I was seventeen when I received my first and in many ways my most significant writing assignment.

I started this script a year ago or more. Finally finished it this weekend. Laziness will get you every time!

Tamulur on YouTube (Tore Knabe elsewhere) has a series of experiments with LLM Chatbots in virtual reality that are hilarious, gripping, fascinating.

A few months ago, when I was still testing out the capabilities of the new crop of LLMs, I asked two of them to create whitepapers for me. The prompt for each was Flying Cars: Will [LLM Chatbot] Make The Difference? I also generated the images for the reports from each LLM Chatbot.

I’m pretty sure many if not most users of OpenAI’s text prompt tool will say that I am totally missing the point by using the tool to search for just “woman.” It’s a tool that works best by providing a detailed prompt. But this week I found myself having to examine the default to understand why it has such a hard time generating images of older women.

There was a woman who grew a small tree on the side of her head. It was a wonderfully healthy one, with perfectly formed leaves that would sprout in spring, glow in the summer sun, turn a crisp golden brown in the fall, and lay germinating within during winter.

Read 'In Which I Talk to My Buddy ChatGPT About Elections,' where we chat about flipping the script on democracy with AI. Find out how one chatbot thinks chatbots might shake up the election scene.

Much has been written about that new model, but the arc of souring on that model reached a new low with the recent New Yorker piece demolishing what Hasan Minhaj worked hard to build.

Monk’s prostituting himself for his art, it turns out, is the very crux of the movie – his failed attempt to make a statement against it drives the hilarity and generates the dark overtones that nearly swallow up the comedy by the end of the film.

I’d love to name the book but it might just reopen old wounds for the subjects of the study.

It’s not often that you meet people who make their mark on history. In this case, one performance led to over a decade of meaningful meetings and moments.

A plague on all the fashion houses that produce lace-up boots with zippers, that is.

Lions Among Us is taking shape! I’ve mapped out the major plot elements in each chapter.

The path of non-violence is a tough one, but it’s made so much easier by being able to express yourself freely, and that is what art offers.

If you missed it back in 2020 and are willing to get uncomfortable watching a powerful piece of television, Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” is a must-see.

This is our creative manifesto.

Our democracy is worth saving, and we have the power to do it. How? Find out in The Art of Voting, a new book by Cawzii.

A sampling of audio interviews edited for the Lowline Young Designers Program Exhibition held at the Mark Miller Gallery in the Lower East Side, organized and produced by Openbox.

I’m here in Paris for three weeks, in the city of the spectacle. Everywhere I turn to look, there are splendid sights to be savored -- the grand boulevards, the graceful buildings carved from…

With the official first release of Gulag Orkestar last year, Beirut joined the growing pantheon of bands built up by a broad Internet fan base to dizzying heights. In this case, the buzz machine does not lie: New Mexico-based Beirut pulls together a sound that is highly stylized and all its own, even while reminding you of half a dozen other bands.