- Weird Britain: The Guardian’s list of ten great British oddities you should visit
- I don’t know what this is. A gallery of 100,000 seemingly random images, sourced from ??? and organised by ??? in order to ???.
- “Let’s hear it for small dicks and short sex!” Something about the url “playboy.substack.com” fills me with an unnameable emotion.
- A recreation of the star map from Project Hail Mary
- The Swingjugend
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Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on actually coaxing art out of the machine.
As someone who’s had an interest in what one might call “AI art”
since before ChatGPT was a twinkle in Sam Altman’s eye, there are so
many moments in this where i hit my fists on the desk and went “Yes!!!” To quote—
A lot of those programs have preprompting under the hood that you’re not seeing. Midjourney has all kinds of tags that make it look a specific way, a kind of beautiful way. Suno has tags you can’t see that make the output always sound “good.” You can’t interact directly with the weights of the model. You’re being confined so the output always sounds quote-unquote “good.” When Trevor and I are working with models, you can get way more gnarly because you have way more granular control. It’s just not being precleaned.
- The race to preserve life on the ISS
- Experience: we found a baby on the subway – now he’s our 26-year-old son. I’m not crying. You’re crying.
- Cinéma L’Amour: The last porno theatre on Earth
- How are diamonds made?
- Homemade Gatorade
- Neft Daşları
- Bins of Congleton
- Avian Visitors
- The body in the wheelchair: “Tracey had no phone, no job, no GP registration, no passport, no friends or romantic partners. There wasn’t a single photo of what she looked like. It was as if, in her far too public death, she had entered the public record for the first time.”
- Windows’ 3D Pinball is getting a physical version
- “Is there a pianist in the house?” Or, how a Sydney student saved the show at a live performance of La La Land’s soundtrack
- “It’s basically a homemade analog chromecast as a UHF tv broadcast”
- Claude, author of the Humanitas? 🤔️
- A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captures a meteor crashing down to Earth. As the Oracle of Delphi would say: “is that good”
- A Monument to Something That Never Happened (28 March 1983)
- I leave you with this excellent photo of a railway depot in Vancouver which i found while scouring for nighttime pics for the world clock.
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