We watched the first episode of Fallout. It has given me many excellent ideas for interior design and fashion.
The AI-Generated Population Is Here, and They’re Ready to Work. AI that can predict how specific humans will look, act and feel could do the jobs of fashion models, focus group members and clinical trial participants [wsj.com]
Romance writer K. Renee was locked out of Google Docs without warning or explanation, losing access to 10 works-in-progress comprising 222,000 words. [wired.com]
“Hazel,” a self-described “tab hoarder,” kept 7,500 tabs open for two years. Then Firefox refused to restore the session. [techspot.com]
NYC early 1900’s [reddit.com]
A Native American girl of the Kiowa tribe Oklahoma 1894 [reddit.com]
500 Briggs St, Erie, Colorado. Late 1890s - Present [reddit.com]
Dinosaur Beach Keith Laumer 1971 (cover by Kelly Freas) [reddit.com]
The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know [nytimes.com] — “… the coalition Democratic leaders could once rely on to defeat Mr. Trump is already falling apart, and their current strategy — to hammer the former president — may not be enough to win in November.”
Bill Gates, ousted for misconduct, is still pulling the strings at Microsoft
Publicly, Gates has been almost entirely out of the picture at Microsoft since 2021, following allegations that he had behaved inappropriately toward female employees. In fact, Business Insider has learned, Gates has been quietly orchestrating much of Microsoft’s AI revolution from behind the scenes. Current and former executives say Gates remains intimately involved in the company’s operations – advising on strategy, reviewing products, recruiting high-level executives, and nurturing Microsoft’s crucial relationship with Sam Altman, the cofounder and CEO of OpenAI. In early 2023, when Microsoft debuted a version of its search engine Bing turbocharged by the same technology as ChatGPT, throwing down the gauntlet against competitors like Google, Gates, executives said, was pivotal in setting the plan in motion. While Nadella might be the public face of the company’s AI success – the Oz who built the yellow-brick road to a $3 trillion juggernaut – Gates has been the man behind the curtain.
Walter Molino 1915-1997, Italy, “Il Gatto Infuriato” 1967. The angry cat. [facebook.com]
