Wikipedia Bans Leader of Pro-Hamas Edit GangMar 20
following a pirate wires investigation and a ruling by wikipedia's 'supreme court,' an editor who coordinated over a million pro-hamas changes has been site-banned
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Bad Ghibli
pirate wires #137 // an openAI update ghiblifies the world, “ethical questions” raised, and the white house social media team innovates within the form (a fascinating disaster)
Mike Solana
Apr 2, 2025
To slop or not to slop. It was one of those days on the internet. Last week, after the introduction of Open AI’s 4o model enabled advanced image generation in ChatGPT, users quickly discovered they could generate a picture of… well, almost anything they wanted. And what they wanted most of all, at least in those very early hours with their newfound superpower, was to feed GPT real pictures of themselves, their loved ones, and various historical and cultural touchstones, and to have their friendly neighborhood superintelligence turn them into anime characters reminiscent of Studio Ghibli, a famous and beloved Japanese animation studio. After the first few Ghibli girlfriends went viral, everyone had to have one, and a classically presenting memetic explosion followed. For just about 24 hours, X — the first platform where users explored the new tool — set aside the culture war, the Tesla firebombings, and the collapse of globalization to share a lot of this:
Wikipedia Bans Leader of Pro-Hamas Edit Gang
Did China Just Smoke Hollywood?Mar 12
there’s a new video generation champion in town, and it ain't american. here's why seedance is so weirdly good, and what it means for the future of the ai arms race.
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The NIMBY War Against MicronFeb 27
a chip company wants to bring 50,000 jobs to syracuse. but mountains of paperwork, 'endangered bats,' and nimbys from literally california have added years to the timeline
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