This… Is BGNN

Things you might want to know, for Apr 17, 2023:

• Kubrick’s Use of One-Point Perspective
• OK Go Deny Post the Okay to Go Ahead and Use its Name to Sell Cereal — I won’t claim to be a big OK Go fan, but I hope they whip Post’s ass in court.
• Silly car tire has a mind of its own
• Developer creates “regenerative” AI program that fixes bugs on the fly — I love that the dev calls it Wolverine.
• Here’s the scene on Friday night at a video rental store in 1987 (video)
• Texas Could Push Tech Platforms to Censor Posts About Abortion — Let’s make it easy for their legislators: #DeplatformTexas.

• When did comics shift to focusing on visual storytelling? — Look, I’ll grant that Stan-style scripts were too verbose, and often seemed more focused on putting The Man’s imprint on the page than on telling stories. But I’ll stand up for Claremontian walls of text ‘til my dying day… comics are a blended medium, and the panels can —should— carry far more than visual information.
• It’s Time to Stop Arresting People for Trolling the Government — We never should have started.
• “A really big deal”—Dolly is a free, open source, ChatGPT-style AI model
• Meet PassGAN, the supposedly “terrifying” AI password cracker that’s mostly hype — A useful counterpoint.

• The perfect Lego Nintendo Game Boy doesn’t exist… — I’m not a Lego nut, but I’ve gotta say, it’s pretty impressive.
• From the original series to Picard, we’ve ranked every starship Enterprise — I’m an Enterprise A man, thanks.
• Ubisoft+ game subscription service officially launches on Xbox — Seems the only rational way to play through Ubi’s vast catalog of iterative sameness.
• Virtual Clinics Have a Backup Plan: Misoprostol-Only Abortions
• Nvidia’s $599 GeForce RTX 4070 is a more reasonably priced (and sized) Ada GPU — On the one hand, it’s great that powerful GPUs are affordable again. On the other, $599 is what people consider “affordable”.