5.23.2018

Tuesday Morning Buzz


Music

We may get to see Hendrix again.... Holograms Hit The Road: Will Fans of Frank Zappa, Ronnie James Dio and Others Show Up for Their Virtual Versions?

Also... Tyler Childers





Artificial Intelligence and Media

Supplying artificial intelligence training sets as a way to shape media content, get your voice heard while censoring opponents and change the political-economic landscape.  The study and the collection of angry tweets will be made available to tech companies in hopes of improving automated systems for identifying hate speech online.

Related... Why did Facebook ban The Electronic Intifada’s ad for “Killing Gaza”?



Police State

Amazon Teams Up With Law Enforcement to Deploy Dangerous New Facial Recognition Technology
Rekognition can identify, track, and analyze people in real time and recognize up to 100 people in a single image. It can quickly scan information it collects against databases featuring tens of millions of faces, according to Amazon.
I'd guess that once the software has identified a face and connected it to a name, it will do a serious web/social media search on all the people it finds and display that to the cops as well. I can't wait......

Also, the "k" in the spelling gives it nice "Soviet Union" feel.

Ian Welsh on Rekognition.


Politics

The Rude Pundit on Scandals with a great opening paragraph. (NSFW)

Bernie Sanders emerges as Washington’s leading voice against Gaza violence.


Middle East

Why would the US support Egypt's military regime? They get $1.6 billion a year.
Authorities have arrested a number of secular activists since President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi was re-elected to a second four-year term in March. He faced no serious challengers, after several potentially strong candidates were arrested or intimidated into withdrawing from the race. 
.. The latest arrests come amid a wider crackdown on dissent since Sisi led the military overthrow of a freely elected but divisive president in 2013. Thousands of people have been jailed, unauthorized protests have been banned and hundreds of websites, including many run by independent journalists and rights activists, have been blocked.




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