Month: November 2022
Six Ai Tools for Designers
To stay competitive, designers will need additional knowledge and expertise to contribute in multidisciplinary contexts, perhaps leading to increasingly exotic specializations. The changes resulting from Ai will be fully enveloping for designers and creators.
Six Ai tools for designers:
Dall E2, Astria, Jasper, Luma Ai, Runway ML, Durable
Woman. Life. Freedom. #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution
Baraye (For, Because of…) has become the theme song of the protestors in Iran. It was written by Shervin Hajipour who has since been arrested by the Iranian government. Musicians all over the world have recorded this hauntingly beautiful, sad song. This version is sung in Farsi with English subtitles. It has been submitted for a Grammy award in a new category, Songs for Social Change.
How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds
“A growing body of research suggests that human behavior on social media — coordinated activism, information cascades, harassment mobs — bears striking similarity to this kind of so-called “emergent behavior” in nature: occasions when organisms like birds or fish or ants act as a cohesive unit, without hierarchical direction from a designated leader. How that local response is transmitted — how one bird follows another, how I retweet you and you retweet me — is also determined by the structure of the network. For birds, signals along the network are passed from eyes or ears to brains pre-wired at birth with the accumulated wisdom of the millenia. For humans, signals are passed from screen to screen, news feed to news feed, along an artificial superstructure designed by humans but increasingly mediated by at-times-unpredictable algorithms. It is curation algorithms, for example, that choose what content or users appear in your feed; the algorithm determines the seven birds, and you react.”
Read more at Noema: How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds