by Editor | Feb 14, 2025 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from artnet How This A.I. Image Became the First to Snag Copyright Protection The U.S. Copyright Office ruled generally last month that work created from A.I. text prompts could not be copyrighted. by Adam Schrader Kent Keirsey, A Single Piece of American...
by Editor | Feb 13, 2025 | Weirdness
from WIRED This Is Where Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton nuclear weapon. Here are its possible impact points. MARK GARLICK / GETTY IMAGES ASTEROID...
by Editor | Feb 6, 2025 | Weirdness
from The Mercury News Telescopes spy a monster radio jet streaming from a bright and early object in the universe The jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the history of the universe, astronomers reported Thursday. By MARCIA DUNN | Associated...
by Editor | Feb 3, 2025 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Telegraph Fight Club’s Chuck Palahniuk: ‘Today, cults are the big thing. Secretive cults’ The novelist on transgressive literature, the ‘exhausting’ appeal of Elon Musk – and why Netflix would never accept his shocking TV pitch by Duncan White ‘We’re now into...
by Editor | Feb 1, 2025 | Weirdness
from the New York Times Eerie Light Haunts a Southern Town. It May Come From Under the Earth. by NYT Summerville, a town northwest of Charleston, S.C., has its share of ghost stories. One yarn that has stuck around for decades is the tale of the Summerville Light. In...
by Editor | Jan 31, 2025 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from daily dot Paul Schrader, writer of ‘Taxi Driver,’ admits AI is better at generating film ideas than people by Ilana Gordon Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock (Licensed) After enjoying a five-decades-long career as a film critic, director, and screenwriter, Paul...