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[- More innocent algorithms
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By Aileen, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Mon Jul 14th, 2003 at 01:26:59 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through: Amazement that people are still trying this.
An article appeared a few days ago in the Boston Globe about experiments conducted by a group of computer scientists to determine the gender of the author of a text based on the style of writing. What is supposedly different this time is that this group of scientists "is the first to create an actual prediction machine".One of the co-authors of the study claims, "Hey-I'm just reporting the numbers."
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[- Making books and meeting deadlines
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By Aileen, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Wed Jun 25th, 2003 at 12:22:37 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through: being caught in the middle
Ideally, when preparing a publication - a book, exhibtion catalogue, essay collection, etc. - a schedule is agreed on months in advance with deadlines for the authors, then for the translators, then for the copy-editors, then for the layout, then for the printing ... At least I think that is the ideal, but I'm the translator stuck in the middle, and that is not how it usually works for me. What is a deadline anyway and how do the people at other points along the production process deal with deadlines?
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[- It's a bird, it's a plane... it's SuperLibrarian!
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By amy, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Tue Jun 24th, 2003 at 05:20:14 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through an Anti-Filter Filter:
As you might have heard, here in the US, in order to protect our freedom, the government is cracking down on freedom. After all, there ought to be limits to freedom.
Anyway, it's interesting that as each piece of shiny new freedom-limiting legislation comes our way, quite often we hear about a major resistance underway from those infamous anti-establishment political activists - librarians. For example, today's news about the Supreme Court decision upholding library filters. And then...
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[- Seeking agreement with our own opinions
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By Aileen, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Tue Jun 3rd, 2003 at 08:20:35 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through a habitual propensity to approve of criticism that seems to suggest I made the right decision:
Quiet as it is on Discordia at the moment (despite the daily growing number of users), I would like to hijack a discussion taking place elsewhere, specifically because I want to filter it through my own habitual prejudices. The discussion is a result of questions that Brian Holmes posted to Nettime about Fascism in the USA?.
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By amy, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Sat May 10th, 2003 at 08:08:34 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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filtered through the lens of "anything a powerful political puppeteering - er uh - lobbying group deems a threat to their business can suddenly look like terrorism":
geert sent a link to us discordant developers to this story about how some governments are viewing weblogs as a new form of rebellion and acting accordingly. which prompted me to ponder, "imagine the trouble one could get into if caught blogging wireless!" which then led me to think...
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[- Artists, activists and impassioned comments
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By Aileen, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Wed May 7th, 2003 at 03:58:03 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through a concern about which voices may be heard
As much as I enjoyed and appreciated Trebor's review and Brian's response, when I think of people I know, whose work I respect and admire, work that is important to me in between and around art and activism, I feel some concern that their voices could be overheard among so many words, because they use other means of expression.
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[- On Convenience
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By marcbohlen, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Fri May 2nd, 2003 at 02:21:41 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Information junkies: This is for you. You, as I have been indulging in up to the minute news coverage for too long. Lust to know what just happened - somewhere.
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[- Privacy
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By TreborScholz, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Tue Apr 22nd, 2003 at 01:43:54 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Today I received an e.mail that alarmed many of my friends. There it says that "four major credit bureaus in the US will be allowed, starting July 1, to release your credit info, mailing addresses, phone numbers, etc., to anyone who requests it." The author of the e.mail then asks us to call a number to voice our discontent. There are many more forms of productive discontent in relation to the invasion of privacy starting with the web initiative Boycottdelta.org that points to the fact that Delta Airlines introduces intrusive background checks including credit checks for everybody boarding their planes in certain airports.
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