Miehen paikka (2018) Veera Jussila & Anni Pasanen (Finnish). A critical text investigating at the crisis of masculine culture (in a form of a case-study. All of the interviewees are mocked).
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Math Can’t Solve Everything: Questions We Need To Be Asking Before Deciding an Algorithm is the Answer (2018) Jamie Williams and Lena Gunn.
When the algorithm came along and caseworkers started substituting their own judgment with that of the algorithm, they effectively relinquished their gatekeeping role and the system became more class and race biased as a result.
For this reason the authors propose that before turning to algorithms, decision makers should think about the following questions:
– Will this algorithm influence—or serve as the basis of—decisions with the potential to negatively impact people’s lives?
– Can the available data actually lead to a good outcome?
– Is the algorithm fair?
– How will the results (really) be used by humans?
– Will people affected by these decisions have any influence over the system?
I offer a personal summary for these guidelines: If you outsource decision-making to algorithms for economic gains, you are advocating a reality which focuses on economic profit.
A video-series on privacy issues by N-O-D-E Why Decentralize? (Giving the platforms back to the users) .
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We manufactured eight Trans-Horse medals from recycled aluminium with Jesse over the weekend. I’ll send five of them to Brussels to honour the participants of the Trans-Horse Parade. The Parade was a part of a series of horse related performances we prepared for Signal #6 Festival / Cifas last Autumn. Casting the aluminium was relatively easy (we succeeded in making one medal in 20minutes!). The horse in the medal is The Awaited Son (A drawing based on the photo can be downloaded from OpenClipArt). I’m really exited to send a medal to the Cavalry department of the General Reserve of the Federal Police of Belgium! Other recipients are horse stables around Brussels and the staff of the Schaerbeek recycling center.
We are preparing the third Horse & Performance course for the Theatre Academy Helsinki with Pietari.
I’m preparing a performance for the Kone foundation Lauttasaari manor spring party with the Neighborizome crew. Repurposing an old Trans-Horse ethical infta text for a small publication I plan to share with my audience.
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I want a Jarmaggeddon, a µAcid8, The O2 Minipops Kit and a 8bit MixtapeNEO (and a free weekend).
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Epic warning and communication arrangements are being planned around nuclear waste repositories in hopes of educating people of the future. Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plan (1993) by Sandia National Laboratories for US Department of Energy is the most notorious example of how deep-time-communication efforts have been organised. They are trying to send a simple message to the people of the future:
Danger. Poisonous radioactive waste buried here. Do not dig or drill here before a.d. 12, 000.
Symbols and texts used to convey this information are difficult to design because we don’t know how people will communicate during the next 10 000 years. Questions in the Sandia report focus on whether the warning illustrations will be read from left-to-right or how people of the future will understand scale. These are problems inherent to all language translation efforts and because of these issues we should look for communication methods which use non-lingual tools. I’m reminded about the classic catchphrase told to kids learning how to edit videos and write short stories: Don’t try to explain what’s happening, try to show what’s happening and allow the audience to build their story (Show, Don’t Tell).
This is why we should make people who discover nuclear waste repositories sick from radiation as quickly as possible! This is the best way to show them that the sites are unsafe. Killing someone is a very unethical way to communicate – But it’s a more honest than trying to frame toxic waste caused by our lifestyle with educational mantras. All of the educational texts and warning symbols are just trying to hide the dirty truth: We lived at your expense. The radioactive waste is the message!
Onkalo should have a swimming pool of plutonium, made as inviting as possible. After the swim people would get sick very fast and learn that we were assholes do dump the our pollution on them. Only people who cannot read should be allowed to develop these kind of warning systems. Death is a message.