Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #150

The very best

Human systems are now so radically interconnected and interdependent that there is no avoiding this phase transition. By Patrick Hollingworth

Excellent long read by Benjamin Bratton who thinks in novel ways about "stacks" and what this means for governance. Below a talk by the same author.

Great overview of the history of management by Niels Pflaeging. Mary Parker Follett vs. Frederick Winslow Taylor.

Fascinating piece by Bratt Templeton on how much and what else AI-driven maps see what humans don't see.

Provocations for people working now to build tomorrow’s systems. By Omidyar and The Guild of Future Architects.

Your description for this link...

Listen now (15 min) | So if everything accelerated, what year are we in?

Microsite is now open: https://cx.report/2021-cx-report/ A compendium of my emerging insights gathered in the exciting critical event management space to tac...

By Eunji Kang and Eunsoo Lee (Dark Matter Labs), Tshering Wangmo, Tshoki Zangmo and Bishnu Chettri (UNDP Bhutan) Bhutan, a country of roughly 760,000 people and one of the very few carbon-negative…

About a fantastic apps implementing the color insights of Josef Albers

Stories of systems, serendipity and grace. By Genevieve Bell

Chapter 5, Sections 3-4 of The Clockless Clock

Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs turns out to be inspired by teachings of the Blackfeet Nation. Only he got it backward. What have we missed in not understanding the true origins of the famous psychological idea?

Data and Society

Brave has explained in a press release — “Why Brave disables FloC” — how Google’s proposed alternative to third-party cookies, a user segmentation system called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or…

The company is behaving like a common troll on social media, which is not the usual stance for a giant corporation. As someone who has spent an ungodly amount of time studying brand behavior on the…

Your description for this link...

The World Economic Forum has created a movie clip about our research and development on crowd simulation at Utrecht University and uCrowds BV.Research websit...

Zeitgeist

With Putin and Xi moving into an ever closer alliance, Joe Biden’s untested US administration may be pushed to the brink

Innovation

How do you make art across many mediums, delve into a range of motifs, and come out the other side with a cohesive oeuvre? Caroline Sinders knows how. Sinders is a cross-disciplinary artist of many…

A couple weeks ago, I saw in the news that Elon Musk said he wanted to create a city called “Starbase” in Texas. It was reported that SpaceX has approached Boca Chica county officials with the idea…

It was only last month that I reported on the development of stem cell-derived brain organoids by researchers. These lab-grown organoids were seen to mature in a similar fashion to that of human…

Future of work

Power in self-organizing teams

I have been working for the past few months on a research project into intranets — the internal communications solutions that many companies use to inform and connect employees and to serve as a…

We help part-time entrepreneurs execute on their startup to get from idea to revenue and funding. We also work with existing businesses to help them grow.

Advice from an exec at an SVJP gathering: “You’re robbing your colleagues of your experience and point of view.” In other words, be frank with what you want to say to a group. Don't save it to later.“Help me poke holes in my biases.” Encourage your team to question what…

And Basecamp has just slipped into Autocracy

About 10 year commitments to projects.

Internet Culture

“Feral File” is a small and closely focussed NFT art market where the ten curated exhibits double as a gallery show. Everything sold out. It sold so rapidly that the site crashed. These are good…

Why Substack’s model isn’t viable

Control over underlying tech infrastructure determines who benefits from it, raising the prospect of alternative ownership and profit models.

FinTech

(Bloomberg) -- Walmart Inc.’s financial technology venture, still shrouded in mystery, now has a possible name: Hazel by Walmart. The world’s largest retailer filed for a trademark on the name on March 29, in the process giving clues as to what the startup might actually do.

Excellent overview of what's up for web monetisation by Stephanie Rieger.

Letter to Shareholders from Jamie Dimon, Annual Report 2020 | JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The gold rush to create NFTs of everything from farts to toilet paper ads is creating a new tragedy of the commons.

Working to drive demand for data-rich payments at 20022 Labs taught us that everyone involved in data-rich payments is overwhelmed with news, analysis and industry changes. Since we’re following news on a daily basis, we’ve created a curated a “sports highlights” newsletter to keep you up-to-date on

A new foundation bringing together the who's who of Interledger protocol.

The Interledger Foundation envisions a world where it’s possible for creators and publishers to to get paid for their work without relying on invasive ads, paywalls and the abuse of personal data.

Deep insights from Richard Reisman on what's next for (open source) payments as part of or on top of internet protocols

Super report from Citi on the state of the future of money

Between trade wars, proxy wars, currency wars and culture wars, we seem to be living in a scene out of the end of Babylon. There are lots of speculators in the mix, waxing theoretical on “Bitcoin’s…

Google executive eyes the future of big techs in the banking business through the lens of her long experience at Citibank.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

The US must rally partners to rein in the abuse of multilateral institutions for Huawei’s plans on 6G and beyond, which make concerns over 5G look minor.

A critique on what the Ubers and Deliveroos are doing with their “Below the API” workers.

The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors

On the illusions of the big promises of VR

Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) takes the wraps off pioneering work on the AI and haptics needed for all day everyday wearable AR glasses. To have a practical use, a number of technologies would need to…

Last time I talked about a smart city concept of the future was back in 2019, and the project under discussion was NEOM: A Tech Utopia in the Sands. It is an audacious plan by the Kingdom of Saudi…

Like crafty genies, AIs will grant our wishes and then hack them, exploiting our social, political, and economic systems like never before.

Neuralink President Max Hodak tweeted Saturday that he has left the company he co-founded with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Hodak didn’t say why he left the brain tech company but said he remained a "huge cheerleader."

Digital Ethics

The military has long been interested in what medical ethicist Jonathan Moreno calls “the whole supersoldier business” — using technology to produce bionically or pharmaceutically superior…

The European Union is considering new laws prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence for mass surveillance and social credit scores. This is according to leaked draft legislation, which is due to be announced next week.

European Union lawmakers have presented their risk-based proposal for regulating high risk applications of artificial intelligence within the bloc’s single market. The plan includes prohibitions on a small number of use-cases that are considered too dangerous to people’s safety or EU citizens’ fundamental rights, such as a China-style social credit scoring system or AI-enabled behavior […]

Computers like rules. They follow them. Turns out that bureaucracy and legal systems like rules too. By Danah Boyd

Masks/Defence/Hiding

The Tokyo-based collective Rhizomatiks have always been pursuing new possibilities at the intersection of technology and artistic expression.

Link to the fascinating Rhizomatiks site

Post Capitalism

I like the calm and intimate setting of Gerd's latest video.

Cool-shit futurism (space colonization, moon telescopes, tech for the sake of tech to some extent) vs cozy futurism (urban reform, renewable energy, solving climate change)

Weird (Cyber)Space

In Anti-Oedipus, the first volume of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s monumental work Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Not for the faint at heart.

On Maya Man’s Compassionate Digital Experiments

Art related

Everydays: The First 5000 days sold for $69M as an NFT Huge buzz has arisen over NFTs -- non-fungible-tokens -- due to the purchase of a token representing a piece of digital art by "Beeple" for over $69 million. Is it a craze, or does it make sense? The Beeple sale may have some artificial nature to it, as it was done with crypto-wealth not for the artwork but because the

via Frank Poncelet

La Experiencia Inmersiva en la obra de Klimt, en el Ideal

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, with his peers in the avant-garde ‘Die Brücke’ group, developed a spontaneous and fresh artistic style that scandalised the establishment of his day. A portrait of a highly talented yet controversial painter.

A documentary on provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called "Persian Picasso," whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures were all the rage in pre-revolutionary Iran.

Whether you’re a beginner or professional in art/engineering who is simply intrigued by the mesmerizing patterns of generative art, here’s some ways you can learn something new: To learn more, check…

Director Aga Beaupré reveals the story-telling potential of flowers in a new project showcasing the work of artist and multidisciplinary designer Marcin Rus...

BOZAR LAB and GLUON present SECRETS. Artificial Intelligence and Luc Tuymans, an exhibition that showcases ongoing research on how AI understands artistic pr...

What is the relationship between art and artificial intelligence (AI)? Can AI become a tool for the contemporary artist? Does AI look at a p...

Friends from Academy

K.A.S.K. Atelier Schilderkunst 2021

Your description for this link...

Aesthetics

Fronte Violeta are Anelena Toku and Carla Boregas, a duo based in São Paulo who investigate the behaviour of sound in different environments via performance,...

A short story by Leonardo Van Dijl inspired on the works of Len LyeDOP Nicolas KarakatsanisModels Jonas Gloër, Sang Woo Kim, Tim Schuhmacher, Malick Bodian, ...

In Xeno, choreographed by Mexico City-based Diego Vega and directed by Amy J. Gardner, Natasha Patterson and Sabine Van Rensburg play out a brief yet intimat...

Hungarian animation filmmaker and director Flóra Anna Buda shares her vibrant vision of three women living in separate parallel universes. “My ambition was t...

Styled with passion. Dressed to perform. Tokyo here we come! Visit teambelgium.be and discover our style for the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

French Waterby Anthony VaccarelloDirected by Jim JarmuschCharlotte Gainsbourg, Indya Moore, Julianne Moore, Chloë Sevigny & Leo ReillyMusic by Noveller. Addi...

Video by AKKuspanovaSound Design by Joon Kwak

Balenciaga Summer 20 CampaignVideo by Will BenedictMusic by Wolf Eyes

One of Dada filmmaker Hans Richter's early shorts. Lots of random imagery, including floating eyeballs! Originally with musical score by Darius Milhaud.More ...

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

Music/Sound

Welcome 2 America | Available 7.30.21 - Pre-Order Now! - https://Prince.lnk.to/W2AAY​Shop exclusive Prince music and merchandise at the Official Prince Store...

17 years after this stunning performance by Prince, I finally had the chance to go in and re-edit it slightly - since there were several shots that were both...

Taken from the BICEP LIVE GLOBAL STREAM II at London's Saatchi Gallery. Just announced. REWATCH WEEKEND. 12-14th March If you bought a ticket and want to wat...

Tom Jones' new single "Talking Reality Television Blues" Is Out Now: https://TomJones.lnk.to/TRTVBIDTom Jones' New Album 'Surrounded by Time' is also now ava...

This week, the "C" of TC Matic passed away, and the "T" was back in hospital. Live almost 40 years ago...

For real nerds

From the comfort of your home, you can get the Ever Given stuck wherever you want it. Drag and zoom the map to move this big old boat somewhere else.

Occupy White Walls: All the art, none of the rules

Other

HANOVER, NH—According to students enrolled in professor Michael Rosenthal's Philosophy 101 course at Dartmouth College, that guy, Darrin Floen, the one who sits at the back of the class and acts like he's Aristotle, seriously needs to shut the fuck up.