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Yo, check it. Friday May 17th. That's right, we're doing another CYBERDELIA. As per longstanding tradition, we are dressing up DNA Lounge as Cyberdelia, the club from the movie HACKERS! This means a 90s cyberpunk movie screening followed by a 90s cyberpunk dance party! Also featuring retro video games, rollerblade ramps, and a costume contest! But this time we're branching out just a little bit: instead of our traditional pre-party …

I just spent a few minutes with meta.ai, Facebook's answer to ChatGPT, and it's really good. The drawing functionality recalcs while you're entering the prompt, so if you type, "vary gender, age and race," and as you type each word, the image changes.

I wasn’t able to take a photo for today’s prompt, mood, so here is a moody photo from inside the Isokon Building in Hampstead, which I visited during last September’s Open House Festival.

DC has revealed more details about their upcoming Absolute Power crossover series, including a companion series titled Absolute Power: Task Force VII and Absolute Power: Origins, which will tell the “definitive history” of Amanda Waller. These follow the Free Comic Book Day issue in May and the prelude issue that comes out in June that we learned about earlier this year. The press release also gives some information on Amanda …

At Interview Steven Phillips-Horst has a Q & A with Lauren Oyler Wishes You'd Fact-Check Your Reviews. Fact-checking always seems like a good idea, with reviews and most everything else -- but in fact Oyler also says that, while she fact-checks: "Some critics do not care so much about that, and that's perfectly fine". (It's not.)

So I got the job. But. Just thinking about working there already feels like a prison. The Joe vs. The Volcano florescent lights. The checking in of a 120 people a day. The non-stop ringing phone. The incessant emails. The required plastered customer service smile. The expectation of going above and beyond. This dreaded feeling is probably not the sentiment you should have before taking a new position. The pay: …

The leaks from this morning were accurate. Source

The use of ElevenLabs' 'Projects' text-to-speech technology, HarperCollins UK says, can bolster its work in non-English-language audiobooks. The post HarperCollins UK Partners With ElevenLabs AI on Non-English Audiobooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

Promotional 2001 Game Boy Advance T-shirt from Europe with a pop art-inspired Mario design.Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit organization that defends the integrity of American science education against ideological interference. He is the author of numerous articles on evolution education and climate education, and obstacles to them, in such publications as Scientific American, American Educator, The American Biology Teacher, and the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, and the co-editor, with Eugenie C. …

In 1975, my grandma baked a loaf of poppy seed bread. While this may not seem worthy of mention, it was an unusual act in that she never repeated this... Source

‘Las Meninas a San Marco’ (2024). All images courtesy of Contini Art Gallery, shared with permission Thirteen bronze women in wide pannier skirts stand single file in St. Mark’s Square in central Venice. The large-scale installation is the work of Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and on view for the 60th Venice Biennale that opened earlier this month. Known for recontextualizing the iconic figures, colors, and textures throughout Western art history, …

A conquering interstellar civilisation could bring the entire galaxy under its yoke in about a million years, assuming said civilisation could traverse the Milky Way at about ten percent the speed of light. I expect it’d be a multi-generational undertaking. It’d also be up to those who conceived of the original vision to conquer the galaxy, to find a way to keep their descendants motivated. A million years is a …

‘…the sky, with silver swirls like locks of toss’d hair, spreading, expanding – a vast voiceless, formless simulacrum – yet may-be the most real reality and formulator of everything – who knows?’ From ‘A July Afternoon by the Pond’ in Specimen Days (1882) by American poet Walt Whitman. Cirrus and Cirrostratus clouds spotted over Lake Assad, Syria by a member of the Expedition 69 crew aboard the International Space Station. …

A Smoother Built in 2015 (My #4-2015)