Wait, Twitter Knew The “Russian Bot” Narrative Was Fake… For Five Years?
In the most explosive Twitter Files yet, Matt Taibbi uncovers the agitprop-laundering fraud engineered by a neoliberal think-tank.
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Working with Environment Variables (Tech Note)
Here’s a quick cheatsheet on setting and reading environment variables across common OS’s and languages.
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Enchanted Rose 2.0 with Falling Petals
Revisiting the Enchanted Rose project four years later, this time with an open-source build based on Raspberry Pi.
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Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Web Server with Its Own Wifi Network (Tech Note)
The Raspberry Pi microcomputer is great for building “Internet of Things” devices. This technical post describes the steps to get your Raspberry Pi to broadcast its own local network and bridge to an Ethernet network if available. There are other guides showing how to do this on the Internet, but they are often woefully out of date, leading people down real rabbit holes.
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Sifting Through the FTX Rubble
The sudden collapse of the world’s second biggest cryptocurrency exchange in November 2022 shocked the crypto world and left more than a million creditors hanging, with the 50 biggest being owed a staggering $3.1 billion.
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Engines of Wow, Part III: Opportunities and Pitfalls
This is the third in a three-part series introducing revolutionary changes in AI-generated art. In Part I: AI Art Comes of Age, we traced back through some of the winding path that brought us to this point. Part II: Deep Learning and The Diffusion Revolution, 2014-present, introduced three basic methods for generating art via deep-learning…
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Engines of Wow: Part II: Deep Learning and The Diffusion Revolution, 2014-present
A revolutionary insight in 2015, plus AI work on natural language, unleashed a new wave of generative AI models.
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Engines of Wow: AI Art Comes of Age
Advancements in AI-generated art test our understanding of human creativity and laws around derivative art.
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I’m Winding Down HipHip.app
After much thought, I’ve decided to wind down the video celebration app I created, HipHip.app.
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Financial Systems Come for Your Free Expression: Don’t let them.
I’ve been a PayPal customer for more than a decade, but closed my account last week. 2022 has shown glimpses of what a social credit system might look like in America. Decentralized, yet singular in ideology.
