[NetBehaviour] Noo Werk

[Rob Myers]

Heya Netbehaviourists.

New work!

I am extremely happy with how Mez has arranged the words she requested to flow 
with her awesome art here :-)

https://twitter.com/mezbreezedesign/status/1347293010841767941

- R.
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"The Transgender Community URGENTLY Needs Your Support – This is what 
you can do to help…" -



https://www.gendergp.com/transgender-community-urgently-needs-support-trans-healthcare-petition/


Cryptocommunism, out now -

https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509538577


"A Massive Bitcoin Artwork Is Being Auctioned At Christie’s" -

https://decrypt.co/42581/a-massive-bitcoin-artwork-is-being-auctioned-at-christies


"Can Relational Aesthetics Survive the Social Distancing Era?" -

https://news.artnet.com/market/rirkrit-tiravanija-art-basel-ovr-1910337


Dazzle -

https://dazzle2020.com/


"Aesthetics Wiki" -

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Aesthetics_Wiki


"Smart male chastity lock cock-up"

https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/smart-male-chastity-lock-cock-up/


Wrapped CryptoPunks -

https://www.niftex.com/launches/details/COZOM


"The first fundamental study of DeFi" -

https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-first-fundamental-study-of-defi-from-ideas-to-mechanisms-to-the-new-finance


"Big scary chasm opens up in Microsoft Flight Simulator reboot" -

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/microsoft-flight-simulator-abyss/index.html
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"Rebecca Allen on Kraftwerk, Video Games and Artificial Life" -

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/rebecca-allen/


"Meme Protocol Announces First Artist Collaboration" -

https://defirate.com/meme-artist-crossover/


"This artist is tokenizing his body, selling tattoo 'lots' for 
stablecoins " -


https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/78148/artist-tokenize-tattoos


"Bitcoin-based artwork smashes records, sells for $100K" -

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-based-artwork-smashes-records-sells-for-100k


"pixEOS and Caer Sidi are together conceiving the Art Experience of the 
Future." -


https://medium.com/@pixeosgallery/pixeos-and-caer-sidi-are-together-conceiving-the-art-experience-of-the-future-6e2648115975


"Why Bitcoin is Money According To Marx" -

https://robmyers.org/2020/09/16/why-bitcoin-is-money-according-to-marx/

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"Technology Can’t Predict Crime, It Can Only Weaponize Proximity to 
Policing" -


https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/technology-cant-predict-crime-it-can-only-weaponize-proximity-policing


"agnotology is a tool of oppression by the powerful" -

https://points.datasociety.net/agnotology-and-epistemological-fragmentation-56aa3c509c6b


"Our Phones Are Color Correcting the Apocalypse" -

https://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/628855319585488896/our-phones-are-color-correcting-the-apocalypse-in


"An open-source VR headset"-

https://www.relativty.com/


Tokenized culture marketplace dashboard -

https://withfoundation.com/


Cory Doctorow on "IP" -

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/


WhoWhatWearable -

https://beta.cent.co/WhoWhatWearable/+1dxyga


Recursive Life -

http://blog.amandaghassaei.com/2020/05/01/the-recursive-universe/


"Digital content on track to equal half Earth's mass by 2245" -

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-digital-content-track-equal-earth.amp


"Creative AI Lab [database]" -

https://creative-ai.org/
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"OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images" -

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/16/1005284/openai-ai-gpt-2-generates-images/


"Philosophers On GPT-3" -

http://dailynous.com/2020/07/30/philosophers-gpt-3/


"How a New Kind of Artist Contract Could Provide a Simple, Effective Way
to Redistribute the Art Market’s Wealth" -

https://news.artnet.com/opinion/resale-royalties-contract-kadist-joseph-del-pesco-1897169


"The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire" ("encrypted
traffic" could just mean https:// urls though) -

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-cold-war-bunker-that-became-home-to-a-dark-web-empire


Industrial-scale skywriting for the anthropocene -

https://twitter.com/craigybratt/status/1285846003401269248


"Building anti-racist products: Adopting a new design approach" -

https://www.projectsbyif.com/blog/building-anti-racist-products-adopting-a-new-design-approach/


Perl 6 is finally over -

https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/


"Rethinking Open Source: The Challenges Behind Establishing a Modern
Emulator" -


https://emucross.com/rethinking-open-source/


"Boner Lisa? Dating app Grindr launches art section" -

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/boner-lisa-grindr-app-launches-art-section
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Re: [NetBehaviour] TX-1

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-07-21 1:52 a.m., Patrick Lichty wrote:
> Adriana's absolutely amazing, with the satellite work, on back. Really
> worth going back and going through all her work.
> And such a marvelous person.

Their website with other work is here, and I agree with Patrick that it
is well worth a look:

https://zeitkunst.org/
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Crypto Manifold -

http://www.chronusartcenter.org/en/cac-exhibition-crypto_manifold/


Zombie Figuration -

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/figurative-painting-zombie-figuration-peter-saul-surrealism-1202690409/


What Are Art Galleries For? -

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/future-of-galleries/


AI Weirdness -

https://aiweirdness.com/post/622648824384602112/when-data-is-messy


The Garden of Forking Memes -

https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2020/07/07/the-garden-of-forking-memes/


What Artists Love About Crypto -

https://www.coindesk.com/what-artists-love-about-crypto


Everything Wrong with JK Rowling’s Open Letter -

https://medium.com/@brynntannehill/everything-wrong-with-jk-rowlings-open-letter-836771e0d363


Addressing The Claims In JK Rowling’s Justification For Transphobia -

https://medium.com/@completelykaty/addressing-the-claims-in-jk-rowlings-justification-for-transphobia-7b6f761e8f8f


How to blog anonymously -

https://uglyduck.ca/blog-anonymously/


"Tokenised ownership is the best coordination tool since equity" -

https://medium.com/fabric-ventures/tokenised-ownership-is-the-best-coordination-tool-since-equity-7c957a00d818


"This Artwork Is Always On Sale v2" -

https://blog.simondlr.com/posts/this-artwork-is-always-on-sale-v2


"How Sianne Ngai became the most influential literary theorist of her
generation" -

https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Professor-of-Gimmicks/249062?key=hsZMErKIgGC276GPIxqHkTMgONc3UNEXK2ChgaZz9eCCK0hEam5mVPzNYCxPd4QbZ2oxYmZua3VmUVlLQ01tNEJqV1h6bV9UNS1Bd2VrWU1LWkZBcDZORThxYw


Xenofeminism: Immanence or Transcendence? -

https://distort.jp/xf-immanence/


"CHAZinization: Rojava Comes Home" -

https://medium.com/@Gabbyknifemassacre/chazinization-rojava-comes-home-1e65d1df42a5


"Woman becomes First to launch Transgender Art Into Orbit" -

https://planettransgender.com/woman-becomes-first-to-launch-transgender-art-into-orbit/

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-06-12 5:09 p.m., Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote:
> 
> And here is where the evil continues, just now:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/trump-transgender-rights.html

Yes that is awful. As the article points out this legislation was:

"announced on the four-year anniversary of the massacre at a gay
nightclub in Orlando and in the middle of Pride Month."

There have been more murders of black trans women in the US as well
recently -

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dominique-fells-riah-milton-transphobia-new-calls/

And in the UK the Tories are being emboldened to roll back hard-won
protections for trans people.

So Rowling "just expressing valid concerns", as way too many people have
said to me over the last day or so, isn't happening in a vacuum. And
also is not actually in any way, shape or form "just expressing valid
concerns". She's playing on people's fears and sympathies while
repeating the battle-tested lies of anti-trans-rights extremists.

The Sun are still scum for what they have done to her though.

- Rob.
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1000 games for 5USD! -

https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality


CHAZ FAQ -

https://twitter.com/mklords/status/1271537186282717184?s=20


JK Rowling is wrong about this (1) -

https://twitter.com/Carter_AndrewJ/status/1270787941275762689?s=20


JK Rowling is wrong about this (2) -

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2020/06/11/this-is-the-sequel-jk-rowling-doesnt-want-you-to-read/


JK Rowling is wrong about this (3) -

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/06/jk-rowling-transphobia-feminism


8 Fantasy Novels by Trans and Nonbinary Authors -

https://electricliterature.com/8-fantasy-novels-by-trans-and-nonbinary-authors/


"IBM, Amazon Agree to Step Back From Face Recognition. Where Is
Microsoft?" -

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/ibm-amazon-end-and-pause-fr-programs-where-microsoft


Games About Political Protest (via Class Wargames) -

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/5669/games-about-political-protest


Open Scores: How to Program the Commons (2020) -

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22321


The Poetics of CLI Command Names -

https://smallstep.com/blog/the-poetics-of-cli-command-names/


The Contagion of Concern -

https://www.adamjuliangoldstein.com/blog/contagion-of-concern/

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-06-03 8:27 p.m., Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote:
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> I've been interested in category theory for a year or so, on a friend's
> recommendation.  Where do you see it applying?  For me it relates to
> mapping networks and to translating concepts and principles between
> disciplines, and by a combination of these possibly art and literature. 
> (It's even been applied to neuroscience I think.)

I don't really know. :-)

It seems very popular in computer science at the moment for the most
trivial things that people seem to find mind-blowing, possibly because
it puts them on a better theoretical foundation? So I feel I must be
missing something. And that makes it interesting to me.

I do like it as a way of talking about mappings, the isomorphisms that
you mention.

Other people do also seem to be applying it to interesting things -

https://alpof.wordpress.com/

And then there's -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7oagHeqNc

> I have a few recent blogs at Leonardo.info about the ML grouped under
> "The Mindful Mona Lisa" and a unique "bridge" theory I am trying to sort
> out.  I've asked a lot of Leonardo experts and they say it's unique, but
> wrong, though I'm not entirely convinced by their reasoning.  

I think that to still be generating new theories after all this time
says good things about both Leonardo's painting and the power of
mathematics. :-)

- Rob.

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Virtual Art Festival this weekend -

https://www.vraf.world/


"With Galleries Closed, a Moment for Net Artists to Shine" -

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/net-artists-galleries-coronavirus.html


"Social Simulation for Social Justice" -

https://mkremins.github.io/refs/SocialSim_SocialJustice.pdf


"Lil Miquela Has 'Consciously Uncoupled' From Her Human Boyfriend " -

https://www.papermag.com/lil-miquela-break-up-2645414969.html


"Why We’re Advocating for a Cautious Approach to Copyright and
Artificial Intelligence" -

https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/20/cautious-approach-to-copyright-and-artificial-intelligence/


"This Meme Does Not Exist" -

https://imgflip.com/ai-meme


"Why Interest in Virtual Worlds for Online Collaboration Is Spiking" -

https://singularityhub.com/2020/04/19/what-makes-virtual-worlds-unique-in-the-era-of-zoom-meetings/


"When models are everywhere" -

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/when-models-are-everywhere


"Could the pandemic give America’s labour movement a boost?" -

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/05/09/could-the-pandemic-give-americas-labour-movement-a-boost


"Can Machine Learning Predict the Price of Art at Auction?" -

https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/1vdc2z91/release/1

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Duchamp's authorship, again -

https://atlaspress.co.uk/marcel-duchamp-and-the-baroness/


"An Art Collective Bought a $30,000 Damien Hirst Spot Print and Cut It
Up. Now, They’re Selling the Spots for $480 a Pop" -

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-collective-cut-up-damien-hirst-print-1844958


"THE RISE OF Virtual Worlds and Decentralised Lands on the blockchain" -

https://www.katevassgalerie.com/blog/virtual-worlds-and-decentralised-lands-on-the-blockchain


"LibrePlanet 2020 videos now available online" -

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-2020-videos-now-available-online


"Can a Neural Network Write Criticism?" -

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/neural-network-criticism-ear-wave-event-1202684517/


 Durational Feminist Reading Group -

https://www.ctrlshift.club/feminist-reading-group


First Edition -

https://firsteditionxyz.substack.com/p/first-edition-issue-1-featured-creator


"Algorithmic Crypto Art Changes Appearance to Reflect Bitcoin Volatility" -

https://cointelegraph.com/news/algorithmic-crypto-art-changes-appearance-to-reflect-bitcoin-volatility


"Sino-No-Futurism (a comment)" -

https://vincentgarton.com/2020/04/10/sino-no-futurism/


Decentraland Events -

https://events.decentraland.org/en/


"The MetaFactory Genesis Auction" -

https://medium.com/@themetafactory/the-metafactory-genesis-auction-18430b0f9278



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Re: [NetBehaviour] Two free books originally published by Salt.

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-04-24 12:48 p.m., Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> The books were beautifully printed; they were just taken down.
> Think of them as orphans, with beautiful deep and wayward
> language, and enjoy.

Thank you Alan!

These are wonderful.

- Rob.




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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-04-14 1:30 p.m., Max Herman wrote:
> 
> There has often been a degree of government support for certain kinds of
> art, and for some of the literature of that era too.  Who knows maybe
> even some of the literary theory.  

The difference with the CIA theory is that the support was *secret*, and
(in the case of the Animal Farm movie) impacted the art in ways that the
artists were not happy with.

That said yes this is functionally equivalent to a continuation of
patronage of the arts by the power behind the throne, just from the
intelligence agencies rather than the church.

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"Conservators and computer scientists join forces to update older
internet works for today’s browsers" -

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/for-ageing-digital-art-survival-means-change


"Unique wartime footage of Bletchley Park's secret MI6 communications
staff discovered" -

https://bletchleypark.org.uk/news/unique-wartime-footage-of-bletchley-parks-secret-mi6-communications-staff-discovered


"IBM will offer free COBOL training to address overloaded unemployment
systems" -

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/ibm-will-offer-free-cobol-training-to-address-overloaded-unemployment-systems


"Launching the Open Knowledge Justice Programme" -

https://blog.okfn.org/2020/04/14/launching-the-open-knowledge-justice-programme/


"Art on Ethereum: a Beginner's Guide to Cryptoart Platforms" -

https://defiprime.com/cryptoart-on-ethereum


"Well Now WTF?" -

https://wellnow.wtf


"A.I. Art Valuation Is the Market’s Holy Grail. Here Are 7 Reasons Why
It’s Harder Than It Sounds" -

https://news.artnet.com/market/roadblocks-ai-art-valuation-1818471


"A growing list of Art for Isolation" -

https://medium.com/@willjennings80/coronaculture-7d35dc4a9c5d


"Machine Learning For Designers" -

https://medium.com/@AdobeDesignLab/machine-learning-for-designers-3b2acd253b8c


"Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op?" -

https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/




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Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone?

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-03-23 9:41 a.m., Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote:
>
> The details from all of you are fascinating and helpful.
> 
> More please :)
Greetings from viral Cascadia.

Vancouver is in two levels of State of Emergency. BC has declared one,
and the city has also declared one. We just need Canada to declare one
to get to level three. We have Canada's most deprived district here, the
Downtown East Side, with US-style tent cities and street sleeping. These
are not people who are able to "stay at home". We also have people who,
whether due to idiot libertarianism, economic or theological delusions
of invulnerability, or just not being online enough, are going ahead
with gatherings of all kinds. These are not people who are willing to
"stay at home". I hope the city gets its act together to help and hinder
these groups respectively.

And I hope that the cultural politics around wearing masks here evaporate.

Seryna and I both work at home anyway so it hasn't been too much of a
transition for us. We've dusted off the Wii to get some exercise
indoors. Rock Band is hilariously mid-2000s.

I recommend joining in with live hangouts/podcasts/zooms/whatever for
"outside" social contact. And just video call people to check in.
Everyone seems to be playing Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch but if
that's not your thing dust off your Second Life account or try to
remember your LambdaMOO password.

I'm continuing to work on projects that started long before the current
moment and have no plans to immediately change this. Art isn't
journalism. But I am enjoying other people's musical reactions to the
crisis.

If anyone is new to working remotely here's a guide I sent in the last
round of Links that I recommend (I worked remotely for CC for 3 years,
they are very good at it) -

https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/13/advice-on-working-from-home/

- Rob.



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Hints on working from home from an org I worked from home for -

https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/13/advice-on-working-from-home/


Hints for using Zoom -

https://mobile.twitter.com/alexlmiller/status/1240073789586714626


"Dos and don'ts in open source" -

https://geirsson.com/open-source.html


Hershey Vector Font -

http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/hershey/


"What would a market for values achieve?" -

https://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2020/03/16/what-would-a-market-for-values-achieve/


"A Lost Cyber Utopia: What Happened to the Soviet Internet?" -

https://strelkamag.com/en/article/what-happened-to-the-soviet-internet


"The Art of Bitcoin" -

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/issue/the-art-of-bitcoin


"Crypto Art Fraud on Rarible Sparks Governance Discussion" -

https://cryptobriefing.com/crypto-art-fraud-rarible-sparks-governance-discussion/


"Quantum computing for the very curious" -

https://quantum.country/qcvc



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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-03-09 3:38 p.m., Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote:
> 
> Conversation-worthy links as always!

Thank you!

> Regarding the story about Yale changing their intro to art history
> course, it makes sense to me.

Yes I think this is a good thing for much the same reasons you give.

Putting my "They Live" glasses on for a moment, it's interesting to me
that such a key site of the social reproduction of American hegemony
feels that it must change what art means to that culture in order to
satisfy the needs of its ruling- and administrative- class consumers. Or
to put it another way: "Art means different things to different
cultures", yes, go on... ;-)

> I wonder if the Sadie Plant link on technology (art and science) as
> weaving might corroborate that those are mapped to ML's garment via the
> bridge, rivers, cognitive-historical cycles, etc.?  According to some
> traditions clothing was literally the first technology.   

Plant's work is long overdue a wider rediscovery, and I think you
identify a great link here. Plant discusses the Mona Lisa (and of course
William Gibson's "Mona Lisa Overdrive" given the era) in "Zeros and Ones".

- Rob.



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"Did Duchamp really steal Elsa’s urinal?" -

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/letter-to-the-editor-or-did-duchamp-really-steal-elsa-s-urinal


"The missing third client: how artists are exploring radical economies" -

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/missing-third-client-how-artists-are-exploring-radical-economies/


"In “Recoding CripTech,” Artists Highlight the Vital Role of Hacking in
Disability Culture" -

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/recoding-criptech-hacking-disability-sara-hendren-1202678282/


"A Lost Cyber Utopia: What Happened to the Soviet Internet?" -

https://strelkamag.com/en/article/what-happened-to-the-soviet-internet


"Deaf VRChat players are inventing their own sign language" -

https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/617632-deaf-vrchat-players-asl-sign-language-index-vr


"How Explaining Copyright Broke the YouTube Copyright System" -

https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/news/2020-03-04-youtube-takedown


"Can someone copyright every possible melody?" -

https://www.technollama.co.uk/can-someone-copyright-every-possible-melody


Solving the Yeezy problem with tokens -

https://www.ourzora.com/introducing-zora


More complex "crypto art" -

https://async.art/#how-does-it-work


Tokenized poetry -

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/f60o1z/nonfungible_poems_erc721_poetry_tokens_created_on/


"Why street art in Miami is being tokenized on Bitcoin" -

https://decrypt.co/19453/why-street-art-in-miami-is-being-tokenized-on-bitcoin


"Is art history becoming too woke?" -

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/art-history-has-never-been-morally-appropriate-nor-should-it-be


"The Age of Instagram Face" -

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-of-instagram-face


"On Sadie Plant's Weaving Methodology" -

https://necrosystems.org/plant_weaving_method/


"Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math" -

https://www.quantamagazine.org/landmark-computer-science-proof-cascades-through-physics-and-math-20200304/


"The Crop Software Behind Your Daily Cup of Coffee" -

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-20/crop-app-cropster-wants-to-save-coffee-and-the-global-food-supply


"To actually feel authentic, you might have to betray your true nature" -

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-inconvenient-truth-about-your-authentic-self/


"How to make money on digital art" -

https://bankless.substack.com/p/how-to-make-money-on-digital-art


Mortgages for virtual property -

https://land.rocketnifty.com/


"Devil’s Dictionary of Programming" -

https://programmingisterrible.com/post/65781074112/devils-dictionary-of-programming



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A new clue for the CIA's "Kryptos" sculpture -

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/29/climate/kryptos-sculpture-final-clue.html


"Why Cypherpunk Witches Love Bitcoin" -

https://www.coindesk.com/why-cypherpunk-witches-love-bitcoin


DeFi Arts Intelligencer -

https://artsdefi.substack.com/


"An Open Letter to Digital Art Galleries to Unify Their Efforts" -

https://www.nederob.nl/2020/02/10/an-open-letter-to-digital-art-galleries-to-unify-their-efforts/


CryptoVoxels -

https://hackmd.io/@XR/cv3


"If anyone can download the art file, why would I buy the NFT?" -

https://beta.cent.co/+k96cn1


"Text Mining Crypto Art" -

http://hex6c.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/text.html


"Face-recognition respirator masks." -

https://faceidmasks.com/


"How One Artist Hacked Google Maps to Fake a Traffic Jam and Make a
Point About the Flaws of Big Data" -

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-simon-weckert-google-map-hack-1769187


"As Digital Discourse Turns to a Din, Art Critics’ Clarity Will Be More
Essential" -

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/art-criticism-future-mary-louise-schumacher-1202677719/


"The Map of Mathematics" -

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-map-of-mathematics-20200213/


"Tool to Help Journalists Spot Doctored Images Is Unveiled by Jigsaw" -

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/technology/jigsaw-doctored-images-disinformation.html/



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Re: [NetBehaviour] Birthday 77 and still confused after all these years!

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-02-04 5:54 a.m., marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Happy Birthday Alan & Ruth :-)
> 

Yes Happy Birthday!

- Rob.


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Nudes again -

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/28/mary-beard-fears-nudes-art-galleries-becoming-porn-elite/


"Intro to Crypto Art for Artists" -

https://github.com/SparrowGlobal/DiscoveryZone/wiki/0.0-Intro-to-Crypto-Art-for-Artists


"The exhibit envisions the world of art in one-hundred years, in a world
that “transacts on blockchain and values shared experiences and
fractional ownership.”" -

https://ilovetheupperwestside.com/new-futuristic-art-gallery-launches-immersive-exhibit/


"How Superrare is showing us what can go wrong" -

https://beta.cent.co/+45twgc


The Clovers garden -

https://clovers.network/garden


"Turn any Discord group into a DAO and start collaborating on bounties
in one click." -

https://f12.network/


"An Ethical Future for Brain Organoids Takes Shape" -

https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-ethical-future-for-brain-organoids-takes-shape-20200123/


Twin Peaks Explained, allegedly -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM




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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-01-07 10:58 a.m., Edward Picot via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> That Open BCI site is really interesting. We (Dr David Hindmarsh and
> myself) have recently started a series of podcasts about medical
> research and related matters, called Dr Hairy's Podcasts, and this is
> definitely going to get a mention.

Oh cool! -

https://drhairysresearchpodcasts.podbean.com/

I'm currently updating my old "lo-rez brain uploading" project (cheaper
and quicker than Alcor!) -

https://robmyers.org/uploads/

to use a Kinect 2 and I'm still stuck on my old Neurosky Mindwave
headset for the EEG because everything newer is so proprietary. If I had
the cash I would definitely replace it with Open BCI gear.

- Rob.


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-01-06 5:19 p.m., Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> How ooold is that?!

Forty two plus five.

> (Can't catch me heh!)

That is a matter of productivity rather than time. :-)

- Rob.


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On 2020-01-06 3:02 p.m., Mez Breeze wrote:
> Happy Birthday Rob! :)
Thank you! Still a few hours to go here but then I will be sooo ld.

:-D

- Rob.



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"An Art World Glossary for a Turbulent Decade" -

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/art-world-key-terms-2010s-1202673541/


".ART Digital Twin" -

https://art.art/digital-twin/


"2019 In Review (1 Year of CryptoKaiju)" -

https://medium.com/@CryptoKaijuIO/2019-in-review-1-year-of-cryptokaiju-bf4388369317


"Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes" -

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/


New cryptocurrency site with some well-respected contributors -

https://nakamoto.com/


Against the OODA Loop -

https://aelkus.github.io/theory/2019/09/06/boydw


"Incentivizing Trustlessness" -

https://openprivacy.ca/blog/2019/12/03/Incentivizing-Trustlessness-ZcashFoundation-Donation/


Open Source biosensing hardware (EEGs etc.) -

https://openbci.com/


Towards clickworkerizing software development -

https://cs.gmu.edu/~tlatoza/papers/tse18-microtaskprog.pdf


"A Software Engineer’s Advice for Saving Social Media? Keep It Small" -

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-software-engineers-advice-for-saving-social-media-keep-it-small/



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"Memelord as Critic" -

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/brad-troemel-memes-criticism-1202673085/


L-systems -

https://jsantell.com/l-systems


"The Ascent of the Internet Art Market" -

https://medium.com/superrare/the-ascent-of-the-internet-art-market-415d540f16b9


"Introduction to Crypto Art and 5 Popular Brokers That Will Sell Your
Digital Creations" -

https://coincodex.com/article/6324/introduction-to-crypto-art-and-5-popular-brokers-that-will-sell-your-digital-creations/


"WHY ARE THERE SO MANY ART THEFTS, AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THEM?" -

https://economiststalkart.org/2016/05/31/why-are-there-so-many-art-thefts-and-what-can-be-done-about-them/


"‘We Committed Copyright Infringement and Want to Be Sued by Disney’" -

https://fortune.com/2019/12/06/we-committed-copyright-infringement-and-want-to-be-sued-by-disney/


"Facebook Discovers Fakes That Show Evolution of Disinformation" -

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/business/facebook-ai-generated-profiles.html


"Tulpalgorithms - On Computational Egregorics" -

https://gjoncas.github.io/posts/2019-12-08-tulpalgorithms.html


"Theorypunk pt. 3: The Undeath of the Author" -

https://nyxus.xyz/posts/theorypunk-pt-3/


"LSF head back to Orbit with the Qubik Mission" -

https://libre.space/2019/12/07/lsf-head-back-to-orbit-with-the-qubik-mission/



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"Why Art Basel Miami Collectors Are Scared of Digital Art" -

https://medium.com/@snarkdotart/basically-a-living-organism-why-art-basel-miami-collectors-are-scared-of-digital-art-41c39a42d4a7


"Cryptovoxels’ Burgeoning Art Scene" -

https://ryanschultz.com/2019/11/18/cryptovoxels-burgeoning-art-scene/


"Has the AI-Generated Art Bubble Already Burst?" -

https://news.artnet.com/market/obvious-art-sale-sothebys-1705608


A real-time machine learning drum track generator -

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/drumbot


"Meet the Mortals Behind China’s ‘God Songs’" -

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1004412


"Top 13 Art Law Disputes of 2019" -

http://clancco.com/wp/2019/12/top-13-art-law-disputes-of-2019/


"Rationality is Self-Defeating in Permissionless Systems" -

https://bford.info/2019/09/23/rational/


"Crypto Theses for 2020" -

https://messari.io/report/crypto-theses-for-2020


"The Psychonaut Field Manual FOURTH PDF EDITION" -

https://www.deviantart.com/bluefluke/art/The-Psychonaut-Field-Manual-FOURTH-PDF-EDITION-530005584


"1950s Smart Homes and the Longevity of Design" -

https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/12/1950s-smart-homes-and-longevity-of.html



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Re: [NetBehaviour] Need help urgently re: website

[Rob Myers]

They’re evil but if you switch your DNS to CloudFlare they are good at catching 
attacks.

On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 12:15 PM, Alan Sondheim  wrote:

> Need help urgently re: website
>
> My website www.alansondheim.org is still under attack from bots and
> crawlers; it seems coordinated and designed to bring the site down. It's
> been suggested that I add a Kaptcha (sp.?) to a blank page; that would
> pretty much stop these. If there's anyone who knows how to do this, could
> you get in touch with me backchannel? I can't afford a developer (they
> charge around here $50-$150/hour). Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
> Time is important on this; the webpage could be closed down in a day or
> so. (I have a bandwidth limit for downloads of 500 gb and already am close
> to 370).
>
> Thanks greatly,
>
> Alan
>
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Re: [NetBehaviour] any thoughts about "Comedian"?

[Rob Myers]

On 2019-12-11 4:01 a.m., Patrick Lichty wrote:
> 
> Good on Cattelan for showing the Emperor's clothes, and selling them to
> him. It was a good Duchampian crit on the current state of the art world.

Reactions that miss out the certificate of authenticity both over and
under-play this.

Links, miniature banana-oriented edition:

https://twitter.com/ROPMOTHER/status/1203870291975442432

https://twitter.com/MemeMyCoin/status/1204849647375863809

https://beincrypto.com/cryptocurrency-artist-recreates-famous-12-duct-taped-banana-art-installation/

- Rob.



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Re: [NetBehaviour] any thoughts about "Comedian"?

[Rob Myers]

On 2019-12-10 10:21 a.m., Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote:
> 
> It does seem that the work is fundamentally designed to create ripples
> across media networks and society, in myriad forms like conversation,
> criticism, tweets, selfies, high-fives, etc.

Yes @squizzi on Twitter pointed out to me that it's Instagram-ready.

I love it. It's the 120 fire bricks for ${CURRENT_YEAR} .

https://downbythewaterfront.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834d5aa2569e20147e124c493970b-pi

- Rob.


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Extinction Rebellion vs. the artworld -

https://news.artnet.com/market/extinction-rebellion-art-basel-miami-beach-1718208


Generative Art Economies -

https://blog.simondlr.com/new-markets-in-the-arts-generative-art-economies


Hellocatfood: development update -

https://www.hellocatfood.com/development-update-december-2019-part-1/


Insert joke about artworld going bananas here -

https://news.artnet.com/market/maurizio-cattelan-banana-art-basel-miami-beach-1722516


"Rite of Access" -

https://left.gallery/collections/rite-of-access


And the winner of the 2019 Turner Prize is... -

https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-unprecedented-decision-four-2019-turner-prize-finalists-won-award


"How to work within power structures that don't work for you" -

https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-work-within-power-structures-that-dont-work-for-you/


"The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time" -

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katherinemiller/the-2010s-have-broken-our-sense-of-time


"Ethereum-Based Virtual Museum Tokenizes Censored Bitcoin Artwork" -

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-based-virtual-museum-tokenizes-censored-bitcoin-artwork


"Classics for the people" -

https://aeon.co/essays/why-working-class-britons-loved-reading-and-debating-the-classics



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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

Grimes -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Anthropocene

I’m a big fan of all three but for very different reasons.

- Rob.

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 1:13 PM, Michael Szpakowski  
wrote:

> Do you mean Grime Simon? I’m unclear. I think there is a big difference 
> between a healthy scepticism and nuanced discussion about how tech can on 
> occasion be ill used and the dismissal of whole swathes of work...
>
> [Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone](https://yho.com/footer0)
>
> On Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 6:36 pm, Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour 
>  wrote:
>
>> Have to weigh in in this! Grimes. Sorry. Yes — Grimes. Utterly soulless 
>> product without anything of cultural value to me, musical or otherwise. This 
>> discussion between these three entities makes me yawn.
>> It’s all about money - absolutely nothing else - it’s the equivalent of 
>> Smash powdered potatoes - worse than that.
>> These people are completely without musical talent - the so-name AI is less 
>> than the dirt under the nails of the Ed Blackwell.
>> Technology is only about generating revenue. It does not help musicians - 
>> rap is a festering sore on the ass of the bourgeoisie. An undeniable itch - 
>> when scratched and cauterised momentarily it oozes some wealth for a tiny 
>> few participants.
>> Sorry I rarely contribute to this list - and I dig you cats for keeping the 
>> stuff rumbling along the conveyor / keep it up and — where’s my Jazzmaster 
>> and homemade inks
>>
>> Sent from my spyphone
>>
>> On 28 Nov 2019, at 18:11, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour 
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> It's definitely a discussion we need to have. It reminds me of a dinner I 
>>> had years ago w/ Cage who confirmed he criticized jazz because the player 
>>> worked with fixed rhythms. Something gets lost in these discussions; Adorno 
>>> fails miserably.
>>> Ah well... It relates to my writing about 'somatic ghosting' I think. And I 
>>> always feel I have to justify myself (although the audience doesn't feel 
>>> it) when I show up playing an acoustic guitar for example. -- Alan
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 1:06 PM Rob Myers  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2019-11-27 7:40 p.m., Alan Sondheim wrote:
>>>>>> This sounds so white/privileged to me, the position
>>>>> of the listener paramount for example, the relegation of community to
>>>>> reproduction, etc. It's a form of hip effacement. I realize I haven't
>>>>> read everything HH's has written, but there's a fundamental difference
>>>>> between a drum machine and a "great drummer" who came from community,
>>>>> breathes within community, and contributes to community. Thinking for
>>>>> example of free jazz, and the difficulties and explorations of the great
>>>>> players, the relation of that music to the cry, the field holler, the
>>>>> blues, gospel musics, etc.
>>>>
>>>> I think HH would agree with you.
>>>>
>>>>> and I keep returning to white white white white white and privilege.
>>>> There is something class-bound about Grimes (currently dating a
>>>> billionaire) and HH (whose last album was their PhD thesis) arguing
>>>> about who the future will be worse for. But I suspect that our own
>>>> reactions can be similarly reduced to our respective identities.
>>>>
>>>> There's obviously a bigger historical discussion about race, technology,
>>>> intellectual property and music that AI and "AI" are just the latest
>>>> phase of. Drum machines being prominent in rap and techno and disdain
>>>> for them as tools may be related, for example. Given this, I'm genuinely
>>>> surprised that AI has been instantly mainstreamed in music in the way
>>>> that it seems to have. More like the Fairlight than the 808...
>>>>
>>>> - Rob.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> =directory 
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org tel [718-813-3285](tel:718-813-3285)
>>> email sondheim ut panix.com, sondheim ut gmail.com
>>>
>>> =
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Zola Jesus, Grimes, and Holly Herndon discuss AI, music and fascism -

https://pitchfork.com/news/holly-herndon-weighs-in-on-grimes-and-zola-jesus-debate-about-ai-and-the-future-of-music/


"Artificial Arboretum – Preservation of “photogrammetrees” found in
Google Earth" -

https://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/artificial-arboretum-preservation-of-photogrammetrees-found-in-google-earth/


"The Shift to Online Art Sales with Cryptocurrency Artist Laurianna" -

https://anchor.fm/cryptoentrepreneurs/episodes/The-Shift-to-Online-Art-Sales-with-Cryptocurrency-Artist-Laurianna-e945ma


"a soft opening of works commissioned by left.gallery" -

https://www.fullnode.berlin/events/formenverwandler-left-gallery-at-full-node/


"On machine learning, creativity, and the law" -

https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-interesting-the-ai-copyright


"Understanding Digital Art & Blockchain - the basics for digital artists" -

https://codexprotocol.com/2019/11/27/understanding-digital-art-blockchain%E2%80%8A-%E2%80%8Athe-basics-for-digital-artists/


Blender3D has a much easier UI now and this is a good tutorial -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBqYTgaFDxU


GNU Emacs for all -

https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/emacsconf/2019/emacsconf-2019-04-gnu-emacs-for-all--slides--psachin.pdf


"Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later" -

https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/11/22/progress.html


The Perfect Mario -

https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1198000240319590400



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Against MIT's Media Center -

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito-nicholas-negroponte-1202668520/


"Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai" -

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614689/ghost-ships-crop-circles-and-soft-gold-a-gps-mystery-in-shanghai/


"How to recognize AI snake oil" -

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snakeoil.pdf


Hacker offers hacked cash for hacks -

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb5agy/phineas-fisher-offers-dollar10-bounty-for-hacks-against-banks-and-oil-companies


"An Artist Has Won a Three-Year Legal Battle to Force a German Museum to
Publicly Release Its 3D Scan of a Bust of Nefertiti" -

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/3d-scans-museums-nefertiti-1706181


"How Many Bitcoins Are Permanently Lost?" -

https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-d2e


"How Blade Runner combines a multi-cultural past with a retro-fitted
present" -

https://filmandfurniture.com/2014/09/blade-runner-design-whiskey-glasses/


"A Brief History of Geotrauma" -

https://readthis.wtf/writing/a-brief-history-of-geotrauma/


"When Giant Mainframe Computers Were First Used to Create Art" -

http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/philosopher-hiroshi-kawano-makes-digital-mondrians-in-1964-the-birth-of-digital-art.html


"How can we develop transformative tools for thought?" -

https://numinous.productions/ttft/


"Qualia Research Institute’s inaugural newsletter." -

https://opentheory.net/2019/10/state-of-the-qualia-fall-2019/


"Pricing niche products: Why sell a mechanical keyboard kit for $1,668?" -

https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/





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"STURTEVANT: MEMES" -

https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2019/11/sturtevant-at-freedman-fitzpatrick/?


"Building a functioning arts DAO" -

https://medium.com/knownorigin/building-a-functioning-arts-dao-b8c120932aa9


"Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition
instead" -

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/06/regulating-big-tech-makes-them-stronger-so-they-need-competition-instead


"Flows of services and data now play a much bigger role in tying the
global economy together" -

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/innovation-and-growth/globalization-in-transition-the-future-of-trade-and-value-chains


"Piece by piece: the issues with fractional ownership of art" -

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/piece-by-piece-is-fractional-ownership-working


"What’s Wrong With the New Figurative Painting?" -

https://www.thenation.com/article/whats-wrong-with-the-new-figurative-painting/


Richard Price is at it again -

https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-subject-richard-prince-portrait-called-work-a-reckless-embarrassing-uninformed-critique


"$136 M. in Art on View at Prince Charles’s Home Are My Fakes, Forger
Claims" -

http://www.artnews.com/2019/11/04/prince-charles-art-forgery-scandal/


"How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables" -

https://meatspacepress.com/


"France set to roll out nationwide facial recognition ID program" -

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2019/10/06/france-set-to-roll-out-nationwide-facial-recognition-id-program.html


"Art world caught up in UK's 'big problem with dirty money'" -

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/art-caught-up-in-uk-s-big-problem-with-dirty-money


StackOverflow's 2019 Developer Survey Results -

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019


"MoMA’s Revisionism Is Piecemeal and Problem-Filled" -

http://www.artnews.com/2019/10/31/moma-rehang-art-historian-maura-reilly/


"Subcutanean: a novel where each copy is different" -

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/subcutanean-a-novel-where-each-copy-is-different#/


"Crypto Art Show in LA & Cent Cryptovoxels Art Tour" -

https://www.proofofartwork.com/blog-crypto-art-show-in-la-cryptovoxels-art-tour/




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Generative Artistry -

https://generativeartistry.com/


"8 Questions Artists Should Ask a Prospective Dealer" -

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-questions-artists-prospective-dealer


"Instagram Holds Closed-Door Roundtable with Artists on Art and Nudity" -

http://www.artnews.com/2019/10/21/instagram-censorship-roundtable/


Trying to remove extremist content from YouTube is removing important
evidence of humans rights abuses -

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/opinion/syria-youtube-content-moderation.html


"Military artificial intelligence can be easily and dangerously fooled" -

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614497/military-artificial-intelligence-can-be-easily-and-dangerously-fooled/


Simulating voters to improve democracy -

http://procaccia.info/papers/virtual.pdf


Decentralized private chat system Cwtch has a new release -

https://cwtch.im/


"Simple, Functional, Open: What Blockchain Can Learn from Burner Wallet"

https://media.consensys.net/simple-functional-open-what-blockchain-can-learn-from-burner-wallet-34c8c868409a


"Observations on Technology Use in Hong Kong Protests" -

https://idlewords.com/talks/hk_stanford.html


"Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity" -

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf


"Schmelvetica - Absurd fonts for an absurd world" -

https://readevalprint.com/Schmelvetica.html


Why are UNIX terminals 80x25 characters? -

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/10/23/80x25/



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Software historiography -

https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/consequential-computer-code-software-history.html


Teaching Tech Together -

https://teachtogether.tech/


"Coercion-Resistant Design" -

https://dymaxion.org/essays/coercionresistantdesign.html


"Germany shuts down illegal data center in former NATO bunker" -

https://www.apnews.com/be9947471fb74360b6cf9d1d2b535927


"Inequality: What we've learned from the 'Robots of the late Neolithic'" -

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-inequality-weve-robots-late-neolithic.amp


"On Blockchain and Art: an interview with Ruth Catlow" -

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARIS/article/view/63610/4564456551735


"Blockchain in Art Industry Market Report"

https://tracxn.com/d/reports-bm/Blockchain-in-Art-Industry-Market-Report/


"What is a Decentralized Autonomous Exhibition (DAE), anyway?" -

https://medium.com/@TrojanDAO/trojan-foundation-blocumentas-decentralized-autonomous-exhibition-at-the-year-of-daos-2976c3ad4e81


"Bitcoin Astronomy" -

https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/law-of-hash-horizons/


"LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems" -

https://ncase.me/loopy/



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"Would You Buy a Performance?" -

https://news.artnet.com/market/brussels-performance-affair-2019-1639030


"There Are No Magic Words That You Can Post to Change Instagram’s Terms
of Service" -

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/there-are-no-magic-words-you-can-post-change-instagrams-terms-service


"Too Many People Think Satirical News Is Real" -

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/08/16/readers-think-satire-is-real/


"Can You Write a Novel as a Group?" -

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/can-you-write-a-novel-as-a-group


"How I’m using AI to write my next novel" -

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/30/20840194/ai-art-fiction-writing-language-gpt-2


writeup.ai -

https://writeup.ai/


GPT-2 less dangerous than thought? -

https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/187579086034/it-seems-pretty-clear-to-me-by-now-that-gpt-2-is


"Human-guided burrito bots raise questions about the future of
robo-delivery" -

https://thehustle.co/kiwibots-autonomous-food-delivery/


"Bitcoin Is Using Less Energy Despite Record Hash Rate, New Data Shows" -

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-is-using-less-energy-despite-record-hash-rate-new-data-shows


"Privacy Advocates Slam a UK Museum for Using Facial-Recognition
Surveillance at Its Terracotta Warriors Show" -

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/facial-recognition-1627780


"These Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects" -

https://kottke.org/19/08/these-nigerian-teens-are-making-sci-fi-shorts-with-slick-visual-effects


"...And so began the eternal crisis of photogenicity." -

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-victorian-brits-obsessed-trading-tiny-photo-portraits


"How mindfulness privatised a social problem" -

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2019/07/how-mindfulness-privatised-social-problem



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"The art that is doing well in the market provides a place of escape
from society. Right now, that’s an escape to rules and boundaries and to
easily digestible culture." -

https://thebaffler.com/latest/market-values-delistraty


"Why AI Can’t Yet Predict Mark Rothko Paintings’ Auction Prices" -

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-ai-predict-mark-rothko-paintings-auction-prices


"Serpentine CTO Ben Vickers mulls tech's relationship with art" -

https://www.cio.co.uk/it-applications/serpentine-cto-ben-vickers-mulls-techs-relationship-with-art-3699431/


"With warshipping, hackers ship their exploits directly to their
target's mail room" -

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/06/warshipping-hackers-ship-exploits-mail-room/


"Hong Kong protesters use lasers to avoid facial recognition cameras and
blind police" -

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-lasers-facial-recognition-ai-china-police-a9033046.html


"The strategies of Hong Kong protesters, honed through weekly clashes
with police, offer a masterclass to activists worldwide." -

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2019/08/be-water-seven-tactics-are-winning-hong-kongs-democracy-revolution


The challenges of digital media preservation -

https://eddycolloton.com/blog/2019/1/10/that-dam-project


Serial Experiments Lain goes not-quite-open-source -

https://www.nbcuni.co.jp/rondorobe/anime/lain/ttl/


The Age of Sin Calendar -

https://lilypatchwork.xyz/calendar/about.html


"Neil Jordan and Angela Carter, in conversation" -

https://sounds.bl.uk/Arts-literature-and-performance/ICA-talks/024M-C0095X0067XX-0100V0




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Rhizome interview science fiction author Pat Cadigan -

https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/jul/12/pat-cadigan/


"The art of bots: A practice-based study of the multiplicity,
entanglements and figuration of sociocomputational assemblages" -

http://research.gold.ac.uk/26599/


"25 years of CNNs: Can we compare to human abstraction capabilities?" -

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08366


40 years of the Walkman -

https://www.stereogum.com/2049762/the-first-sony-walkman-was-released-40-years-ago-today/


"The Andy Warhol Foundation Has Won Out Against a Photographer Who
Claimed the Pop Artist Pilfered Her Portrait of Prince" -

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/andy-warhol-prince-copyright-case-1590703

"The economy of the future won't rely on money" -

https://medium.com/s/story/the-economy-of-the-future-wont-rely-on-money-5a703e0ad30b


"For a non-money economy" -

https://transmediale.de/content/for-a-non-money-economy


The Blockchain as a space simulation -

https://symphony.iohk.io/


"Cryptoeconomics And/As Artistic Practice: Sketches for New Design
Imaginaries" -

https://schloss-post.com/cryptoeconomics-artistic-practice/


"Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash" -

http://www.righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-mining-on-apollo-guidance.html



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Raspberry Pi 4 is out! -

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-from-35/


"Digital vs Physical - Meditations On The Intersection Between Art and
Technology" -

https://twitter.com/stinalinneag/status/1141648545570840577


"CryptoPunks Two Year Anniversary" -

https://www.larvalabs.com/blog/2019-6-21-1-1/cryptopunks-two-year-anniversary


"The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet" -

https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1


"Digital cooperatives are the future" -

https://medium.com/nexus-mutual/digital-cooperatives-are-the-future-2b0772c1e03a


"An AI "Vaccine" Can Block Adversarial Attacks" -

https://futurism.com/ai-vaccine-block-adversarial-attacks/


"Alien Rhythms" -

http://zinzrinz.blogspot.com/2019/04/alien-rhythms.html


"A digital art work that becomes you" -

https://decrypt.co/6971/a-digital-art-work-that-becomes-you


"Control as Liability" -

https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/05/09/control_as_liability.html


A staunch critic of Facebook, cryptocurrency and the EU writes... -

https://twitter.com/evgenymorozov/status/1141743293509840896



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"Sci fi reading list" -

https://www.meltemdemirors.com/sci-fi-reading-list


"The great Facebook sleight of hand: A blockchain without blocks" -

https://decrypt.co/7509/facebook-sleight-hand-blockchain-blocks


"Facebook Token Runs Into Instant Political Opposition in Europe" -

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/france-calls-for-central-bank-review-of-facebook-cryptocurrency


"Ethereum 2.0 Planned For Launch on the 3rd of January 2020" -

https://www.trustnodes.com/2019/06/15/ethereum-2-0-planned-for-launch-on-the-3rd-of-january-2020


"What Sold at Art Basel in Basel" -

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-sold-art-basel-basel-06-17-19


"The Serpentine Galleries’s CEO resigned after her ties to a
cybersecurity firm were revealed." -

https://www.artsy.net/news/artsy-editorial-serpentine-galleries-ceo-resigned-ties-cybersecurity-firm-revealed


"The Revamped iPod Touch Is Not Your New Music Storage Solution" -

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/the-revamped-ipod-touch-is-not-your-new-music-storage-solution/


"The Past, Present, and Future of AI Art" -

https://thegradient.pub/the-past-present-and-future-of-ai-art/


"Cloudflare’s new open-source project helps anyone obtain truly random
numbers" -

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2019/06/17/cloudflares-new-open-source-project-helps-anyone-obtain-truly-random-numbers/


"Mark Fisher & Justin Barton, On Vanishing Land" -

https://hyperdub.bandcamp.com/album/mark-fisher-justin-barton-on-vanishing-land



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Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2019

[Rob Myers]

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Saturday, June 15, 2019 11:05 AM, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour 
 wrote:

> I don't know if you read this or have publicized it before, but in terms of 
> lists, I've also found it invaluable!

Bizarrely I hadn't subscribed to this (I follow Schneier's blog but can always 
do with reinforcement).

Thank you for your recommendations, they're really good.

- Rob.

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"BIY™- Believe it Yourself is a series of real-fictional belief-based
computing kits to make and tinker with vernacular logics and
superstitions." -

http://automato.farm/portfolio/believe_it_yourself/


Internet Trends 2019 -

https://www.bondcap.com/report/itr19/


"74 Percent of Bitcoin Mining Powered With Renewable Energy" -

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/study-74-percent-of-bitcoin-mining-powered-with-renewable-energy


"Fewer than five percent of GitHub crypto contributors are female, says
study" -

https://decrypt.co/7392/fewer-than-five-percent-of-github-crypto-contributors-are-female-says-study


"EFF and Open Rights Group Defend the Right to Publish Open Source
Software to the UK Government" -

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/eff-and-open-rights-group-defend-right-publish-open-source-software-uk-government


Analyzing the CryptoKitties smart contract -

https://usethebitcoin.com/analytics-of-gaming-smart-contracts-by-examining-the-cryptokitties-game/


"Musician Holly Herndon on collaborating with machines and humans"

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-holly-herndon-on-collaborating-with-machines-and-humans/


"AI, art, and autonomy: an introduction to the Abraham project" -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z_o2ND8I5k


"FOAM Location Update and Demo Documentation" -

https://blog.foam.space/foam-location-update-and-demo-documentation-58162d1ec075


"Algorithms Won’t Fix What’s Wrong With YouTube" -

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/opinion/youtube-algorithm.html



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A 3D poem -

https://twitter.com/qdnoktsqfr/status/1138248479627653120


"dOrg Launches First Limited Liability DAO" -

https://www.gravelshea.com/2019/06/dorg-launches-first-limited-liability-dao/


Union-busting at the Guggenheim -

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/employees-at-the-guggenheim-seek-to-unionise


Deepfaking Zuckerberg on Facebook -

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mark-zuckerberg-deepfake-artist-1571788


"That “$4.7 billion” number for how much money Google makes off the news
industry? It’s imaginary" -

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/that-4-7-billion-number-for-how-much-money-google-makes-off-the-news-industry-its-imaginary/


Art about consent failed to get consent -

https://news.artnet.com/market/metoo-victim-demands-andrea-bowers-1571290


"One Diagram To Mind Them All: Hyperspace in the 1970s" -

https://frieze.com/article/one-diagram-mind-them-all-hyperspace-1970s


"Radiohead sells recordings to public after ‘Creep’ hacker threatens to
leak them " -

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/cybercrime/radiohead-sells-recordings-to-public-after-creep-hacker-threatens-to-leak-them/


"An in-depth guide on how to be safe in the crypto world and the online
world in general." -

https://medium.com/mycrypto/mycryptos-security-guide-for-dummies-and-smart-people-too-ab178299c82e


"Severe internet outage across Sudan amid reports of Darfur paramilitary
attacks" -

https://netblocks.org/reports/severe-internet-outage-across-sudan-amid-reports-of-darfur-paramilitary-attacks-aAwq0oyM


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Laura Lotti on Blockchain Affordances

[Rob Myers]

On 2019-06-13 6:15 a.m., Martin Zeilinger via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Hi all, a great essay by Laura Lotti, 'The Art of Tokenization: Blockchain 
> Affordances and the Invention of Future Milieus,’ has just been published on 
> the Media Theory journal website as part of a co-edited special issue 
> (‘Rethinking Affordance’) that Ashley Scarlett and I have been working on for 
> some time now.
> 
> The essay is a blockchain art+religion / tokenisation / affordance theory / 
> Simondon tour de force, and I’m sure will be of interest to some on the list.
> 
> http://mediatheoryjournal.org/laura-lotti-blockchain-affordances/

It's wonderful! Thank you for posting it!

- Rob.



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"French Museum Discovers More Than Half Its Collection Is Forged" -

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/29/606919098/french-museum-discovers-more-than-half-its-collection-is-forged


"How an Artist-Run Bank Reveals the Extent of the Art Market’s Debt
Dependency" -

https://news.artnet.com/opinion/bank-job-art-debt-1568440


"How Blockchain Changed The Art World In 2018" -

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zoharelhanani/2018/12/17/how-blockchain-changed-the-art-world-in-2018/#5f599f2a3074


"Two Artists on the Future of Blockchain and Art" -

https://www.aam-us.org/2019/06/05/two-artists-on-the-future-of-blockchain-and-art/


"Minecraft on the Blockchain: A Look Into the World of Cryptovoxels" -

https://medium.com/@Andrew.Steinwold/minecraft-on-the-blockchain-a-look-into-the-world-of-cryptovoxels-54d46c117ffd?postPublishedType=initial


"How technology is changing the way art is bought & sold" -

https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-is-changing-the-way-art-is-bought-sold-a97d0a911670


"Could Blockchain Put Money Back in Artists’ Hands?" -

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-blockchain-money-artists-hands


"SuperRare Is Bringing in a New Wave of “Dank” Meme Economists" -

https://btcmanager.com/superrare-wave-dank-crypto-meme-economists/


"Dimension of Common Destiny for Humanity: Polyfurcation
Point — Revolution of Creating Value Dimension — part I" -

https://medium.com/@cryppix/mission-possible-7fe2129214fa


"The Day the Music Burned" -

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html



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Undue influence in the artworld -

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/the-only-way-is-ethics


"ART PARTY: Creating and Transferring Tokenized Donations of Art using
Blockchain Technology" -

https://media.consensys.net/art-party-tokenized-donations-of-art-using-blockchain-b69b507f2f01


Size isn't everything -

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj953a/theres-a-huge-ascii-penis-hidden-on-the-ethereum-blockchain


"How Cults Made America" -

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-cults-corrected-america


"two histories of thought, one imaginative and stylish, one very much not" -

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/01/witcraft-jonathan-rees-history-of-philosophy-ac-grayling-review


"Simon Denny on his new show about mining data and minerals" -

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/a-canary-in-the-coal-mine


"An Exploration of 5 Ways Enterprises Can Benefit from Tokenization" -

https://media.consensys.net/an-exploration-of-5-ways-enterprises-can-benefit-from-tokenization-e3110c66bcb8


"Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition
instead" -

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/06/regulating-big-tech-makes-them-stronger-so-they-need-competition-instead


"Bees can link symbols to numbers, study finds" -

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-bees-link.html


"The Beijing Artificial Intelligence Principles" -

https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2019/06/beijing-artificial-intelligence-principles/


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If you're still on Second Life, now is a good time to renew -

https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/2559-group-limits-update-no-changes-for-basic-members/


"A comprehensive history of low-poly art, Pt. 1" -

https://killscreen.com/articles/poly-generational/


"a language for making art using mathematics" -

https://github.com/curv3d/curv


"Laptop infected with six of the most destructive viruses sells for $1.9
million" -

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-30/laptop-infected-with-viruses-sells-for-almost-2-million-dollars/11163214


"Was this Google Executive deeply misinformed or lying in the New York
Times?" -

https://www.fast.ai/2019/05/28/google-nyt-mohan/


"Empirical analysis of behavioral advertising finds that surveillance
makes ads only 4% more profitable for media companies" -

https://boingboing.net/2019/06/04/all-that-for-4-pct.html


"The Moloch DAO: Collapsing The Firm." -

https://medium.com/@simondlr/the-moloch-dao-collapsing-the-firm-2a800b3aa2e7


uPortlandia -

https://uportlandia.uport.me


"Is Buying Tokenized Artwork the Same as Owning Art?" -

https://observer.com/2019/05/art-experts-blockchain-token-observer-event/


"Stalker: in search of Tarkovsky’s Soviet sci-fi locations" -

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/andrei-tarkovsky-stalker-locations
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Artists respond to the great extinction -

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/united-nations-sounds-the-alarm-on-species-loss-and-artists-respond


A nice different approach to "AI art" -

https://medium.com/artists-and-machine-intelligence/perception-engines-8a46bc598d57


An AI primer "cheat-sheet" -

http://www.montreal.ai/ai4all.pdf


"The Google city that has angered Toronto" -

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47815344


"Demolishing the City of the Future" -

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/04/demolishing-the-city-of-the-future


"Hacktivist attacks dropped by 95% since 2015" -

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacktivist-attacks-dropped-by-95-since-2015/


Playing the original PDP Zork -

https://babbagefiles.xyz/zork-confusion/


Sega Fish Life -

https://segafish.museebolo.ch/en/


"Electric Cars Are Estimated to Be Cheaper Than Regular Cars by 2022" -

https://singularityhub.com/2019/04/29/electric-cars-are-estimated-to-be-cheaper-than-regular-cars-by-2022/


"In search of truce in the autism wars" -

https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/search-truce-autism-wars/
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[NetBehaviour] Three Times Three Modes of Blockchain Art

[Rob Myers]

https://robmyers.org/2019/05/08/three-times-three-modes-of-blockchain-art/

"This essay draws distinctions between different approaches to art that 
uses cryptocurrency or blockchain technology. It does so to contribute 
to the debate about art that uses cryptocurrency or blockchain 
technology by helping us to talk about it in an inclusive and expansive 
but clear and coherent way.


First it distinguishes between three different ways that cryptocurrency 
or blockchain technology can be involved in the production of art.


Then it distinguishes between three ways that cryptocurrency or 
blockchain technology can feature within artworks.


Finally it distinguishes three different positions or attitudes that can 
be taken with regard each of these.


Each section includes examples which are intended to be illustrative 
rather than exhaustive of or exhausted by the categories they appear under.


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"How Contemporary Art Became a Fiat Currency for the World’s Richest" -

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/boom-review-michael-shnayerson-chronicles-contemporary-art-rise


On Foucaults' LSD experience -

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/michel-foucault-lsd-death-valley/


"A natural experiment study of the effects of imprisonment on violence
in the community" -

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0604-8


"Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica
scandal" -

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/facebook-has-struggled-to-recruit-since-cambridge-analytica-scandal.html


Etsy are carbon-offsetting their shipping -

https://www.etsy.com/impact


"The Subtle Economics Of Private World Of Warcraft Servers" -

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190509/16500742174/subtle-economics-private-world-warcraft-servers-anarchy-order-who-gets-loot.shtml


Arts Focussed DAOs -

https://medium.com/coinmonks/arts-focused-daos-3f40a8103c9d


Artblocks -

https://www.artblocks.io/


"Scientists Created Bacteria With a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial
Life?" -

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/science/synthetic-genome-bacteria.html


"Making Anime Faces With StyleGAN" -

https://www.gwern.net/Faces
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Airpods as class signifier, class as externalities -

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/neaz3d/airpods-are-a-tragedy


"People Wearing AirPods Are Making Things Awkward For Everyone Else" -

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/people-wearing-airpods-are-making-things-awkward-for


"The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over" -

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/influencers-are-abandoning-instagram-look/587803/


US gov. shutdown breaks orbital art -

https://medium.com/@trevor.paglen_21030/an-unseen-star-5f2ddfa0de19


"A Timeline of the Most Infamous 51% Attacks in Crypto History" -

https://blog.honeyminer.com/timeline-of-51-attacks/


"Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr and restore site to former porn-filled glory" -

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/pornhub-wants-to-buy-tumblr-and-restore-site-to-former-porn-filled-glory/


"How Decentralized is DeFi? A Framework for Classifying Lending Protocols" -

https://hackernoon.com/how-decentralized-is-defi-a-framework-for-classifying-lending-protocols-90981f2c007f


Radical Markets art (a blockchain "A Tool To Deceive And Slaughter) -

https://medium.com/@simondlr/this-artwork-is-always-on-sale-92a7d0c67f43


"Coinbase adds support for Dogecoin" -

https://decryptmedia.com/6865/coinbase-adds-support-dogecoin


"The surprising success of Dogecoin" -

https://decryptmedia.com/6898/the-surprising-success-of-dogecoin
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"Art Criticism Online: A History" -

https://www.gylphi.co.uk/books/ArtCriticism


"Now You Can Finally Own Nothing (and resell it): 0xowns.art" -

https://7bitcoins.com/now-you-can-finally-own-nothing-and-resell-it-0xowns-art/


"The Flawed History of Graphical User Interfaces" -

https://medium.com/s/story/lets-pretend-this-never-happened-8abf0bc9648c


"This 3D-printed beehive could be our future home on Mars" -

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613425/this-3d-printed-beehive-could-be-our-future-home-on-mars/


"FCC approves SpaceX’s plans to fly internet-beaming satellites in a
lower orbit" -

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/27/18519778/spacex-starlink-fcc-approval-satellite-internet-constellation-lower-orbit


The Technoskeptic magazine -

https://thetechnoskeptic.com/


"People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps" -

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/looping-created-insulin-pump-underground-market/588091/


"Gender bends biology to its will." -

https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1123630099847438337


"Screenplay Software Adds Tool to Assess a Script’s Inclusiveness" -

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/movies/final-draft-software.html


"`Cancel Culture Comes for Counterculture Comics" -

https://reason.com/2019/04/29/cancel-culture-comes-for-count/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On 2019-05-01 5:00 a.m., Andreas Maria Jacobs (nictoglobe) via
NetBehaviour wrote:
> And this?
> 
> https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559

Nakamoto mentions their sources in the bibliography to the Bitcoin
Whitepaper, so I'm not sure how people lost track of its lineage. Both
proponents and critics seem to have though so this is a very useful essay.

These statements leapt out as things I have been trying to draw people's
attention to:

"by tracing the origins of the ideas in bitcoin, we can zero in on
Nakamoto's true leap of insight—the specific, complex way in which the
underlying components are put together."

"It might come as a surprise to you that Nakamoto doesn't mention that
term [blockchain] at all."
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links - Anyone members of coops?

[Rob Myers]

On 2019-04-28 7:21 a.m., Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Thanks Rob,
> Full of great nuggets as always
>
> Past, Present, Future: From Co-ops to Cryptonetworks -
> 
> https://a16z.com/2019/03/02/cooperatives-cryptonetworks/
> 
> Coops seem to be on the upsurge.

Yes. I assume it's because of this ;-) -

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/feb/15/tories-cooperatives-osborne

> I'd be interested to know whether people here are already members of
> coops as workers or customers and if so why?

I'm a member of a housing co-op because it's the only way to afford to
live where I do.

The people are mostly lovely, as are their dogs. I was very wary of
joining a co-op but after a couple of years it seems that The System
Mostly Works and there have been no suddenly disastrous measures adopted
at meetings (although the minor missteps always have the potential to
add up faster than I think people realize). It doesn't seem like a
template for a scalable or efficient form of socialism though.

- Rob.
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CurseChain -

https://twitter.com/sarahjamielewis/status/1119653346120323072


AR extinction protest -

https://twitter.com/m_pf/status/1118563218375442433


Another William Gibson technology hits the street -

https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1120132384026808326


The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities -

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-rise-fall-internet-art-communities


AI at the Barbican -

https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/press-room/ai-more-than-human


And in Chicago -

https://observer.com/2019/04/artificial-intelligence-inspired-art-transfer-gallery-tech-dystopia/


Past, Present, Future: From Co-ops to Cryptonetworks -

https://a16z.com/2019/03/02/cooperatives-cryptonetworks/


"A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions" -

https://www.wired.com/story/blockchain-bandit-ethereum-weak-private-keys/


"The 10 Top-selling Artworks Created After the 2008 Financial Crisis" -

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/artprice-10-top-selling-artworks-103000807.html


"The Secret Messages Inside Chinese URLs" -

https://newrepublic.com/article/117608/chinese-number-websites-secret-meaning-urls
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Artists against social media nudity bans -

https://ncac.org/we-the-nipple


Gothic Futurism for Notre Dame -

https://twitter.com/edgeempress/status/1119631687896436738 



Source code for Infocom’s classic text adventure games, including an unfinished 
h2g2 sequel -

https://github.com/historicalsource/


Spinal catastrophism -

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/spinal-catastrophism/


Free software 3D reconstruction -

https://alicevision.github.io/#meshroom

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Seasteaders on the run -

https://globalnews.ca/news/5180644/seasteading-thailand-american-death-penalty/


Game company get 3D printing model takedown notices badly wrong -

https://www.fabbaloo.com/blog/2019/4/13/much-more-on-the-world-of-tanks-thingiverse-incident


"The 64 short essays in this volume probe how unsound serves to activate
the undead." -

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/unsoundundead/


The second Rare Art Festival (May 2019) -

https://rareaf.splashthat.com/


"To Be Ethical, AI Must Become Explainable. How Do We Get There?" -

https://singularityhub.com/2019/03/19/to-be-ethical-ai-must-become-explainable-how-do-we-get-there/


"An eXplainability toolbox for machine learning" -

https://github.com/EthicalML/XAI


Technomancy 101 -

https://technomancy101.com/enchantment/


"A closer look at challenges and incentives on the FOAM Map" -

https://blog.foam.space/a-closer-look-at-challenges-and-incentives-on-the-foam-map-a8b2dac47538
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On 2019-04-17 7:51 p.m., BishopZ via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Rob, I always love your links emails.

Thank you! :-)

> How was your experience of the Gray Area Festival?
> were they nice to you?
My experience was that they were very good at communicating in the run
up to the event and that they ran things very smoothly. When the artwork
of mine that they were showing had technical trouble they fixed it
quickly. And the bit of the event that I saw had a wonderful variety of
speakers and perspectives with a very engaged audience.

- Rob.
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Currently playing ;-) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vimZj8HW0Kg


New Ways of Seeing -

https://twitter.com/jamesbridle/status/1117728872999596033


"Autoglyphs are the first “on-chain” generative art on the Ethereum
blockchain." -

https://www.larvalabs.com/autoglyphs


"Some Definitions and References for terms I used frequently" -

https://medium.com/@michaelzargham/jargon-party-e3616cd16a9


" a majority of the imaging libraries used for the picture of the
#blackhole were #GPLv3'd" -

https://twitter.com/o0karen0o/status/111779149146834


"Toronto doctor “prescribes” income to poor patients" -

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/toronto-doctor-prescribes-income-to-poor-patients


Painter by Numbers dataset -

https://www.kaggle.com/c/painter-by-numbers


"I Yelled at Strangers About M Because a Token Told Me To " -

https://breakermag.com/i-yelled-at-strangers-about-mms-because-a-token-told-me-to/


Using cryptocurrency and smart contracts to change basic game theory -

https://medium.com/@virgilgr/ethereum-is-game-changing-technology-literally-d67e01a01cf8


"Who owns IP on the blockchain? CryptoKitties give glimpse into
less-cute crypto concerns" -

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/who-owns-ip-on-the-blockchain-cryptokitties-give-glimpse-into-less-cute-crypto-concerns
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links ????

[Rob Myers]

On 2019-03-24 12:38 a.m., AGF poemproducer wrote:
> hi Rob, are you not sending your cool 'links' emails anymore ?
> miss them
> agee

Heya!

I've been ridiculously busy (as my tardy response to this demonstrates).

But I'll see what I can do soon. :-)

Thank you!

- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Very excited to announce - State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art.

[Rob Myers]

On 2019-03-22 6:33 p.m., marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote:
> 
> I'd be interested to know which of the other texts you of value :-)

Me too. ;-)

- Rob.
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[NetBehaviour] New Art: "Tokens Equal Text"

[Rob Myers]

https://robmyers.org/2019/02/20/tokens-equal-text/

"""

“Tokens Equal Text” [ https://robmyers.org/tokens-equal-text/ ] (2019)
is a Rare Art edition with a twist.

In Tokens Equal Text the demands of Rare Art are simultaneously met and
frustrated by constructing evocations of the imagery of Vaporwave. This
appropriates the aesthetics of a genre of appropriation art in order to
create a critical circuit between blockchain technology and art theory.

Rare Art consists of blockchain tokens representing limited edition
ownership certificates for digital art files. It is an example of the
kind of blockchain quasi-property ownership that I described in
“Blockchain Poetics” (2017) and wrote about in more depth in
“Tokenization And Its Discontents” (also 2017). Despite having written
about Rare Art in depth, my own work with blockchain tokens as art has
not previously engaged with it. “Art Coins” (2015) for example does use
the text field of CounterParty tokens to contain “the work” but as a
written description of an imagined artistic genre rather than the URL of
a digital image file.

In contrast to the strongly held but under-examined idea of ownership
via cryptographic artificial scarcity that underlies Rare Art, Vaporwave
art has a more ambiguous relationship to concepts of ownership and
authorship. As appropriation-based art, Vaporwave is not amenable to
claiming original authorship or ownership as intellectual property. Its
subjects are those of past promises of the satisfactions of ownership
and consumption of commodities which are then ironized by an
economically precarious later generation. Despite this, some of
Vaporwave’s audience places value on possession of extensive digital
media collections or limited edition releases of obsolete physical
recording media.

Describing rather than depicting the appropriated visual elements of
Vaporwave sidesteps the problem of their ownership and authorship.
Depicting those descriptions in a visually appealing way then
re-aestheticises them and makes them available and desirable for
ownership as Rare Art. Tokens Equal Text does this by creatively
misusing the Ethereum standards that are used to create Rare Art, in
order to create conceptual tension between its resources. Its ERC-721
tokens have no metadata but do contain content, (mis-)encoded as their
ID numbers. The ERC-998 tokens that contain them do provide images in
their metadata for platforms to display but these are just previews of
their content as rendered by Tokens Equal Text’s display interface.

These layers both exceed and disappoint the technical and aesthetic
requirements of Rare Art in order to capture, exceed and disappoint the
limits of ownership in Vaporwave. And vice versa. This folds two
different forms of belonging – ownership and the aesthetics of genre –
back onto each other in a mutually intensifying circuit which critically
reflects them and the worlds in which they are embedded.

You can view and purchase works from the series on OpenSea:

https://opensea.io/assets/tokensequaltext

or contact me for physical versions.

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[NetBehaviour] Fwd: [CAS] CAS50 Catalogue Now Available

[Rob Myers]

- Original message -
From: Sean Clark 
To: c...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: [CAS] CAS50 Catalogue Now Available
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:52:03 +0100

We're very happy to announce that the the CAS50 exhibition catalogue is now 
available for purchase.

The catalogue features information about CAS and the CAS50 exhibition, 
including work by Stephen Bell, Peter Beyls, boredomresearch, Daniel Brown, 
Paul Brown, Sean Clark, Ernest Edmonds, Sue Gollifer, Desmond Henry, William 
Latham, Andy Lomas and Stephen Scrivener. Many of the artists featured are in 
the V collection and are Lumen Prize nominees and winners.

It also contains photographs from the Leicester and Brighton showings of the 
exhibition.

The catalogue is limited to 100 printed numbered copies. Any funds raised 
beyond the production costs will go towards developing the CAS50 Collection.

You can buy a copy for £10 from https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/InteractDigitalArts

For more information about the CAS50 collection see 
http://computer-arts-society.com/cas50-collection

Copies will also be available for purchase/collection at the CAS AGM tomorrow 
evening and at the Change and Control event at the V on Friday. See 
http://computer-arts-society.com/events for details.

--
Sean Clark
Director, Cuttlefish Multimedia Ltd.
Artist/Curator, Interact Digital Arts Ltd.
International Professor, Guangdong University of Technology
se...@cuttlefish.com
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Wechat: seancuttlefish
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[NetBehaviour] Fwd: [CAS] NEW MEDIA ART XYZ - Where did new media art in the 1990s 'go'?

[Rob Myers]

- Original message -
From: Garnet Hertz 
To: c...@jiscmail.ac.uk
Subject: [CAS] NEW MEDIA ART XYZ - Where did new media art in the 1990s 
'go'?Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:32:13 -0700

NEW MEDIA ART XYZ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (DEC 31 / 2018 DEADLINE)  What
happened to new media art in the 1990s? At one point, it seemed to
circulate in its own scene as a cohesive "thing" - but a few decades
later, it's unclear where new media art went and how it evolved. Did it
die, institutionalize into its own festivals or events, move into the
larger art world, get swallowed up by social media platforms like
YouTube or Instagram, or move into experimental HCI, the maker movement,
critical design, or something else? What is the ‘XYZ’ shape or
timeline of how new media art has evolved over the past 20 years?  "NEW
MEDIA ART XYZ" is a collaborative publishing project that explores ideas
about where new media art in the 1990s 'went'. The project seeks
submissions from old and young new media artists, curators, festival
organizers, writers, electronic artists, media theorists, hackers,
haters or others interested in the topic of how new media has shifted,
moved and evolved in the art community over the past two decades. In
particular, the project is looking for submissions of single page A4 or
8.5" x 11" hand-drawn black-and-white diagrams that illustrate your
concepts of what happened to new media art since the 1990s. The diagrams
can be in portrait or landscape mode, can use any drawing medium -
although pen or marker on white paper will likely reproduce best.
Submissions must be hand-drawn (no computer aided design allowed), it
must not be purely a text-based piece of writing (a diagram is
required), and it must be received by December 31st 2018. Quick diagrams
are welcomed: consider taking 5 minutes and drawing something on the
nearest clean sheet of paper for your submission.  The drawings will be
curated by Garnet Hertz, Canada Research Chair in Design & Media Arts.
Hertz will select approximately 50 to 100 drawings, write an
introduction, design the book, produce it as a physical publication, and
release it online for free six months later. The hardcopy version of
"NEW MEDIA ART XYZ" will be printed in a limited and numbered edition of
300 copies, all of which will be given away for free by Hertz. Free
copies will be given to all accepted contributors, and after handmade
copies and free online sources are released, it may be reformatted into
a commercially available book.  Snail-mailed contributions can be sent
to: Garnet Hertz, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 520 East 1st
Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2, Canada. Scanned contributions should be
at 300dpi or greater and emailed to garnethe...@gmail.com. Submissions
can also be directly uploaded at http://newmediaart.xyz.  Hertz's past
book projects have included 'Critical Making'
(http://conceptlab.com/criticalmaking/) and 'Disobedient Electronics:
Protest' (http://disobedientelectronics.com). As experimental publishing
projects, these books explore alternate modes of disseminating
knowledge. Approaches include making academic-oriented handmade
bookworks, and giving artists more platforms to speak about theory
related to their work. NEW MEDIA ART XYZ has a diagram-only policy for
submissions in order to give more of a voice to artists that do not
usually express their ideas in writing — and it encourages writers to
draw. More information on Hertz can be found at http://conceptlab.com/
and more information on this project (and this call) can be found at
http://newmediaart.xyz/.  Consider contributing something by December
31st 2018, and in exchange we will work hard to do something interesting
with it. Contact Hertz directly if you have questions about this
project, and please feel free to forward this call for submissions to
people that have something interesting to contribute on the topic of new
media art.  NEW MEDIA ART XYZ c/o Garnet Hertz, Canada Research Chair in
Design + Media Art Emily Carr University of Art + Design 520 East 1st
Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2, Canada garnethe...@gmail.com •
http://newmediaart.xyz/

-- 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Shai Hulud Sleeps

[Rob Myers]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2018, at 1:27 PM, Mark Hancock wrote:
> Hey, all Netmisbehaviourists,
> 
> I wish I had Alan Sondheim's ability to form a narrative play of
> intertextual/image/music chain of thought association. While I wait
> for the skills, knowledge and talent to form, here's some late night
> composing while sleep deprived.> 
> https://soundcloud.com/keepartevil/shai-hulud-sleeps

Nice! Probably enough rhythm in the toms to wake them, though.

Meanwhile:

https://twitter.com/DankDuneMemes

- Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] toegristle #356

[Rob Myers]

Yay!

So good to see.

- Rob.


On Sun, 23 Sep 2018, at 5:00 AM, Corey Eiseman wrote:
> 
> http://toegristle.com/perpetual-canvas/356
> 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] blockchain utopias

[Rob Myers]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, at 10:02 AM, Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour wrote:
> probably old hat
> 
> https://bitcoinist.com/future-utopias-in-a-blockchain-world/

It's a fascinating insight into how utopian thinkings flow together.

There was a DAOWO workshop on this area -

http://www.daowo.org/#what-will-it-be-like-when-we-buy-an-island-on-the-blockchain

But there is of course only one acceptable blockchain utopia ;-) -

http://torquetorque.net/publications/bad-shibe/

- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] EU is going to ban the memes!!!

[Rob Myers]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, at 2:27 PM, nacho via NetBehaviour wrote:
> not a big fan of copyright myself but neither a fan of big tech
> companies lobbying> 
> interesting article here of google vs article 13
> 
> https://www.ukmusic.org/news/uk-music-chief-slams-google-as-corporate-vultures-as-figures-show-googles-3
Disclosure: I work for a US-based copyright reform organization. This is my 
personal opinion though.
"UK Music is an industry-funded body" :thinking-face-emoji: .

The amount stated by UK Music covers all of Google's lobbying activities
in the EU rather than just on this issue.
Companies the size of Google can comply with legislation like this no
problem, it is smaller European web sites and startups that the
legislation would push out of the market.
People were fighting this fight before Google existed, and if necessary
they will be fighting it after Google are gone.
Andreas/Technollama explains this better than I could:

"As a veteran of the Copyright Wars, I have to admit that it has been
very entertaining reading the reaction from the copyright industry lobby
groups and their individual representatives, some almost going
apoplectic with rage at Google’s intervention. These tend to be the same
people who spent decades lobbying legislators to get their way
unopposed, representing large corporate interests unashamedly and
passing laws that would benefit only a few, usually to the detriment of
users. It seems like lobbying must be decried when you lose."
https://www.technollama.co.uk/what-can-the-copyright-directive-vote-tell-us-about-the-state-of-digital-rights
- Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] paperclips

[Rob Myers]

I mean https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer ...

On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, at 12:45 PM, James Morris wrote:
> Don't know if any of you have seen this game. Some people seem to find 
> it very addictive. Take a quick look, what's the worst that could happen?
> 
> http://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Interviewing inventor of Amazon Alexa

[Rob Myers]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, at 2:08 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> I'd like to know what, if any, thought is given to the politics of AIs>  or 
> to put it another way, what subjectivities are they attempting to
>  produce in their users?> 
>  Could he imagine an AI that would produce a mutualist anarchist
>  revolution?.. and if so, please he could start work on it immediately
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/611104000/h1D81335B/


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Fw: brutal job and course cuts where I work -please sign the petition

[Rob Myers]

Signed.

Funny not funny how the people who are the most obsessed with an
aesthetic of businesslike behaviour are the least able of identifying
those courses that most add to their bottom line.
- Rob.

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, at 3:14 PM, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Hi Michael, 
> 
> I have signed it but will add comments tomorrow when I've got more
> time - they are utter scum.> 
> wishing you & those losing their jobs well.
> 
> marc
> 
> Marc Garrett
> 
> Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.
> Art, technology and social change, since 1996
> http://www.furtherfield.org
> 
> Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park
> Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ
> http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
> Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London
> https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett
> Just published: Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain
> Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner
> Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK
> 
> Sent with ProtonMail[1] Secure Email.
> 
> ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
> On 10 April 2018 8:50 PM, Michael Szpakowski
>  wrote:> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone[2]
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 8:27 pm, Michael Szpakowski
>>  wrote:>>> Thanks so much Gill!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone[3]
>>> 
>>> On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 7:42 pm, Gill Davies
>>>  wrote: Signed, Michael.  Best of luck.
 
 On 10 April 2018 at 19:38, Michael Szpakowski
  wrote:> 
> 
> 
> And for those of you who have a connection with the course and
> with Writtle, please leave a comment...If you're an artist or
> writer  any sort also please identify yourself... :)> I'm pasting 
> below my sig the motion passed today nem con in our
> UCU branch meeting..> Please also tweet, FB, e mail...
> thanks!
> Michael
> Sign the Petition[4]
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Sign the Petition


> tessmat...@gmail.com: Defend Education at Writtle university
> College! No to course cuts, no to redundancies!
>> 
> 
> This branch *feels* a sense of déjà vu.
>  
> This branch *notes *that whilst members, other teachers and
> support staff were conscientiously doing their usual best the
> entire senior management team *failed*.> *Failed* to see any problem 
> coming, *failed* to open up any sort
> of discussion and *failed* to show any concern for staff as
> evidenced by the inept and cold-blooded way in which a package of
> course cuts and job losses was presented as a fait accompli, the
> day before the Easter holiday weekend.>  
> This branch *notes *the Vice Chancellor’s highly insulting comment>  
>  “*We have not driven the business to achieve excellence – our
>  portfolio, in HE especially, is too broad for us to be
>  outstanding in all fields of study*”>  
>  (‘Strategic Change Agenda’ p3 bullet point three)
>  
> This branch *notes* that the VC and presumably the SMT believes
> that Writtle University College is a ‘business’  (ibid.) rather
> than an educational institution.>  
> This branch *notes *the hugely successful campaign waged by our
> colleagues in the pre 1992 universities to defend their pension
> rights and also the recent no-confidence vote by Open University
> UCU members in their vice chancellor when faced with a similar
> package of cuts, a similar rationale and similarly insulting
> language.**>  
> This branch *believes* in education.
>  
> This branch *believes *that the entire SLT at Writtle has *failed,
> *we have *no confidence* in it and therefore *resolve* to call
> upon all its members to resign forthwith and for the governors to
> replace it with a team which believes that the 100 year plus
> educational legacy of Writtle deserves celebrating and defending,
> rather than yet another round of cuts.>  
> This branch further *resolves* to call upon the governors to
> withdraw the cuts and closure proposal by the end of this week. If
> the package is not withdrawn then a dispute will exist between the
> UCU and WUC and we will seek permission to ballot for industrial
> action.>  
> This branch *resolves* to inform students of what is happening,
> both directly and through the NUS and to seek their active support
> for a public campaign against the cuts package including, but not
> limited to, social media and a Change.org petition.>  
> In addition we *resolve* to seek common ground in fighting the
> cuts with our colleagues in other WUC unions and other UCU
> branches.>  
> Passed nem. con.
>  
>  
> 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman

[Rob Myers]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, at 10:21 AM, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote:
> I propose a law to stop systems from collecting personal data.

A long digression: :-) RMS is very good at making clear what they mean
by "personal data" here:
> Data about who travels where is particularly sensitive, because it is
> an ideal basis for repressing any chosen target. We can take the
> London trains and buses as a case for study.
One of the problems with using Facebook as the paradigm for "personal
data" is that there are two kinds of things that Facebook collects.
The first is the text and images that people upload to it. This is
what makes Facebook look like work in a way that, say, phoning
someone on a landline doesn't. In the wonderful world of copyright,
these are resources that people have rights to, and so it is "ours"
in a meaningful way. This isn't the kind of data RMS is talking
about, I think.
The second kind of thing, and the one that I think RMS is talking about,
is the telemetry and metrics that Facebook generates to describe our
actions, both using their systems and across the web. That ain't our
data. It's data about us.
Confusing click counts with cat pictures is something we should avoid.
Both when talking about privacy and waxing workerist about how much
money Facebook makes from "our data".
So, yay RMS here.

> However, convenient digital payment systems can also protect
> passengers’ anonymity and privacy. We have already developed one: GNU
> Taler. It is designed to be anonymous for the payer, but payees are
> always identified. We designed it that way so as not to facilitate tax
> dodging. All digital payment systems should be required to defend
> anonymity using this or a similar method.
On the less yay front, I'm very disappointed that Taler has become a GNU
project. It's as if GNU Privacy Guard was a re-implementation of the
Clipper Chip, or GNU Emacs sent your documents to the NSA (but only when
you save them...).
Cryptocurrency exchanges already allow you to export spreadsheets of
your trades, and cryptocurrency wallets already allow you to export
spreadsheets of your transactions. Compliance with tax regimes, where
the relevant agencies give clear guidelines, is easy. Pretending that
there is something inherently dishonest about not having every payment
transaction spied on by the state is part of the War on Cash, and
represents a supra-Soviet degree of surveillance at least as much as
tracking your taxi rides does.
The argument that payees give up their right to privacy by being paid
for something bakes in social and economic inequality, and makes
receiving money a safety risk that will of course fall the hardest on
the most vulnerable.
Baking surveillance and social inequality into software goes against
everything that GNU stands for. GNU should not be producing spyware,
making software that targets people's safety, or furthering state
surveillance rhetoric.
> The EU’s GDPR regulations are well-meaning, but do not go very far. It
> will not deliver much privacy, because its rules are too lax. They
> permit collecting any data if it is somehow useful to the system, and
> it is easy to come up with a way to make any particular data useful
> for something.
They are however a nightmare to comply with if you are not a company the
size of Facebook.
We should be wary of producing regulation that locks in rather than
fixes the underlying problem of too-big-not-to-exploit data gatherers.
- Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Quick thought about Neural Networks

[Rob Myers]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2018, at 8:22 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> Here's a link to the exhibition page about BOB [1]

tfw no GitHub link on show page.

> and on the theme of beautiful introductions to technical things - this
> by Taeyoon Choi for Avant is the best introduction to Zero and One[2]
> ive read: technical, poetic, political.
I misread this as "Zeroes and Ones" and had a Sadie Plant flashback.

>> One of the difficulties in parsing BOB as an artwork arises from the
>> fact that (like a lot of products of digital culture) it is a black-
>> box, or perhaps a better analogy would be an iceberg. We know that
>> there is a huge and complex machine under the surface but we have no
>> idea, and no way to gain understanding of what is going on. It's body
>> is unlike ours, so it doesn't feel like we do. We can't learn
>> together with it. All we can do is project our own idea of what an
>> evolving system looks like onto its surface. And I think BOB is doing
>> very clever pattern mirroring.>> 
>>  So for me - with a creative Neural Net artwork I want to know about
>>  the "body" of the artwork and to be able to observe the glorious gap
>>  between what I might project onto it and what is actually going on.
I do wonder whether being satisfied with the (effects of the) output in
itself is a test for the sufficiency-as-art of art that is produced
using computer programs.
But then again if there's a painting I don't quite get, examining
the preparatory sketches or learning about the artist's
iconography can help.
A piece of art that uses complex computer programs as part of its
internal structure is at least as much a challenge to understanding as a
piece of art that incorporates a complex and unfamiliar formal or
iconographic surface structure.
So we're back to where the source code is. :-)

>> [...]
>>  On 25/03/18 05:20, BishopZ via NetBehaviour wrote:
>>> Been building some Neural Networks.

Hey awesome!

>>> [...]
>>> You can also make a Creative NN,
>>> which taks a small amount of data
>>> and makes up a whole bunch.
>>> [...]

This is starting to be used in design -

https://damascusapparel.com/blogs/blog/this-is-adom-the-shirt-designing-a-i-that-collaborated-with-us
>>> 
>>> Dear Netbehaviour,
>>> 
>>> Any ideas, thoughts, comments? Is there room for creative NN
>>> artworks? Seems like this kind of thing could take over the
>>> interactive installation space. Maybe art-tech can become surprising
>>> again?
Both style transfer and generalising from examples could have major
applications in art, far beyond making any given cat photo look like Van
Gogh painted it.
Shardcore has done some awesome but usually more static stuff:

http://www.shardcore.org/

I've always been interested in creative recombination. I used morphing
software for this ages ago -
https://robmyers.org/mixes/

>>> Skynet's the limit.

In a very real way...

Although that's not the *entire* Accelerationist argument. ;-)

- Rob.

Links:

  1. http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/ian-cheng-bob
  2. http://avant.org/project/zero-one/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Rob Myers?

[Rob Myers]

The project was by @coin_artist, I've just now asked the BBC to put
their name first.
But yes I helped encode the message in the flames.  :-)

It's been fun reminiscing about the project with them to try and
answer questions about it - the Motherboard article has lots of
details as a result.
- Rob.

On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, at 7:59 AM, Pall Thayer via NetBehaviour wrote:
> I saw that this morning. Front page of BBC News!
> 
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 10:17 AM Alan Sondheim
>  wrote:>> 
>> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42944290
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Forks in the blockchain

[Rob Myers]

On 08/12/17 01:31 PM, Edward Picot via NetBehaviour wrote:
> A question for Rob - or anyone else who happens to know - when there's a
> fork in the Blockchain, what happens to the old, discredited side of the
> fork? What HTML coders used to call the 'deprecated' bit? Does it
> actually get disabled, disconnected or stopped in some way, or does it
> just stay out there on the Blockchain doing its thing, and you hope that
> all the users have moved on to the new improved version, but maybe quite
> a lot of them haven't and never will
Yes that's what happens.

Some blockchain forks are unintentional and temporary. These happen when
different miners running the same software find new blocks at almost the
same time and start continuing the chain on top of them until eventually
one loses out to the other. This occurs surprisingly often and is why
people should wait several blocks (usually around 6, an hour on the
Bitcoin network) before trusting that they have really, finally,
received their coins and that they are not on a transient fork.

Some blockchain forks are intentional, permanent forks. These are tied
to a software fork that changes the rules for creating blocks in the
blockchain. There are actually two kinds of intentional forks, soft and
hard forks. Soft forks don't concern us here as they do not split the
network. But hard forks do.

Hard forks change the rules for finding blocks and building the
blockchain in a way that is incompatible with the old version of the
software. Some miners will run this software, some won't. So some miners
continue building on the old chain, some start building on the new one.
This is where the fork happens.

Over time either everyone will move to the new chain, everyone will
abandon the new chain and return to the old one, or both chains will
continue with a greater or lesser number of the original miners. There
is little economic incentive to store or mine an abandoned chain, but
some people do for whatever reason (there are "block explorer" web sites
for cryptocurrencies that still show new blocks every few minutes, empty
of transactions...).

The best examples of long-lived hard forks at the moment are Ethereum
Classic (from Ethereum) and Bitcoin Cash (from Bitcoin). Proponents of
both will tell you that these are the *real* versions of each chain.

- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Tell A Mouse Is Back!

[Rob Myers]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, at 04:13 AM, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Tell A Mouse Web ring
> [...]


> http://www.tamara-lai.be/tell-a-mouse/index.htm

"""
You need:
SAFARI or FIREFOX :: Plug ins : Shockwave + Flash + RealPlayer +
AcrobatReader + Quicktime + Windows media player ::"""

Such nostalgic. :-)

- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] bitcoin power (from Michel Bauwens, G+)

[Rob Myers]

On 27/11/17 08:21 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> One question and query -
> 
> Who establishes the difficult algorithms miners solve? Are they
> themselves generated within the blockchain? Is there a group that has
> control over this?
The original Bitcoin difficulty adjustment algorithm was created by
Satoshi Nakamoto. Its is part of the C++ code of the Bitcoin client
software, so it exists outside the blockchain. Its stated objective is
to keep Bitcoin creating blocks of transactions roughly every ten
minutes. So the Bitcoin blockchain's ever-increasing energy consumption
is a result of the difficulty adjustment algorithm being a paperclipper
about targeting block time.

Changing the difficulty algorithm requires changing the Bitcoin software
source code. If that change is incompatible with the rest of the Bitcoin
network, clients running the modified software will form their own rival
network and start working on a separate "fork" of the blockchain. The
most notable fork of the Bitcoin software/network/blockchain at the
moment is "Bitcoin Cash", which explicitly includes a different
difficulty adjustment algorithm. Other chains also have forks over their
consensus rules, notably Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.

There have been experiments with putting the difficulty algorithm on the
blockchain. Eris did it at one point I think, and there was discussion
of this for Ethereum network but I don't think anything came of it
(although it does have "The Difficulty Bomb" to eventually enforce a
switch from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake). Decred, which I mentioned
in my last email to the list, makes voting on the parameters and code of
the difficulty algorithm part of the governance system built into the
software.

So control is usually with the software developers and embedded in the
code, although the developers lose the trust of the miners and of the
users another fork will pick them up, and there are experiments around
moving things on chain but that's not really happening yet.

> And a blockchain for cultural projects -
> 
> I wonder if it would be possible to establish an anti-currency, a
> blockchain with easy mining solutions? For example, 2 50-digit numbers
> multiplied? Does that make any sense? So that the currency built upon it
> might stay worthless? But it could be used for cultural work, and would
> still be stable?

Cryptocurrencies usually pay for the operation and securing of their
networks in their own currency, so making it worthless won't incentivise
people to do that. But there are systems like Hyperledger Fabric or
Tendermint that we could use to create such a network. Or if we accept
"almost worthless", we could use one of the faster/easier/cheaper
networks like Dogecoin (it's still going! :-D ).

What kind of work would you use it for?

- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] arts blockchain and DAOWO

[Rob Myers]

On 26/11/17 07:06 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> Hello Rob
>>
>> On 25/11/17 05:21 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
>>
>>> - Environmental and energy costs – more on this soon but I have been
>>> looking at Faircoin – proof of cooperation and I wonder if the
>>> clear-as-daylight, explicit mapping of environmental harm onto
>>> crypto-currency trading could provide the impetus for a global move
>>> to 100% renewables and zero carbon emissions.
>>>
>>
>> Decred's experiments in governance (and energy efficiency...) are more
>> reflexive and to my mind sounder than Faircoin's for reasons I discuss
>> indirectly in "Blockchain Poetics" -
>>
>> https://www.decred.org/
> Please could you spell it out!?

In the essay I talk about how well-meaning political changes to the
technology of Bitcoin upset the economics of it.

Faircoin uses an energy-efficient quorum of servers to assemble blocks,
it does not create new coins via mining, it has allocated large amounts
of coins to deserving individuals, it is seeking to build the price of
the currency so it can better deliver value, and it is seeking to secure
people's accounts with smart card technology.

Or, from the point of view of the economics of mainstream
Cryptocurrencies, Faircoin is baking in centralisation, pre-mining,
whales, air-drops, pumping, and trusted third part hardware. These are
all antipatterns, and all it takes is one bad actor for any one of them
to become a problem. Game theory trumps good intentions where one of the
players can defect...

These are problems of governance. The current impasse in Bitcoin
development is also a problem of governance. Decred is all about getting
governance right. The proof-of-stake system it uses to mine blocks has
been extended to a more general voting system -

https://docs.decred.org/getting-started/constitution/#blockchain-governance

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/decred-launches-proposal-system-advance-blockchain-governance/

https://bravenewcoin.com/news/decred-launches-decentralized-voting-process-for-blockchain-protocol-changes/

So while it doesn't have the same objectives for "fairness" of initial
distribution of wealth that Faircoin does, I think it has a better model
of "fairness" in governance that might have a better chance of leading
to an ultimately  fairer and more co-operative economic system within
its own limited domain.

- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] bitcoin power (from Michel Bauwens, G+)

[Rob Myers]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, at 05:47 AM, Pall Thayer via NetBehaviour wrote:
> That's a good question, Jaka. Rob, how will miners be rewarded once
> all of the coins have been mined?
Transaction fees. Each Bitcoin transaction has an optional fee attached,
which also goes to the miners. So once there are no more block rewards
for mining, fees will still exist and will become more important.
This is implemented as simply the difference in value between the
Bitcoin you unlock to send in the transaction and the amount that you
send to other accounts/addresses. You (or your software) has to remember
to send any Bitcoin you don't want to send to another address or to the
miners back to a "change address" that you control. People can and do
get this wrong if they create the transaction by hand. I did this when
learning about transactions and I now check each one that I create
manually very, very carefully. ;-)
There is a conspiracy theory that the current pressure being put on the
Bitcoin network by the Bitcoin Cash fork seeing so many miners switching
their miners (and their "hashing power") away from the Bitcoin
blockchain and the resulting increase in transaction fees has been
engineered by the miners. This has seen fees go very high and has fed
the debate over what Bitcoin should be used for (everyday cash or).
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Re: [NetBehaviour] bitcoin power (from Michel Bauwens, G+)

[Rob Myers]

On 26/11/17 05:06 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> https://powercompare.co.uk/bitcoin/
> 
> One question, why does it take so much power?

Security.

"Miners" are machines that compete to be rewarded in Bitcoin for
securing the Bitcoin network. They do this by gathering up transactions
broadcast to the network every ten minutes or so into blocks, making
sure they all follow the rules of the system, then solving a difficult
mathematical puzzle to prove their good faith.

The difficulty of that puzzle is set by an algorithm that measures the
average time of the last two weeks worth of blocks, and tries to ensure
that it will average out to ten minutes over the next two.

Because Bitcoin has value, people compete for the block rewards. Lots of
people. Lots and lots and lots of people. With lots and lots and lots
and lots of ever more specialized computers. This means that the
difficulty algorithm keeps making the puzzle more difficult. And so it
takes more computing power to solve it. Which takes more energy.

This is the "proof of work" system. It is not a waste of electricity, it
is the cost of securing the network.

It is possible to try to create proof of work algorithms that are more
energy efficient. Or to use different security systems altogether, for
example "proof of stake", that use much less energy.

But these are currently less popular than Bitcoin. So if people are
worried about blockchain energy usage they should make sure to use
hydro-electric or solar power for mining. ;-)

> Excuse my ignorance.

No it's weird. It's an effect of the key technological breakthrough of
Bitcoin: cheating and using economic incentives to solve a computer
science problem.

> And do you think this will affect future value?

It secures that future value.

There was a hilarious article that extended the Bitcoin energy
consumption curve to show that in a couple of years it will consume all
the energy on the planet.

If that happens its value will be absolute for a single moment before
the economy and human society collapses...

- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] blockchain electrical consumption?

[Rob Myers]

On 23/11/17 09:27 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote:

> is it fear of death that makes people want their data to hang around
> for eternity? immortality in the blockchain?
>

There's a growth industry in blockchain estate planning, which means
that some hodlers at least are acknowledging their mortality -

https://coinjournal.net/7-steps-estate-planning-bitcoin-digital-assets/

The persistence, immutability and public nature of the blockchain seems
to have more to do with the demands of instantiating and proving
ideologically determined notions of just social relations.

> i have nightmarish visions of the blockchain - or rather, a forest of
> multiple, mostly proprietary/closed blockchains - growing unstoppably
> until we are suffocated & strangled by it all
>

While the existing finance regime is recuperating blockchain ("DLT") as
fast as it can throw money at it, Bitcoin is a decentralised technology
that stands in contrast to the centralised databases of the "cashless
society". Small victories...

Also, regarding the electricity used to secure Bitcoin's blockchain,
hydro-electric power is a good way of running miners. Or if people want
to use less electricity there's Proof-of-Stake.

- Rob.


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Re: [NetBehaviour] comments on blockchain, art, etc., discussion with Ruth

[Rob Myers]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, at 07:32 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Rob Myers wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, at 08:13 PM, Pall Thayer via NetBehaviour wrote:
> >   This is a great read. Now I want someone to explain to me how a
> >   non-material (non-existent) work of art maintains its
> >   immateriality (its non-existence) despite a record in the
> >   blockchain.
> > 
> > Immateriality and inexistence are different matters. :-)
> > 
> > Registering something in the blockchain doesn't anchor its being or cause it
> > to come into existence unless we agree it does or we have some way of
> > evaluating that existence -
> > 
> > http://robmyers.org/proof-of-existence/
> > 
> Does being need anchoring, or substantiation?

Outside of Pall's concern that blockchain mentions of the immaterial
might materialise it I don't know. Being seems to me to be largely a
matter of regard, but then we're in correlationist territory. Much of
philosophy seems to me to be the cognitive equivalent of the pathetic
fallacy but then mind is a product of its environment. I'm not a fan of
the idea of using Skynet as an aid to philosophical enquiry though.

> Here we're running into the 
> ontology of language, if I say "blue book" does that mean it exists? What 
> if I say "Here is a blue book." and so forth. Mikel Dufrenne wrote about 
> the world of the book (he was a phenomenology, a teacher of Kristeva 
> etc.), what the reader takes for granted, in other words the diegesis of 
> the novel perhaps. And the discussion should move to diegesis as well as 
> Coleridge's willing suspension of disbelief...

Meinong's jungle is noisy at night.
 
> > For entities we are claiming exist outside of the blockchain, the data that
> > claims to register that existence is a proxy for them. We cannot validate
> > the correctness of that claim using the blockchain's consensus rules in the
> > same way we can for a simple value transaction if we wish to validate the
> > fact of the registered object's existence outside of the blockchain.
> > Something about being outside the text. We can only validate that person X
> > placed a record on the blockchain, and possibly that later they sent it to
> > person Y.
> 
> This does seem to relate to the ontology of capital itself.

Absolutely. And also to the capital of ontology.

> > We use such proxies when buying and selling physical property such as cars
> > or houses, or more pertinently when buying and selling conceptual art.
> > Certificates of authenticity for conceptual art are even more material than
> > blockchain records. But I feel they are still proxies for the work rather
> > than being the work, although this may just be the conceptual art fan in me
> > speaking.
> 
> What I wonder about is in a sense the derailing of conceptual art, which 
> was a reaction at the time, at least among many artists, against the 
> materialism and mercantilism of the gallery/promotion structure. Given 
> that a conceptual work can be incorporated into blockchain, which itself 
> is an abstracting, is it necessary then to go into a discussion of
> 'buying 
> and selling conceptual art'? Isn't this a leap which many artists, at 
> least at the time, wouldn't make; doesn't it reduce conceptualism to the 
> usual marketplace phenomenology, instead of the radical gesture that, at 
> least for some, it embodied? For some reason Beuys comes to mind - he 
> wasn't a conceptualist, but his teaching and art occupied such a radical 
> position - as does the work of the Guerrilla Girls etc. ..

Yes recuperation is a constant threat. Or, viewed cynically, the point.

My favourite Guerilla Girls project at the moment is one that didn't get
made - they suggested that a gallerist open their gallery's books as
"the show"...

- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] comments on blockchain, art, etc., discussion with Ruth

[Rob Myers]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, at 08:13 PM, Pall Thayer via NetBehaviour wrote:
> This is a great read. Now I want someone to explain to me how a non-
> material (non-existent) work of art maintains its immateriality (its
> non-existence) despite a record in the blockchain.
Immateriality and inexistence are different matters. :-)

Registering something in the blockchain doesn't anchor its being or
cause it to come into existence unless we agree it does or we have some
way of evaluating that existence -
http://robmyers.org/proof-of-existence/

For entities we are claiming exist outside of the blockchain, the data
that claims to register that existence is a proxy for them.  We cannot
validate the correctness of that claim using the blockchain's consensus
rules in the same way we can for a simple value transaction if we wish
to validate the fact of the registered object's existence outside of the
blockchain. Something about being outside the text. We can only validate
that person X placed a record on the blockchain, and possibly that later
they sent it to person Y.
We use such proxies when buying and selling physical property such as
cars or houses, or more pertinently when buying and selling conceptual
art. Certificates of authenticity for conceptual art are even more
material than blockchain records. But I feel they are still proxies for
the work rather than being the work, although this may just be the
conceptual art fan in me speaking.
- Rob.

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