Category: Uncategorized

It all started in 2015 when Neek Lurk (aka Alex Neek) founded the “Anti Social Social Club” (ASSC), a streetwear brand that originated in Los Angeles, California. He was a former social marketing manager for the streetwear brand Stüssy before launching ASSC. The brand quickly gained popularity in the streetwear community and on social media…

The more I learn about AI, the more it seems that everything can at some point be replaced by AI (and robots). But then there are things that (maybe) can’t. Humans will always appreciate human craftmanship. At least that’s what I believe. (Although maybe, who knows, at some point AI will be able to match…

https://www.photopea.com is a simple free online image editor that has some basic functionality resembling Photoshop and doesn’t require registering with an account. Neat for some quick and simple edits.

thenounproject.com has a great collection of free vector icons you can use. Some of the contributors I really like: Olena Panasovska is one of the contributors who I like: There are some nice patterns like these: https://thenounproject.com/icon/japanese-pattern-3818257 https://thenounproject.com/icon/japanese-pattern-3818251 As well as some nice icons related to the golden ratio: https://thenounproject.com/browse/icons/similar/golden-ratio-3420246/?p=1

This is happening faster than most of us anticipated: This is the deep fake technology that is availible right now. FREE. We should have open and honest conversations about it. Pretending its going to be some niche thing and hard to access is a huge mistake. 2 months i'm guessing, Millions will have access. pic.twitter.com/7jZVECGNWD…

Douglas Adams wrote a famous essay back in 1999 called: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. Since this is a time of drastic technological change, it’s worth recalling “the way these things work” according to Adams:

To best understand what “spinning up red cells” means, let’s use an example: Changing the way a large bureaucracy works is almost impossible. What you can do however is spin up red cells. In this context, “to spin up red cells” refers to creating independent groups or teams (red cells) within the organization. These groups…

There are A LOT of documentaries out there, but not many are great. Here’s a site that has curated some topnotch documentaries: https://rocumentaries.com/

Tested Adobe Firefly image generation… and I’m not impressed at all. Pictures come out weird (and not good weird. Just awkward AI weird.)

Kroki has a ChatGPT plugin which makes it super easy to create diagrams from any text within ChatGPT. Here are some of the types of visuals that are possible: Been playing around with this recently—it’s very cool.