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How healthy is the internet? — The Internet Health Report 2019 — The Internet Health Report 2019
How healthy is the internet? — The Internet Health Report 2019 — The Internet Health Report 2019
Is the internet unhealthy? We planted this question in your mind with the title of this report and in the questions we ask throughout. But you will not be getting a simple yes or no answer. As you may have gathered, this publication is neither a country-level index nor a doomsday clock. We invite you to join us in assessing what it means for the internet to be healthy, and to participate in setting an agenda for how we can work together to create an internet that truly puts people first. Our intention with this compilation of research, interviews and analysis (designed with input from hundreds of readers in collaboration with over 200 experts) is to show that while the worldwide consequences of getting things wrong with the internet could be huge – for peace and security, for political and individual freedoms, for human equality – the problems are never so great that nothing can be done. More people than you imagine are working to make the internet healthier, and getting things right, by applying their skills, creativity, and even personal bravery, to business, technology, activism, policy and regulation, education and community development.
#internet#mozilla#netnarr
·internethealthreport.org·
How healthy is the internet? — The Internet Health Report 2019 — The Internet Health Report 2019
Monomyth Online | Establishing the Epic Heroes of Online Learning
Monomyth Online | Establishing the Epic Heroes of Online Learning
Writer and mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote about the monomyth in his seminal work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, citing that many of our stories passed down throughout time follow a common narrative structure. Since its publication in 1949, Campbell’s seventeen stages within the monomyth have been identified in myriad works ranging in diversity from Homer’s Odyssey to Star Wars. Adapting the monomyth structure to the online learning environment affords myriad opportunities to bolster student autonomy and engagement. Explore the three areas of the monomyth online to learn more about its application.
#Storytelling#online#teaching
·monomythonline.com·
Monomyth Online | Establishing the Epic Heroes of Online Learning
Establishing Epic Heroes – Keegan Long-Wheeler
Establishing Epic Heroes – Keegan Long-Wheeler
I developed a Storytelling Card Game for Online Learning Practitioners to play and consider their work and experiences through the lens of the Hero’s Journey. Holding a handful of cards, players are challenged to develop narratives describing their online learning experiences to share for group discussion.
#Storytelling#learning#teaching#game
·keeganslw.com·
Establishing Epic Heroes – Keegan Long-Wheeler
The SETI screensaver shows us what the internet could've been
The SETI screensaver shows us what the internet could've been
SETI@home is a long-term science project currently run by the Berkeley Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. It began in the early 1960s, when astronomers first began harvesting data from vast radio telescopes — like the one at Green Bank in West Virginia—to look for signs of life beyond Earth. The search and the science is much older than the screen saver, of course, which was released to the public in 1999 and still running today. But the screen saver has been directly helping that search for the past two decades.
#web#history
·thenextweb.com·
The SETI screensaver shows us what the internet could've been
Dangerous High - Insulin Pricing is a Public Health Crisis | Insulin Nation
Dangerous High - Insulin Pricing is a Public Health Crisis | Insulin Nation
Insulins have gotten better over the years, and better insulins have been helpful for diabetic treatment. There is growing concern, however, about the very high cost of insulin, where prices have increased at seven times the rate of the consumer price index over the last 30 years. While the insulin market is not the largest, modern synthetic insulins are some of the highest-grossing medicines.
#insulin
·insulinnation.com·
Dangerous High - Insulin Pricing is a Public Health Crisis | Insulin Nation
Dreaming Nefertiti: Ancient queens and chatbots
Dreaming Nefertiti: Ancient queens and chatbots
What I particularly like about Nefertiti Bot is that it both validates the experience of Teacherbot and moves the conversation on a little. Whilst it also invites a critique of itself, the questions posed are different: Why does a bot need to exist to provide a counter-narrative to museum artefacts? What stories aren’t being told in main-stream curatorial practices? Why does a 3D scanned head of Nefertiti exist? How did the original one find it’s way into a museum? It also invites critique of a physical / digital artefact which I find fascinating. The possibilities for bots to be embedded into a range of contexts where they could act as provocative agents alongside engagement with another artefact, process, or activity has quite a bit of scope.
#bot#netnarr
·ammienoot.com·
Dreaming Nefertiti: Ancient queens and chatbots
MuseNet
MuseNet
We’ve created MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. MuseNet was not explicitly programmed with our understanding of music, but instead discovered patterns of harmony, rhythm, and style by learning to predict the next token in hundreds of thousands of MIDI files. MuseNet uses the same general-purpose unsupervised technology as GPT-2, a large-scale transformer model trained to predict the next token in a sequence, whether audio or text.
#ai#music#netnarr
·openai.com·
MuseNet
[1904.08653] Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection
[1904.08653] Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection
Adversarial attacks on machine learning models have seen increasing interest in the past years. By making only subtle changes to the input of a convolutional neural network, the output of the network can be swayed to output a completely different result. The first attacks did this by changing pixel values of an input image slightly to fool a classifier to output the wrong class. Other approaches have tried to learn "patches" that can be applied to an object to fool detectors and classifiers. Some of these approaches have also shown that these attacks are feasible in the real-world, i.e. by modifying an object and filming it with a video camera. However, all of these approaches target classes that contain almost no intra-class variety (e.g. stop signs). The known structure of the object is then used to generate an adversarial patch on top of it. In this paper, we present an approach to generate adversarial patches to targets with lots of intra-class variety, namely persons. The goal is to generate a patch that is able successfully hide a person from a person detector. An attack that could for instance be used maliciously to circumvent surveillance systems, intruders can sneak around undetected by holding a small cardboard plate in front of their body aimed towards the surveillance camera. From our results we can see that our system is able significantly lower the accuracy of a person detector. Our approach also functions well in real-life scenarios where the patch is filmed by a camera. To the best of our knowledge we are the first to attempt this kind of attack on targets with a high level of intra-class variety like persons.
#privacy#surveillance#netnarr#obfuscation
·arxiv.org·
[1904.08653] Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection
Surveilling Strangers: The Disciplinary Biopower of Digital Genre Assemblages - ScienceDirect
Surveilling Strangers: The Disciplinary Biopower of Digital Genre Assemblages - ScienceDirect
This article identifies and names the digital visual genre of strangershots: photographs of strangers taken without their knowledge or consent and then shared online, accruing derogatory comments as they circulate through online networks. By closely describing a specific strangershot posted on Reddit and then connecting it to further examples, I aim to demonstrate that strangershots constitute a genre identifiable by the recurring social actions they accomplish by producing similar responses to recurring social situations. After identifying the genre, I apply actor-network theory to demonstrate how this genre is produced by assemblages of humans and non-human technologies. Following that, I argue that the genre reifies normalcy by leveraging biopower against non-normative bodies through explicit public shaming. The technological assemblage producing the genre, and the very notion of this genre as a regularized response to recurring social situations, has created new avenues for biopower to regulate individuals. This critical genre analysis provides nuance to assemblage theories of composition pedagogy by valuing ethical analyses of assemblage genre’s social actions. This analysis of strangershots helps us meet the digital imperative to pedagogically address 21st-century technology-driven composition practices while meaningfully considering the social actions performed by the genres and texts we teach.
#privacy#photography#netnarr
·sciencedirect.com·
Surveilling Strangers: The Disciplinary Biopower of Digital Genre Assemblages - ScienceDirect
Be Wary of Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience: on The Center for Humane Technology | LibrarianShipwreck
Be Wary of Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience: on The Center for Humane Technology | LibrarianShipwreck
With its carefully crafted website, smiling staff of reformed insiders, and fawning media reception it’s easy to be taken in by the Center for Humane Technology. And yet, as Jacques Ellul wryly warned, “One cannot but marvel at an organization which provides the antidote as it distills the poison.”[2] Well-meaning though it may be, the Center for Humane Technology ultimately functions not as a solution to our technologically exacerbated problems, but simply as a way of making those problems slightly more palatable. It sees the cultural space that is opening up for criticism of technology and rushes in to ensure that this space is occupied by those who maintain close ties to the tech world – and thus it sets itself up as the arbiter of what passes for acceptable criticism. At a moment when there is growing concern that the high-tech dream is turning into a waking nightmare, the Center for Humane Technology swoops in to offer lifestyle tweaks (many of which are themselves technological) instead of systemic critiques. And by putting forth a slate of “former tech insiders and CEOs” the Center for Humane Technology polices the boundaries of who gets to participate in these discussions, making sure that it remains a conversation between former Google employees and current Google employees.
#netnarr
·librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com·
Be Wary of Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience: on The Center for Humane Technology | LibrarianShipwreck
MegaPixels
MegaPixels
Duke MTMC contains over 2 million video frames and 2,700 unique identities collected from 8 HD cameras at Duke University campus in March 2014
#privacy#netnarr#bigdata
·megapixels.cc·
MegaPixels
The History of the Web
The History of the Web
The web’s history is fairly unique. It is at once extremely ephemeral and still nascent. The web was born as a document based medium. One of the features of this medium was that documents can disappear. And they often do. So even as the web rapidly advances, pieces of it get lost over time. Some moments have crystallized and stayed at the forefront of the web’s development. Others have receded into the background. The goal of this site is to collect these moments and stories and start to build as complete a timeline as is possible. I’ll be gathering together the areas of the web history I’ve already dived into and starting to explore brand new areas. Along the way, I’ll share stories plucked from this research to start structuring a basic narrative about the moments that have been lost, and the ones that have not.
#history#internet
·thehistoryoftheweb.com·
The History of the Web
Tables for Layout? Absurd. - The History of the Web
Tables for Layout? Absurd. - The History of the Web
Web designers that cut their teeth in the late 90’s and early 2000’s probably remember table-based layouts. This was a time when some webmasters forced their sites into perfect configuration using HTML data tables, spacer GIF images and a few kindred hacks. But for a while there, there weren’t a whole lot of options in terms of visual design. This is an attempt to trace that back and try to figure out where things went so wrong.
#html#webdesign#history
·thehistoryoftheweb.com·
Tables for Layout? Absurd. - The History of the Web
NetHack: The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play
NetHack: The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play
NetHack is the deepest and most challenging video game ever created. In continuous development by an international team of over 100 developers since 1987, NetHack boasts an unparalleled level of interactivity, replayability, and difficulty. In NetHack, players are charged with the task of retrieving the Amulet of Yendor from the Mazes of Menace, a vast dungeon that is randomly-generated to insure a unique experience for each new adventure. In the Mazes of Menace, your wits are your greatest strength, and success is dependent upon your creativity and cunning. There are no do-overs in NetHack, and death is swift for those who fail to learn the intricacies of the Mazes. NetHack is a truly difficult game, and many play for years before emerging from the dungeon victoriously. Think you've got what it takes to plumb the depths, snag the Amulet, and make it out alive? Give it a go. NetHack is open-source and freely available for nearly every platform under the sun, and below you can find links to many popular versions.
#games
·thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com·
NetHack: The Greatest Game You Will Ever Play
DataMaps
DataMaps
Customizable SVG map visualizations for the web in a single Javascript file using D3.js
#javascript#mapping
·datamaps.github.io·
DataMaps
Random Sentence Generator
Random Sentence Generator
Use this random sentence generator to create random sentences that can help you brainstorm, come up with new story ideas, or song lyrics. The tool chooses nouns, verbs and adjectives from a hand-picked list of thousands of the most evocative words and generates a random sentence to help inspire you. This method of using random words to generate ideas is largely inspired by the cut-up technique invented by the writer William S. Burroughs.
#random#generator
·textfixer.com·
Random Sentence Generator
100 years of Bauhaus: what famous logos would look like in Bauhaus style
100 years of Bauhaus: what famous logos would look like in Bauhaus style
It’s bold. It’s minimal. It’s functional. After a hundred years, Bauhaus design continues to inspire artists, graphic designers and architects across the globe. It outlasted a century’s worth of competing styles, survived the initial criticisms from traditionalists, and although the Nazis shut down the institution in 1933, the Bauhaus movement itself lives on to this day. Logo designed by Jaseng99 And 2019 marks the 100th anniversary since this one-of-a-kind design revolution first started. To celebrate its impact, both then and now, we’ve asked our community of graphic designers to reimagine the most popular logos of today in the Bauhaus design style.
#Design
·99designs.ca·
100 years of Bauhaus: what famous logos would look like in Bauhaus style
It’s easier than you think to craft AI tools without typing a line of code - The Verge
It’s easier than you think to craft AI tools without typing a line of code - The Verge
A lot of companies are trying to make it easier to use artificial intelligence, but few are making it as simple as Lobe. The startup, which launched earlier this year, offers users a clean drag-and-drop interface for building deep learning algorithms from scratch. It’s mainly focused on machine vision. That means if you want to build a tool that recognizes different houseplants or can count the number of birds in a tree, you can do it all in Lobe without typing a single line of code.
#ai#prcon
·theverge.com·
It’s easier than you think to craft AI tools without typing a line of code - The Verge
AI Experiments | Experiments with Google
AI Experiments | Experiments with Google
AI Experiments is a showcase for simple experiments that make it easier for anyone to start exploring machine learning, through pictures, drawings, language, music, and more.
#research#ai
·experiments.withgoogle.com·
AI Experiments | Experiments with Google
Level up your productivity | Filterize
Level up your productivity | Filterize
Filterize is an online cloud service that acts like your personal Evernote assistant. Tell Filterize what to do and it starts working instantly in the background for you. It simplifies repetitive tasks, avoids errors and saves time. Filterize works with both Evernote private and business accounts and on any device. 
#tool
·filterize.net·
Level up your productivity | Filterize
Toolishness is Foolishness
Toolishness is Foolishness
It has spread far and wide . . . a fondness for tools that transcends purpose and utility . . . as when folks grab a hammer to paint a flower just because they like hammers or because hammers are trendy or when they allow a computer to speak for them to an audience instead of telling their stories with a natural voice or when people turn to search engines to find truths more likely to reside in books or their own hearts.
#learning#Technology#ideas
·fno.org·
Toolishness is Foolishness