Bits
Use #ai #ml to summarize content on the web https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum – example: 9000+ word article on Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics&expand=1
“video to video” #generative #video https://runwayml.com/
“By using digital surveillance to enforce rules, we focus our attention on an apparent order that allows us to ignore the real problems in the industry, as well as their deeper economic, social, and political causes.” https://archive.ph/I23xB
Get prompts from stable diffusion generated images. #generative #image mg2prompt.io/
Starting in with this game tonight .. Not For Broadcast – “a satirical propaganda simulator with edgy humor, evolving mechanics, and dystopian worldbuilding for mature players.” #seriousgames https://screenrant.com/not-broadcast-game-review/
Music & Sound
“a system which generates instrumental music to accompany input vocals, potentially offering musicians and non-musicians alike an intuitive new way to create music featuring their own voice.” #generative #music https://storage.googleapis.com/sing-song/index.html
Spirit of Hamlet is a long distance collaboration of four absolute history-making juggernauts: Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehose, The Stooges), Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Scotty Irving (Clang Quartet), and highly-acclaimed songwriter/producer Benjy Johnson. https://spiritofhamlet.bandcamp.com/album/northwest-of-hamuretto
Comics
not only as workers who powered and then challenged global capitalism, but as thinkers and doers who saw that another world was possible” #graphicnovel #comics https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2023/01/26/pirates-sailors-egalitarian-societies
#coursepackpreneur #oer https://www.businessinsider.com/profit-selling-nursing-school-study-sheets-etsy-tiktok-2023-1
Humor
This accurately represents my home heating practices https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/when-to-turn-your-heat-on-in-new-england-a-decision-guide
Teaching & Learning
“Rather than upping the surveillance-and-detection stakes with tools that are, at best, spotty and unreliable, teachers can talk with students reflectively about what’s at stake with #ai generated text.” https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/chat-gpt-cheating-college-ai-detection.html
Politics & Economics
“If the patient gets worse, you’re not bleeding them enough. If they get better, the bloodletting clearly saved them. If they die, well, some diseases are simply incurable.” #inflation https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/04/if-i-was-a-horse/#friedman-was-a-dolt