#Merzwoch. Today: Bad Habits, Censorship and Beautiful Music.

If you are a frequent reader of my blog, you know surely this bad habit of mine: Series. I begin series. I am a serial serial-beginner so to say. And so here is new series for you: MERZWOCH. Etymology should be obvious: German word for Wednesday is “Mittwoch”. What MERZ is you probably know (of not, I’ll re-explain one day again).

So (hopefully) every Wednesday I (Merzmensch) will post a bundle of things I’ve stumbled upon last 7 days. Relevant kind of things, separated in (hopefully) reoccurring categories. Which should (hopefully) interest you. So, let’s begin.

AI Experiment of the Week

In USSR they did it manually: retouching out people in photos. Here is a nice example for you: comrades of Stalin becoming public enemy and vanishing. One by one. (Read more about it in OpenCulture). Fake News of Old Days.

Well, I’m sure, that’s not only Soviet problem — every country let their people vanish (in real life and in media) or faked their beauty. Back to old days, you had to work with thinnest brush on the negatives or positives to remove people or things.