Mini SD cards containing microcontrollers that make generative music. Appears to your device as an MP3 file. Takes data from built-in sensors.
Market size: me. Maybe also Jeff.
It's not really an art project, it's just a thing I made. I'd call it #hacktivism, but academic journals seem to think that term means politically motivated cybre crime. It /does/ break the twitter TOS in a few ways, but those aren't the law.... yet...
There's nothing liminal, post-human, or techno utopian, but it does touch on migration and the alt-right and things that, like, matter in real life.
If there are no journals, I'd settle for a conference paper. Normally, I'm a musician, so I'm not sure where to send this....
#hactivism
“It is what it is” is something that dumb people say to sound wise. Just like “I’ve heard it both ways,” is what ignorant people say to sound knowledgeable.
Congress attempting to functionally extinguish copyright term limits, extend copyright protection to 140+ years; the 11th such extension in the past 40 years.
https://www.wired.com/story/congress-latest-move-to-extend-copyright-protection-is-misguided/
Watching ST:TNG from the beginning, and I’m somewhat surprised at how cheesy it is. Definitely more like the original series than any of the later ones.
How an SMS phishing attack works.
This victim gave up the code for their own bank account.
How Google allows any websites to deanonymize you in one click
https://blog.innerht.ml/google-yolo/
I think I just found a job with a BFOQ (Bona Fide Occupational Qualification) of “Must be under six feet tall”.
Internet, 2002; claiming that you're over 18 so that websites will let you in.
Internet, 2018: claiming that you're under 16 and in the EU so that websites cannot track your data
"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it is not satire, it is bullying." - Terry Pratchett
What do you do when you’re burnt out, tired, and stressed?
Regarding Facebook tracking non-users Mark Zuckerberg said "This kind of data collection is fundamental to how the internet works."
I'm not a networking expert but I know enough to be able to confidently say that nothing at all about this data collection is fundamental to how the Internet works. I guess he was using Silicon Valley speak where "the internet" means "huge corporations who make most of their money by selling ads and illegally collecting as much data as possible".
“I don’t believe our species can survive unless we fix this, We cannot have a society in which if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.”
Gmail's upcoming self-destructing emails will require the recipients to click on a link and log in with their #Google accounts to see the content, if they are accessing via IMAP/SMTP.
Don't be fooled: Google's purpose is not to give us more confidentiality. They want all of their users to access their mailboxes via the Gmail app or their web interface, so they are creating a burden to the recipients and calling it “security” to convince people to adopt it.
OMG! Sarah Silverman was on ST:Voyager!
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every goddamn sci fi story that is set in a future where you can download yourself into arbitrary bodies completely fuCKing misses the point by having everyone waltzing around in vanilla ass human bodies
fam
FAM
I have arrived, fleeing from the flock of birds.
