Do we really want to listen to a whole film of Charles Martinet going “woohoo” in falsetto and putting on a cartoonishly thick Italian accent?
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womeninurbanism.ca“Loab” was initially produced using a technique called “negative weighting.” Usually, when using an AI image generator, you’re attempting to make your AI produce whatever image it can that it believes most closely resembles a verbal prompt. Negative weighting allows you to do the opposite. (Warning: some creepy/gross images follow)
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si.comSeven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent.
restofworld.orgFew genres are more preposterous than the locked room mystery. The premises are absurd and plot solutions ridiculous—but still I keep on reading.
tedgioia.substack.comThe story of ‘Teletubbies’ is anything but innocent
melmagazine.comScandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the “Irish Crown Jewels” from Dublin Castle.
atlasobscura.comOut Run hit arcades 35 years ago this month. Its influence is still being felt on consoles, in music, and in movies
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