Ars Technica’s overview on the state of generative AI
— a readable high-level primer on the foundational models that made recent breakthroughs possible #broider
— Max Bittker made a tool for making 9-patch quilt-like borders in CSS using inline data URIs via @mattround #MusicLM
— new AI model from Google Research generates music from text prompts, like “accordion death metal” via Web Curios #Drayk It
— make an AI Drake write and perform a song about blogs, Scooby Doo, or anything else via Web Curios #Measuring the cultural weirdness of Avatar
— analyzing Avatar fanfic, memes, and lyric mentions to gauge whether it’s a cultural outlier relative to other blockbusters #Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You
— “The fact is, if I wanted to pay you, I could. I could even give you raises. But once again, that is not the economic reality we face.” #jwz on Mozilla’s 25th anniversary
— Jamie reconstructed some early Mozilla websites not captured by Wayback via Nelson Minar #Tapbots releases Ivory, a polished Mastodon app for iOS
— if you can’t swallow the subscription fee, Ice Cubes is free and open-source #Lost Media: Finding Bill Clinton’s “Boxers or Briefs” MTV Moment
Yesterday, I saw a tweet that seemed so obviously wrong, it made me wonder if it was just clickbait.
But after digging through Google, YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, C-SPAN, and the Twitter archives myself, it seemed to be true: an iconic moment of ’90s political pop culture appeared to be completely missing from the internet.