The NUCA is a camera that uses AI to turn any photograph of a person into a nude. Sounds gross, and it is, but that's the point. The purpose of… Read the rest of the article: Every photo a nude in satirical art project

Tarta Relena is a duo from Barcelona that started off a capella. Their songs focus on remarkable swirling harmonies that are rooted in a folk tradition, but are accompanied by… Read the rest of the article: Listen to Tarta Relena's beautiful harmonies and ambient bass

By now, we've all seen that raunchy Roman bathroom graffiti that confirms that historical peoples were just as gross and juvenile as our contemporary friends and neighbors. The human inclination… Read the rest of the article: The ancient Roman poem so explicit it wasn't published until the 20th century

This weekend, a giant spectacle of (mostly) tiny creations will saunter their way onto stages around New Orleans. Puppets built on backpacks, puppets that fold up and fit into shoeboxes,… Read the rest of the article: New Orleans' Giant Puppet Festival is happening this weekend

Wartime isn't all smoke and horror. There's lots of idle time, hours to while away in anticipation and dread. Chewing on your fingernails seems a good use of the day… Read the rest of the article: Carved leaves made by soldiers in the trenches

Europeans really know how to dissent. The optics of spraying a fountain of uncountable pounds of poop, basically, towards the object of your frustration reads pretty clearly. The farmers are… Read the rest of the article: Belgian farmers spray manure at police during protest

I love vampire movies, I love camp, I love over-the-top villains, I love/hate 80s fashion. So, naturally, I love The Lost Boys. It's a perfect blend of all my favorite… Read the rest of the article: "The Lost Boys" was meant to be a boy's adventure film

Well, it's a race, but I like calling it that. Ever wondered with amazement at how nimbly waiters move about between tables? Especially with those dense Parisian cafe layouts, table… Read the rest of the article: French waiters have their own Olympics!

Los Angeles has been putting a ton of resources into fixing the city's homeless crisis. That means they're fixing it with housing and counselors and food and things like that,… Read the rest of the article: Los Angeles spent $1.73m on anti-homeless signs

Voice Engine is an open source program developed by OpenAI that allows users to create voice clones from a short 15-second speech sample. The results are unnervingly accurate. With the… Read the rest of the article: 15 second sample alone needed to make AI voice clone

The state of Oregon has just passed legislation that confirms the right for consumers and repair shops alike the same ability to diagnose and fix their own products. Manufacturers no… Read the rest of the article: Oregon governor signs right-to-repair law

I'm here to report that the sun, renowned for being bright enough to burn a viewer's corneas, has a face. And it is a stoic one. No, I didn't look… Read the rest of the article: Prepare for April 8 with antique anthropomorphic depictions of eclipses

The kind souls over at the Library of Congress have compiled the remaining extensive writing of Walt Whitman, from well before his Leaves of Grass era to his death, in… Read the rest of the article: Happy Easter! Read most every surviving scrap of paper Walt Whitman wrote on in the Whitman Sampler

It would be rude to call a deputy a caveman to his face but hey, if he comes right out and admits it and goes so far as to get… Read the rest of the article: L.A. County undersheriff admits to having police gang tattoo

Israel's economy runs on tech. Military tech, household tech, cloud computing, you name it. So it's not really surprising that Israel would utilize the tools that they have on hand,… Read the rest of the article: Israel using mass facial recognition tech on Gazans

There's no place like the Kansas senate, Toto. This wave of draconian age verification requirements for websites that feature adult content have been steadily spreading across the US, a particularly… Read the rest of the article: Kansas classifies homosexuality as adult content in extreme age verification law

Hurdy-gurdy! I've said it once, I'll say it again! Hurdy-gurdy! It's America's favorite drone instrument (this is conjecture, I'm not a musicologist, please don't sue me) and I'm here to… Read the rest of the article: Hurdy-gurdy cover of Teardrop by Massive Attack

If you're turning around restlessly in your bedchamber at some ungodly hour, hoping for some small miracle to put you to sleep, you can thank the gods of experimental electronic… Read the rest of the article: Ambient music played by the weather

Governor Jeff Landry was just elected in October, but he's already come barreling out of the courts, guns blazing. Or in this case, guns tucked under a coat or in… Read the rest of the article: Louisiana hopes to reduce crime by letting teens conceal-carry guns

Earlier this month, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law the state's plans to execute inmates using electrocution and nitrogen hypoxia. Lethal injection is still available, but sourcing the chemicals… Read the rest of the article: Louisiana reintroduces the electric chair, adds nitrogen hypoxia to execution methods