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Here's Philly rap legend Freeway canvassing with LeVar Burton singing the Reading Rainbow theme. You can see how much it touched Burton.

National media loves to hate Philly because of the Eagles fans from the Northeast, but fuck all that noise Philly is the best.

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The first (moderately) detailed explanation of how OpenAI partnership will be rolled out in Canvas, including assurance that all AI features with be "opt-in" (at least for now), but no mention of whether OpenAI will have access to Canvas courses for training purposes.

Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie's short book The Use of Photography too.

The postscript of Richard Meyer's essay "The Jesse Helms Theory of Art" stuns every time.

During next year's CAA, Jennifer Marine from the University of Virginia will history a super-interesting panel on photography that is not photography. Or is it? Please consider to apply!

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

Header text: "HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS!" This is followed by a couple example urls, with a red square highlighting the sections with source identifiers. The rest of the text is as follows: Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

amongussexgif ... Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet. Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it. Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

"The Hagley Digital Archives is currently offline due to a sustained bot attack" begins a message from the archive, explaining that AI is using bots to train machine learning learning models.

Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.

They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."

The web is being murdered. So aggravating.

digital.hagley.org

Handwritten poster reading: "as and Iranian Inwant you corresponders + journalists + film-takers tel the truth to the world."

TEHRAN, Iran—A sign in front of the U.S. Embassy, 1979. Photo by Gilles Peress.

A fish looks back at it with a perfect human ass and the head of a fish

A clownfish has a fuckboy facial expression with human legs wearing flippers

A simple pink fish with human legs is wearing lacy undies, wearing fishnets lol and big black heels

A green and blue fish wears a Speedo with human legs and flexes in the mirror maybe at the gym maybe in his room with a dumbbell next to him

At drink and draw tonight one of the winning prompts was “half man half fish half sexy”, and NO, I know what you’re THINKING, I did not come up with this prompt, my collaborator did. And oh my god. People nailed it.

“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸

In the basement of LAX:

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous. "It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."

The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park.

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In that discussion, Spiegelman also said, "I suppose there's something about Kirby's sensibility, the optimism of it, that just puts me off. There's an unpleasant exuberance, like a teenager chattering so excitedly he keeps spritzing you with his saliva... I wouldn't even use the word 'respect' for Kirby, because I sort of like [his work], but I don't really respect it... I don't study his work." Which is too bad, since Jack Kirby is the only major cartoonist to have killed Nazis. And he didn't do it from a distance -- he killed Nazis using the same hands that later drew Thor, the Aryan God of Thunder, hammering Mangog (old testament villain name, more or less) in the snout. Kirby shot and stabbed Nazis for about six months in 1943 and 1944, and I would argue that experience didn't just change his life but shaped his work from that moment forward

"...Jack Kirby is the only major cartoonist to have killed Nazis. And he didn't do it from a distance -- he killed Nazis using the same hands that later drew Thor..."

bars from this discussion on the comics journal:
www.tcj.com/jack-kirby-h...

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If this was going to be a camera app people would love, it had to do 4 things…

1. Feel satisfying in your hands (like a real camera)
This is our first fully-3D interface with dynamic lighting that responds to movement, satisfying sounds, & custom haptics. Feels damn good.

This stuff is really ugly and a super bad indicator.

Film Atlas is here! An interactive guide to every motion picture film format, soundtrack, 3-D and color process ever invented.,,
https://loom.ly/wpzpP4E

Alien Nation ARTSblock exhibition “Mundos Alternos” seeks to subvert ideas of immigration and nationhood through science fiction

And this:

"“Science fiction offers a unique artistic landscape in which to explore the colonial enterprise that shaped the Americas and to present alternative perspectives speculating on the past and the future,” said co-curator [Joannna] Szupinska-Myers."

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Artwork by Chitra Ganesh, Architects of the Future, 2014.

Really can't thank you enough. So many great leads here. Chitra Ganesh too! Very excited about this framing for the course.

Alexei Leonov’s drawing depicting an orbital sunrise, 1965, from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov drawing a sketch on the Voskhod-2 Spaceship in 1965.

Incredible stuff. This illustration from Kristian Handberg's essay on Leonov.

Yes!! 🙏🏻

Endless riches! Thank you so much Gemma. So many great ideas here.

Book cover Past Futures : Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas Book by Rodrigo Alonso, Rory O'Dea, and Sarah J. Montross

This, for example

Our UD museums will be packed with sci-fi and fantasy illustrations this fall. Thinking maybe focus my undergrad methods seminar accordingly?

Needing to bone up on the art history of science fiction this summer, such as it is. What's good out there?