SELLING MY LIFE / NOSTALGIA MARKET
September 19 – October 19, 2025. An installation blurring private sanctuary and public marketplace, inviting visitors to rediscover the gallery as a lived-in archive of three decades of cultural memory.
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Essays & Reflection
Personal essays and longer-form reflection
Grace Notes
THE GREAT JOY IN THINGS THAT ARE SAD A Documentary Theatre Piece Structure: Three interwoven timelines presented simultaneously on stage: - 1994: The night of...
Mediaeater Digest August
Linkblog — Early September 2025 AI, Tech & Misuse Anthropic: Detecting and Countering Misuse (Aug 2025) DeepMind SynthID ch.at – lightweight LLM chat service...
stybd
Excited to share more --- coming out of alpha release - it's official stybd.com
Generational Worldviews: An Anthropological Lens on Economic and Political Shifts
Humans Are Having Problems With Humans Being Humans
In an age of technological complexity, global interdependence, and ideological polarization, humanity seems increasingly at odds with its own nature. The...
Mediaeater Digest Weekend Edition
Deafening Silence From The Cybersecurity Industry https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2025/04/16/deafening-silence-from-the-cybersecurity-industry/ Where...
AI Alignment
While Altman speaks about respecting creative work and developing new models for compensation, OpenAI is simultaneously arguing in court cases that their use...
Sunday Shift Log
Entertainment Shifts Terminating the AI vs. Hollywood Tropes https://spyglass.org/ai-vs-hollywood-james-cameron/ AI driving a shift in music that has all the...
Mediaeater Digest - Weekend Edition
How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse ByteDance uses its 1 billion users' data to fuel its AI growth, after investing $11B in 2024....
The Crisis of Context: Why You Can No Longer Trust the Narrative
Or, The death of Necessary Factual and Normative Context. I've watched social media and blogging transform over the years, shifting from relatively open spaces...
Mediaeater Digest April 5th, 2025
DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/ AI giants reject...
Mediaeater Digest Weekend Edition.
An interactive demo for developers to try the new text-to-speech model in the OpenAI API. https://www.openai.fm/ Introducing next-generation audio models in...
Strengthen Your Networks
A Fresh Start for 2025: Building Habits That Matter The New Year acts as a nice cosmic reset. I love it for creating habits, serialization of creative efforts...
AI in Film and Video Production: A Incomplete Glossary of Terms.
AI in Film and Video Production: A Incomplete Glossary of Terms. (RFC) REQUEST FOR COMMENTS This glossary provides definitions and examples of key AI terms...
MED Weekend Edition
FaceTune.ai What you get when you combine the junk science of emotion recognition and ai music creation. Did not have the ven of music creation and human...
Mediaeater Digest Vol. 30, No. 223
How Mastercard sells its ‘gold mine’ of transaction data (reddit) AI Comes for Music (dancohen) How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop (honest-broker) I...
A Weekend of Letting Go
This weekend marked two significant firsts in my life, both involving parting with cherished possessions. Photograph Sale I sold a photograph that had adorned...
Making Music
Suno https://www.suno.ai/ Creates complete songs from text prompts, including lyrics and vocals Brev.ai https://brev.ai/ AI Music Generator Free Online...
We want to see your work
OpenAI to the NYT show us your reporters notes we want to see if its even copyrightable. NYT responds, “given the wildly improper scope of this request, one...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.185 (video editing tools)
AI, Synthetic Data & Media Transcript: Robo DJ — YouTube invests in AI-generated music (ft) "So YouTube is trying to make it bigger and make it a proper...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.181
The AI we could have had (ft) But the rebels at the lab thought this kind of automation was the antithesis of true responsiveness. They saw human relations,...
Summer Reading
Reading list so far this summer. (first half of summer ) see (part 2, end of summer) All Fours - Miranda July Co-Intelligence - Ethan Mollusk The Eye Of The...
Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 68
NYT workplace advice columnist brings it - Goodbye Work Friends….”Still, in my heart of hearts, I always wanted to tell you to quit your job. Negotiate for the...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 163
States Take Up A.I. Regulation Amid Federal Standstill (nyt) State lawmakers across the country have proposed nearly 400 new laws on A.I. in recent months,...
Capital
The special skill of each individual machine-operator, who has now been deprived of all significance, vanishes as an infinitesimal quantity in the face of the...
Mediaeater Digest Vol. 30, No. 149
Taxonomy of Human Rights Risks - Connected to Generative AI this document explores human rights risks stemming from the development, deployment, and use of...
Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 144
Meta AI chief says large language models will not reach human intelligence. (FT) At an event in London on Tuesday, DeepMind’s chief Sir Demis Hassabis said...
On device
When Google announces it can monitor phone conversations for hostile scams, and Microsoft claims it can search everything you've ever touched on your computer,...
MED Vol.30, No. 139
Songs I listened to compiling this: Quarters of Change - Turn It Away (youtube) Rosie Tucker - All My Exes Live In Vortexes (youtube) Remi Wolf - Cinderella...
MED Vol. 30, No. 116
Personal Explorations in Distributed Cognition with Foundation Models (medium) Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) First Quarter 2024 Results Conference Call...
Inference + Intent
AIML - Inference and intent intent. - 1 : a usually clearly formulated or planned intention : AIM the director's intent 2 a : the act or fact of intending :...
MED Vol.30, No.109
Llama 3 The Life and Death of Hollywood High-speed trader Jane Street raked in $4.4bn at start of 2024 LF AI & Data Foundation Launches Open Platform for...
MED Vol.30, No.101
Coachella Streams (youtube) MusicGen Web (huggingface) Infinity AI. (huggingface) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (bloomberg) Report...
Draft: Data Privacy Legislation - Deep Dive
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell...
MED Vol.30, No.73
Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law (europa.eu) Commission presents new initiatives for digital infrastructures of tomorrow (europa.eu) Music...
MED Vol.30, No. 55
Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? What 2026 looks like (from 6th Aug., 2021) How artists are fighting generative AI Will AI...
FTC: Rule on Impersonation of Individuals
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) requests public comment on its proposal to amend the trade regulation rule entitled Rule on Impersonation of...
Privacy: EU Artificial Intelligence Act
Artificial Intelligence Act :: Banned applications Recognizing the potential threat to citizens’ rights and democracy posed by certain applications of AI, the...
Navigating the Digital Maze: Dark Patterns, Algorithm Ethics, Facial Recognition and the FTC
This digital age of ours has consumers facing a deluge of potential harms ranging from privacy invasions to deceptive practices. Being online is like a dance...
Navigating the Digital Maze: The Weaponization of Audio and Video
[video width="1138" height="640" mp4="/imgs/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Post.mp4"][/video] The world of audio and visual (A/V) media has...
Navigating the Digital Maze: From Prompts to Outputs: Safeguarding Interests in Generative AI Agreements
Some Thoughts on Generative AI Best Practices... Understand Generative AI: Recognize that generative AI identifies patterns in training data to produce new...
AI Training data and video conference software
"Just a heads up, Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out. (Technically, you can delete your data later, but the training has been...
Links from early surf set
Hugging Face's website that allows users to explore Llama v2, a large language model, with TGI (Transformers for Interactive Generation) demos. Try running it...
AI round-up security, economics, scraping, open-source, video generation
Open Letter from Security and Privacy Researchers in relation to the Online Safety Bill The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier...
META’s take on Twitter
META’s take on Twitter Meta has a long history of mimicking products and product features of competitors. Most if not all of the efforts have been met with...
The week in AI
To say the pace of this sector is moving fast is an understatement : Links to key advances, moves and developments. Microsoft has integrated AI-powered...
Privacy preservation tactics using AI services
Use local models first Using AI at a local level essentially means running AI models on your own hardware, rather than relying on cloud-based services. This...
Happiness POV
Reading this newsletter last week Happiness is a 2x2 Matrix I came across this video Interview with Hillel Einhorn on happiness. "Now, there are some...
European Parliament Members Reach Provisional Agreement on Groundbreaking AI Act
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have provisionally agreed on the world's first rulebook for artificial intelligence (AI), known as the AI Act. This...
Internet Trend: All your databases are ours
The frontend is becoming the backend to a new set of smart interfaces. The integration of advanced technologies such as AI acting as long polling to the corpus...
Seizing the means of prediction
The world is running on recommendation algorithms, and emergent predictive algorithms will be here soon to police it.
Closing out the year...
Sunday Jan 1 2023 is Public Domain Day. Works from 1927 fall into public domain. Metropolis, The Unknown (Chaney), The Jazz Singer. Awful AI is a curated list...
A return to value
The internet has gone through several stages of development, each marked by significant events and challenges. Web 1.0, the publishing era, was characterized...
Frames of Reference....(recursive)
I know its candy– these exchanges...are some-thing. A response after it banged out an outline for me. (below) The last part about understanding thoughts over...
Ethical and privacy concerns: chatGPT's use
The use of chatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, raises a number of ethical and privacy concerns, including: Bias: chatGPT is trained on large...
Weekend reading list
Everything we know about chatgpt My cyberpunk city, my cyberpunk world Drowning in AI Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT Everyone’s Over Instagram...
Cold Sunday in November 2022
Random notes and links ...and why I have been thinking a wiki or a Digital Garden might be useful Paul Graham "A person I have known for more than ten years,...
Prompt chaining, trees and playgrounds
The Near Future of AI is Action-Driven Excellent framing of the here and now and what's next. Link round up ML Safety Newsletter SkyPilot: Run ML and Data...
AGI Frames of References
IDEA - REF FRAMES - AGI WHAT: The impunity to look at a specific subject instance or occurrence that takes place and be able to understand it over time and...
Weekend reading
Weekend reading... How can we develop transformative tools for thought? [pdf] What are new ways memory systems can be applied, beyond the simple, declarative...
Surf Report
Weekend reading / viewing Essay: The meme economy Or, a personal journey through 21st-century capitalism. Read: The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of...
Vulnerable Groups
There is a law fo surveillance economics that the the less money you have the greater amount of your personal data is taken. Refugees at the boarder start with...
Other Topics
- AI & Generative MediaArtificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative content creation
- Privacy & SurveillanceData privacy, surveillance technology, and civil liberties
- Media & EntertainmentMusic industry, streaming, social TV, and media trends
- Technology PolicyRegulation, legislation, and technology governance