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nerdgasrnz: lore: you can replenish your health by…: drinking water, breathing fresh air, eating a wild strawberry… you can restore your mana by…: listening to folk music, breathing fresh air applies to this one as well… taking a walk… I suddenly feel less pessimistic about these suggestions for improving mental health purely bc it’s worded…
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Detroit: Become Human (2018) -Exploitative Sci-Fi for Gamers
videogamesincolor: The Following article contains major spoilers for Detroit: Become Human Folk can’t quite believe DBH’s player base loves Markus by an 80% plus margin. It’s like Grey’s Anatomy doesn’t exist or something. On some level, Quantic Dream’s video games following Beyond: Two Souls are going to be a mechanical refinement of their gameplay, and…
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Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last
Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last azspot: On Friday, Impulse! will announce the June 29 release of “Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album,” a full set of material recorded by the quartet on a single day in March 1963, then eventually stashed away and lost. The family of Coltrane’s…
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Google’s AI Principles
wolfliving: https://blog.google/topics/ai/ai-principles/ By Sundar Pinchai, Google CEO At its heart, AI is computer programming that learns and adapts. It can’t solve every problem, but its potential to improve our lives is profound. At Google, we use AI to make products more useful—from email that’s spam-free and easier to compose, to a digital assistant you can…
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Signs are what produce a body
lacan-psychoananalysisaspraxis: Signs are what produce a body – and the artist knows it well – if he doesn’t produce his music or his art or his sculpture, he would be, quite simply, ill or not alive. Symbolic production’s power to constitute soma and to give an identity is completely visible in modern texts. Julia Kristeva…
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whitneymuseum: Zoe Leonard’s Homage is an ode to art historian Linda Nochlin, who asked the now famous question, “Why have there been no great women artists?” in her iconic 1971 ARTnews essay. For this site-specific installation, pieces of the text from Nochlin’s iconic essay have been placed on walls where Whitney staff offices are visible…
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prostheticknowledge: YouTube Artifacts Latest AR exhibition from MoMAR (who ran a guerilla show earlier this year) returns to the Pollock Room at MoMA New York featuring works by David Kraftsow, responsible for the YouTube Artififacts bot that regularly generates animated images from distorted videos: Welcome to The Age of the Algorithm. A world in which…
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wilwheaton: I haven’t turned on the news today, but I will in a few hours. If the top story is anything other than TRUMP DECLARES HIMSELF ABOVE THE LAW, I will lose my fucking mind. Every single political journalist needs to be getting Republicans in Congress and in State Houses all over the nation on record about…
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Crayola now has a line of gender-fluid makeup
mostlysignssomeportents: Rusty Blazenhoff: I’m not making this up: Crayola is making makeup. Yep, in a partnership with young adult retail brand ASOS, Crayola now has a line of 58 vegan and cruelty-free beauty products, which includes “face crayons,” mascara, highlighters, and eyeshadow palettes. Shades, such as Tumbleweed and Dandelion, match the names of actual Crayola…
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Colombiana
anthonybourdain: I’d thought my unconditional love for Colombia was well established there. I’d visited for speaking engagements. I’d made a giddily enthusiastic episode of a previous series in Medellin and Cartagena. I’d waxed poetically and often about how well I’ve always been treated, how thrilling it is to see how far the country has come…