
anthony
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anthony
@anthbrtn
postdoc @UvA_Amsterdam media studies. phd @SFU. wrote algorithmic authenticity (meson press 2023). I research how people (ab)use data, masculinity, and theory



Interesting!

actors are in serious trouble.. Tavus just dropped Hummingbird-0, it can lipsync any actor with natural human expression and movement AI actors can act better now tutorial and more examples:

Kind of crazy that the supposed "left-of-center" Big Tech group @ProgressChamber is repping a16z. Arguments about Democratic party politics aside, I genuinely wouldn't have thought @adamkovac would get into bed with someone platforming MONARCHY and outright racist views.


Everybody loves Joan of Arc and Marco Polo, but majorities of Americans didn't know enough to have an opinion about important medieval figures like Thomas Aquinas, Eleanor of Aquitaine, or Saladin:


Deleting everything because text seems like a bad format. I shall find a better format for discussion.















