Rescuing Art From the Algorithm with Hipworth
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English - April 02, 2021 22:06 - 27 minutesTechnology Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Rafqa Touma chats to artist Hipworth about the sudden popularity of cryptoart and what it’s like to be creating in digital spaces; and whether art on the blockchain can emancipate digital artists from the demands of Facebook and Instagram algorithms. Also Josh & Cheyne are not Amazon bots.
Stuff we dig:
The Intercept’s Ken Klippenstein and his reporting on the Amazon Ambassadors
(also check out Bellingcat’s original investigation back in 2019)
The news that Canada might also go for approx. one week without news on Facebook
This story about FBI’s Twitter and the world’s fastest FOI request
Why QAnon couldn’t get a foothold in Japan
And finally, THERE IS NO WAR IN BA SING SE…
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