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OpenAI isn’t going to release its newest model because...

OpenAI isn’t going to release its newest model because “it showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions [and] was also willing to go beyond the original scope of what it was asked to do”.

This American Life has a whole episode with Nikole...

This American Life has a whole episode with Nikole Hannah-Jones and her daughter Najya, following up on her NYT article about Nikole’s school choice for Najya.

Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of...

Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.”

Traveling Light? Our Presets Do the Heavy Lifting in Post

When you're traveling, the last thing you want is to spend hours in front of a laptop editing photos instead of being out exploring. That's exactly the problem our Lightroom presets and Capture One styles solve. Apply one, adjust a couple of sliders if needed, and you're done. W…

Could Sharper Lenses Really Make Images Look Like AI?

The lead image of this article is one that will always stick out to me. It's an image of my good friend, Alex. And I remember when I was showing it off to a bartender identifying as Gen Z, she told me it looked like AI. However, I was showing her the literal back of the camera s…

Moonday

Ilmoonination Actually, we have a waning gibbous moon tonight. It was full two nights ago. But I need to a headline, so there ya go. How's fishing? Mainstream media continues to get sidestreamed. That's what I take from Ad Market Resumes Tepid Growth In August, 'Traditional' Me…

The Rare Lens From the Nevada Test Site

Today's awesome vintage find on ebay is something for collectors with a taste for rarity and curiosity for military history. You definitely don't see a 1000mm 40-inch f/8 Cyclotar lens spring up from the depths of ebay everyday! What exactly is this curious-looking item? Well, t…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: I was wondering what a play button does on an already playing video. Turned out first video was a “cover image” for another video! #Anthropic #Claude #Video #Play

Are Modern Cameras Useless Without AI and Scene Detection?

When you shoot with a modern camera, chances are that you're using some of the more very automated autofocus modes. By that, I'm talking about AI detection and scene detection -- depending on what brand we're discussing and the vernacular that they're using. In the past year or…

hyper bf

ever had a thought like, “wish I could program on a gameboy” but then remember why all your Pokemons’ nicknames are like 2 to 3 letters long because selecting text on a virtual keyboard with a d-pad blows so then you start to think about programming systems that don’t re…

5 Pentax K-Mount Lenses Reach End of Production

Pentax has discontinued five of its lenses for the company's K-mount cameras. The announcement comes shortly after the company announced the discontinuation of the last K-1 II camera. The report comes after reports of camera dealers announcing the discontinuation of these lenses…

Sunlint

Lemme know when one shows up Liblice II, the tallest structures in the Czech Republic, are about to come down. They carried the 1.5 million watt signal of  Czech Radio Two until 2021 on 639 mHz. The cool thing is this (from that last link, translated): After the removal of the…