A bunch of things (which I tweeted) for your eyes and ears plus brain to spend time on.
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This piece with a marvelous headline: Eye-tracking glasses show viewers of Bosch triptych are drawn to hell.
About how the EU is moving closer to AI laws (including banning use of facial recognition tech by police & emotional recognition at work places & in schools.).
Meet the people still living on SecondLife: I still remember intro’ing folks to this in my presentations / workshops back in 2006-11, the concept of avatars, virtual currency / concerts / lectures etc.
Damn scary research on how COVID causes brain cells to fuse.
Crypto ads will need to carry risk warnings under new UK rules plus other new rules come into force imposed by the UK financial watchdog (which will probably be replicated in other nations).
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This lovely website of a curated free typeface collections and there’s also this London TFL Dot Matrix typeface as well.
emojikitchen.dev has over 30,000 unique emoji mashup combinations for you to play with and use.
shapecatcher.com to draw in the box and it will help you to find the most similar unicode characters (urrently, there are 11817 character glyphs in the database).
200 plus, free Illustrations for your projects , just download and use, no attribution required.
An Online Safety Sign Generator.
clipdrop.co/uncrop “uncrops” your images and broadens them out (just like Photoshop Generative Fill Firefly but without text prompt) for free. Here’s an example from my AI creations:
And finally, Midjourney just released their ‘zoom out’ feature (you can either 1.5x or 2x) which is like automatic generative fill / out-painting. Here are my first attempts:
