The Emoji Movie (now on Netflix): surprisingly not terrible. I would even say surprisingly good, especially given what they had to work with.
And with some interesting feminist bits, though I will note that it didn’t pass the Bechdel test.
Nice Star Trek joke.
Via Walter Roberson.
Of course law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear.
Originally shared by Pappi Hex
Cameras with superpowers.
Which, with the addition of brain-computer interfaces, could result in people with superpowers.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
The Next Generation of Cameras Might See Behind Walls http://suhub.co/2EaTUqa
As a counter of sorts to dejection about the scary state of social media, have an article on how the first novel caused widespread moral panic because of the even more widespread craze it started.
We’ve survived Pamelamania and Beatlemania. I suppose we can survive social media algorithms.
This is deeply disturbing. Turns out that giving people more of what they like does not lead to a high-quality outcome.
And in line with my commitment not to merely amplify helpless outrage: this makes me more mindful of my choices online. I need to bear in mind that I’m training algorithms all the time.
Your capabilities will be added to our own.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
How Swarm Intelligence Is Making Simple Tech Much Smarter http://suhub.co/2FX4QYm
You may or may not remember my post the other day about fixing the structure of social media. That was more or less an intellectual exercise; there’s nothing, really, that you or I can do to achieve the large-scale changes I was speculating about there.
What we can do, though, is examine our own social media behaviour with a view to improving the overall environment. So that’s what this post is about; a commitment to a wiser, kinder, more thoughtful and more hopeful social media practice, that I hope will spread beyond me and my immediate circles.
(That’s an invitation to share this as widely as you like.)
http://csidemedia.com/gryphonclerks/2018/02/08/fixing-social-media-part-2-what-you-and-i-can-do/
I’ve just made a post on the five most common errors I see in books I review (both indie and trad-pub). A good 70% of the books that are appealing enough for me to actually pick up make at least one of these errors, presumably because the authors don’t know that they’re errors.
Are you making one or more of them in your work?
The real-life positronic brain?
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Brain-Like Chips Now Beat the Human Brain in Speed and Efficiency http://suhub.co/2FTnOPq
When a group is only listening to itself, that’s a problem.
Via Walter Roberson.
Originally shared by Toronto Star
“They’re playing with different facts, and they think they have the inside scoop on conspiracies,” researcher says.