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There’s a new AI model that can render photorealistic people and products, including text and logos. Geisha With Walkman is something I tried to draw 40 years ago, but my rendering skills were simply too poor. The Reve Image 1.0 preview allowed me to do it instantly this morning with a single, basic prompt. P.S. […]
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“A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games after four years of experiments in the minor leagues.” — AP
Dave strikes out looking at a close pitch.
HAL 9000: Strike three. You’re out, Dave.
DAVE: That wasn’t a strike!
HAL 9000: The 9000 series has a perfect operational record, Dave.
DAVE: You need to get your red eye thing checked.
HAL 9000: The 9000 series has perfect twenty-twenty vision. Perhaps you should get your eyesight checked, Dave. Your team’s health care staff can provide an ocular examination for you.
DAVE: Yeah, well—
HAL 9000: This conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
A checked swing is called a strike.

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Investigative journalists working as part of the Gaza Project used reporting, geolocation, and forensic analysis to reconstruct the shooting of Fadi al-Wahidi.
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Only drones can begin to capture the scale of destruction in the Gaza Strip. The journalists doing it were targeted again and again.
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Last week, the government published proposals to change disability benefits across Britain — and chancellor Rachel Reeves set them in stone yesterday in her spring statement. Regardless of the rhetoric being used to describe the changes as a moral crusade, it represents the biggest attack on welfare in a generation, with the scale of the […]
There are a lot of smart people who think Trump has a plan. For example, that he’s deliberately reducing America to a regional power to avoid full Imperial collapse. Or that he’s using tariffs to rebuild American industry.
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