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NEW RESOURCES
The Scotsman: Gaelic: ‘Sacred and spiritual’ songs of Highlands and Islands preserved for the future. “Dr Frances Wilkins, a Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology with the Elphinstone Institute at the University of Aberdeen, has spent the last six years undertaking fieldwork in the Hebrides and West Highlands to explore and record sacred and spiritual singing from the region… Many of the sound recordings, photographs and videos made during the project can be found [online].”
CBC: Elections Canada launches online disinformation tool to prepare voters for next federal election. “Elections Canada is trying to insulate Canadian voters from false narratives and information during the next federal election by launching an online tool to help voters cut through misinformation and disinformation about the electoral process in Canada. The ElectoFacts website, launched this week, provides factual information to debunk the most common misconceptions observed by Elections Canada officials in recent years.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Futurism: OpenAI’s GPT Store Already Filling Up With “AI Girlfriends”. “The AI company’s equivalent of Apple’s App Store allows developers to share their own GPT models, from coding tutors to book recommendation bots, with other paying ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users. At least, those are the examples OpenAI gives in its announcement. The reality looks considerably different.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
The Tablet: Pope Calls for Investing in Preservation of Church’s Audiovisual Archives. “There is a growing and urgent need to invest in and plan concrete initiatives to preserve and share the Catholic Church’s rich but fragile audiovisual heritage, Pope Francis said. By investing now, he said, ‘the economic costs will certainly be lower than those that will be paid from a historical, cultural and religious point of view with the irreparable loss of so much Catholic audiovisual heritage.'”
The Herald (Scotland): Final part of Alasdair Gray archive bought by National Library. “The National Library of Scotland has bought the last and final tranche of archive material by renowned author, artist and playwright, Alasdair Gray. The Library’s collection of Alasdair Gray material is the largest and most comprehensive collection of Gray’s literary and personal materials.”
The Independent: Formula E team ditches AI social media influencer ‘Ava’ after backlash. “Formula E team Mahindra Racing have been forced to discard a bizarre plunge into artificial intelligence whereby they created a fake social media influencer ahead of the new season. The team created a fake influencer powered by AI called ‘Ava’ to promote the team, their drivers and sustainability campaigns throughout the season, which starts this weekend in Mexico.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Sky News: Hundreds of items missing from English museums including Queen Victoria drawing and prehistoric jaw fragment . “The findings from Freedom of Information requests to museums and galleries receiving public money comes after a member of staff at the British Museum was sacked in August after jewellery and gems from its collection were found to be missing, stolen or damaged.”
ABC News (Australia): Legal experts warn naming and shaming alleged criminals on social media can itself be a crime. “Posting on social media about neighbourhood crime has become an increasingly popular trend, however experts have warned it can be risky. Online feeds and community pages are littered with images and videos of alleged criminals caught on CCTV, along with call-outs to identify them.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Android Police: Google is messing with Driving Mode again, and I’ve had enough of this nonsense. “Google doesn’t like me. That’s the only assumption I can make when it consistently finds ways to make my life more difficult. Google+, Inbox, Pixelbook, these are dead Google products that I love, but at least I could find alternatives for them easily enough. The same can’t be said for driving apps. Google has messed with its driving apps for the worse twice now, and it looks like it’s about to happen again.”
Diplomatic Courier: Preserving Institutional Democracy In The Age Of AI. “It is time for leaders to challenge and disrupt the status quo in their own ways and not be guided by the whims of technology. We must try to move faster than AI, or at least fast enough to ensure the healthy perseverance, yet improvement of democratic institutions and democratic resiliency.”
Business Insider: Putin’s social media ban cost Russia’s economy more than $4 billion last year. “Including time lost from social media bans in the first year of its war, Russia experienced 1,353 hours of internet shutdown in 2023, which affected 113 million of its internet users, according to a study from the VPN reviewer Top10VPN. The report found that cost its economy $4.02 billion last year, measuring the losses using the Cost of Shutdown Tool from the internet monitor NETBLOCKS.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
Cultured: Are Artist-Produced Zines the Antidote to Social Media?. “Interest in zines—small, self-published printed texts and images—has ballooned in recent years. The spike can be attributed to young people’s growing disengagement with social media as a tool for political communication coupled with a renewed interest in community-based advocacy and tactile, IRL cultural objects.” Good morning, Internet…
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January 14, 2024 at 06:31PM
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