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Sunday, October 2, 2022

Family Planning Investment Impact Calculator, NASA Missions, Georgia Newspapers, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, October 2, 2022

Family Planning Investment Impact Calculator, NASA Missions, Georgia Newspapers, More: Sunday ResearchBuzz, October 2, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

Guttmacher Institute: Guttmacher Institute Releases Family Planning Investment Impact Calculator, A New Online Tool for Estimating Health Benefits of Investing in Family Planning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. “Today, the Guttmacher Institute released its Family Planning Investment Impact Calculator, an interactive, web-based tool designed to estimate the positive impacts of investments in family planning services. For any given investment amount, the calculator estimates the number of modern contraceptive users that would be served, unintended pregnancies and abortions that would be averted, women’s and girls’ lives that would be saved, and cost savings that would accrue for health systems.”

EVENTS

CNET: How to Watch SpaceX Launch NASA Astronauts on the Crew-5 Mission to ISS. “With Hurricane Ian heading up the Atlantic coast, NASA and SpaceX are looking to get their next big mission off the ground in Florida as early as Tuesday. The Crew-5 mission will send NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada to the International Space Station aboard the Dragon Endurance capsule. They will be joined by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Digital Library of Georgia: Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Fall 2022. “This year, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of the newly available titles.”

Ars Technica: Stadia controllers could become e-waste unless Google issues Bluetooth update . “Google’s Stadia game-streaming service will die a nearly inevitable death early next year. Google is refunding players the cost of all their hardware and game purchases. But, so far, Google is also leaving Stadia players with controllers that, while once costing $70, will soon do less than a $20 Bluetooth gamepad.”

TechCrunch: Google Colaboratory launches a pay-as-you-go option, premium GPU access. “Google Colaboratory (Colab for short), Google’s service designed to allow anyone to write and execute arbitrary Python code through a web browser, is introducing a pay-as-a-you-go plan.” There will still be a free tier.

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

PC Magazine: Why This Online Archivist Isn’t Feeling Much Angst About AI-Generated Art. “The rise of the creative machines–AI routines that can generate original pictures in response to simple descriptions of the desired image–isn’t something to fear, according to a longtime scholar of digital culture. ‘I am no more scared of this than I am of the fill tool,’ Jason Scott said in a talk at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, comparing AI image generators like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion to features in Adobe Photoshop. ‘Or the clone brush.'”

Rest of World: Central America’s first metaverse is off to a bad start. “As countries, and platforms like OpenSea, attempt to come to grips with the legal implications surrounding digital assets, some entrepreneurs have continued to navigate the vacuums created by this growing and unregulated space. Speaking to experts and members of the Platzees community, before and after the OpenSea ban, Rest of World found how, after spending years effectively mobilizing his social media influence to raise a substantial amount of money from NFT sales, the creator of Guatemala’s first metaverse is now facing mounting questions about these investments from his previously trusting followers.”

NME: Developers had no idea Google Stadia was shutting down. “Yesterday (September 29) Google announced it would be ‘winding down’ its cloud-based gaming service Stadia, but several developers have now revealed they were not told about the closure in advance – despite having games due out on the service.” Wow, that’s almost a Twitter-level disregard for third-party developers.

SECURITY & LEGAL

Motherboard: AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It’s Not Easy to Opt Out. “Viral image-generating AI tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are powered by massive datasets of images that are scraped from the internet, and if one of those images is of you, there’s no easy way to opt out, even if you never explicitly agreed to have it posted online. In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset, which was used to train Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Daily Nexus: BeReal is the False Heir of Social Media and Casual Authenticity. “Before a camera, users are bound to perform. The deception lies in the frame we show the audience. The problem is that these intentional moments — parties, concerts and outings — are simply framed as everyday life. To be warped into this deception is to confront online inauthenticity all over again. And once again I ask myself, ‘What’s the point?'”

Harvard Gazette: Forget the sedatives, I’ll take some VR. “In a novel attempt to reduce the risks of over-sedation, physician-scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine whether virtual reality immersion can minimize the need for sedatives during hand surgery without diminishing patient satisfaction.”

New York Times: Can Smartphones Help Predict Suicide?. “A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors to identify periods of high danger — and intervene.” Good morning, Internet…

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Saturday, October 1, 2022

Reverend France Davis, People’s Graphic Design Archive, Netflix in New Mexico, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, October 1, 2022

Reverend France Davis, People’s Graphic Design Archive, Netflix in New Mexico, More: Saturday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, October 1, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

University of Utah: Celebrating the launch of the France Davis Utah Black Archive. “This man marched at Selma. He served as Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church for 45 years. He witnessed crosses being burned on the lawn of his church. He survived a life-changing, devastating burn on 30 percent of his body. And for decades he taught at the University of Utah, the institution that donned him with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 1993. So it is only fitting that the J. Willard Marriott Library create a digital archive in the name of Reverend France Davis, retired pastor, father, husband, community leader, civil rights leader, educator.”

Creative Boom: The People’s Graphic Design Archive: Documenting materials that would otherwise disappear. “It was in 2014 that designer Louise Sandhaus began an ambitious project to create a crowd-sourced virtual archive of graphic design history. This month, eight years later, she launched The People’s Graphic Design Archive (PGDA). We chat with Louise and her co-directors to discover more.”

KRQE: Netflix launches site showcasing New Mexico film locations. “Netflix is launching a new website here in New Mexico to help you find where scenes of popular shows and movies were filmed. It’s called ‘Netflix in your neighborhood.'”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Tubefilter: TikTok just upped its video descriptions to 2,200 characters. Here’s why.. “The character limit will allow videomakers to include much, much longer descriptions—and therefore potentially many, many more SEO terms. Adding more characters means creators can go from saying they went to a cool bakery in San Francisco to specifically naming the bakery, dishes they had, and maybe even telling a little story about their experiences.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

CBS News: Candidates recognize the power of TikTok, “for better or worse”. “Wade Herring didn’t know the teenage voter who approached him at a restaurant over the weekend. But she knew Herring, a Democrat running for Congress in Georgia, from his campaign videos on TikTok. To Herring, a 63-year-old Savannah attorney, it was proof of TikTok’s precision-guided ability to reach young voters — the very reason why he and candidates from both parties have eagerly embraced the platform ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.”

BBC: Cardiff: Reggae veteran hopes to create digital library. “Veterans of a once vibrant reggae scene in Cardiff have called for its revival following decades of decline. It comes as one historian has made it his mission to archive the history of sound system culture online. Sound systems – huge banks of speakers with MCs and rappers – led to the emergence of hip-hop in the UK. Reggae historian Ashish Joshi has travelled the UK collecting old tapes and videos to create a digital library to keep the culture alive.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Ars Technica: YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary. “A YouTube creator has gone on the offensive after facing an increasingly common problem on the platform: moderation and enforcement that leaves creators confused by the logic and short on their videos’ revenue potential.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

UC Davis: Most Twitter Users Don’t Follow Political Elites, Researchers Suggest. “While social media platforms are the primary source of political information for a growing number of people, a majority of Twitter users do not follow either members of Congress, their president or news media, a new study suggests. They are much more likely to follow Tom Hanks or Katie Perry than an elected official.”

London School of Economics and Political Science: JUST AI – Reshaping Data and AI Ethics. “JUST AI has created new mechanisms and practices for defining, understanding and collaborating on ethical questions in data and AI. Our focus has been transforming networking as a critical technology practice – for JUST AI, ‘network’ is both a noun and a verb. Our new website provides detailed documentation of the innovative methodology we have developed for networking and transforming data and AI ethics practice.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

News@Northeastern: Northeastern Professor Uncovers Oldest Japanese American Film. “For 108 years, ‘The Oath of the Sword,’ a 1914 silent film released by one of a handful of Japanese American film companies, has gone unseen by audiences. Tucked away in the archives of Rochester’s George Eastman Museum, the only remaining print of the film was collecting dust–until Denise Khor discovered it.” Good afternoon, Internet…

October 2, 2022 at 12:12AM
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Substance Abuse Recovery, Babyn Yar Massacre, Diverse Voices in Health & Medicine, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, October 1, 2022

Substance Abuse Recovery, Babyn Yar Massacre, Diverse Voices in Health & Medicine, More: Saturday ResearchBuzz, October 1, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

University of Chicago: Fletcher Group, NORC, and ETSU Launch Substance Use Recovery Tool. “Today, NORC at the University of Chicago, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), and the Fletcher Group, Inc. released a mapping tool that enables users to measure the strength of substance use recovery ecosystems for every county in the United States and explore associations with overdose deaths and other sociodemographic and economic factors.”

USC Shoah Foundation: New IWalk Takes Users on Virtual Tour of 1941 Babyn Yar Massacre Site. “Eighty-one years ago today Nazi soldiers and their collaborators committed one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust with the murder of close to 33,000 Jews in the Babyn Yar ravine in Ukraine. The site of the atrocity on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv is now a memorial that people anywhere can visit with a new Virtual IWalk released by USC Shoah Foundation earlier this year.”

National Library of Medicine: Announcing the Diverse Voices in Health & Medicine Collection Development Toolkit. “The Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 5 is pleased to announce the Diverse Voices in Health & Medicine Collection Development Toolkit to help you build collections that support health literacy and expand access to diverse voices in libraries of all types.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Flickr Blog: World Photography Day – Meet your contest winners!. “A huge thank you to all that participated in our World Photography Day Contest! After receiving more than 25,000 amazing submissions for our second multi-category photo contest (including our brand new Virtual Photography content category) we’re thrilled to announce the winners!”

Matt Mullenweg: Tumblr Updates. “Tumblr launched Community Labels yesterday, which allows consistent tagging of addiction, violent, and adult content, and for people to hide, blur, or show that content. It’s gone pretty well so far.”

USEFUL STUFF

Pete Warden’s Blog: Try OpenAI’s Amazing Whisper Speech Recognition in a Free Web App. “You may have noticed that I’m obsessed with open source speech recognition, so I was very excited when OpenAI released a new voice model. I’m even more excited now I’ve had a chance to play with it, the accuracy is extremely impressive, especially as it’s multi-language. OpenAI have done a great job packaging it, you can install it straight from pip if you’re a Linux shell user, but I wanted to find a way to let anybody try it for themselves from a web browser, even if they’re not developers.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

New York Times: Runners and Cyclists Use GPS Mapping to Make Art. “Fitness apps and the power of live satellite tracking have allowed runners, cyclists and others to draw hearts, animals, birthday wishes — and even homages to Vermeer — across their local landscapes.”

LSU Alexandra: LSU Expanding Efforts to Digitize Louisiana’s Diverse Cultural Institutions. “LSU is accelerating efforts to digitize vulnerable collections for diverse and underfunded cultural heritage institutions in Louisiana with a new grant from nonprofit open technology organization LYRASIS. The LSU Libraries was one of five to receive the 2022 Catalyst Fund from LYRASIS, which serves and supports 1,000 academic and public libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage organizations in 28 countries.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Yahoo News Singapore: Social media platforms must block harmful content under new codes in Singapore. “Social media platforms may soon have to abide by directions by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) to take action against harmful content, such as those promoting sexual or self-harm.”

Route Fifty: ‘Robo-lawyers’ are Coming. Are States Ready?. “Automated legal services are becoming more widely available for routine proceedings, offering possible cost savings and other benefits. But for the emerging tech to thrive, experts say regulations need to be updated.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

How-To Geek: “UnstableFusion” Makes AI Art Easy on Windows, Mac, and Linux. “‘UnstableFusion’ is another front-end that is rising in popularity, available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It’s a native desktop application, instead of a command-line tool or a local web server, so it’s one of the easiest ways to try Stable Diffusion right now. The main catch is that you still need to install Python, the Stable Diffusion model, and other components on your own — the full instructions are available in the readme file.”

Chemistry World: Access to chemical database Reaxys under threat in UK as fees spiral . “Multiple Jisc member universities – including University College London and the University of Cambridge – are understood to be holding off on renewing their access to Reaxys while Jisc is negotiating subscription fees. Four years ago, the annual cost of institutional access to the database in the UK was about £13,500, but Elsevier is now charging £38,000, according to an organic chemist at a major UK research university who is familiar with the negotiations and spoke to Chemistry World on condition of anonymity.” Good morning, Internet…

October 1, 2022 at 05:31PM
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Friday, September 30, 2022

University of Central Arkansas Photography, Google Stadia, Indigenous Milwaukee Tours, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, September 30, 2022

University of Central Arkansas Photography, Google Stadia, Indigenous Milwaukee Tours, More: Friday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, September 30, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

University of Central Arkansas: UCA digitizes more than 1,000 historic photos. “Archivists in Torreyson Library at the University of Central Arkansas have recently digitized more than 1,000 historical photographs. The collection, which can be accessed here, includes buildings, social activities and student life dating back to the school’s beginning in 1907.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Polygon: Google Stadia is shutting down, for good. “Google is officially shutting down its ambitious game streaming project, Stadia, Phil Harrison, the vice president and general manager of Stadia, said in a blog post published Thursday. The announcement comes less than three years after the cloud-gaming console launched. Stadia will shut down in January 2023.” Google was denying this at the end of July.

Marquette Today: Marquette’s Indigeneity Lab part of self-guided Indigenous Milwaukee tours. “Self-guided Indigenous Milwaukee Walk & Bike Tours, a collaboration between Historic Milwaukee, Inc. and Marquette University’s Indigeneity Lab, are now available for download via the free Historic Milwaukee Inc. app.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Harvard Gazette: How to save democracy. “Donald Trump was the perfect ‘meme leader,’ appealing to an array of shadowy, loosely organized groups with varied philosophies but shared roots in internet ‘imageboards’ like 4chan and 8chan, along with a desire, like their adopted chief, to disrupt the established power structure.”

Yale Library: Library’s EaaSI program preserves digital data in deep freeze, Norway. “Yale University Library has made its first donation to the Arctic World Archive (AWA), whose goal is to preserve global memory and cultural heritage for future generations. AWA is an initiative of the Norwegian company Piql, which collects and stores its partners’ contributions in a secure vault repository set deep in a decommissioned coal mine in Svalbard, Norway, just some 600 miles from the North Pole.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

Ars Technica: Numerous orgs hacked after installing weaponized open source apps. “Hackers backed by the North Korean government are weaponizing well-known pieces of open source software in an ongoing campaign that has already succeeded in compromising ‘numerous’ organizations in the media, defense and aerospace, and IT services industries, Microsoft said on Thursday.”

CNET: What Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Told Elon Musk in Private Texts. “Text messages between Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and billionaire Elon Musk reveal more details about what took place before he offered to buy the company for $44 billion.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Georgia Tech: Cell Phone Accessibility: Improving, but Gaps Remain, CACP Researchers Find . “Cell phones are becoming more accessible, but gaps remain — including fewer features for people with cognitive disabilities, emerging issues such as vehicle connectivity, and surprising roadblocks such as poor battery life, according to the latest biennial analysis of cell phone accessibility by Georgia Tech’s Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP).”

Illinois News Bureau: More physical activity, less screen time linked to better executive function in toddlers, study finds . “Reported in The Journal of Pediatrics, the study found that 24-month-old children who spent less than 60 minutes looking at screens each day and those who engaged in daily physical activity had better executive function than those who didn’t meet the guidelines.”

OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL

Anglia Ruskin University: Follow your nose with smelly tour of Amsterdam. “The free City Sniffers map brings together key city centre locations with aromas that tell the city’s story, and the walking tour is accompanied by an app, also developed by Odeuropa researchers, explaining the history behind these smells and their connection with present day Amsterdam. By rubbing the map at key points on the tour, participants can experience the stench of medieval canals, learn about the important role of rosemary, which was used at weddings and funerals, and was thought to protect from the plague, and enjoy the fragrance of linden trees, avenues of which were planted around the city centre.” Good afternoon, Internet…

October 1, 2022 at 12:56AM
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Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, PBS US History Collection, Giant Bible of Mainz, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, September 30, 2022

Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, PBS US History Collection, Giant Bible of Mainz, More: Friday ResearchBuzz, September 30, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

Northeastern University School of Law: 1,000 Racial Homicides Investigated in Unprecedented Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive. “The Archive brings together evidence demonstrating the extensive scale and scope of killings between 1930 and 1954 in the Jim Crow South. Many of the 1,000 cases of anti-Black killings were mishandled by local police and prosecutors or went unreported until investigated by Northeastern students in law and journalism and their faculty. Built on open-source architecture, the Archive offers users the opportunity to learn about how violence affected people’s lives, defined legal rights and shaped politics during the Jim Crow era.”

Current: GBH launches U.S. History Collection as resource for educators. “GBH in Boston is rolling out a new collection of free-to-use digital multimedia resources to help middle and high school educators teach American history. The U.S. History Collection, accessible through PBS LearningMedia, spans pre-colonial history to the present and draws on public television’s extensive archive of documentaries.”

Library of Congress: The Giant Bible of Mainz Digitized by the Library of Congress
. “The Giant Bible of Mainz, one of the last handwritten giant bibles in Europe, has now been digitized by the Library of Congress, ensuring online access to an important national treasure from the 15th century…. The Giant Bible is famous for having been copied by a single scribe, who precisely dated his progress between April 4, 1452, and July 9, 1453. These dates are remarkable because they place the creation of this manuscript bible in proximity to the first printed bible crafted in Europe, the Gutenberg Bible.

EVENTS

Archaeological Institute of America: Tweetathons Are Back For 2022!. “The popular International Archaeology Day Tweetathons that started as a pandemic innovation will be back again for the third year in a row. We’ll have a full set of Tweethaon instructions, sample tweets, and more like we did in 2020 and 2021 soon, but so that everyone can start planning, here is a list of hashtags and dates!” The tweetathon starts Monday, October 3rd, and continues for most of the next two weeks.

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

TechCrunch: Here are all of the new features and updates coming to Google Maps. “The company says all of the features announced today are part of its efforts to build a visual-first Maps experience to help users navigate the world more naturally.”

The Verge: Google is trying to reinvent search — by being more than a search engine. “Google now exists on a more visual, more interactive internet, in which users want to be surprised and delighted as often as they just want an answer to their questions. In that world, what is a search engine even for? The Google you see tomorrow might not be completely different, but the change is already starting.”

ReviewGeek: You Can Now Find Songs on Deezer Just by Humming. “Music streaming platform Deezer just made it a lot easier to find songs you don’t know the name of. In a blog post, the company announced its in-app song detector, SongCatcher, can now identify tunes hummed, whistled, or sung by the user.”

USEFUL STUFF

WIRED: How to Back Up Your Digital Life. “If the perfect backup existed, then sure, three would be overkill, but there is no perfect backup. Things go wrong with backups too. You need to hedge your bets. At the very least, you should have two backups, one local and one remote. For most people, this strikes the best balance between safety, cost, and effort.”

MakeUseOf: The 6 Best All-In-One Messaging Platforms to Simplify Your Messaging. “With all the messaging apps available, it’s often hard to keep track of whose messaging you and where. All-in-one messaging platforms offer a solution to this modern-day problem. These platforms allow you to organize various messaging apps in one place, allowing you to say goodbye to the days of juggling multiple apps to communicate with friends, family, and coworkers.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Ars Technica: How hobbyist hackers are preserving Pokémon’s past—and shaping its future. “While Nintendo, the games’ publisher, hasn’t worked to make older Pokémon games accessible on modern hardware—or affordable on older gear—a certain demographic of dedicated fans has taken it upon themselves to not just preserve legacy Pokémon titles but to actively improve them. These volunteer ROM hackers and preservationists work to keep the passions of an aging generation of Pokémon masters alive, all while fighting occasionally brutal legal crackdowns from Nintendo.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

ITV: Bruce Willis becomes first Hollywood actor to sell image rights to artificial intelligence company. “The deal means the firm, Deepcake, can now use both his moving and talking image within films and TV productions. It comes after the 67-year-old announced his retirement from acting in March, after being diagnosed with aphasia, which affects a person’s speech and language.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Center for European Policy Analysis: The Splinternet is Here: How to Make the Most of it. “The Open Internet turned out to be an illusion. Tech giants created a commercial space, not a public commons, more like a shopping mall than a public park. In this ‘space,’ the public discourse is owned by corporations accountable to a different set of interests than democratically elected governments. In countries such as Myanmar, Sri Lanka, India, and Ethiopia, social media has had bad, and in some cases, tragic side effects.” Good morning, Internet…

September 30, 2022 at 05:31PM
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Thursday, September 29, 2022

Aphex Twin, Kansas Life Stories, San Francisco Opera, More: Thursday Evening ResearchBuzz, September 29, 2022

Aphex Twin, Kansas Life Stories, San Francisco Opera, More: Thursday Evening ResearchBuzz, September 29, 2022
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Queue’s getting a little too big so enjoy this extra issue.

NEW RESOURCES

Pitchfork: Aphex Twin Launches “Sample Mashing” App. “Aphex Twin summarized the app in a statement through Warp: ‘What if you could reconstruct source audio from a selection of other mp3’s/audio on your computer? What if you could build a 303 riff from only acapellas or bubbling mud sounds? What if you could sing a silly tune and rebuild it from classical music files? You can do this with Samplebrain.'”

WIBW: New website helps preserve Kansans life stories. “The Kay McFarland Japanese Garden played host to the launch of ‘Lasting Legacy Online.’ It is a website allowing users to log their own life stories to share with their loved ones.”

Gramophone: San Francisco Opera marks centenary with free access to online archive. “San Francisco Opera has launched a free online hub of historic recordings and rare archival interviews, as part of its centenary celebrations. Called Streaming the First Century, it will provide free entry to selected recordings from San Francisco Opera’s past, thematically inspired by upcoming performances this autumn.”

EVENTS

USC Shoah Foundation: Towards recommendations for working with Holocaust testimony in the digital age. “In this lecture, Dr Walden will present the initial outcome of the two workshops on the theme ‘digitally recording, recirculating and remixing testimony’ which brought together scholars, archivists, Holocaust educators, artists and filmmakers from the UK, USA, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Israel, including colleagues who have been involved in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony project.” The event appears to be free but registration is required. It’s via Zoom.

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Bloomberg: NFT Trading Volumes Collapse 97% From January Peak. “Trading volumes in nonfungible tokens — digital art and collectibles recorded on blockchains — have tumbled 97% from a record high in January this year. They slid to just $466 million in September from $17 billion at the start of 2022, according to data from Dune Analytics.”

Engadget: Adobe vows to continue offering Figma’s free plan if its buyout is approved. “In an interview with Bloomberg, Adobe Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky has reassured worried Figma users that the online collaborative design platform’s acquisition will not change its pricing model and ease of use. If you’ll recall, Adobe announced in mid-September that it’s purchasing Figma for roughly $20 billion in cash and shares. Users understandably raised concerns about the merger, seeing as Adobe’s programs are quite expensive.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Rest of World: TikTok creators are condensing Hollywood movies into minutes and getting millions of views. “Chinese creators use translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs — TikTok is blocked in China — to help viewers speed-watch movies and TV dramas in English, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia. Despite the translation errors and robotic narrations, each clip garners anywhere between a few thousand to millions of views, generating decent income for the creators.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

The Hill: Authors slam publishers’ lawsuit against ‘Open Library,’ push for new e-book policies. “Hundreds of authors signed a letter slamming major publishing companies’ lawsuit against a free digital library, and urged publishers to update their policies to allow libraries to purchase copies of e-books.”

TechCrunch: Vietnam to restrict which social media accounts can post news. “With the rising tide of fake news on social media platforms, the debate over how much control a government should have on online information is a perennial one. In Vietnam, the government is intensifying its control over the internet regime. The country is formulating new rules to control which types of social media accounts are allowed to disseminate news in the country, Reuters reported, citing sources.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

Washington College: New social media guidelines are hindering student voices. “Students should have the right to post the school as they see fit. While some comments may reflect negatively on WC, they should be used as a basis for change. The voice of student life should be uplifted and heard instead of silenced in shame. The new social media guidelines are intended to stop harassment in its tracks and maintain a good image for the College, but students should be allowed to have fun with each other and make comments about their school.” Good evening, Internet…

September 30, 2022 at 03:31AM
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Kentucky Housing for Recovery, Introduction to Biology, 1990s Gifs, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, September 29, 2022

Kentucky Housing for Recovery, Introduction to Biology, 1990s Gifs, More: Thursday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, September 29, 2022
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NEW RESOURCES

University of Kentucky: New searchable website will help people in recovery find housing. “The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC), housed in the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, recently launched a new resource for people with substance use disorder (SUD)…People who visit the site can confidentially locate safe, affordable recovery housing openings based on their needs and personal situation. Users can narrow their search by location, rent amount, amenities, services, residence requirements, transportation options and more.”

Rice University: See nature like (and with) a biologist in new online courses. “Solomon’s Introduction to Biology is the latest offering from Rice’s Wiess School of Natural Sciences through Rice Online and Coursera. The three-course series allows learners to see nature the way a biologist does, with virtual field trips to help understand and appreciate the incredible diversity of life on Earth.” The class is free to audit but if you want a certificate you’ll have to pay a fee.

Boing Boing: People are creating huge online archives of GIFs from 90s CD-ROMs. “Tumblr user Gearsphere found this neat CD-Rom of animated GIFs in a thrift store, and uploaded all 22,000 images to a public Google Drive for anyone to download and use. They are gloriously 90s, gloriously 8-bit, and just glorious overall. Not to be outdone, someone else by this act of silly-internet-history kindness, and uploaded their 6-CD-Rom set of animated web clips, too.”

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Engadget: Google is making it easier to find search results from Reddit and other forums. “Google is making it easier to find search results from Reddit and other forum sites. The search engine is adding a new module that will surface discussions happening on forums across the web for queries that may benefit from crowd-sourced answers.”

CNBC: Google adds new search features to try to give users the ‘vibe’ of a city or neighborhood. “Google now says it has enough local data to predict a neighborhood’s ‘vibes’ in search results. The company is launching ‘immersive views’ and ‘vibes’ for some locations, adding more details in visual form so that users will be able to explore locations before they visit, Google said at its third annual Search On event Wednesday.”

USEFUL STUFF

How-To Geek: 5 iPhone Screenshot Tricks You Should Know. “Taking screenshots on an iPhone is a simple thing to do, but there’s more than meets the eye. Apple includes a handful of nifty tools for screenshots, and there are some clever ‘unofficial’ tricks you should know about.”

AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD

Axios: Google Ventures shelves its algorithm. “Google Ventures has mothballed an algorithm that for years had served as a gatekeeper for new investments, Axios has learned from multiple sources. Why it matters: This is a strategic sea change for one of venture capital’s most data-driven firms, and a Big Tech acknowledgement that human judgement shouldn’t always be automated away.”

SECURITY & LEGAL

CNET: Twitter Ran Ads on Profiles Trading in Child Sexual Abuse Content. “Twitter said Wednesday it’s investigating how ads from major brands appeared on profiles that were soliciting or selling child sexual abuse content.”

Associated Press: Drag performer sues blogger for defamation over edited video. “Eric Posey filed the lawsuit Monday in a court in northern Idaho, saying his reputation was damaged and his professional opportunities suffered after Summer Bushnell, who runs a blog called ‘The Bushnell Report,’ released the video and falsely told her social media followers that Posey had committed a felony by exposing himself to children during a Pride event in June. A subsequent police investigation cleared Posey of wrongdoing, and a city prosecutor said an unedited copy of the video showed no evidence of indecent exposure.”

RESEARCH & OPINION

The Conversation: As pandemic measures are lifted, social media use has declined with the exception of TikTok . “Our report findings show that Canadians’ use of social media has declined from its early pandemic peak; however, Canada continues to be one of the most connected countries in the world — 94 per cent of online adults use at least one social media platform. We found that TikTok had the largest gain (an increase of 11 per cent) in the number of Canadian adults who reported having an account on the platform in 2022, compared to data we collected in 2020.” Good afternoon, Internet…

September 30, 2022 at 01:01AM
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