A whirlwind tour of virtual real estate, virtual clothes on real people, faking out facial recognition AI with Fawkes, mmhmm, cat TV and board games. Something for everyone! Continue reading →
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In this episode, so soon after the recent US election, Phaedra & Michael M discuss the nature of civic engagement, and how the model of open source software could lend itself to bringing more people into the civic process. Showing up is always the first step, and the model for commits made to open source software could be applied to policy, whereby contributions by citizens could be upvoited or downvoted for inclusion in emerging policy. The pair bring up the idea of cities with personality — if you’re in Chicago, you know how that city’s personality was expressed after the … Continue reading →