Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #147

The very best

Weird times call for weird notions of money. Venkatesh Rao at his best writing. Part of the Great Weirding series. Some posts require subscription.

Fantastic essay by Genevieve Bell on stories of systems, serendipity and grace.

About Scott Alexander's Slate Star Codex and what's next: Astral Codex 10 (very critical NYT article, but I remain huge fan)

Museums have an opportunity to play a constructive role in generating action on climate change.

About the Commonisation of Credit, maybe they should call it open source credit?

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Data and Society

​A U.S. government intelligence agency develops cutting-edge tech to predict future events. The organization uses teams of human non-experts and AI machine learning to forecast events. IARPA also conducts advanced research in numerous other fields, funding rotating programs.

Zeitgeist

Bill Gates believe lowering the Green Premiums is the single most important thing we can do to avoid a climate disaster.

No updates required, no lousy autonomy, no unnecessary features, no annoying notifications, just the only reminder you ever really need: To disconnect from a...

Innovation

Marketers work hard to drive people to purchase their products and services. They create content, drive eyeballs, offer free incentives, get people into their funnel, build trust over weeks, months…

#hyperloop #VirginHyperloophttps://virginhyperloop.comIG: https://www.instagram.com/virginhyperloopFB: https://www.facebook.com/virginhyperloopTW: https://tw...

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Title: Sparks from China - Upgrade EstateWebsite: https://www.pascalcoppens.com/CONTENT. The video explains how Upgrade Estate got sparks from China to accel...

Internet Culture

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FinTech

Really good overview. Retail flows, clearinghouse margin, short sellers, lawsuits, Roaring Kitty and Nottingham.

When two seas meet, vast waves rise. As we watch the Gamestop story play out, we’re witnessing a movement birthed on the internet crashing into an established institution. Neither will be the same…

The interview with CNBC of @chamath is a much watch because there is so much insight hidden underneath. There are many things that caught my attention. The one thing was the abstraction that hedge…

Furniture retailer Ikea is to acquire a 49% stake in Ikano Bank with the aim offering a full suite of banking services instore and online.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

General John Murray of the U.S. Army Future Command warns that humans on their own may be outmatched by drone swarms, and that we need help from artificial intelligence. Meanwhile the leader of a congressional panel has said weaponizing AI may be a moral imperative.

Understanding how algorithms are training our minds.

For the last nine years, the U.S. government has been working on a top-secret military artificial intelligence "brain" platform called "Sentient."

If artificial evolution is to design a useful robot for exoplanetary exploration, we’ll need to remove the human from the loop.

DARPA is developing new military drones that can fire missiles after being launched out of a fighter or bomber plane at a safe distance.

The mechanisms that allow the computer to learn are directly embedded in its hardware structure—no extra AI software required.

NZ's newest resident billionaire says BCIs could be used to change a person's mood, help them fall asleep, and to create incredibly immersive games.

Digital Ethics

Tim Cook says there will be consequences to having 'rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms'.

The Quantum Daily is proud to release Quantum Ethics: A Call to Action. This mini-documentary is meant to raise awareness and generate discussion about the e...

The streaming platform Spotify has secured a horrifying new patent to monitor the background noise and speech of its users.

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The Mission: To harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) by accelerating the adoption of trusted, transparent and inclusive AI systems globally.

The World Economic Forum's The Global AI Action Alliance brings more than 100 companies together to accelerate the adoption of inclusive, trusted and transparent AI.

Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilisation might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?

Masks/Defence/Hiding

In the last few years, the global population has an increase in privacy concerns. After the Facebook scandal in the 2016 U.S election, people start to realize how valuable their data is. But is the…

Designer and Innovator Anouk Wipprecht is working in the emerging field of "FashionTech"; a rare combination of fashion design combined with engineering, sci...

"Remember when Bob got hacked by Russian malware [and] ran naked through forests?"

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Weird (Cyber)Space

Part of the Great Weirding essay collection

Movie clip from "The Legend of Kaspar Hauser" by Davide ManuliA Blue Film, Shooting Hope productionMusic: "Poison Lips" by VitalicWith Vincent Gallo, Elisa S...

Art related

MEET THE MASTERSVan Eyck • Rubens • Bruegel360° immersive experiencewww.meetthemasters.beLocation: Plein Publiek BXL (Kunstberg / Mont des Arts Brussels)Open...

SATELLIKE - artistic sceneries of Asia, created with ink on a piece of paper. This project was initiated by a job I did for the National Palace Museum of Taipeh.…

© Hans Op de Beeck - 2007'The Building' is a digitally generated animation film in which the artist leads the viewer into a virtual, nocturnal walking tour o...

Friends from Academy

Dark Ambient try out - sound & video: Patrick Baele

Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Gent - Take Away Art.I the people can't come to see the Art, the Art will go to the people. Take Away art a project of the Aca...

Aesthetics

American photographer Gary Krueger believes he lived through a ‘golden age’ in 1970s and 80s Los Angeles. A new exhibition pulls together his playful street photography

A new exhibition showcases the American virtuoso’s bold and experimental way of working. But as these images prove, his most important tool was his eyes

Video by CD MasterizzatoMix by Thom WardToma Kami - Lstrass (Toma Kami pata mix) [Strecke records]Toma Kami - X Flies [ Oscillate tracks]Toma Kami - unreleas...

The Outsider, created by Yuan Gao, is set in a corporate future and features an office worker who tries to break the limitations of his social status. He bel...

Music/Sound

VULFPECK /// Dean Town (Live at Madison Square Garden)buy vinyl first pressing at https://vulfpeck.bandcamp.com/

'Surface' played live. Stream 'Surface' on other platforms - https://whisperingsons.lnk.to/surfaceDirector - Jonas HollevoetD.O.P. - Jo VermaerckeFirst Assi...

This is "Konkrete Twist" by De Kommeniste on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Vive la Fête live at Benicassim

For real nerds

Other

A new photo by Ars Technica photographer Trevor Mahlmann shows SpaceX's Starship spacecraft in astonishing, 425-megapixel detail.

There’s an interesting video interview on CNBC with Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, the original founders of Tesla, that talks about the early days, and how they decided to base the Tesla…