Linda Tirado, 42, “is at life’s end and receiving palliative care”, the National Press Club said in a statement last week.
Tirado was photographing demonstrations during the 2020 unrest in Minneapolis when a police officer shot a projectile at her face. Tirado, who was wearing protective goggles and press credentials, suffered a traumatic brain injury and was blinded in one eye. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/24/linda-tirado-journalist-shot-police-protests-hospice
24 June 2024 @ 5:37 pm
For four decades now I've felt the growing contempt that technologists and the technology establishment have the the arts and artists. They HATE us. But they're more than happy to appropriate the work of artists and writers for free, a tacit admission that technology needs the arts.
24 June 2024 @ 4:01 pm
Murati said that generative AI is going to make people more creative and will “make our creativity expand.” This is a common line in the pro-generative AI world, such that it’s now central to a campaign by a tech lobby group to ensure training AI models on stolen work is considered fair use. “Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place if the content that comes out of it is not very high quality.” https://disconnect.blog/roundup-openai-says-some-artistic-jobs-shouldnt-exist
24 June 2024 @ 3:59 pm