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new-aesthetic: “AARON is the world’s first cybernetic artist: an artificially intelligent system that composes its own paintings. Incredibly, the system is the work of one man, Harold Cohen, who had no background in computing when he began the effort.” “Can you tell the difference between art created by AARON and art created by a human?…
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Suppose you wanted to create your own digital ghost to live for eternity in the Internet and maybe do some haunting. What would that look like? You’d start now, backing up everything that happens on your computer to the so-called cloud (storage on the Internet). You’d run a program in the background that monitors your…
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nevver: Sanity Clause
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We have to abandon the arrogant belief that the world is merely a puzzle to be solved Vaclav Havel’s Critique of the West (via theatlantic)
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One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that…
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The Ghost of Books: Part I
lareviewofbooks: SVEN BIRKERTS, GARY PHILLIPS, and JULIE CLINE Image © Lisa Jane Persky for Los Angeles Review of Books “The Ghost of Books: Past, Future, and Present” is an experiment not in terror and is not necessarily Dickensian. We’ve asked certain writers to respond to the three times (or tenses) in the subtitle, or simply…
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dinosaurparty: (via The “random tattoo” – Boing Boing) Every time you scan Fed Bosch’s QR code tattoo, it takes you to a different picture, video, forecast, or tweet. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand… I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that’s what we all are trying to do. Maurizio Cattelan…
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Are Creative People More Dishonest? – Carmen Nobel via HBS Working Knowledge
Are Creative People More Dishonest? – Carmen Nobel via HBS Working Knowledge Picasso is attributed with saying “art is a lie that tells the truth”. Creative individuals have also been characterized as those who can hold two conflicting ideas in their mind without going insane. This study comes as no surprise, but as verification stoweboyd:…
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The fact that there was any debate over whether to call in experts on such a matter should tell you something about the integrity of Congress. It’d be one thing if legitimate technical questions directed at the bill’s supporters weren’t met with either silence or veiled accusations that the other side was sympathetic to piracy.…