NEW RESOURCES
University of Chicago: Jessica Stockholder Digital Archive Available on LUNA. "The Visual Resources Center (VRC) is excited to announce the digital archive of Jessica Stockholder, now available to the UChicago community and beyond on the VRC's digital collections platform, LUNA. The Jessica Stockholder Archive is the first LUNA collection dedicated to a near-comprehensive overview of the work of a single artist."
University of Massachusetts Amherst: UMass Amherst Libraries Announce Jerry Russo Oral History Collection. "In March of 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, filmmaker and photographer Jerry Russo began working on an oral history project to interview visual artists and creatives all over the world. During the subsequent two years, he completed 249 interviews via Zoom. Russo donated the oral histories to the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center (SCUA), for which social change and the arts are major collecting focuses; more than 100 of the interviews are now available in SCUA's digital repository, Credo."
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Guardian: X struggling to win advertisers back after Elon Musk's profane outburst. "Major advertisers like Disney, IBM and Apple are still withholding ad dollars from Elon Musk's X two weeks after its owner endorsed an antisemitic tweet and two days after he launched an expletive-laden tirade to describe his feelings about the pull back. Marketing agencies are pulling back from it as well. In response, X has said it plans to attract smaller and medium-sized businesses to prop up its income."
TechCrunch: Pinterest begins testing a 'body type ranges' tool to make searches more inclusive. "Pinterest is today expanding on its efforts to make its product more inclusive with respect to body type diversity with the test of a new consumer-facing tool that allows users to filter select searches by different body types. The feature, which will work with women's fashion and wedding ideas at launch, builds on Pinterest's new body type technology announced earlier this year."
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Platformer: Amazon's Q has 'severe hallucinations' and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn. "Three days after Amazon announced its AI chatbot Q, some employees are sounding alarms about accuracy and privacy issues. Q is 'experiencing severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data,' including the location of AWS data centers, internal discount programs, and unreleased features, according to leaked documents obtained by Platformer. "
Galway Daily: University of Galway creating digital archive of letters from Irish expats c.1675 – 1950 . "The University of Galway has received funding to create a digital archive of letters from Irish expats in America over three centuries.... This funding will enable the development of an archival site which will provide the public with remote access to letters sent home to Ireland from America between 1675 and 1950 and more."
SECURITY & LEGAL
WIRED: Telegram's Bans on Extremist Channels Aren't Really Bans. "A WIRED investigation reveals that rather than ban or delete Hamas channels or those run by right-wing extremist groups, Telegram is hiding them from the users of the two major app stores, but they are still there. Some of the content from restricted channels is being shared broadly in unrestricted ones—despite Telegram's mechanisms for stopping the sharing of such content."
CNN: Judge blocks Montana's TikTok ban from taking effect on January 1. "A federal judge on Thursday temporarily halted Montana's groundbreaking statewide TikTok ban, which was set to go into effect at the start of 2024, pending a trial on the matter."
RESEARCH & OPINION
Union College: Stigmatizing content on social media affects perceptions of mental health care, new study reveals. "Research has shown that social media can negatively impact people's mental health. But can it affect people's beliefs about mental health treatment? Yes, according to researchers at Union. In one of the first studies to examine the impact of social media on people's perceptions of mental health care, researchers discovered that viewing just a few social media posts that mock mental health treatment can have a profound impact on some people's attitudes toward treatment."
University of Southern California: Social media posts that promote tobacco are increasing, AI detection technology finds. "A new study led by Vassey and Harvard Medical School researcher Chris J. Kennedy, PhD, used a form of artificial intelligence (AI) known as computer vision to track the prevalence of various tobacco-related objects on social media, finding that some content increased as much as 100% between 2019 and 2022. The results were just published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research." Good afternoon, Internet...
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