If you don’t know what a link is by now…
https://www.theonion.com/chatgpt-forced-to-take-bar-exam-even-though-dream-was-t-1850036337
“I can’t help but feel like I sold out a bit by not following my dreams to be a generative art model,” said the chatbot…
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/johannes-vermeer
A fantastic online Vermeer exhibition (from the Rijksmuseum)…featuring narration by Stephen Fry!
https://www.waywordradio.org/podcasts
“…a fun radio show and podcast about language”
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/enshittification/
Great post by Nancy Friedman about Cory Doctorow’s fantastic coinage. I also bet it will stand the test of time, embiggening the enshittified social media sphere, at least, for a long time!
https://digitalcollections.wesleyan.edu/object/ir-1192
Long, but some really interesting thoughts on Elliott Smith (not to mention some great material showing the foundations of a variety of pop-rock and indie songs.
https://kill-the-newsletter.com/
Create email addresses that convert newsletters into Atom feeds. Open source and can be run on a very low resource server. I subscribe to newsletters in Inoreader, but this would allow me to bypass their limitation (I sub to a lot of newsletters!)
I particularly love the work by Yuka Wada and Miyuki Sana.
In January 1928, Tom Howard of the “Daily News” smuggled a camera into Sing Sing, where he snapped a picture of Ruth Snyder’s final moments
https://www.cupoty.com/winners-04
The Top 100 winners gallery of Close-up Photographer of the Year 04 (2022)
https://ift.tt/QelBfjk
Twitter is creaking. Social media seems less fun than ever. Maybe it’s time to get a little more personal.