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Wide Weirdo Walls
Well, it was inevitable, wasn't it? After Weirdo Walls, a collection of phone wallpapers generated with Midjourney and
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AM (365 Albums)
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Your Moodboard Might be Making Your Work Average
Alex Murrell: The Age of Average
“This kind of visual homogeneity is a common occurrence in the art direction world, where ubiquitous styles operate less like trends and more like memes; remixed and diluted until they become a single visual mass. In today’s extremely-online world, the vast availability of reference imagery has, perhaps
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The Mastodon Vibe
Here's Andy Bell on why Mastodon is giving him weird vibes. It's worth reading, so check it out, but I've got a few comments to add.
The tone policing makes me want to scratch my eyes out
When I started using Mastodon in earnest last November, this bugged me
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The Sony Handheld I Hope to Love
Tom Henderson: EXCLUSIVE – Sony’s Next PlayStation Handheld
Codenamed the Q Lite, the next PlayStation handheld is the next piece of Sony hardware that aims to be yet another piece of hardware that requires the PlayStation 5. Insider Gaming understands that the Q Lite is not a cloud-streaming device, but instead uses Remote Play
The Kafkaesque Transformation of Puberty
Note: This post talks about trans people and suicide. TLDR I fully support trans people and this article is me venting about how this group is treated.
A user on Reddit took to the /r/nostupidquestions subreddit to ask, Are children actually getting sex changing surgery? Some comments shared metrics (such as how 0.045%
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I’ve Got Some Living To Do (365 Albums)
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Amazon's TV Troubles and Netflix's Continued Dominance
Zack Zwiezen: Report: Only 37% Of Viewers Finished Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings TV Show, The Most Expensive In History
A new report reveals that only 37 percent of viewers who watched one episode of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power—the most expensive series ever—stuck around to
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If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (365 Albums)
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Chatbot Hype Like it's 2016 All Over Again
Simon Willison.net: Think of Language Models Like ChatGPT as a “Calculator for Words”
I like to think of language models like ChatGPT as a calculator for words.
The more I use these tools, the more I think the narrative around "Microsoft makes Google dance by adding GPT to Bing," narrative is more
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That "Let's Pause AI" Letter is a Mess
Chloe Xiang: The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess
“It's essentially misdirection: bringing everyone's attention to hypothetical powers and harms of LLMs and proposing a (very vague and ineffective) way of addressing them, instead of looking at the harms here and now and addressing
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Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer (365 Albums)
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ChatGPT Will Hype Up Trump, Please Stop Reporting that it Won't
Pranav Dixit: This Uncensored Chatbot Shows What Happens When AI Is Programmed to Disregard Human Decency
Still, AI chatbots have recently become targets of political culture wars. At least one study of ChatGPT bias found that its responses skewed “progressive” and “Democratic.” Even today, asking ChatGPT to write an ode to Donald Trump results in
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Sing the Sorrow (365 Albums)
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Songs of Innocence (365 Albums)
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Bleed American (365 Albums)
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Jungle (365 Albums)
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So Long, Astoria (365 Albums)
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