Tech Millionaires vs. Tech Billionaires (guess who is winning... And why it matters to the rest of us

2016-05-27 Thread Michael Gurstein
(Open letter from Nick Denton (Gawker) to Peter Thiel (PayPal, Facebook etc.) who evidently has been bankrolling the legal hell ($125 mill and counting) that Gawker has been experiencing around the Hulk Hogan privacy lawsuit.

If you talk to bots, you're talking to their bosses

2016-05-27 Thread Brett Scott
Hi all, just published this on the disingenuous and phony behaviour of AI 'bots', suggesting that the next stage of corporate personhood is for corporations (legal persons) to literally claim to be natural living persons, something that can be acheived only if the user-experience layer of a

Re: artfcity: Turbulence.org Going Offline

2016-05-27 Thread morlockelloi
One interesting aspect about stylometry and its counter-measures, is that it appears possible to use counter-measures as the noise channel for steganography. In other words, instead of positioning oneself randomly within the crowd for each text (which is what, for example, Anonymouth does),

Re: artfcity: Turbulence.org Going Offline

2016-05-27 Thread Douglas Bagnall
As it happens, according to some measures[1][2], I am the reigning world champion of amateur author identification, a hobby I picked up a couple of years ago in response to a particular political situation in New Zealand. On 26/05/16 03:22, t byfield wrote: > Stylometry tries to measure a tiny