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The Secret History of a Fleeting Pre-Internet Digital Media Channel - Motherboard. Under a side table in the elegant Upper West Side apartment of Ina Saltz, a design professor at the City College of New York, a taped-up box collected dust.

The Secret History of a Fleeting Pre-Internet Digital Media Channel - Motherboard

Until recently, the box belonged to the late Joel Azerrad, Saltz's former boss, who kept it in his attic. A former digital graphic designer for Time Teletext, an experimental pre-internet digital media platform that Time Inc. invested $25 million in the early 1980s, Saltz tore open the package and slowly lifted out memorabilia: 8-inch Datalife floppy discs, small translucent slides of neon pixel art, four low-res sample graphics of a boxer with red, blocky gloves. KC Johnson - Wikipedia. Robert David Johnson (born 1967), also known as KC Johnson, is an American history professor at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center.

KC Johnson - Wikipedia

To the general public, Johnson is probably best known for the major role he played in disseminating the facts about the Duke University lacrosse rape case as it unfolded in 2006-7. In 2007 he co-authored a book, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case. Background[edit] Johnson was raised in Leominster, MA, the son of Massachusetts schoolteachers. His father, Robert Johnson, was a star basketball player at Fitchburg State College, leading the nation in scoring at 39.1 points per game in 1964.[1] Johnson's sister Kathleen was the starting point guard for the Columbia University women's basketball team in the early 1990s.[2] Johnson is also an athlete and has run numerous marathons.

Education[edit] Johnson attended Groton School, Massachusetts. Tenure battle[edit] Stephen Spender - Wikipedia. Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.

Stephen Spender - Wikipedia

He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965.[1] Biography[edit] Early years[edit] Career[edit] Lasse Braun - Wikipedia. Lasse Braun (born Alberto Ferro; 1936 – 16 February 2015) was an Italian pornographer, film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and researcher.

Lasse Braun - Wikipedia

Braun earned a law degree from the University of Milan (1956–63). He initially accumulated the funds for his lavish productions from the profit gained with so-called loops, ten-minute hardcore movies sold to Reuben Sturman, who distributed them to 60,000 American peep show booths.[1] Background[edit] Braun was born into a wealthy, aristocratic Italian family as Alberto Ferro, and was destined to become a diplomat, following in his father's footsteps. John le Fucker - Wikipedia. John le Fucker was an Englishman who appears in an administrative record of 1278, and who has attracted attention for his unusual surname.

John le Fucker - Wikipedia

His name has been proposed as incorporating the earliest recorded instance of the English swear word fuck, but this interpretation has been challenged. John le Fucker[edit] John le Fucker of Tythinge, imprisoned at Peterborough for the death of Walter de Leyghton and William de Leyghton, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Northampton to bail him.[1] Roger Fuckebythenavele - Wikipedia. Roger Fuckebythenavele was a 14th-century Englishman who was cited in court records of 1310–11.

Roger Fuckebythenavele - Wikipedia

His name has been proposed as incorporating the earliest recorded instance of the English swear word fuck. See also[edit] John le Fucker References[edit] Subbotniks - Wikipedia. The Subbotniks (Russian: Субботники; IPA: [sʊˈbotʲnʲɪkʲɪ], "Sabbatarians") is a common name for Christian sects of Judaizers originating in Russia who split from other Sabbatarians in the 19th century.[1][2] There are three main groups of people described as Subbotniks: Judaizing Talmudists: Subbotnik converts to Rabbinic Judaism, also described as "Gery" (Russian: Геры), "Talmudisty" (Russian: Субботники-Талмудисты), or "Shaposhniki".[1]Karaite Subbotniks (Russian: Субботники-Караимиты): also described as "Russian Karaites" or Karaimits (Russian: Караимиты).,[1][3] considering themselves as adherents of Karaite Judaism.[4] However, it has been reported that they do not practice circumcision.[5]Subbotnik Molokans (Russian: Молокане-субботники) sect: in contradiction to the previous Subbotnik sects they recognize the Gospel, but believe that it is necessary to fulfill exactly all the rules and precepts of the Old Testament.[6] History[edit] Under Alexander I and Nicholas I[edit]

Subbotniks - Wikipedia

Detecting Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents – The Backward Glance. How can you track changes in the law of nearly every state in the United States over the course of half a century?

Detecting Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Legal Documents – The Backward Glance

How can you figure out which states borrowed laws from one another, and how can you visualize the connections among the legal system as a whole? Kellen Funk, a historian of American law, is writing a dissertation on how codes of civil procedure spread across the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century. He and I have been collaborating on the digital part of this project, which involves identifying and visualizing the borrowings between these codes. The problem of text reuse is a common one in digital history/humanities projects. In this post I want to describe our methods and lay out some of our preliminary results. The question stated After the American Revolution, almost all states were common law jurisdictions. IEEE puts out a first draft guide for how tech can achieve ethical AI design. One of the barriers standing in the way of ethically designed AI systems that benefit humanity as a whole, and avoid the pitfalls of embedded algorithmic biases, is the tech industry’s lack of ownership and responsibility for ethics, according to technical professional association, the IEEE.

IEEE puts out a first draft guide for how tech can achieve ethical AI design

The organization has today published the first version of a framework document it’s hoping will guide the industry toward the light — and help technologists build benevolent and beneficial autonomous systems, rather than thinking that ethics is not something they need to be worrying about. The document, called Ethically Aligned Design, includes a series of detailed recommendations based on the input of more than 100 “thought leaders” working in academia, science, government and corporate sectors, in the fields of AI, law and ethics, philosophy and policy. “When systems are built that could impact the safety or wellbeing of humans, it is not enough to just presume that a system works. Bb199 - Onfim - Wikipedia. A.I. Experiments. Driftin’ Way Of Life. It kind of amazes me that nobody seems to know the man behind one of the world’s most well-known songs.

Driftin’ Way Of Life

Not that this is too uncommon, it’s just that Jerry Jeff Walker’s music is so damn good for the heart it’s a mystery why he never became a household name. Walker wasn’t technically native to Texas, hailing from Oneonta, New York, but he knew he was home when he landed in Austin. Caryl Chessman - Wikipedia. Caryl Whittier Chessman (May 27, 1921 – May 2, 1960) was a convicted robber, kidnapper and rapist who was sentenced to death for a series of crimes committed in January 1948 in the Los Angeles area.

The "first modern American executed for a non-lethal kidnapping",[1] Chessman was convicted under a loosely interpreted "Little Lindbergh law" – later repealed, but not retroactively – that defined kidnapping as a capital offense under certain circumstances. His case attracted worldwide attention, and helped propel the movement to abolish capital punishment in California. Early years[edit] A keyboard for your back – Ignacio Tartavull – Medium.

If you’re the kind of person who uses a laptop for many hours a day you know if the monitor is at the right height for your back and neck your arms and shoulders are too high, if the keyboard is at the best height for your arms and shoulders, you must hunch your shoulders and neck to see the monitor.

I also, as many others, want to kill our QWERTY keyboard but not because I believe there are other layouts which offer faster typing, just because I don’t want to have shoulders, neck or back pain. UPL8.tv - a quarter million videos served. Are closed social networks inevitable? Are closed social networks inevitable? This is an archive of an old Google Buzz conversation (circa 2010?)

On a variety of topics, including whether or not it’s inevetible that a closed platform will dominate social. Piaw: Social networks will be dominated primarily by network effects. That means in the long run, Facebook will dominate all the others. Lendergle comments on TIFU cheating in a university exam and coming very very close to being caught.

William Hogarth. Hogarth was born in London to a lower middle-class family. Christine Keeler 1960s screen test. Details from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500) Painted sometime between 1490 and 1510, The Garden of Earthly Delights is perhaps Hieronymus Bosch’s most ambitious work. Formed of three panels and totalling almost four metres in length, the triptych is a dizzyingly detailed and delightfully surreal work, the possible meanings of which have kept scholars busy for centuries. The left panel — sometimes referred to as the Joining of Adam and Eve — is home to a paradise-like scene from the Garden of Eden, most likely of that moment in which God presents Eve to Adam. Although it clearly has its routes in the Biblical story, Bosch’s particular take on it — with its strange beasts, Adam’s almost-lustful gaze – is unlike anything else depicted in the history of Western art.

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