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algopop: Twitter-bot death threats and the police Jeffry Van Der Goot had a twitter-bot that was a Markov-ebooks type, remixing his own personal twitter profile, “it takes all my tweets I’ve ever made, takes random chunks of it and tries to make new sentences that make sense”. The bot somehow rearranged his words in a…
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… Naturally, I decided to ruin the fun by asking almost everyone about Gamergate. Although Intel has started to make amends for its role in legitimizing the anti-woman harassment campaign in 2014, most of the gaming industry has remained mum. And as I heard from several DICE attendees, women in gaming — and, to a…
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Makers: economic manifesto
mostlysignssomeportents: Some months ago, Chris Anderson wrote to me to let me know that he was working on a book called Makers, and given that I’d written a well-known novel on similar themes with the same title, did I mind? Of course I didn’t — for one thing, having already published many stories with the…
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npr: nprfreshair: From ‘Batman’ To ‘Birdman,’ Michael Keaton Knows Suits And Superheroes In the existential comedy Birdman, Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a washed up, insecure actor looking for a second shot at fame and success. In a last attempt to reignite his career, Riggan directs and stars in a Broadway play. Meanwhile, he is taunted…
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Samsung is warning customers about discussing personal information in front of their smart television set. The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV using its voice activation feature. Such TV sets “listen” to some of what is said in front of them and may share details they hear with Samsung or…
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gjmueller: Higher Education Is Not a Mixtape That aside, it’s a fantasy that higher education is careening toward an unbundled future of consumer choice, lower prices, and efficiency. Those making such predictions are peddling flawed analogies, while the technology they rely on is flawed. They just don’t understand the economics of higher education. Higher-education consumers—students…