Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #128

The very best

About building movements around solidarity and direct action, to counter the culture of dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged.

About AI, Art and Augmented Architecture. Awesome talk by artist Refik Anadol, so inspiring if you are in tech and aesthetics...

Also about the future of architecture, and the "new normality" as the aesthetic of the new decade.

"We come home from the Oz of smoke and mirrors to an earth that we re-cultivate and re-culture"

Fantastic eye-opening interview with CEO/Co-Founder of Tesloop, a Tesla rental service for long distance sharing. Rethink mobility.

"Mobility is a hospitality service” and "Cars are appliances"

If you’re looking at 2020 as thé ‘future’, I dare to challenge you to think and act beyond that. 2020 is the year you’ll have to actually be bold…

"The one thing that makes me smile is the thought of the people I’ve met, the insights they’ve shared, the questions they raised. Their wander- and wonderlust leads to new ideas and new ambitions."

We humans are changing. We have become so intertwined with what we have created that we are no longer separate from it. We have outgrown the distinction between the natural and the artificial. We are what we make. We are our thoughts, whether they are created by our . . . Read More

Data and Society

Self-driving cars, iPads, Uber: The technological advances of this decade have happened so quickly that their breadth is difficult to comprehend. The next decade? That, times ten.

How to survive the internet in 2020. (It’s not going to be easy.)

Zeitgeist

The Epilepsy Foundation announced that it filed criminal complaints against a legion of copycats who targeted people with epilepsy and sent them an onslaught of strobe GIFs.

It was one of the most arresting viral photos of the year: a horde of climbers clogged atop Mount Everest. But it only begins to capture the deadly realities of what transpired that day at 29,000 feet.

Innovation

A round up of the most significant stories in Robocars in 2019, including Waymo's lead, Tesla's Autonomy Day, The Uber Fatality windup and more.

Future of work

Deep Learning researchers like to use the moniker ‘Meta Learning’ as a catch-all expression for “learning how to learn”. I’ve written earlier that what has been described as Meta-learning comes in…

Internet Culture

More than any designer this side of Cupertino, Matias Duarte has made phones easy to use. During his tenure at Google — first overseeing the design of Android — the vice president of…

FinTech

Tech is remaking the banking system from the inside out.

In the networked age, scale of production is no longer a moat. Instead, network effects are the new moat. Peter Thiel gets this; Buffet doesn’t.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

This is "The Library of Nonhuman Books" by Karen ann Donnachie on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Digital Ethics

Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function

What we learned from the spy in your pocket.

A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on artificial intelligence.

Post Capitalism

Cooperatives are hot again. We seem to evolve towards a symbiosis of human cooperative and machine P2P computing...

Nathan Schneider is a journalist and professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was among the first journalists to cover the Occupy Wall Street movement, and more recently…

The DisCO Manifesto presents a deep dive into the worlds of the Commons, Cooperatives Feminist Economics and Distributed Ledger Technologies. Distributed Coo...

A cooperative alliance of Cooperatives-as-a-Service looking at "Tech we can trust"

Could Sony's sensor-laden car be the future of blockchain-based mobility?

Art related

All the 3D models shown here have been generated with a deep neural network trained with thousands of images. Further reading: https://valillon.github.io/a-deep-look-inside-paintings.…

Starts at 3:40 after the looong intros - Ari Melenciano

Aesthetics

Love this visualisation of harmonics in music

"The wealth of speculation to which the Voynich has given rise only deepens the mystery of its creation."

Other

Funny - 5:15 A.M.: Internal performance optimization alarm activated. Eyes fly open. Strangled war cry escapes mouth. Fist reflexively punches air. 5:15–5:20 A.M.: Somersault out of bed. Land in plank…

Not so funny - Report by state media says some offenders are leaving infected feed in sties and are even using drones to spread contamination.