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  • The Gazans today, who in 5 years?

    Like all wars, tech gets pushed forward. In Ukraine it has been drones and in Gaza is it is AI/ML systems. If you don’t think the ghouls at Palantir and Anduril aren’t creaming their Elven what-ever-dark-elves-call-pants, you’re dreaming. Their sales hordes are already skittering over the pavements and through the sewers of DC, London, Brussels…

  • From the “Not saying it’s not fraud” file… background watching for the Tesla 8/8 autonomy event

    Update: 16 Apr: Does Tesla actually have a plan to launch a “robotaxi” in less than four months — or is it yet another blatant attempt by Musk to raise morale among Tesla investors? https://futurism.com/tesla-robotaxi-announcement-regulator-permits Update: 19 Apr: (Reuters) – Tesla shares fell to their lowest in more than a year on Thursday after Deutsche…

  • Stunning Portraits and Landscapes Emerge from ‘Scarred’ Canvases in Awodiya Toluwani’s Paintings

    Toluwani’s paintings are created on this textured “skin,” layering empowered portraits and atmospheric scenes over the dark legacy of colonialism and human enslavement. The artist considers both the physical scars of slavery—inflicted by whips and cane lashes—and the trauma it wrought on communities throughout Africa, highlighting a complex history. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/awodiya-toluwani-textured-paintings

  • The Grey Goo

    …the forces of mediocrity are now microprocessor-powered, heavily funded, and determined to hold on to the middle of the market. More grey, more goo. It’s hard to make a great sequel. Better to spend our time to make a remarkable original.

  • Israel’s Allies PANIC In Desperate Effort To Deflect Blame

  • We want to be the X of Y

    VC is pattern-matching. Because of this, less competent players fall into the trap of pitching themselves as the X of Y … Tell me you don’t know what you’re doing with out telling me you don’t know what you’re doing.

  • It’s not “tall poppy” syndrome, people don’t like dealing with you

    There has been a spate of “tall poppy” cry-wanks in the NZ entrepreneurial community over the past week. The theme is: I’m a tall poppy and I keep getting knocked down. Turns out that the people getting this coverage are generally: really unpleasant to deal with, they hurt people as their managerial MO, their achievements…

  • Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought

    Most interesting are owners’ debates over what, exactly, they just purchased. Is the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really. Rather than settling into a new routine, or building a workflow around their new computers, users spend a lot of time talking in the future tense, about what this thing…

  • Disney’s $1.5 billion bet on gaming risks cultural homogeneity.

    This type of cultural creep from major corporations is nothing new, but Disney has a particularly disturbing history of accelerated, amplified control across the mediums they enter. Each new property they acquire seems to permeate culture instantly, from stores to amusement parks to screens around the world. Even for non-Disney fans, escaping exposure has become…

  • This Forgotten Masterpiece Inspired Tolkien

    “A Voyage to Arcturus is tripping balls…”