NEW RESOURCES
CODART: More than 70 Summaries of Museums and Institutions with Dutch and Flemish Collections in the Netherlands Published. "As part of CODART's 25th anniversary year, the summary texts of museum collections with Dutch and Flemish art on this website are being greatly expanded in two installments. In March we announced the addition of more than 40 summaries of Belgian collections, and now we announce the addition of around 70 new summary texts of public collections in the Netherlands with significant holdings of art from the Low Countries. The texts were written exclusively for the CODART website by, or in collaboration with, curators of the collection in question."
New-to-me, from San Diego Reader: Jim MacDonald's cellphone captures over 2,000 local performances. "Just a Fan Recording Local Music is the name of Jim MacDonald's YouTube channel; it boasts over 2000 cell phone videos of live performances by local artists, 586 subscribers, and around 191,000 views. MacDonald resides in Ocean Beach, and in 2019, he started walking over to the Farmers Market bandstage on Wednesdays to check out performers like Yvonne Brown of the Kings."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Vice: Pizzagate Rears Its Head Again, and Not Just Because of Elon Musk. "Over the past several weeks, Elon Musk, a business genius, has further devalued Twitter, the website he owns and insists on calling X, by posting things and engaging with things supportive of Pizzagate. The 2016 conspiracy theory makes no sense on its own terms and has been repeatedly and roundly debunked anyway, including by a gun-wielding citizen carrying out his own investigation. (He found there were no children being held in the basement of Comet Ping Pong, which does not have a basement.)"
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Futurism: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers. "There was nothing in Drew Ortiz's author biography at Sports Illustrated to suggest that he was anything other than human.... The only problem? Outside of Sports Illustrated, Drew Ortiz doesn't seem to exist. He has no social media presence and no publishing history. And even more strangely, his profile photo on Sports Illustrated is for sale on a website that sells AI-generated headshots, where he's described as 'neutral white young-adult male with short brown hair and blue eyes.'"
Search Engine Land: Google Ads boss Jerry Dischler steps down. "The executive in charge of Google Ads, Jerry Dischler, stepped down after more than 15 years with Google. Google wouldn't say whether Dischler will stay with the company, only that he would take on a 'new challenge.' Google confirmed to Search Engine Land that the decision was not related to the recent federal antitrust trial."
SECURITY & LEGAL
New York Times: How Your Child's Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life. "Google-owned YouTube has A.I.-powered systems that review the hundreds of hours of video that are uploaded to the service every minute. The scanning process can sometimes go awry and tar innocent individuals as child abusers. The New York Times has documented other episodes in which parents' digital lives were upended by naked photos and videos of their children that Google's A.I. systems flagged and that human reviewers determined to be illicit. Some parents have been investigated by the police as a result."
Europol: International collaboration leads to dismantlement of ransomware group in Ukraine amidst ongoing war. "In an unprecedented effort, law enforcement and judicial authorities from seven countries have joined forces with Europol and Eurojust to dismantle and apprehend in Ukraine key figures behind significant ransomware operations wreaking havoc across the world. The operation comes at a critical time, as the country grapples with the challenges of Russia's military aggression against its territory."
RESEARCH & OPINION
Utrecht University: Revealed: this is what this 15th-century painting looked like before it was painted over. "Assistant Professor Sanne Frequin was one of the three speakers at the Paleissymposium, with King Willem-Alexander as host. Frequin spoke about her Lindau project, in which she and her team digitally restored the painting The Crucifixion (around 1425) and made a 3D print of the work. The 3D reconstruction was revealed for the first time during the symposium."
University of Kentucky: UK researcher developing anti-tracking and robocall-free architecture. "The project, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), is led by Yang Xiao, Ph.D., assistant professor in Department of Computer Science in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering. Its goal is to develop an anti-tracking and robocall-free mobile access architecture to provide maximum privacy protection for mobile users."
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
AI Weirdness: AI Weirdness advent calendar 2023. "It's 2023 and the combo of GPT-4/DALL-E3 can generate passable versions of the saccharine Christmas drawings in an advent calendar. They cannot, however, label them correctly. Also sometimes you get sweatermugs. This means the 2023 AI-generated advent calendar is happening!"
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