Like most AI-generated software, Bing's new DALL-E3-powered image creator comes with some strict content guidelines. While some asshole on Not Twitter will inevitably whinge about how this is some sort… Read the rest of the article: Bing's new AI image creator shows Mickey, Kermit, SpongeBob, and more all doing 9/11
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Thom Dunn A baby beaver has been spotted in London — for the first time in roughly 400 years. The furry dam builders had been hunted to extinction, but there's been a… Read the rest of the article: London gets some baby beaver for the first time in centuries
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Thom Dunn On Wednesday, September 27, 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted a launch event for the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative on behalf of the US Department of State. As… Read the rest of the article: US Secretary of State covers "Hoochie Coochie Man"on guitar at State Department function
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Thom Dunn The online independent music platform Bandcamp — the single best place to buy digital music, in my humble opinion! — has just laid off 16% of its staff, and announced… Read the rest of the article: Epic Games sells Bandcamp, just six months after employees try to unionize
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Thom Dunn Move over, Florida Man — it's finally time for Florida Crab to shine! Amongst the many environmental threats facing the Sunshine State from every angle, Floridian coral reefs are in… Read the rest of the article: Scientists release hundreds of thousands of crabs in Florida to protect coral reefs
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Thom Dunn "Watch the first trailer for the new TOXIC AVENGER reboot starring Peter Dinklage" is not a string of English-language words I ever thought I'd type. And yet, here we are… Read the rest of the article: Watch the first trailer for the new Toxic Avenger reboot starring Peter Dinklage
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Thom Dunn Earlier this month, I wrote about how musician Jeff Rosenstock was making waves by publicizing the absolutely ridiculous merchandise sale percentages that touring musicians are forced to hand over to… Read the rest of the article: LiveNation spins greed into a PR win
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Thom Dunn A recent study in the journal of Current Biology titled "Associative learning in the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora" presents evidence that some species of gelatinous medusa are capable of associative… Read the rest of the article: New study: tiny brainless jellyfish somehow capable of forming of memories
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Thom Dunn What do you get when you cross an electric kazoo with a distortion pedal? BLINK-18KAZOO Okay so the visual pun doesn't work quite as well as the aural one. But… Read the rest of the article: Finally, a kazoo cover of Blink-182
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Thom Dunn Within hours of the publication of this article, Netflix's DVD division will be finally, truly dead. And so, over at The Verge, Janko Roettgers digs into the (admittedly impressive!) technology… Read the rest of the article: A fascinating look at Netflix's now-defunct DVD shipping assembly line
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Thom Dunn Surprise, surprise: the FBI has unprecedented access to wild technology that allows for horrifying overreaches of privacy; and the vast, vast majority of them haven't actually gone through the formal… Read the rest of the article: 95% of FBI agents aren't trained on facial recognition tech but still use it anyway
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Thom Dunn Barbie Oppenheimer née Jones spent her career as a speech pathologists, first at Massachusetts General Hospital, then later as a full-time professor at Boston University. She took her job "a… Read the rest of the article: The real-life Barbie Oppenheimer has had a very strange summer
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Thom Dunn From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi is a new short story collection celebrating the 40th anniversary of Return of the Jedi. The book features an incredible… Read the rest of the article: Disney quietly removes jizz from Star Wars continuity
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Thom Dunn Do you like hot pink? Well then Zillow has a listing for you right in sunny Hudson, Wisconsin! Unless you plan on doing cocaine in the bathroom, which is strictly… Read the rest of the article: No coke allowed in the bathroom at this million dollar Barbie Dream House
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Thom Dunn Lab-grown meat is quickly scaling up to become an affordable cruelty-free protein source that's still technically made of actual meat — just, ya know, without any actual living, conscious organisms… Read the rest of the article: Religious authorities establish new rules for lab-grown Kosher or Halal meat
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Thom Dunn The Super Hero's Journey is a new graphic biography/memoir of sorts, written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell. Though he's perhaps best known as the creator of the popular comic strip… Read the rest of the article: "The Super Hero's Journey" is a gorgeous graphic celebration of Marvel Comics
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Thom Dunn No, this is not a Rickroll. But the source of the Rickroll, Rick Astley himself, is no stranger to Foo Fighters' classic anthem "Everlong." Performing at the Radio 2 in… Read the rest of the article: Watch Rick Astley cover "Everlong" live at Radio 2 in the Park 2023
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Thom Dunn I love the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (previously). Not only is it an agency charged with making sure that manufacturers don't screw over consumers — a position that I… Read the rest of the article: The best federal agency just dropped the sickest mix tape of musical safety tips
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Thom Dunn Today on "Old Man Yells at Cloud," SPIN Magazine founder Bob Guccione Jr — the eldest Boomer nepo baby of Penthouse founder Bob Guccione, who fronted the money so that… Read the rest of the article: Penthouse nepo baby Bob Guccione Jr. defends Jann Wenner in transphobic rant
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Thom Dunn I first learned about Acorn Amps through the company's Dune-themed "Mind Killer" Distortion Pedal, which promises to deliver "total obliteration" through the proper tweaking of its "Spice" and "Life" knobs… Read the rest of the article: This incredible guitar FX pedal lets you sample audio from Street Fighter