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As everyone knows, AI will definitely turn against us and destroy all humans within the next couple of years or so. As a result we only have a short window to point out its flaws and laugh at it. More importantly of course, it is imperative to test how well it can produce pictures of […]

Pygmy Owl, abducted by aliens and examined.A game warden called from up in the county seat. Someone had brought him a Northern Pygmy-Owl (correct ID on his part) that was "in danger" on a highway. We met on a side street, and he transferred the owl to my carrier. And there was a second passenger, a small lizard. Apparently the owl was about to eat dinner when the well-meaning two-legged …

In the very first episode of our new Fourcast podcast, I sat down with Tyler Sticka, and we unpacked the often daunting world of legacy application redesigns. It’s a tale of fear, strategy, and a dash of humor, navigating through the redesign realm without falling into the dreaded Land of perpetual redesign. (That’s a passport stamp I’d like to avoid!) At the heart of our discussion was an essential truth: …

—Tim Gunn is an academic, bestselling author and television star. He won an Emmy Award for his role as host of “Project Runway.” He wrote this piece for the January-February issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, which is devoted to fashion. I make a pronounced distinction between fashion and clothes. Fashion bubbles up from a context, one that is societal, historical, cultural, economic and even political. Fashion designers are …

Buying a new-to-you retro console is a lovely thing. A complete and well-appraised library ready to be experienced, an array of affordable games, and a wealth of written features, histories and buyer's guides to delve into. You're getting a new piece of hardware to explore, an unfamiliar startup screen to gawk at, and controllers to get to grips with.A new medium via which you can experience, or relive, a time …

Nicolás Kisic Aguirre builds rolling, gyrating, unruly machines that have been exhibited all over the world. Sometimes, however, they escape gallery spaces and take to the streets of Valparaíso or Boston where they amplify the voice of citizens protesting against racist deportations, inequality or the presence of a war criminal in town. Whether they are deployed in artistic performances or used as a tool to broadcast political messages, Kisic Aguirre’s …

Last year, Francis Alÿs (@francis_alys_official) was awarded the prestigious Wolfgang Hahn Prize, and the corresponding exhibition of his work is showing at Köln's Mu­se­um Lud­wig until 7 April.The focus of the show is Alÿs' Sign Painting Project from the 1990s, produced in collaboration with three sign painters in Mexico City. It was inspired by the city's hand-painted street advertisements, and the illustrations that adorned them.Well before the advent of TikTok …

In 1979, Peter Cook wasn't very happy about events in the Jeremy Thorpe trial - and decided to say so...

The Modern Macchiato: the way it's been made in North American specialty coffee houses for two decades. Learn how to make your best one! The post Modern Macchiato How To appeared first on CoffeeGeek.

Trevor Warmedahl reports on the marginalised Rabari community in Central Gujarat, India and how a dairy there is working to help support value and autonomy in their pastoral ways through cheesemaking. Two young Kutchi goats are left at home while the larger herd spends the day out grazing. Image © Trevor Warmedahl A man with a thick moustache, dressed in hand-embroidered white cotton cloth, whistles to a herd of goats …

Okay, so I know this is going to shock you, but I've been working on something arcane and impractical. I'm in a new band called Kuwait Grips I made a wrapper for normal HTTP-speaking Rust web apps so their traffic can take an extra round trip through a totally different protocol, before being translated back into HTTP for the outside world. Specifically, I plan to serve Axum-based apps via FastCGI, …

Yesterday, Marvel announced the cast of the upcoming(ish) Fantastic Four film, and the announcement was Valentine's Day themed because... Reed and Sue are a couple? (I've heard that there was a leak imminent and Marvel wanted to get ahead of it.) Anyway, I hope it will be good. A decent film adaptation has been a long time coming -- yes, I know, The Incredibles -- but part of me does …

Fig. 2. Rebbachisauridae indet. (MDPA-Pv 007) from the Sierra Chata locality (Candeleros Formation) Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous). Anterior caudal vertebra in anterior (A1, A3), posterior (A4, A6), and left lateral (A7, A9) views. Close ups showing lateral spinal laminae (A2), accessory bony lamina located inside of spof (A5), foramina in the lateral surface of the centrum, arrowheads indicate the presence of foramina (A8). Abbreviations: acdl, anterior centrodiapophyseal lamina; amedl, anterior medial …

This island in Thailand had everything I wanted in a tropical beach break. Ko Lipe is a Thai island in the Andaman Sea in Satun Province. It’s the most southerly island you can stay at before crossing the maritime border of Malaysia. Ko Lipe is about 3 km in length and 1.8 km at the widest part. There is no port here, let alone an airport. It takes 90 minutes …