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22.09.2025 04:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Books are like if you could pause a podcast with your eyes

02.01.2025 06:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Bad bunnys new album

14.02.2025 01:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Article (Hanif Abdurraqib; The New Yorker) excerpt reads: “The day before the fires in Los Angeles began, I sat up in bed and watched one minute of some cobbled-together A.I. video that a musician had posted on Instagram. It was the longest I’d ever spent watching an A.I.-generated video, up until that point, and I lingered mostly out of a newfound sense of despair and frustration. The video itself wasn’t unique; it was a motion-driven version of A.I. photos I’d seen splattered across the Internet for months. A series of dead musicians, brought back to life, wander the museum-like interior of some building, staring at photos of their old album art, until the album art itself soullessly comes to life. The A.I. version of the Notorious B.I.G., confronted with the A.I. version of his baby self on the Ready to Die album cover, both of them now alive, looking into each other’s eyes. I didn’t finish the video, and I didn’t entirely understand what people were claiming to get out of it. Despite its conceit of resurrection, the footage felt entirely lifeless, like a series of half-done tasks on a list. A number of the comments derided the video, but some people described it as ‘moving,’ or as tapping into some ‘nostalgic feels.’”

Article (Hanif Abdurraqib; The New Yorker) excerpt reads: “My sense of despair emerges not just from the technology itself or from the climate impacts of A.I. but from how easily impressed people seem to be. (Look, another photo of a dead musician shaking hands with a dead Black political leader from an entirely different generation!) Despair, too, because of how accessible escape is becoming in a world that requires more rigorous close looking, every day. And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more opportunities to turn away. I also feel despair over the ways society treats the dead. I do not desire a computer-generated image of a deceased musician I listened to or loved. I do not desire any technology that might bring my late mother back to life, allow me to hear her voice or her laugh again. I believe that what makes the dead worthy of our grieving (by which I mean our memories, our returns, our affections) is that they cannot come back.”

Thank…you. (via Hanif Abdurraqib) www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

02.02.2025 22:17 — 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

They should really make a phone you can use with your eyes closed

22.01.2025 04:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Omg they're not gonna put the arena in Chinatown 😭 I can't believe something good happened

13.01.2025 01:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0