"The Covid protests are occurring at the height of China’s autocratic moment. While there are calls for free speech and elections, the rallying cry since Sunday has been against a jarring oppression: the incarceration of hundreds of _...Read More_

"The fragmented history of Cuban art has been subjected to political readings, to the dichotomy of inside and outside—the island and its diaspora,” a text accompanying the exhibition notes."

"Only three months on from the arrival of open source A.I. image generator Stable Diffusion, its creator, Stability AI, has released an updated version."

[https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/spencer-tunick-naked-photoshoot-bondi-beach-intl/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/spencer-tunick-naked-photoshoot-bondi-beach-intl/index.html) >Around 2,500 people stripped off for a naked photo shoot on Australia's Bondi Beach on Saturday, designed to raise awareness of skin _...Read More_

"The exclusive partnership promises A.I.-generated content to all, but little to photographers and creative contributors."

"The new program will be available through the company’s Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Edge web browser, and Designer graphics app."

"The crucial question is whether the current feeding frenzy can be sustained. After all, early commercial success carries with it enormous pressure—and a runaway secondary market can cause resentment."

>"It has set itself up as the defender of America’s democracy. It’s the wrong venue for such a mission."

The New York Times: American Culture Is Trash Culture.

"The committee leaders were asked to visit all of the energy projects West Virginia had to offer: wind, hydroelectric, shale gas, solar, and a strip-mining operation in the ancient southern coalfields."

"Students should follow Greta Thunberg and stop going to school, if you want to have a future. Schools have mostly succeeded in teaching us how to destroy our planet with the destructive Protestant work ethic."

>"Exhibition builds on a project to document Ukraine's monumental and contested public art created during Soviet era"

"Some of that progress has been slow and steady — bigger models with more data and processing power behind them yielding slightly better results."