A selfie booth in JFK Airport, promoting an opportunity to win tickets to a Broadway show. Just as well that it wasn't working – people who are flying out would find this too late, people flying in often just want to get out of the airport as fast as
Spotted December 15th, New York City, East Village. A follow-up to the glitch aesthetic spotted in Colorado, under "Old Televisions".
Spotted in New York City, December 14th. Lower East Side. It reminds me of a quote by William Gibson: "the street finds its own uses for things", from Burning Chrome. The street does indeed find its own uses for things. These trashcans and newspaper holders are repurposed as
Much has already been said and bally-hoo'd about what's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and extremely quick loss of almost 75% of the talent (including engineering talent), but it's worth saving this small but important piece about microservice dependencies and
Illuminating about the limitations of language-based AI models: Galactica is a large language model for science, trained on 48 million examples of scientific articles, websites, textbooks, lecture notes, and encyclopedias. Meta promoted its model as a shortcut for researchers and students. In the company’s words, Galactica “can summarize academic