MachineMachine /stream - tagged with identity https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus]]> https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/

Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl, sad girl, manic pixie dream girl, i’m just a girl, girl’s girl, girl power, rat girl, feral girl, gorgeous gorgeous gi

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Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:32:59 -0700 https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/
<![CDATA[Linking the g(URL) – Syllabus]]> https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/

Girl dinner, hot girl walk, that girl, clean girl, girl boss, girl math, girl blog, hot girl summer, pick me girl, christian girl autumn, vsco girl, e-girl, good girl, bad girl, sad girl, manic pixie dream girl, i’m just a girl, girl’s girl, girl power, rat girl, feral girl, gorgeous gorgeous gi

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Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:32:59 -0700 https://syllabusproject.org/linking-the-gurl/
<![CDATA[$7,000 a day for five catchphrases: the TikTokers pretending to be ‘non-playable characters’ | TikTok | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/19/tiktok-npc-streaming-live-stream-pinkydoll

If you haven’t seen them yet, the videos are mesmerizing. A content creator with long, straight hair sits at her kitchen table, rapidly stringing together nonsense catchphrases, over and over with the same cheerful expression and tone. “Yes yes yes. Mmm, ice cream so good.

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Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:51:24 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/19/tiktok-npc-streaming-live-stream-pinkydoll
<![CDATA[How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history | The Economist]]> https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history

Among the more sombre gifts brought by the Enlightenment was the realisation that humans might one day become extinct.

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Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:51:25 -0700 https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history
<![CDATA[Diversity Training Company Uses White Actors In VR Sims]]> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/diversity-training-mursion-vr-white-actors

Mursion tells big corporate clients that its VR simulations will help teach racial sensitivity. But the actors playing its Black characters are often white.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:53 -0800 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/diversity-training-mursion-vr-white-actors
<![CDATA[THE GASTRULATION OF GEIST – Vast Abrupt]]> https://vastabrupt.com/2018/02/08/gastrulation-of-geist/

‘One of their philosophers has lately discovered that “as the liver secretes bile, so does the brain secrete thought”; which astonishing discovery Dr Cabanis, more lately still, in his ‘Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l’Homme’, has pushed into its minutest developments.

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Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:55:05 -0700 https://vastabrupt.com/2018/02/08/gastrulation-of-geist/
<![CDATA[Otherkin Are the Internet’s Punchline. They’re Also Our Future]]> https://www.dailydot.com/irl/otherkin/

Rhia is queer, trans, and nonbinary. They are also otherkin, or an individual who identifies as nonhuman on a non-physical level, according to the Otherkin Wiki.

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Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:19:44 -0800 https://www.dailydot.com/irl/otherkin/
<![CDATA[The Zoom Gaze — Real Life]]> https://reallifemag.com/the-zoom-gaze/

Since the pandemic began, the seemingly mundane protocols of Zoom have become a significant part of many people’s daily lives: finding the right link, setting up the peripherals, managing the glitches and slippages in this supposedly “synchronous” form of communication.

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Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:19:42 -0800 https://reallifemag.com/the-zoom-gaze/
<![CDATA[Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/25/arts/durer-self-portrait.html

Who are you, and what are you doing here? You, there in the mirror, there in the lens of your phone: What do you see? In the eyes of us poor moderns, it seems self-evident that a picture can capture who you are.

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Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:13:18 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/25/arts/durer-self-portrait.html
<![CDATA[How to Generate Infinite Fake Humans - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/how-generate-infinite-fake-humans/606943/

You encounter so many people every day, online and off-, that it is almost impossible to be alone. Now, thanks to computers, those people might not even be real.

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Sun, 01 Mar 2020 19:17:25 -0800 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/how-generate-infinite-fake-humans/606943/
<![CDATA[The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019]]> https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind

Afew​ years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind. My interest was not academic.

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Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:34:09 -0800 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind
<![CDATA[Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism | Mute]]> http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/appropriating-alien-critique-xenofeminism

The Xenofeminist Manifesto claims, among many things, rationalism and technology as core to a renewed futurist feminist project. However, given the provenance of its moniker and its 'pro-enlightenment' position, Annie Goh asks, WTF exactly is XF?

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Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:11:21 -0700 http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/appropriating-alien-critique-xenofeminism
<![CDATA[Daddy Issues | Katherine Angel | Granta]]> https://granta.com/daddy-issues/

In the awful, wearying months in which Harvey Weinstein’s ritualistic mistreatment of women was being recounted daily in the media, I found myself, like so many others, wondering and talking about the men in my life: ex-boyfriends, ex-stalkers, ex-harassers, ex-gropers.

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Tue, 02 Jul 2019 18:44:24 -0700 https://granta.com/daddy-issues/
<![CDATA[The White Pube | Are White Girls Capable of Making Art Not About Them?]]> https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/white-girl-art

Are White Girls Capable of Making Art That’s Not About themselves?? Are White Girls Capable of Making Art That’s Not About themselves??

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Mon, 01 Jul 2019 07:34:34 -0700 https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/white-girl-art
<![CDATA[Closing the Loop – The New Inquiry]]> https://thenewinquiry.com/closing-the-loop/

“The black female’s body needs less to be rescued from the masculine “gaze” than to be sprung from a historic script surrounding her with signification while at the same time, and not paradoxically, it erases her completely.

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Mon, 01 Jul 2019 07:34:30 -0700 https://thenewinquiry.com/closing-the-loop/
<![CDATA[Opinion | Why We Should Stop Fetishizing Privacy - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/opinion/privacy-tech-companies.html

Big tech companies create jobs, encourage innovation and provide valuable services free. Why would we want to break them up? Ms. Messer is a technology investor and entrepreneur.

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Mon, 27 May 2019 17:28:02 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/opinion/privacy-tech-companies.html
<![CDATA[We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now - Motherboard]]> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjye8a/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley

In December, Motherboard discovered a redditor named 'deepfakes' quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers’ bodies.

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Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:43:24 -0800 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjye8a/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley
<![CDATA[The Google Arts & Culture App and the Rise of the “Coded Gaze”]]> https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-google-arts-and-culture-app-and-the-rise-of-the-coded-gaze-doppelganger/amp?__twitter_impression=true

A few days ago, I came across an old post on the Web site Bored Panda called “10+ Times People Accidentally Found Their Doppelgängers in Museums and Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes.” The post consisted of around thirty photos of people posing with portraits whose subjects looked eerily like them.

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Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:43:21 -0800 https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-google-arts-and-culture-app-and-the-rise-of-the-coded-gaze-doppelganger/amp?__twitter_impression=true
<![CDATA[NXS Issue #2 Synthetic Selves]]> http://nxsworld.bigcartel.com/product/nxs-2-synthetic-selves

I contributed a short text to the second issue of NXS: Synthetic Selves. The issue centres on how the self is understood, whether we have a complete agency in constructing ourselves and what kind of images of ourselves we are broadcasting. Buy a copy Online environments are playgrounds for our identities and places for becoming the other. At face value, online platforms seem to promise us the opportunity to become anyone we want. Yet what happens online has consequences in the physical world. And what happens online is supported by the physical systems in which we grow up and live. Technology not only mediates the narratives of our daily lives, it shapes them. With contributions from

Armen Avanessian Hannah Barton Karolien Buurman Gilles De Brock Ivan Cheng Kim de Groot Benjamin Grosser Andrea Karch Kristýna Kulíková Geoffrey Lillemon Geert Lovink Aaron McLaughlin Dr. Alberto Micali Shintaro Miyazaki Nina Power Daniel Rourke Sophia Seawell Marloes de Valk Keith J. Varadi

Release Events NXS will be touring in 3 cities to present the second publication with an exclusive neon cover and screen The One Minutes series curated for the occasion.

Paris: Offprint November 9 – 12 Amsterdam: Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum November 16 Berlin: Trust Ltd November 23

You can Also find NXS at the Exhibition #13 Cybernetic Choreographies at Spectrum Berlin on November 24–26

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Fri, 10 Nov 2017 07:18:47 -0800 http://nxsworld.bigcartel.com/product/nxs-2-synthetic-selves
<![CDATA[Why women prefer erotic GIFs to steamy pornography videos - Sex Relationships]]> http://www.mid-day.com/articles/why-women-prefer-erotic-gifs-to-steamy-pornography-videos/18603178

In the midst of an animated chat on a WhatsApp group recently, a friend took us by surprise with the casual mention of porn GIFs. "Have you seen it?" she asked.

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Tue, 26 Sep 2017 05:27:21 -0700 http://www.mid-day.com/articles/why-women-prefer-erotic-gifs-to-steamy-pornography-videos/18603178