[nonostantement #245] - bookbinding / disney & metaverse / ai political party
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Soundtrack: The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun (#iykyk), Jaubi - Mosty and Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes (see below)
#PEOPLE
Lose the Very
”Combine "very" with a simple adjective and get a more concise adjective”[Video] - American Psycho, but it's Pixar Trailer
[Video] - Barcelona 1908
Students Are Using AI to Write Their Papers, Because Of Course They Are
Essays written by AI language tools like OpenAI's Playground are often hard to tell apart from text written by humans.[Video] - ASMR IN THE LIBRARY // Bookbinding Sounds (full experience)
Join fellow of Designer Bookbinders, Stuart Brockman, inside his bookbinding studio in Oxfordshire as he introduces us to techniques used over the past centuries to cover and bind millions of books in the Bodleian Library collection
#TECH
Disney: The Metaverse, Digital Transformation, And The Future Of Storytelling
"We have something no one else has … our parks. If the metaverse is the blending of the physical and the digital in one environment, who can do it better than Disney?”Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies
#SOCIALMEDIA
Reporters want to know: Can we use your disaster photo, please?
Asking for free photos to put on the news is a timeless journalistic tradition, but social media has exposed the sausage-making process for all to see.
#PHOTOGRAPHY
Photo gallery: Stunning images of Indigenous peoples in their traditional splendor
Jimmy Nelson has gone all over the earth to photograph native peoples at their proudest moments and to show you their soul.
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[Video] - Lia Wong: “Blood-Wing, a Chinese defense contractor, demonstrates drone-deploying an armed robodog. The Future is Now.”
This Danish Political Party Is Led by an AI
The Synthetic Party in Denmark is dedicated to following a platform churned out by an AI, and its public face is a chatbot named Leader Lars.[Video] - Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire
In which I break down why billionaire "charity" is terrible for the planet, and why we should stop swallowing their myths.
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