St. Patrick Opened a Portal to Purgatory on This Little-Known Irish Island Smithsonian Mag
Columbia Engineers Develop Light-Controlled Molecular Devices SciTech Daily
Love them or hate them, hyenas are getting the last laugh National Geographic
MEDIA DRAGON INSTAPUNDIT REMAINS 100% HUMAN: Proliferating ‘news’ sites spew AI-generated fake stories.“Propaganda-spewing websites have typically relied on armies of writers, but generative artificial intelligence tools now offer a significantly cheaper and faster way to fabricate content that is often hard to decipher from authentic information.”
Related (From Ed):
In search of the vanishing digital sublime
Are there any conceivable benefits or useful practical applications of AI generative video? / related, how to automate writing, The Great Fiction of AI, ‘The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction’ / imaginary landscapes, generated the old-fashioned way by Kim Keever / a collection of Modern Illustration, with an accompanying ephemera blog / Lost Found Art, ‘Antique & Vintage Collections & Objects’ (via Kottke) / Inheritance, an old school interactive website about loss, objects and memory.
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Truth is stranger than fictions: ‘Billionaires’ Survivalist Bunkers Go Absolutely Bonkers With Fiery Moats and Water Cannons‘ / on a similar vein, the clickbaity news that ‘Migaloo aims to disrupt superyacht market with giant luxury submarine‘ / the two different types of people / ‘an etymological Tube map, showing the origins of station names’/ Temu and forced labour / a collection of emerging local journalism sources in the UK / time-lapse of Notre Dame roof restoration / Wrong, a monograph by Asger Carlsen / designing the 1977 Chevrolet Caprice / The Story of the Noguchi Table That Almost Wasn’t / the Camouflaged Cars of Tokyo, a book by Alice Ishiguro Tosey.
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Online investigators Bellingcat has a fascinating sideline in historical analysis / more technological fetishism / How to Succeed with Brunettes, 1967 / recommended fiction featuring labyrinths / related, new book: The Labyrinth of Rooms / eyes on North Korea / icy video games / a list of hoaxes / sound and more at Reverb Machine / escape space in a MOOSE / related, r/don’t look down / the growth and growth of French comics culture / Wings of Pegasus explains autotune and more / YouTube economics with Mary Spender / all hail The Slab, a monument to Tory failings
Book World Prague preview
Book World Prague is still a ways away -- it runs 23 to 26 May -- but at Radio Prague International Ruth Fraňková has a Q & A with its director, Radovan Auer, in Franz Kafka and German-speaking literature focus of this year's Book World Prague.
La collection Perec 53
What a great idea ! Inspired by Georges Perec's (unfinished) "53 Days" French publisher L'œil ébloui is publishing 53 53-page works by 53 different authors -- La collection Perec 53.
Only four out so far -- but I want them all ! I hope eventually to see some .....
He’s just a complete parliamentary obsessive and savant, really like no one I’ve ever met, even people in the parliamentarian’s office… He is a twenty-year-old economics student from Britain, born in Poland