I'm not interested in how impressed the journalist was. That's not news. What I need to know as a reader, what I want the public to know, is what is being done in the name of "AI", to whom, who benefits, and how can democratic oversight be exerted?

Washington Square Park, New York City, 1962 by André Kertész

Allée De Baobab Morondava 📷Pegajosu

𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧: The balloon vendor

Absolutely breathtaking! Kittiya Pawlowski captures a rare snow leopard roaming around 18,000ft close to Mt Everest.

Inside the Democratic mistakes and miscalculations that led the party to a historically strong midterm showing.

The New York Times asked Alan Moore for an obituary statement about his longtime collaborator Kevin O'Neill. Moore being Moore, he wrote a lovely 800 words far too long to use. Here it is.

inessential.com/2022/11/13/aft…

Six Hours In Make-Up; An Old Man #TheFastShow

I just got this extremely bizarre captcha, stared at it for 20 seconds trying to figure out what in Al Gore’s internet I was looking at, picked the bottom middle pic…and FAILED? I am a robot now, tweeting from beyond the singularity and here we belong to the toads. *croak*

She was always THE woman. Looking right at you from 1590: Infanta Catalina Micaela (almost surely), painted by Sofonisba Anguissola (probably). Surely one of the greatest renaissance portraits.

Internal reflection.

Scientists have finally captured on video the very moment a cat reproduces by mitosis. x.com/Yoda4ever/stat…

I created a Combine operators cheat sheet with SwiftUI 🤓

The Cherokee Phoenix (ᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ) was the first Indigenous newspaper to be published in the US, and the first to be printed in an Indigenous language, using the syllabary created by Sequoyah. This is the front page of the very first issue, printed on February 21, 1828.

Somewhere in Copenhagen by Nina Papiorek

Mastodon introduced me to the Literature Clock, and it's wonderful. literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com

Good night