video Watch neural networks see only what they've been trained to see Andrea James

art Cool visual processing experiment with particles Andrea James

art Programmer/artist creates algorithmic portraits composed of a single line Andrea James

art Photochrome: keyword-generated impressionistic color palettes Andrea James

google WATCH: More DeepDream obsessions Andrea James

youtube Top YouTube influencers canceled Rob Beschizza

Reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Black Panther and the Crew" is a powerfully relevant superhero story about Black lives, police brutality, and US history Thom Dunn

facebook Over 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political posts in open letter Carla Sinclair

Sex Grindr removes ethnicity filter Rob Beschizza

copyright A pair of musicians recorded every possible MIDI melody just to get around copyright law Thom Dunn

coronavirus How coronavirus impacts climate change and the US housing market Thom Dunn

Games Steam’s Google result reads “F☠️ck Epic Games Store” Rob Beschizza

Business BLS to remove computers from data 'lockups,' chief denies it's aimed at Michael Bloomberg Xeni Jardin

youtube New claim of YouTube copyright strike extortion (Update: Jukin Media responds) Rob Beschizza

fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change Cory Doctorow

security Facebook & Twitter ban pro-Trump network that reached 55 million accounts with AI-generated faces, Epoch Media Group and Falun Gong links identified Xeni Jardin

privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow

twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow