There’s been so much crazy to pay attention to over the past few weeks that I missed this: Midjourney, the AI image-maker that you access through Discord, is making a medical imaging machine.
Rebecca Solnit: What Is the United States of America Now? “The United States of America is a truck that has driven into a ditch.
Parker Molloy on why the panic about trans women in sports is not actually about fairness or protecting women & girls (in the similar way Gamergate was not about “ethics in games journalism”).
The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning. “The true Constitution is not a document. It’s more of a gut feeling.
I love the aesthetic of Fresco, a video game where you play as a character embedded into Egyptian wall paintings. In many ways, these wall paintings are ancient precursors to side-scrolling games.
My Family Has Been Here Since 1621. That Is Not What Makes Me American.
For the latest episode of Howtown, Adam Cole and Joss Fong look at wildfires and how investigators go about determining and proving how they start. The backdrop of video is the investigation into the Palisades Fire and the related arson trial that just concluded.
Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights to Everyone Else?
You know sometimes you learn some ancient lore and suddenly some contemporary pop culture thing snaps into place? Anyway, I found out how Isadora Duncan died and now I better understand the “no capes” thing in The Incredibles.
Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport”.
What is queer typography?
Report from a cruise full of celebrity impersonators. “A woman sat a toddler down beside us, while another, larger toddler tugged at her capris.
Hank Green interviews Ze Frank, who kind of invented the modern YouTube format (aka vlogging).
Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called Truck, which is based on the excellent documentary Hands on a Hardbody.
Saya Irie’s Intricate Sculptures Recomposed from Eraser Shavings.