Category: Aside
By design or not, Liz Truss sets the scene for why time is up for the Tories
Publishing a 4,000-word essay in The Sunday Telegraph is a logical step to take for Liz Truss in her first public outing to set out her case for why and how her term as UK Prime Minister abruptly ended last October after just 49 days when she resigned her office. She was the shortest-serving prime minister in the country’s history. The demographic optics for this choice of mainstream media outlet are about right, I’d say, for reaching readers likely to… Read the rest →
We’ve got things a bit backwards
Yesterday I shared a post on one of my Twitter accounts linking to an Amberfi blog post that included the image you see here, Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. My tweet shared the post, but the image in the post was blocked by Twitter who warned it contained “potentially sensitive content.” In contrast, I posted the same message to my primary Mastodon account, which displayed the image in the… Read the rest →
The Galaxy Z Fold 5 could be the foldable worth waiting for
Rumours are flying that Samsung will have addressed the problem with the crease in it’s foldable smartphones when the Galaxy Z Fold 5 is expected to be released in August. The Verge is one of many media outlets reporting that Samsung could adopt a “droplet”-style hinge that allows the display to form a teardrop shape when closed, making for a much gentler curve that leaves less of a crease. SamMobile says a Z Fold 5 prototype with teardrop hinge was… Read the rest →
Kickstarting a movie treatment with ChatGPT
A tweet in my timeline early today from Joshua Conkel, a writer and director in Los Angeles, caught my eye. I want a Knives Out movie where Benoit and his husband are on a vacation together and Benoit is like, “I won’t solve any mysteries on this vacation, I promise” but then he has to solve a mystery without his husband realizing he’s doing it. Slapstick ensues. Joshua Conkel on Twitter Hot on the heels of Glass Onion: A Knives… Read the rest →
AI that will write email replies is here
Artificial intelligence is all the rage at the moment. The rise of AI tools and services to generate images and video from text prompts or by analysing other images, and engage in actual conversation with an AI chatbot, resets your belief in what such simulated intelligence can do producing highly sophisticated results compared to what you’ve experienced or known about before. It’s led to a huge wave of AI-generated content flooding the Internet and the mainstream media to the extent… Read the rest →