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NEW RESOURCES
Reddit: Frans Masereel’s Public Domain Artwork, 1918–1930: A digitized collection of 1,800 woodcuts from approximately 70 books. “Frans Masereel (1889-1972) was a Belgian artist renowned for his expressive woodcuts and wordless visual narratives, being a solid inspiration for Lynd Ward, Eric Drooker, and Clifford Harper. I spent a few years gathering about 70 books with woodcut illustrations by him, and I was aiming for books that were in the public domain or soon entering it. Then I scanned, cleaned, rebalanced, and uploaded them to archive.org.”
Illinois State University: Barnum and Bailey souvenir programs join Milner Library’s online research collections. “Earlier this year Milner Library’s Digitization Center added 54 Barnum and Bailey Circus souvenir programs dating from 1874 to 1918 to the library’s digital collections. Clocking in at over 2000 pages, this database will allow circus history researchers, and all those interested in turn-of-the-century American popular culture, to explore the entertainment offerings of the country’s premier circus.”
Found in my Snaps: MoroccoAPI. From the GitHub page: “MoroccoAPI is a community-driven, open-source project that turns reusable Moroccan public datasets into consistent, documented, and versioned APIs. Public information is often distributed across spreadsheets, documents, portals, and incompatible schemas. MoroccoAPI aims to make approved open datasets easier to discover and use while preserving source attribution, licensing, provenance, and update history.” Available in English, French, and Arabic.
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Denver Post: Meta updates data scraping policy following criticism. “Meta announced Friday evening that it had made ‘clarifications’ regarding its new updated terms of service for its business and commercial products, which some legal and media experts had previously decried as being too unfair to content creators.”
Mashable, and I promise you I did not intentionally put these stories together: Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated. “According to numerous reports from users, Meta’s smart glasses have been making audio recordings of their conversations without the user’s permission. Meta has since confirmed the issue and have said it’s been fixed.”
AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
The Hindu: Nine escape unhurt as car plunges into 10-foot gorge in forest area in Erode. “On October 15, they were travelling by car, following directions displayed on Google Maps. The application directed them along a forest road via Kottadai village, towards Dhimbam. Unaware that they were on an unsuitable route, the group continued until the car became stuck on a dirt track. When they attempted to turn around and retrace their route, the vehicle skidded down a slope and plunged into the gorge, reportedly in a farmland.”
Utah Historical Society: Introducing our newest oral history grants cohort. “Through support from Utah Humanities and the Utah Historical Society, the oral history grant provides funding to collect and transcribe interviews and share the content with local communities through public programming. This quarter, the organizations awarded funding to six state history projects.”
Cal Matters: Gavin Newsom’s 24/7 social media machine . “These days you can find Gov. Gavin Newsom on just about any media platform. With less than three months until he finishes his final term as California governor, you can catch Newsom on X picking fights with right-wing media, posting on Substack and interviewing guests on his podcast.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Block Club Chicago: Delivery Robots Accused Of Scanning Customers’ Faces, Sharing Biometric Data. “The battle over Chicago’s food delivery robots has reached the courts, with two customers accusing the companies behind them of collecting their biometric data without consent. The men filed separate class-action lawsuits in Cook County court Oct. 9 against Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics, alleging the companies violated a state privacy law. They claim the companies’ machines scanned their faces and hands without their knowledge or consent.”
Ars Technica: Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware. “Researchers say that mercenary hackers laced ads with zero-click exploits that installed sophisticated malware on the devices of targeted individuals when they did nothing other than load a website or open an installed app.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Discover Magazine: Drones Help Find Three Aboriginal Rock Shelters With Red Hand Stencils. “After drones flagged possible rock shelters in Australia’s Blue Mountains, archaeologist Amy Mosig Way led students and volunteers into the bush to check the locations on foot. Inside, stone artifacts and red hand stencils preserved evidence of past Aboriginal life, connecting the places they were recording with the people who had used them generations before.”
Hands Off Our Census: Census Data: A Public Good Under Threat. “Most people don’t think much about the information that the federal government collects through the U.S. Census until it disappears. But when we lose census data, we lose irreplaceable, objective information that anyone can access and use, for free. And that equality of access is fundamental to the research community.” Good morning, Internet…
This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by supporting ResearchBuzz on Patreon. Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys.
Reddit: Frans Masereel’s Public Domain Artwork, 1918–1930: A digitized collection of 1,800 woodcuts from approximately 70 books. “Frans Masereel (1889-1972) was a Belgian artist renowned for his expressive woodcuts and wordless visual narratives, being a solid inspiration for Lynd Ward, Eric Drooker, and Clifford Harper. I spent a few years gathering about 70 books with woodcut illustrations by him, and I was aiming for books that were in the public domain or soon entering it. Then I scanned, cleaned, rebalanced, and uploaded them to archive.org.”
Illinois State University: Barnum and Bailey souvenir programs join Milner Library’s online research collections. “Earlier this year Milner Library’s Digitization Center added 54 Barnum and Bailey Circus souvenir programs dating from 1874 to 1918 to the library’s digital collections. Clocking in at over 2000 pages, this database will allow circus history researchers, and all those interested in turn-of-the-century American popular culture, to explore the entertainment offerings of the country’s premier circus.”
Found in my Snaps: MoroccoAPI. From the GitHub page: “MoroccoAPI is a community-driven, open-source project that turns reusable Moroccan public datasets into consistent, documented, and versioned APIs. Public information is often distributed across spreadsheets, documents, portals, and incompatible schemas. MoroccoAPI aims to make approved open datasets easier to discover and use while preserving source attribution, licensing, provenance, and update history.” Available in English, French, and Arabic.
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Denver Post: Meta updates data scraping policy following criticism. “Meta announced Friday evening that it had made ‘clarifications’ regarding its new updated terms of service for its business and commercial products, which some legal and media experts had previously decried as being too unfair to content creators.”
Mashable, and I promise you I did not intentionally put these stories together: Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated. “According to numerous reports from users, Meta’s smart glasses have been making audio recordings of their conversations without the user’s permission. Meta has since confirmed the issue and have said it’s been fixed.”
AROUND THE SEARCH & SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
The Hindu: Nine escape unhurt as car plunges into 10-foot gorge in forest area in Erode. “On October 15, they were travelling by car, following directions displayed on Google Maps. The application directed them along a forest road via Kottadai village, towards Dhimbam. Unaware that they were on an unsuitable route, the group continued until the car became stuck on a dirt track. When they attempted to turn around and retrace their route, the vehicle skidded down a slope and plunged into the gorge, reportedly in a farmland.”
Utah Historical Society: Introducing our newest oral history grants cohort. “Through support from Utah Humanities and the Utah Historical Society, the oral history grant provides funding to collect and transcribe interviews and share the content with local communities through public programming. This quarter, the organizations awarded funding to six state history projects.”
Cal Matters: Gavin Newsom’s 24/7 social media machine . “These days you can find Gov. Gavin Newsom on just about any media platform. With less than three months until he finishes his final term as California governor, you can catch Newsom on X picking fights with right-wing media, posting on Substack and interviewing guests on his podcast.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Block Club Chicago: Delivery Robots Accused Of Scanning Customers’ Faces, Sharing Biometric Data. “The battle over Chicago’s food delivery robots has reached the courts, with two customers accusing the companies behind them of collecting their biometric data without consent. The men filed separate class-action lawsuits in Cook County court Oct. 9 against Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics, alleging the companies violated a state privacy law. They claim the companies’ machines scanned their faces and hands without their knowledge or consent.”
Ars Technica: Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware. “Researchers say that mercenary hackers laced ads with zero-click exploits that installed sophisticated malware on the devices of targeted individuals when they did nothing other than load a website or open an installed app.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Discover Magazine: Drones Help Find Three Aboriginal Rock Shelters With Red Hand Stencils. “After drones flagged possible rock shelters in Australia’s Blue Mountains, archaeologist Amy Mosig Way led students and volunteers into the bush to check the locations on foot. Inside, stone artifacts and red hand stencils preserved evidence of past Aboriginal life, connecting the places they were recording with the people who had used them generations before.”
Hands Off Our Census: Census Data: A Public Good Under Threat. “Most people don’t think much about the information that the federal government collects through the U.S. Census until it disappears. But when we lose census data, we lose irreplaceable, objective information that anyone can access and use, for free. And that equality of access is fundamental to the research community.” Good morning, Internet…
This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by supporting ResearchBuzz on Patreon. Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you’d buy me an iced tea. Don’t have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys.