Arcade
Trampoline game. The creators speak French. Good luck.
Past Times Arcade has 600+ games on display.
A new arcade is opening in central Florida.
Architecture
Award winning designs and the competition that displayed them
Check out the fun prison for children. They have cement holes to climb through, and dull gray walls.
Quick, someone take this house in Queensland Australia.
Architecture Urbanity
Why cities want to ban drive through.
An article that says the death of cities isn't because of all the right leaning ideas, but the multiplane high ways and suburban living.
Areas in cities with pictures taken years apart. There's an anti urbanization feel to it. The ideas of turning a city into a park is only feasible if there's less people. The names are in Italian, so that's why it's so confusing.
Themed Parks and Experiences
Warner Bros opened up a museum dedicated to Harry Potter in Japan.
New Concept Art for Disney World area.
Disney is rumoured to have a transgender animatronic coming soon. I rode the ride the other day and yelled at the bad history in it. Well ok, groaned.
Books and Comics
There is a big to do about the new Stan Lee biopic by Disney. One of the editors says it's fine and he just forgets to mentions the artists.
Oceanpunk as a genre
EB White was fired from Seattle Times 100 years ago. He went on to write Charlotte's Web and other grand books. The Seattle Times continues to be this good at choosing their writers.
Cory Doctrow warns that the Metaverse needs to be for his elites and not the others. Also he named his daughter while on drugs or his own farts.
Cars
15 unusual but influential cars.
This should also be in Film and TV. A producer of the Top Gear show when the Argentina special aired talked about how everything happened.
Car culture of the 90's
Polestar 5 is a posh GT
Cars GR86
The GT86 is out and already awesome.
Have another review.
AI
NVidia says emphasizing AI helps game graphics. This is a nice way to keep old market while working on a new one.
Generative Fill in videos
How Hugging Face is moving the Open Source LLM community forward
Editing AI images as part of Diffusion instructions
Unity now has AI helping you create games.
MidJourney has Zoom Out
Google sheets can create time lines
AI Opinion
AI is killing creativity
HuggingFace is extremely aligned with US interests
AI Lists
Different styles found on MidJourney
AI Image Prep
Adobe has project Gingerbread, which helps you prep images before having the AI hit them.
Image prep helps create better images.
AI Papers
A very small but specific data set in an LLM.
TAPIR tracks a specific point in a video for better analysis.
A unified framework for surface reconstruction
Video ControlNet offers better control and less spasticness in text to video creation
vLLM movies things 24x faster.
SnapFusion can be done on your phone.
A new adaption method by some big names.
AI eats itself when working with other AIs.
AI Spatial Movements
Following human movement better.
More video spatial controls
AI Audio
MeLody is a text to audio AI
Google has a new audio AI
AI 3D
A LinkedIn user talks about AI and how it will be making 3D things soon.
Science and History
Using eye reflections to make a 3D creation of what is seen.
A minstrel's comedy notes from the 15th century have been translated. One of them has men trying to hunt a rabbit and defeating themselves.
A low gravity automated medicine factory has begun. The more you read the article, the weirder it gets.
Propaganda
International Gender poll
During the Bush era, the author of Doonesbury admitted the politicians all knew each other and hung out. This was seen as a gotcha by the Rolling Stone.
US vs China relations are hurting the world economy. We should make peace with China and let them win.
An article about how important the coup that did nothing is to Russian politics.
Students are dropping in skills
The Supreme Court is meeting to decide if they should take on a case about gender dysphoria.
We should study and use psychedelics to make business better, the academic conference.
Propaganda Tech
Tech will save us from the terrible future we made up!
We should be vertical farming
Propaganda Roe vs Wade
Roe vs Wade ended a year ago. This is why it's bad but the left is still winning.
Biden warns that only Democrats can protect women from the destruction of Roe v Wade.
Florida provided more abortions than lefty states.
Propaganda Florida
Schools in Florida are headed toward a more classic basis. IE actual stuff to learn.
Someone in Florida made a theme park based on Crystal Meth. Every Floridaman joke you can think of is in there, including pet alligator and trampoline. They even had a four story treehouse.
I actually have a backlog of links after going on a vacation to the land of Dr Pepper. I am trying to catch up, but this is no where near what I actually have.