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AI CNET "quietly publishing" AI-generated news articles Thom Dunn

Internet Sunken Roman city ruins finally get an internet connection Thom Dunn

James Cameron James Cameron has already shot some scenes from Avatar 3 Devin Nealy

animation The painstaking task of restoring the antique animations of Max Fleischer Rusty Blazenhoff

books Book Gift Ideas: Black Feminist memoirs on justice, Africanfuturism, theoretical physics, and abolition. Elías Villoro

books Checking out the Black Speculative Arts Movement Elías Villoro

Sir Issac Newton You can visit Sir Isaac Newton's legendary "gravity tree"—and its many descendants and clones Andrew Yi

twitter Twitter cleaners fired without severance pay, just in time for Christmas Rob Beschizza

apple Good news: FBI says Apple's end-to-end encryption is "deeply concerning" Mark Frauenfelder

Avatar James Cameron already has plans for Avatar 6 & 7 Devin Nealy

Japan Masaki Fujihata and DJ Spooky in conversation at Japan House LA, on December 6, 2022 Mark Frauenfelder

television Here's a funny meme about goth girls dealing with the success of Netflix's Wednesday Devin Nealy

twitter Large-scale efforts have begun to capture Twitter history before its gone Thom Dunn

Business Big layoffs coming to Amazon too Rob Beschizza

misguided hero worship Musk fanboys create $600k monument to their hero Jennifer Sandlin

ai art Illustrator discovers her art was used to train an AI art generator Mark Frauenfelder

HDSF What is a "problem story" in Science Fiction? Jesse Sheidlower