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  Watching The Odyssey as Nolan intended: as an AI-upscaled camcorder recording with line-in audio from the theater seat, burned-in Spanish subtitles, and moving blurred patches to hide the forensic digital watermarks.

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  whoops

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  RE: https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/116772625748491745 I wrote about how I discovered that a new site for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig's long-running Tumblr project-turned-book, was a bootleg made by a marketing agency. They published the complete book verbatim, then added AI-generated art and new AI words, entirely without permission.

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  Neal.fun's Internet Artifacts is an online museum of artifacts from the early internet, including the first spam email, first MP3, first livestream, and dozens of notable early websites with a working browser and Flash emulation. https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

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  RE: https://xoxo.zone/@xoxo/116500189290550280 Last chance to get the XOXO merch before we shut it down forever!

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  You may have seen this story blowing up about Will Smith using AI to generate fake audiences to promote his latest tour, but the truth is more complicated. The audiences are real, but the footage was manipulated: first by Will Smith's team and then, without permission, by YouTube itself. https://waxy.org/2025/08/will-smiths-concert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines/

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  Twitter just announced free access to the Twitter API will end on February 9, with unannounced pricing or usage details, effectively killing every free fun and useful thing ever built with it: bots, games, mashups, visualizations, research projects, autoposters, autoblockers, deleters, and so much more. https://twitter.com/twitterdev/status/1621026986784337922

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  RE: https://xoxo.zone/@xoxo/116455782874693726 This was a lot of work and we're really proud of it. Don't miss all the new merch! https://xoxofest.com/blog/2026-launching-xoxo-explore/

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  "YouTube only continues to exist because of a delicate dance that keeps rightsholders happy and the music industry paid, but the future of Google itself is a bet on an expansive interpretation of copyright law that every creative industry from music to movies to news hates and will fight to the death." Absolute banger of a post by Nilay Patel. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23689879/ai-drake-song-google-youtube-fair-use

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  I'm amazed I've never seen this before: a photo licensing company shaking down someone for hosting an image used in an Open Graph tag. https://www.alistairshepherd.uk/writing/open-graph-licensing/

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  Of course, there's an NFO file. "If you enjoy this product, consider buying it." https://www.pouet.net/prod_nfo.php?which=105954&font=1

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  Razor 1911 made a PC demo for Revision 2026 that's a whirlwind retrospective of the group, touching on a lot of warez/art/demoscene tech, tools, and history since they started in 1985. It won the PC Demo category and clearly earned it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AnbYNudAyM

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  makeup artists and hair stylists, pee elsewhere

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  For the last two weeks, a Sicilian Redditor named ItalianSausage2023 has been digitizing classic musical SNL performances from their own VHS collection. The audio and video quality's great, better than most copies of these recordings online—if they exist at all. https://www.reddit.com/user/ItalianSausage2023/submitted/

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  20 years ago today.

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  Last week, a Redditor fine-tuned an AI image model on the work of one illustrator, sparking a debate about the ethics of reproducing a living artist's style. I talked to that artist to see how she felt about it, and the person who made it. https://waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diffusion-how-one-unwilling-illustrator-found-herself-turned-into-an-ai-model/