Richard Misek
@misek.bsky.social
Filmmaker, video essayist, and Professor of Screen Media at the University of Bergen. Likes: digital access to arts, culture, and the public domain. Doesn't like: platform capitalism and inequality.
Interesting article. Interesting in that it uncritically parrots paywalled and inacessible 'research' by what seems to be a broadcaster-funded junktank, without asking who commissioned it, what its evidence base and methodology were, or even what its actual findings were. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Football and other premium TV being pirated at 'industrial scale'
New research singles out the Amazon Fire Stick as the most popular means of accessing illegal streams.
www.bbc.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Interesting article. Interesting in that it uncritically parrots paywalled and inacessible 'research' by what seems to be a broadcaster-funded junktank, without asking who commissioned it, what its evidence base and methodology were, or even what its actual findings were. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Finally clicked on a link to a White House webpage on proposed US 'AI Bill of Rights' that I saved a few months ago. Oh well, at least that saves me some reading.
March 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Finally clicked on a link to a White House webpage on proposed US 'AI Bill of Rights' that I saved a few months ago. Oh well, at least that saves me some reading.
Reposted by Richard Misek
OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us
🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
January 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us
🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
Getty Images announced a planned merger with Shutterstock last Tuesday, nicely timed to benefit from Trump's new pro-merger Federal Trade Commission. Good news for my next film. Terrible news for photographers.
Getty Images-Shutterstock Merger: Why Photogs Are Less Than Thrilled
After Getty Images announced plans for a $3.7 billion merger with competitor Shutterstock, photographers spoke about the effects of the deal.
news.artnet.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Getty Images announced a planned merger with Shutterstock last Tuesday, nicely timed to benefit from Trump's new pro-merger Federal Trade Commission. Good news for my next film. Terrible news for photographers.
In case you're new to the AT Protocol – the open, interoperable protocol behind Bluesky – this podcast with their CEO @jay.bsky.team is a great intro. It left me hopeful that perhaps Bluesky won't also become enshittified in 10 years. (And if it does, at least it will be easier to move accounts)
Here’s our Decoder episode with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.
The federated Twitter competitor is heating up this week as people flee X — it just crossed 15m users and is currently the top app in the US iOS App Store. CEO Jay Graber was on Decoder earlier this y...
www.theverge.com
January 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In case you're new to the AT Protocol – the open, interoperable protocol behind Bluesky – this podcast with their CEO @jay.bsky.team is a great intro. It left me hopeful that perhaps Bluesky won't also become enshittified in 10 years. (And if it does, at least it will be easier to move accounts)
OK, time to rebuild my social network just because I'm starting on a new platform that's an almost exact duplicate of the platform that I left. Wouldn't it be great if social media were interoperable instead?
November 17, 2024 at 2:43 PM
OK, time to rebuild my social network just because I'm starting on a new platform that's an almost exact duplicate of the platform that I left. Wouldn't it be great if social media were interoperable instead?