If Southeast Asia’s experiments in de-dollarization prove successful – if more trade is routinely settled in rupiah, baht, ringgit, or yuan without a hitch – it could inspire copycats in other regions.

Better adhered to the wall than Cattelan’s, free to look at in a public street, and doesn’t need replacing with a fresh one every other week. Thank you street artists.

in his first ever appearance, superman beats up spousal abusers, halts an unjust execution and exposes government corruption.

i love how people think they *just now* made superheroes woke

superman, woke since 1938

But when I kept prompting the Gen-AI tool to depict a “hallucination”, results started looking like a Takashi Murakami. That would be “inspiration”, of course. It couldn’t possibly be “copyright violation”, because why would AI need to do that, when it can simply hallucinate? Trippy.

An artistic analysis is unwarranted, of course, because the images did not remotely live up to vinyl covers of the Hendrix era…

In all cases, the AI images generated sure look like the tool is on drugs. Psychedelics, to be precise.

I prompted a generative AI tool to produce an image of a “hallucination”. First attempts yielded a lot of flying eyeballs, which begs the question: are hallucinations spying on us? Staring at us threateningly from the sky?

Para que un tuitero no escriba “Este año ha habido X muertas, pocas me parecen con lo putas que son” es necesario poner a funcionar la máquina educativa, no la máquina represiva.

Marta Sanz, en ‘Monstruas y centauras’

Is there a pattern here? Noticing that a few friends who knew life before social media are immensely grateful that social media was not around when they were teenagers.