Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 5 Dec 2016

Edition-90 of Delicacies: as usual, max 5 articles that i found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! Much more of this in my weekly Revue summary. Subscribe at bottom of this post.

• About the sophistication of us being gamed by search, algorithms, fake news. MUST READ: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook
• About sensual computing meshing the computer’s mastery of data with the human capacity for understanding: https://medium.com/ghvr/sensual-computing-2581e3961c1a#.1sskmkh2j
• About participatory online marketing anno 2017 (long but very good): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnfwckhZiLc
• About the Ericsson ConsumerLab research consumer trends for 2017: https://www.ericsson.com/networked-society/consumerlab/consumer-insights/reports/10-hot-consumer-trends-2017
• About Clay Shirky’s Google talk about “Little Rice”, his latest book on hyperinnovation in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR6K1l3sfm8

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Sine Parole – 9 Dec 2016

Artschool 2016. Study on Magnus Plessen. 
1) V4 of painting based on collage 2), 3) and 4) some details. 
Expect to finish next week. Acryl on cotton canvas 80x80cm, brush, spatula, kleenex. 
With thanks to my coach Ann Grillet

 

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Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 28 Nov 2016

Edition-89 of Delicacies: as usual, max 5 articles that i found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! Much more of this in my weekly Revue summary. Subscribe at bottom of this post.

• About the switch from book to digital entertainment; stories/narratives: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/25/will-self-humans-evolving-need-stories
• About work as the blessing vs. the easy path to retirement: https://www.thindifference.com/2016/12/work-is-a-blessing/
• About fairness, accountability, and transparency in machine learning: https://points.datasociety.net/transparency-accountability-3c04e4804504#.h0elv4c4y
• About mass consumerism and the illusion of dematerialization: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/how-humans-became-consumers/508700/
• About one possible future scenario where all your software belongs to Amazon: https://hackernoon.com/amazon-is-eating-the-software-which-is-eating-the-world-738888fb9e82#.s2se8vuqe

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