A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staffwww.404media.co TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI...
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Scholar of computational media & communication in Aotearoa NZ. Code, news, silence when I can. Music when I can't. Tangata Tiriti, he/him, Jew. Previously: Palo Alto, SF, P.Penh, Fukui, Chicago
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The Avengers Cast Reassembles to Dub Film in Lakota Language - Reactorreactormag.com Working with The Lakota Language Reclamation Project, the actors came together once more for a very important cause.
Refuge: A Duty to Care (Trailer)www.youtube.com Refuge: A Duty to Care centres on life and work at a secret haven that shelters pets from violent homes, allowing victims of family violence to seek safety while knowing their animals are cared for. This film explores the Pet Refuge, located in rural Aotearoa New Zealand, a temporary shelter for domestic animals with owners escaping violent homes. Research shows a majority of victims of family violence stay in dangerous situations for too long, fearing their animals will be harmed, neglected, or killed. Pets are often used by abusive individuals to exert control - to stop victims from leaving a violent home, or to force their return. The Pet Refuge, one of the first shelters of its kind in the world, looks after animals until survivors find a safe place to be reunited with their pets. Refuge is a moving mosaic showing the busy, loving life at Pet Refuge threaded with survivor/victims' compelling first-person stories. While the film addresses the persistent and pervasive problem of domestic violence in Aotearoa New Zealand and across the world, it also highlights our increasing awareness of the rights of animals - a recognition that they think, feel and suffer. Pet Refuge is a living example of a ‘duty to care’, a small but significant active intervention that has real value in addressing a seemingly overwhelming problem. ---- Refuge: A Duty to Care is having its world premiere at the Docedge Film Festival: Wed 26 Jun 6:15 PM Christchurch, Alice Cinema Fri 28 Jun 3:30 PM Christchurch, Lumiere Cinemas Bardot Sun 7 Jul 2:30 PM Auckland, The Capitol Cinema Sun 7 Jul 2:45 PM Wellington, The Roxy Cinema 1 Mon 15 Jul to Wed 31 Jul Virtual Cinema, New Zealand More information at https://docedge.nz/films/refuge-a-duty-to-care/
My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complexwww.theatlantic.com Online conspiracy theorists turned me into “CIA Renee.”
Apple joins the race to find an AI icon that makes sense | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com No one knows what AI looks like, or even is supposed to look like. It does everything, but looks like nothing.
Book review: “The Secret Life of Data” is fascinating and disturbing | Cybernewscybernews.com We’ve succumbed to the reality that some corporation or agency is gathering our personal data. A new book argues that this threatens open societies as we know them.
Silicon Valley’s unlikely ally to defend generative AIdisconnect.blog Anti-copyright activists fought the film and music industries. Now they’re fighting artists who want to stop generative AI.
“Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employeesarstechnica.com With worker surveillance on the rise, vendors sell devices to fake keyboard and mouse movement.
Ray Bradbury Wrote Fahrenheit 451 on a Coin-Operated Typewriterwww.neatorama.com I'm old enough to remember coin-operated television sets in airports and bus stations. But what I found most surprising by this article in UCLA Magazine was that coin-operated typewriters existed...