“For years, Judy Malloy would not get the credit she deserved for being one of
the earliest pioneers of ‘electronic literature,’ as the literary hypertext
movement came to be called: pieces by men writing later became more famous and
better-studied.”
Aaron A. Reed ,
1986: Uncle Roger
(50 Years of Text Games April 22, 2021 )
posted 4/24/2021 8:41pm ∞
“To love a book is to constantly interrogate it. … Every time you pick up a book
and it is set in another world, written long before some social changes have
been made, you have to ask yourself whether or not it is problematic that the
orcs are a certain color, or why the villain is disabled.”
posted 3/28/2021 8:22pm ∞
“Ogbogu wasn’t familiar with Hollie Mengert’s work at all. He was helping
another Stable Diffusion user on Reddit who was struggling to fine-tune a model
on Hollie’s work and getting lackluster results. He refined the image training
set, got to work, and published the results the following day. He told me the
training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai,
and cost less than $2.”
posted 11/19/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Kodak slowly began to fix this bias in its film, but not out of any sense of
racial injustice: it was a response to complaints from furniture makers and
chocolate sellers that Kodak cameras couldn’t properly capture their products’
hues.”
James Vincent ,
Keep It Clean
(London Review of Books October 20, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/11/2022 8:00pm ∞
“This shift away needing to add ‘more emoji’ to creating more experiences that
leverage the existing set is an important evolution for the future of emoji
relevancy. Unicode can’t encode every concept in the world, every ingredient in
the planet, every muscle contortion of your face.”
Jennifer Daniel ,
Introducing: Emoji Kitchen
(July 18, 2022 ,
via Andy Baio )
posted 10/24/2022 8:00pm ∞