“Rivalry between stars of a unique accordion-based style of music in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho has sparked years of deadly gang warfare that has turned the tiny country into the murder capital of the continent. 

Famo artists and their fans, both in South Africa and Lesotho, have divided into warring groups, distinguished by wearing traditional blankets in a particular colour. "When artists start making a name for themselves, they record songs that are full of insults."

“OpenAI’s GPT-3 and other neural nets can now write original prose with mind-boggling fluency — a development that could have profound implications for the future.

DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.

(The above image was generated in a couple of seconds from the prompt "A photo of a robot hand drawing, digital art".)

The top five:

1. In: A Graphic Novel
2. Run: Book One 
3. Monsters
4. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
5. A Journal Of My Father

“Engineered Arts, a UK-based designer and manufacturer of humanoid robots, recently showed off one of its most lifelike creations in a video posted on YouTube. The robot, called Ameca, is shown making a series of incredibly human-like facial expressions.

“Setting aside daily time for intentional acts of self-care is absolutely imperative if you want to be a functioning, capable human being, and failing to commit to it—in addition to committing to work-life balance, proper nutrition, physical exercise, mindfulness, and multiple forms of journaling—will fuck your life up in a major way.

“Many of the basic research problems we take for granted in computer graphics contain insidious assumptions about race. These troubling issues pre-date computer graphics, and can be traced back to the film technology and techniques from the analog era. Far from being incidental, they directly determine the physical formulations and numerical algorithms we use to depict virtual humans today.

A convenient site for exporting words you looked up in a Kindle e-book reader to Anki and other formats. It includes the sentence the word came from and can provide translations into many languages.

The Japanese only started to eat salmon sushi in the 90s due to a Norwegian PR campaign, but you could find it in the US as early as 1975.

“two or three hundred feet tall, appeared for like a month every summer over the Empire state building. so much fun kneeling under it with my friends eyes rolling back into my head but kids these days would rather watch tiktok than worship the husk

A demo with music and graphics that runs on the Commodore 64's disk drive without the actual C64 being connected.