@Bassano

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116241137804012418

Photo-realistic AI Slop effects

From a distance, Nespoon's patterns appear flawless, as if they could be printed. Up close, it’s clear the lace lines are sprayed and brushed by hand, emphasizing the handmade.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/nespoon-lace-murals-paintings/

#art

Product idea. One time use AirPods that I can hand out to people like the super annoying woman having a FaceTime call with what I’m assuming are her very drunk friends with the volume maxed out on her phone. *

* In the middle of this supermarket.

I hate to complain, but actually I love to do it and it’s very satisfying
De La Soul's Tiny Desk Concert! Stakes is High! Me Myself and I! Enough said. https://kottke.org/26/03/de-la-souls-tiny-desk-concert
De La Soul’s Tiny Desk Concert

Ok, you know this is going to be a good one: De La Soul plays a Tiny Desk Concert. The humor of De La Soul has always been one of its calling cards. When

kottke.org
The joke that every AI company logo looks like a butthole laid bare. Picture stolen from a CNN article.
When lit up at night, this badminton academy in Bhubaneswar, India looks like a shuttlecock. https://mossandfog.com/badminton-academy-features-dramatic-shuttlecock-shaped-building/
Badminton Academy Features Dramatic Shuttlecock-Shaped Building | Moss and Fog

At the edge of Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, a new badminton academy turns a training hall into a piece of civic theater.

Moss and Fog
My experience with generative-AI has been that, at its very best, it is subtly wrong in ways that only an expert in the relevant subject would recognise. So I don't worry about us creating super-intelligent AI, I worry about us allowing that expertise to atrophy through laziness and greed. I refuse to use LLMs not because I'm scared of how clever they are, but because I do not wish to become stupider.
My 2025 Apple Report Card

A mixed year.

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