As an early advocate for AI (Artificial Intelligence) I get some pushback from people who don’t know anything about the technology and who just want to persecute the entire idea of AI anything. They argue AI text responses are wrong; they bray that AI images are stolen. I have little patience for having a conversation with those types of Luddite deniers because, in the end, their arguments are both boring and wrong. Here’s why.
Today, I was walking in Long Island City and came across this beautiful street art mural found on the wall of the Rockaway Brewing Company! Take a look at the video after the break.
When Twitter was text-only, I confess to finding it a dry and wanting experience. I realize that sort of goes against my living mantra that The Word Rules — but I do think what sort of word rules us is important.
Now that Twitter are publishing inline images with Twitter streams, I actually appreciate the “worth a thousand words” addition to the brittle 140 character limit of a Tweet. Now the word reflects the image and the image reflexes the 140 construction.
Continue reading → Rise of the Typeface as Image: Moving from the Static Mind to the Empty Eye
Growing up, the phrase “Leave it on the machine” meant one thing and one thing only: Call me on a hardline telephone and leave a specific voice message on the answering machine connected to the hardline telephone in my house. I’m not sure when that turn of phrase fell out of favor — does anyone say, “Leave it on voice mail” today?
If you have Closed Captions turned on for your HDTV viewing enjoyment for someone in your life, you tend to leave the Captions on — even if you don’t need them because of a disability or language want — because you have to turn the Captions on and off via direct intervention with the HD cable box by turning off the box and going into BIOS mode for the low-level settings of the hardware.
Is Dr. Seuss in danger of becoming irrelevant in our children’s reading lives? Have we finally forsaken the craven image for the sanctified word?
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