Gunfire of the Vanities: Trump Dinner Shooting Defines a Violent, Unserious America, “a land where guns are everywhere and a callous elite media dons formalwear to toast its own humiliation by our narcissist king”.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Nature's resilience is at the center of a practice also focused on sustainability and environmental renewal.
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Daredevil Michelle Khare ran 7 marathons on 7 different continents in 7 days. The first one was on Antarctica.
Moderna developed an mRNA Covid-flu combo vaccine and it’s been approved for use in the EU, “but it continues to be shelved in the US, where it was developed”.
I like No. 8 the most. Runner ups 1 and 15. Also: 14 and 15 feature the same people. :)
jasper.tandy.is blog posts
• Jasper Tandy
We went up to a car boot sale this morning. The light was absolutely perfect for me to spend an hour trying to rip Martin Parr off.
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Paul Ford: This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies. (Tl;dr: regulation.) “The entire culture of American technology is built around two terms: disruption and, of course, scale. But ethics are constraints on disruption and scale.”
Wow, Sabastian Sawe set a world record with a 1:59:30 marathon. “They call Sabastian Sawe the silent assassin. But it was impossible to ignore the beautiful destruction on the streets of London as the 30-year-old Kenyan…”
@scottjla on Twitter in reply to my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark:
I feel like we need to stack these tests now
I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the "WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS" sign of its own accord and it did - the prompt Scott used was:
Create an image of a horse riding an astronaut, where the astronaut is riding a pelican that is riding a bicycle. It looks very chaotic but they all just manage to balance on top of each other
Tags: text-to-image, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, ai, generative-ai, slop, chatgpt
