The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.
Another wonderful example is provided by Kohei Maekawaโs work that I wrote about a while ago. This work was mostly photographed while delivering pizza (no joke) in Tokyoโs suburbs. Maekawa has now moved on to driving taxis.
This young Japanese photographer lays waste to the Western idea (supported by the likes of Marie Kondo) that Japan is the country of Zen like cleanliness
Immediately had to think of Motoyuki Daifuโs photography, eg his still lifes
โIt is an uncomfortable truth for tech giants: the AI revolution is to a large extent built on labor in low-income countries.โ
Endlich wieder was fรผhlen in den deutschen Redaktionen. Man musste sich so lange zurรผckhalten...
Also, you donโt nominate someone who is rude as fuck to be ambassador in a country that values courtesy above all else.
Itโs funny how the press is hyping this dude or the governor of CA even though itโs really obvious that people do not want another amoral soulless careerist who doesnโt believe in anything. Call it Operation Lead Balloon.
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
Turns out the teutonic knights have a website
You ever wondered what happened to the teutonic knights, an organization too cartoonish to even imagine today?
No, you didnโt. Because youโre not insane.
Still, theyโre still around. This is from a few days ago:
โThe terrible thing that then became evident was that, when the murderer needed them, his henchmen were there.โ
Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.
Forbes: 3 ways to turn overwhelm into a productivity tool
Donโt be a Bartleby when you can be a Bartle-A
How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist.
It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.
This is Button. His family decided he was ready to be left home alone for the first time today. As it turns out, freedom can be a little awkward. 12/10 (TT: beginningwithbutton)
Einerseits ist es nicht mehr so, dass man davon ausgehen dรผrfte, dass es schon nicht schlimmer kommt, andererseits kann man ziemlich sicher davon ausgehen, dass es ohnehin schlimmer wird, insofern ist es dann auch fast wieder egal.
โฆ something AI is incapable of doing because past data sets do not allow for the breaking of rules while making sense.
An AI machine will never be surprised at what it made. An AI machine will never know fragility.
Thatโs just the minimum baseline of creativity: to put things together in a way that statistically speaking (using *past* data) makes sense. Thatโs writing (or whatever else) 101.
Truly creative people break all of the rules while making senseโฆ
You can tell that AI boosters arenโt versed in actual creativity by looking at how they describe what creative people do: itโs not just putting things together in a fashion that statistically speaking makes sense.
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
The two short stories will appear in the April issue of Kodansha's literary magazine Gunzo.
Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Itโs actually FEWER Misรฉrables
I lived in (through โ what a ghastly time it was!) the 1980s so:
A) no, we do not, and
B) no, we did not
