
FPF infographic visualizing how XR data flows work by exploring several use cases that XR
technologies may support. The infographic highlights the kinds of sensors, data types, data processing,
and transfers that can enable these use cases.
XR-Infographic-Screen-reader-friendly-version
Related resources and links
Privacy Considerations for a Pervasive Eye Tracking World [MSFT]
IEEE’s Global Initiative on the Ethics of Extended Reality.
IEEE XR White Paper on “The Erosion of Anonymity & Privacy.”
Generative Technology (related reading)
Generative Technology related reading, resources
November 2022
Generative Tech Begins [NFX]
October 2022
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List of over 100 generative AI startups [airtable by @gen]
Generative AI: A Creative New World [Sequoia Cap.]
The golden age of AI-generated art is here. It’s going to get weird [FT]
Generative AI Startups Attract Business Customers, Investor Funding [WSJ]
A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze [NYT]
Mapping the pioneering Israeli Generative AI startups [CalTech]
AI’s New Creative Streak Sparks a Silicon Valley Gold Rush [wired]
A new generation of music videos
Presenting "Robo Portraits", a collection of text-prompted music video shorts made with #stablediffussion & #mubert. 9 videos, each following the exact same command and each featuring both the music and visuals generated simultaneously.https://t.co/m8V324I5f7#aimusic #aivideo
— noodlebake records (@noodlebakemusic) October 24, 2022
When I think of all the music videos I have worked with..
I never imagined this production flow
New Music
Blood Orange “Something You Know” Four Songs (Domino Recording Co./RCA Records) 2022
Hand Habits, Amelia Meath “Under The Water” Greatest Weapon / Under The Water (Psychic Hotline) 2022
Generated Drives
Generative drives
Links and reports of note
Todays reports and news of note.
Authoritative 150 page report by Tech Inquiry on government purchasing of Amazon/Google/Microsoft cloud services with a focus on military, intelligence and law enforcement contracts
Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools
Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Business of Media Subculture
Spreading The Big Lie: How Social Media Sites Have Amplified False Claims of U.S. Election Fraud
The tyranny of the supertweeter – Twitter shows us a skewed version of the world, but it’s not necessarily because of the algorithm.
Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations
Proposed Free Expression Statement for MIT
Customs officials have copied Americans’ phone data at massive scale Contacts, call logs, messages and photos from up to 10,000 travelers’ phones are saved to a government database every year
OpenAI has learned to play Minecraft after watching some 70,000 hours of video showing people playing the game on YouTube
Privacy + Security Releated
“The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist,” Marshall McLuhan
FCC Does The Bare Minimum: Asks Wireless Carriers To Be Honest About Location Data So basically the FCC is asking an industry with a history of lying about this stuff to be transparent about what they’re collecting and selling, and if they’re very clearly breaking fairly flimsy agency rules,
The FTC May (Finally) Protect Americans From Data Brokers The agency’s lawsuit against Kochava should squash the industry’s core defense—and help keep sensitive info off the open market.
Ukrainian hackers created fake profiles of attractive women to trick Russian soldiers into sharing their location, report says. Days later, the base was blown up. The FTC May (Finally) Protect Americans From Data Brokers The agency’s lawsuit against Kochava should squash the industry’s core defense—and help keep sensitive info off the open market. (Synthetic human honeypots sirens call to soldiers wrecking OPSEC -ED)
Art works
Kimiyo Mishima 三島 喜美代 (Japanese, b. 1932)
Comic Book 19-S2, 2019
Ceramic 7 9/10 × 7 1/10 × 4 7/10 in
Unique work
MDG MPGs
Shot on legacy media, glitch + distortion now, the best kind of poor image. All very special moments in time. Dates and specifics needed, I fill them in where I can All works shot, recorded and (c)markghuneim MMXXII. In no particular order. Presented as downloads to help them live on elsewhere. On ongoing projected updated regularly.
01 Iggy Pop – Dog Food [Live NYC]
02 Star Sailor- Good_Souls (2 clips) [First NYC show]
03 Elvis Costello – Watching The Detectives [TBD]
04 Shavo (SOAD) spinning in my office [550 Mad NYC]
05 Bjork Unravel RCMH [2001 after 911. She came with a full orchestra, I cry every time I view this]
06 Kid Koala DJ NYC [2001/2002?]
07 Tokyo Japan fish market auction 2001 [The old market before it moved]
08 Radiohead MSG [2001 set of shows “for a great life”]
09 The Strokes – Coachella [2002 daytime Coachella set]
10 White Stripes – NYC [Union Square outdoors 2002 pop up show]
11 The Gang of Four [To Hell With Poverty live NYC 2005]
12 Glen from Toad the Wet Sprocket [TV taping NYC]
13 Helpless – Neil Young Michael Stipe [NYC turn of the century]
14 Janes Addiction – Jane Says [NYC Hammerstein Ballroom 200?]
15 Interpol, Bowery Ballroom; (Stella) (Sleep tonight) (NYC) [2003 NYC]
16 Spiritualized I II III [NYC RCHM? 2002]
17 Chemical Brothers – [1] [2] Sunshine Underground [NYC 2002 Hammerstein]