Interesting Links for 03-10-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Spray-on dress created live on stage

(tags:clothing technology video viaPatrickHadfield )

2. How Bella Hadid's Spray-on Dress Was Made

(tags:viaCipherGoth materials clothing fashion )

3. If anyone is looking for some *really* reliable windows...

(tags:flooding windows impressive )

4. I still find it hard to believe that sculpture is real

(tags:sculpture art )

5. Edinburgh window cleaner first Scot to be found guilty of 'sex without consent'

(tags:Scotland sex abuse )

6. Coroner lists Instagram algorithm as contributing cause of UK teen's death

(tags:self-harm death children socialnetworking )

7. Bruce Willis denies selling rights to his face

(tags:faces rights Technology )

Comments

[jack]

Last week, it was widely reported that Willis, in the first deal of its kind, had sold his face to a deepfake company called Deepcake.

However, a spokesperson for Willis, with a normal human face with no excessively perfect symmetry, told the BBC that he had "no partnership or agreement" with the company.

[bens_dad]

I've long thought it would be good to have a crime which was to rape as manslaughter is to murder. 'Sex without consent' sounds like Scotland now has this option.

[danieldwilliam]

5) I am curious about the difference in mens rea and actus reus between rape and sex without consent.

Given that this is the first conviction under this specification I'd expect an appeal.

[penta]

I'm boggled by what difference there is at all in the elements of the offense. They sure sound like the same crime?

[bens_dad]

This morning "Women's Hour" had a piece which mentioned "reasonable belief in consent" on the grounds of sxsomnia - basically that the victim allegedly made sexual advances to the defendant whilst sleep-walking. Sexsomnia is apparently a thing, though rare. This is apparently the first UK legal case where the victim may have suffered from it, although previous rape defendants have claimed to be suffering from sexsomnia. There will be a BBC3 documentary on the case tonight.

[penta]

Unfortunately, I'm from the US and in the US, so can't watch?

[danieldwilliam]

7) I'd be more persuaded if someone looking like Bruce Willis turned up on a conference call claiming to have sold their image rights to a rival AI firm.

[calimac]

4) Statues from behind are rarely seen. When I visited Florence I walked around Michelangelo's David. For all the thousands, seemingly, of photos of his front I had never seen one of his back. (The ropes of his slingshot are wrapped up against his body.)

7) Michael Bishop wrote a creepy sf story about this. A celebrity lookalike is sued to force him to get plastic surgery on grounds that he doesn't own the rights to his own face.

[andrewducker]

Sounds like a good example of the "SF as warning" genre.