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on Jun. 13, 2021
stml:“My train ride home took a Hito Steyerlian turn. This is a CCTV test target. I had no idea such things even existed. I am obsessed.”https://twitter.com/_MichaelOswell_/status/1403049605831462914
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on Apr. 27, 2021
Deepfake satellite imagery poses a not-so-distant threat, warn geographers - The VergeWhen we think of deepfakes, we tend to imagine AI-generated people. This might be lighthearted, like a deepfake Tom Cruise, or malicious, like nonconsensual pornography. What we don’t imagine is deepfake geography…
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on Mar. 9, 2021
In 2014, Facebook filed a patent application for a technique that employs smartphone data to figure out if two people might know each other. The author, an engineering manager at Facebook named Ben Chen, wrote that it was not merely possible to detect that two smartphones were in the same place at…
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on Feb. 22, 2021
Over the past few years, cops sure have become increasingly vocal about their disdain of average citizens exercising their constitutional right to record interactions with authorities. It’s almost as if many of them feel they are above the law itself, but we digress. Now, some officers appear to be…
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on Feb. 12, 2021
“This installation collapses together images and objects referencing American colonialist expansion in the Philippines during the early 1900s, as well as contemporary racial politics and historical amnesia. Archival research of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair collides with contemporary protest imag…
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on Dec. 11, 2020
The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific AmericanThe technological white supremacy extends to human hair, where the term “hair” has become shorthand for the visual features that dominate white people’s hair. The standard model for rendering hair, the “Marschner” model, was custom…