"In perhaps the creepiest example, Facebook applied for (and received, last year) a patent for a tool called Techniques, for emotion detection and content delivery. It would use the camera in your phone to take pictures of you as you scroll through content. Facebook would then use facial analysis to measure how much you did or did not like the content in question, so as to determine what kind of stuff to send your way."
Fellow (wannabe) #writers, follow @WritingPrompts for #writingprompts! <3
"So I reckon that #magic is our response to #consciousness and I think that magic is practically synonymous with #art and I think it’s practically synonymous with #language and I think that all of these four phenomena are language, magic and consciousness. I think that they’re four parts of the same thing, four aspects of the same thing."
http://www.superweirdsubstance.com/alan-moore-youth-conversation/
Today marks the first anniversary of our Super Weird Happening that took over the Dingle's Florrie for 14 hours of magick, music and mayhem. One of the highlights was this illuminating conversation between Alan Moore & Youth...
With the #deletefacebook / anti-birdsite movement seemingly picking up speed, I have a few questions:
* How has it affected your social life?
* Did you manage to keep in contact with people far-away that you only spoke to occasionally?
* How did your relationship with social media / media as a whole change.
* How did your 'free time' change? Were you more productive or did you procrastinate elsewhere?
If you're replying, please say how long you've been without #Facebook / #Birdsite :)
'Deeply weird and enjoyable': Ursula K Le Guin's electronica album
In the 1980s, the #sci-fi author teamed up with musician Todd Barton, inventing new instruments and a language to create Music and Poetry of the Kesh