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Weekend reading / viewing Essay: The meme economy Or, a personal journey through 21st-century capitalism. Read: The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship Panel: “We lose so much more than data. We lose the freedom to be human.”

• Tim Cook at Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference this week A path to empowering user choice and boosting user trust in advertising Search:  Three-dimensional search engine Physna wants to be the Google of the physical world Deck: Six emerging technologies trends changing our world  [PwC] Report: Schibsted Future Report 2021 The Great Unbundling [Benedict Evans]   Technology   Omega Mart: Grand Opening with Deepfaked Willie Nelson Collection of Deep Learning implementations with side-by-side notes Curated CS papers from last week. Researchers found programmers spend 58% of their time on comprehension.   Arts An Art Revolution, Made With Scissors and Glue  NYT (Can never get enough collage) Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access initiatives impressive - Public Access to Our Public Presence: Sharing Our API Yuri Pattison the engine Gallery 1   In the newspapers Artificial Intelligence Will Define Google’s Future. For Now, It’s a Management Challenge.  WSJ Personal liberty is another, unsung victim of the pandemic FT Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins: ‘We’re on the precipice of the misinformation age’  [Lunch w/ FT]   Random Links My 90s TV Excellent example of a vision and mission statement or words in the right order. Muscle wiki is a simple and useful reference to build and stretch your mortal coil Facebook oversightboard.com website Visualized: A Global Risk Assessment of 2021 And Beyond Yuima Nakazato’s SS21 Couture Collection  “ATLAS”