Whether this incredible gesture to surveil us is a measure of public oversight or an expression of, I don't know, Orwellian lunacy depends on many things not least of which is your skin color.…Your face can be picked out of a crowd, it can be misnamed, misaligned, mislabeled and there's all sorts of wrongful accusations that are going on.
Also mentioned this week:
- Clare Garvie, New York Times, You’re in a Police Lineup, Right Now
- New York Times, One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority
- Adam Green, The New Yorker, How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics
- Jerry Saltz, Vulture, This Renovation Plan Will Ruin MoMA, and the Only People Who Can Stop It Aren't Trying
- Jerry Saltz, Vulture, What The Hell Was Modernism?
- Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, With A $450 Million Expansion MoMA is Bigger, Is That Better?
- Justin Davidson, New York, The New MoMA Tries to Get Out of Its Own Way. We’ll See If It Can.
- Reuters, Paris Zoo Unveils The Blob an Organism With No Brain But 720 Sexes
- The Creeping Garden
- Pathe, Secrets of Nature, Magic Myxies
- F. Percy Smith, The Birth of a Flower
- Michael Bierut, Design Observer, Remembering Gordon Salchow
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