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NEW RESOURCES
Spotted on Mastodon: a new Mastodon/RSS tool called RSS Parrot. From the about page: “This is the browser home of RSS Parrot, a Fediverse service that lets you turn Mastodon into your feed reader. The Parrot follows the RSS or Atom feeds of a large number of websites, and sends out a toot whenever a new post is published on one of them…. The RSS Parrot brings WordPress blogs into the Fediverse without the need for the blog’s owner to install the Mastodon plugin.”
EVENTS
MIT News: The creative future of generative AI. “The future of generative AI and its impact on art and design was the subject of a sold-out panel discussion on Oct. 26 at the MIT Bartos Theater. It was part of the annual meeting for the Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT), a group of alumni and other supporters of the arts at MIT, and was co-presented by the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology (CAST), a cross-school initiative for artist residencies and cross-disciplinary projects.” The panel event is available on YouTube. I spot-checked its captioning and it looked perfect.
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Detroit News: Lake Superior State releases its list of banished words: Is it cringe-worthy or iconic?. “Wait for it: At the end of the day, hacks need to slay 10 cringe-worthy words and phrases, according to an iconic list from a Michigan university…. This year marks the second appearance of the word ‘iconic’ on the annual list that the Sault Ste. Marie university began releasing in 1976. ‘Iconic’ was also on the 2009 Banished Words list.”
Silicon Republic: X offers cheaper subscription plan for organisations. “The site launched a subscription offering for organisations last year, but the $1000 a month charge was viewed as expensive by critics. Now, X has released a basic version of this service for $200 a month or $2000 a year, with the original offering becoming the ‘full’ subscription tier.”
Smithsonian Magazine: Public Libraries Reveal the Most Borrowed Books From 2023. “Across the country, public libraries are announcing their most popular titles from last year. While no definitive nationwide rankings have been published, many popular texts appear on lists from multiple library systems.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Ukrinform: Ukrinform, Center for Countering Disinformation launching joint project ‘About the War’. “Ukrinform National News Agency of Ukraine and the Center for Countering Disinformation are launching a new joint project, About the War, which will cover the issues related to the front, fake news stories, influencers’ posts, and the urgent war-related problems.”
ARTNews: Database of 16,000 Artists Used to Train Midjourney AI, Including 6-Year-Old Child, Garners Criticism. “During the New Year’s weekend, artists linked to a Google Sheet on the social media platforms X (formerly known as Twitter) and Bluesky, alleging that it showed how Midjourney developed a database of time periods, styles, genres, movements, mediums, techniques, and thousands of artists to train its AI text-to-image generator. Jon Lam, a senior storyboard artist at Riot Games, also posted several screenshots of Midjourney software developers discussing the creation of a database of artists to train its AI image generator to emulate.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bleeping Computer: Online museum collections down after cyberattack on service provider. “Museum software solutions provider Gallery Systems has disclosed that its ongoing IT outages were caused by a ransomware attack last week. Gallery Systems was formed in April 2022 when it merged with Artsystems, a global leader in gallery and collection management software, and boasts an impressive client portfolio, including over 800 museums.”
NPR: ‘Steamboat Willie’ is now in the public domain. What does that mean for Mickey Mouse?. “… people can creatively reuse only the Mickey Mouse from Steamboat Willie. Not the Mickey Mouse in the 1940 movie Fantasia. Nor the one on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, a kids’ show that aired on the Disney Channel for a decade starting in 2006. New versions of Mickey Mouse remain under copyright. Copyright applies to creative characters, movies, books, plays, songs and more. And as it happens, Mickey Mouse is also trademarked.”
CTV: Australia launches inquiry into why Cabinet documents relating to Iraq war remain secret. “On Monday, the National Archives of Australia released 2003 Cabinet records in keeping with an annual Jan. 1 practice following the expiration of a 20-year secrecy provision. But 78 documents relating to the Iraq war were withheld because they were prepared for the National Security Committee, a subset of Cabinet ministers who make decisions relating to national security and foreign policy. Committing Australia to war was the committee’s decision.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Yale School of Medicine: Eliminating Racial Bias in Health Care AI: Expert Panel Offers Guidelines. “…the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) recently convened a diverse panel of experts, co-chaired by Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, MBA, Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and deputy dean for biomedical informatics at Yale School of Medicine. The panel identified core guiding principles for eliminating algorithmic bias.”
The Register: How do you teach a robot dog new tricks? Throw it a string of hex, a crayon, and a canvas . “Boston Dynamics’ ‘Spot’ robot dog has been deployed as a tour guide, a police officer, and a warehouse worker. At the National Gallery Of Victoria’s Triennial in Melbourne, Australia, it’s now doing duty as an artist. Spot’s human handler is Agnieszka Pilat, who told The Register she first saw Spot as a new celebrity and therefore worthy of a portrait.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 3, 2024 at 06:31PM
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