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A curated collection of links spanning AI, privacy, art, music, and the 39C3 congress.
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Relive: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
Cory Doctorow's talk from 39C3: Power Cycles on building an enshittification-resistant internet.
Link blogging :: newsfeeds.net
Stood up newsfeeds.net for links - A clean, concise, curated source for links. Find it at newsfeeds.net
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...
Mediaeater Digest July 24.2025
Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Edhttps://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html Czech president signs law criminalising...
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Fictional K-pop bands beat BTS and Blackpink in US chartshttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl1zyv1y2o AI Company Anthropic Defends Against (Some) Copyright...
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AI Changes Everythinghttps://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/changes/ My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nutshttps://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ Broadcast...
Mediaeater Digest Vol 31, No 119
Slate Auto https://www.slate.auto/ Project Kuiper https://www.aboutamazon.com/what-we-do/devices-services/project-kuiper LLMs and World Models, Part 2 Evidence...
Securing Agentic AI Systems
As agentic AI systems become more prevalent and powerful, the need for robust security frameworks is critical. Autonomous systems require specialized...
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Tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices Anthropic's educational...
Mediaeater Digest Monday 4.21
The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33697/w33697.pdf OpenAI Is A...
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...
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....
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...
Mediaeater Digest Vol 31, No. 76
The emergent agentic marketplace has many facets, most interesting to me right now is. ... Agent Intent and Inference. Agent Intent and Inference refers to the...
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AI-generated recordings in music streaming services Sony Music says over 75,000 items removed in battle against AI deepfakes. Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs...
Untitled Post
List of Consumer Reporting Companies related reading. Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads Links to archived versions of every...
Mediaeater Digest
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability Report. (AI in the mix) On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?...
Multi-Modal Models
Multi Model Models. from https://huggingface.co/collections/merve/mit-talk-31-10-papers-671f6a16e156f77739820c89 (MIT Talk 31/10 Papers) NVLM: Describes images...
Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 227
Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach (troy hunt) Script-kidding the Bitcoin blockchain (ccc.de) CONCORD vs.ANTHROPIC PBC, Defendant (pdf)...
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...
Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 219
Neuralink second implant patient working well (twitter) DARPA semanticforensics.com DEF CON 32 Home Page Drake 100gigs.org (music 2024) Amazon Topics...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 215
Google - How we're addressing explicit fake content in Search Stability AI - Introducing Stable Fast 3D: Meta - Second Quarter 2024 Results Follow Up Call Suno...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 211
Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident (msft) Web-check: All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website (github) Kamala-holding-vinyls (glitch)...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 209
Copyright Traps for LLMs (github) AI start-up Anthropic accused of ‘egregious’ data scraping (ft) Media Bias Detector (mediabiasdector) Opt out of x...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 207
CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent Apple Maps on the web launches in beta The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.206
Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2024 Results (abc.xyz) Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B (zuck interview) Open Source AI Is the Path Forward (meta) WWDC 2024...
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...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 203
Gutenberg’s message to the AI era (Brookings) A second effect of AI is its expansion of already existent digital era abuses, such as privacy, competition,...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.199
Privacy OpSec Company squanders 3.6 billion people's locations in Germany Data traders are spreading the locations of people in Germany – sometimes even for...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.195
Today: HOPE Schedule and streams Hackers on Planet Earth NYC HOPE Deep Fakes HOPE in memoriam (hard to look at that line up of hacker brothers gone, grateful...
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,...
Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 173
Seeing Like A Network- Dark Forests, Dense Networks ( strangeloopcanon.com ) culture is composed of the communication patterns, behaviours, and symbols that...
This Weeks Model
Audioseal (meta) Cutting-edge audio manipulation toolkit. Florence (msft) Microsoft's advanced conversational AI. Open-Sora v1.2 (github) Community-driven...
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,...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 159
YouTube Copyright Transparency Report (youtube) paid out over $70 billion to creators, artists, and media companies in recent years, and it boasts over 100...
Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 151
Announcing Showrunner (The Simulation) We believe the future is a mix of game & movie. Simulations powering 1000s of Truman Shows populated by interactive AI...
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...
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.132
Random notes... Music is always first, always. Surviving the first wave of digital disruption on the first beachfront gave me the tools needed to understand...
MED Vol.30, No.121
News Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says (arstech) Will An AI Movie Win An Oscar Within Seven Years? (forbes) Industry Google...
MED Vol.30, No.117
Survey reveals translators and illustrators losing work to AI (societyofauthors) FCC Restores Net Neutrality (fcc) Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp) A look...
MED Vol. 30, No. 116
Personal Explorations in Distributed Cognition with Foundation Models (medium) Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) First Quarter 2024 Results Conference Call...
MED Vol. 30, No. 110
We announce the successful editing of DNA in human cells with gene editors (x post) Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR (nyt)...
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.87
FACT SHEET: OMB Policy to Advance Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management in Federal Agencies’ Use of Artificial Intelligence (whitehouse.gov) Artificial...
MED Vol. 30, No. 83
Info How Big Tech is winning the AI talent war (FT) Elon Musk’s X Needs Creators, but They Don’t Need (WSJ) Gov. Lee Signs ELVIS Act Into Law (tn.gov) HB2091...
Compensation - The Line of Actual Control
The EU just passed a major AI law, China's taking one stance on AI-generated art, and Japan's trying to protect creators. Lawsuits abound! Here a quick round...
MED Vol.30, No.75
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (NYT) LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew...
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. 71
A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments (deepmind) Bad Bunny Lawsuit (axios) Pain and Suffering (NVDA corp culture) H.R. 7521 TikTok Bill...
MED Vol.30, No.63
Rethinking Privacy in the AI Era: Policy Provocations for a Data-Centric World. (HAI/Stanford) Open Sora plan (Github) The App Store, Spotify, and Europe’s...
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...
Media Authenticity: Photography Secure Capture Technology, Synthetic Media Watermarking
A quick roundup of authentication and watermarking initiatives. The quest for the real image: Leica camera sales are up 10x over the last decade...
Arts: Felix Morello Circles
[gallery ids="7331,7332,7333"] Felix Morello circles You find them around the Village if you are lucky, in Washington Square Park for a few ephemeral days,...
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...
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...
Links July 4th
Links from today... Voice actors are discovering that decades-old contracts have given companies the right to use their voices to train AI models that compete...
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...
Browsing Shift
There are volumes to be written on the shift in browsing and publishers new challenges around IP - but this is not that. A fastshort observation about the...
Artists + AI
Cindy Sherman training an AI and using it to generate work. Comments from peers in both approval and speaking about experimenting themselves.
Watch this...
“Elon Musk, interviewed by Sarah Lacy, “A Fireside Chat with Elon Musk,” Santa Monica, CA, July 12, 2012,...
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...
The Generative Al Application Landscape
The Generative Al Application Landscape Link to full res image The Generative Al Application Landscape revised from sequoia capital. Which areas are the...
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,...
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...
XR data flows + Privacy
FPF infographic visualizing how XR data flows work by exploring several use cases that XR technologies may support. The infographic highlights the kinds of...
A new generation of music videos
Presenting "Robo Portraits", a collection of text-prompted music video shorts made with #stablediffussion & #mubert. 9 videos, each following the exact same...
Links and reports of note
Todays reports and news of note. Authoritative 150 page report by Tech Inquiry on government purchasing of Amazon/Google/Microsoft cloud services with a focus...
The week in links
In no particular order - links from this week The [Peak] Attention Economy Optimizely’s Founder Wants to Augment Your Memories Can Anyone Moderate Podcasts?...
This weeks links
Cryptomedia, NFTs, and the Next Internet Related: Niftygateway, MakersPlace The new reading stack Same Energy Google has a VPN service Spy museum in NYC...
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...
In the papers Vol 1. 2021
A roundup of papers of note from the last few weeks. Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis A Survey on Neural Network Interpretability A...
Privacy Digest
EU plans sweeping regulation of facial recognition [FT] The aim would be to limit “the indiscriminate use of facial recognition technology’’ by companies and...
The Abstracted Absent Arbiter or The New Other
MEDIAEATER DIGEST TUE 25th, DEC, MMXVIII MERRY CHRISTMAS DISPUTE THE TEXT, SAPERE AUDE The Abstracted Absent Arbiter or The New Other The absent arbiter and...
Medieater Digest 071218
MEDIAEATER DIGEST 12TH JULY 2018 Live today... 10 AM Eastern Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 11:25 a.m. Eastern. Nominations for the...
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