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What we forget every day…

“And they would understand that the people of our time are so wealthy, so powerful, that every one of them has access to machines with thousands of parts working in concert, and that it is less effort to build such a wondrous machine than to simply paint a doll’s eyebrows in their right places.”

A Child’s Plaything — Toby Ord

At the end of the day we’re all magicians.

Ice Ice Matrix…

The peerless, one and only, Everything is a Remix ended ten days ago. If you’ve never seen it; where have you been?

And then just to prove the point someone has used Deepfake to create the video version of a mashup. Wonderful!

Were the lyrics always this good?

GPT-4…

Trying GPT-4.

I’m not sure where this goes (and anyone who pretends to know is selling snake oil) but I’m pretty sure it’s important.

However, they need to make the marketing shots look less like a sci-fi film where the AI has already subordinated humanity.

People sitting in a warmly lit library working on laptops at long tables

 

The 1937 World Expo of Paris…

Paris World Expo of 1937 Old Photos

The 1937 World Expo of Paris: History, Images and the German-Soviet Face-Off – Rare Historical Photos

Two things…

  • It looks so contemporary.
  • Disneyland is basically a copy!

More seriously, this was two years before world war and it looks so nice.

Van Moof’s new workshop…

Dropped the bike off just before Christmas and they’ve moved to a new location.

It’s massive compared to the old location and the workshop is a thing of beauty!

The result? The bike is running like a dream. Fingers crossed.