by nick drnaso
graphic novel, deep dive into the uncanny valley where identity and reality disintegrate; as mysterious forces prey on our insecurities, collective possibility gives way to a conformist nightmare
a small but hearty book discussing the process of teaching a GAN (generative adversarial network) how to "see" + to create dreamy and unsettling images based on curated datasets. deep convos how Paglen used early ai/computer vision to imagine other worlds.
everyone knows binoculars are big and clunky and great for bird watching but a small lightweight pair of 3x magnification opera glasses are perfect to have on hand at all times for looking just a little bit closer at cool things, like the moon
I was watching the scene from Always Sunny on loop—linked, it’s so perfect—and then I went out for a bike ride and someone threw an egg at me from the window of a moving car! thankfully, they missed!
