Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #140

The very best

Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking Series is looking at the problem of truth in the digital age. Great series including notorious Jordan Hall.

Audrey Tang says tech can build trust, tame misinformation, and strengthen democracy. Her plan might even work in the US.

Robert Scoble outlines the 2020 Technology menu.

Remember the time you saw a kid try to touch a TV like an iPhone? Those kids are now in their 20s. Imagine what happens when today’s 10-year-old who is used to having Amazon Alexa, Google, Siri, and Facebook Portal at beck and call joins the workforce in a decade. They will expect everything to be augmented, and computing to be ambient and spatial.

Venkatesh Rao introduces the temporality stack and how minds and stories shaping each other.

About planning vs. emergence. About Citizen Jane last night (a documentary on everyone’s favorite urbanist, Jane Jacobs), and thinking through the parallels between urban planning philosophies and internet ecosystems.

The current conversations about what our digital ecosystems should be and who they are for almost exactly mirrors these tensions. This is unsurprising, as we live in our digital spaces just as much as we do in our physical ones.

Performance maker, Malena Arcucci investigates widely popular conspiracy theories. University of the Underground graduate, Malena Arcucci ended off the Anten...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology had always been world renown as the best university for engineers and informaticians. Even in it’s earlier days when technology wasn’t so developed, they came…

Two Truths and a Take, Season 2, Episode 24

From the nave of Chartres Cathedral in France, to church courtyards around the Bay Area, to stenciled-on paper traced with fingers via Zoom, thousands of spiritually curious minds have followed Lauren Artress down the winding unicursal paths known as labyrinths.

Data and Society

The identity community focused on user-centric ID gathers twice a year at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), an event at the crossroads of more than a dozen open standards working groups focused…

A surveillance camera, ‘computer vision’ software and a motorised curtain cause a provocation of privacy in a Berlin street

A Los Angeles startup has created “privacy-preserving face skins” – digital masks or avatars that counter facial recognition software.

Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped | Surveillance | The Guardian

The ruling is the latest twist in a campaign by privacy-rights activists in Europe to prevent personal information from being transferred to countries with looser protections.

What's happening in the streets isn't what you're seeing in the tweets.

Zeitgeist

Yesterday, the Mayor of Portland was gassed by the secret police of storm troopers that Donald Trump has sent to occupy the city. Yesterday, the Mayor of Portland was gassed by the secret police of…

Led By Donkeys started as an anonymous night-time guerrilla poster campaign by four friends determined to expose the lies, lunacy and hypocrisy of Brexit. Wh...

If you follow my blogs and videos, you know I generally share insights on China’s innovation to reveal the marvelous evolutions over there that are…

Innovation

Few firms counterpunch like Walmart. “Innovation” has a new, first-of-its-kind feel. But most stakeholder value is a function of firms benchmarking, copying, or stealing other firms’ great ideas…

The Last Light was an ambitious experience made by Magic Leap Studios, a now-defunct division inside the mixed reality startup. After SXSW was canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic, its future is uncertain.

Tessera Therapeutics is developing a new class of gene editors capable of precisely plugging in long stretches of DNA—something that Crispr can’t do.

Unlike GPS, they cannot be jammed by enemy action

Future of work

Zoom grew from 10 million daily active participants to more than 300 million daily active participants between Dec 2019 and Apr 2020. In the same period, Google Meet scaled up to more than 100…

FinTech

In the lead-up to Salesforce Live for Financial Services our keynote speaker – ‘king of the disruptors’ Brett King – shares what’s next for banks and insurers.

Ant Group could also be among the most valuable financial companies, period.

Days after announcing an expected $200 billion IPO, the Alibaba affiliate Ant Group has rebranded its enterprise blockchain to AntChain.

TOKYO -- Global competition for supremacy in digital currencies has entered a new phase with China's creation of an East Asia cryptocurrency scheme an

AI, Robots, Algorythms

In February of last year, the San Francisco–based research lab OpenAI announced that its AI system could now write convincing passages of English. Feed the beginning of a sentence or paragraph into GPT-2, as it was called, and it could continue the thought for as long as an essay with almost human-like coherence. Now, the…

“Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,” Arram Sabeti, a San Francisco–based developer and artist, tweeted last week. That pretty much sums up the response on social media in the last few days to OpenAI’s latest language-generating AI.   OpenAI first described GPT-3 in a research paper published in May. But last week it…

The AI participated in more than 20 different projects that included designing brand logos and building brand identities.

Digital Ethics

The search giant has been working on or funding a new generation of wearable technology.

As video becomes the hieroglyphics of our time, we’ll rely on it to communicate more than ever. And increasingly we’re coming to doubt the veracity of all things video.

Masks/Defence/Hiding

Post Capitalism

The government has awakened. No matter which mega-wealthy tech power broker you think did best at yesterday’s U.S. House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing, the central message to take away is that the era of disregard is over.

Weird (Cyber)Space

“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why.

Michael Wagner, a student from The Bartlett School of Architecture, presented his Marble Maze production design on the antenna conference stage that took pla...

A ransomware hit and subsequent outage caused problems in the company's aviation services, including flight planning and mapping.

Art related

David Lynch Theater Presents: I HAVE A RADIO Other Links you may enjoy: SCISSORS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QXU4ZqVjJk What Is David Working on Today? ...

René Magritte is not my favorite painter. His Surrealist visions are smooth and perfectly rendered, but they lack the bold color and shadowy mystery of say, a Giorgio de Chirico canvas. Still, he is…

Beautiful dance performance by Juliet Burnett, Opera Ballet Flanders, in search for identity.

Friends from Academy

My friend/co-student from the Art Academy in Overijse had her art exhibition last weekend. Her work feels more and more like Gerhard Richter.

Aesthetics

For the Prada Spring/Summer 2021, a singular statement is replaced by the perspectives of many: multiple views, by a multitude of global creatives. The colle...

This is "WalterVanBeirendonck_SS2021_Mirror_Vimeo" by Walter Van Beirendonck on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

This season, Artistic Director Kris Van Assche adapts to the challenges of our moment in time in a long-distance collaboration with the ceramic artist Brian ...

Fashion designer who created memorable stage costumes for stars including David Bowie, Elton John and Lady Gaga

Music/Sound

www.kijekadamski.com Film inspired by the theoretic work of George Berkeley and basics of synesthetic perception. It's a game of imagination provoked by sound.…

Listen to Weird Fishes on Spotify. Lianne La Havas · Song · 2020.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

For real nerds

A Second World War Enigma Machine A FOUR-ROTOR ENIGMA CIPHER MACHINEOlympia Büromaschinenwerke AG in Erfurt, for Heimsoeth & Rink... Lot 0022, Jul 16, 2020