Mashable Friday July 7, 2023
Major League Baseball will be launching a virtual stadium for the celebrity softball gameduring its All-Star Game festivities on July 8. It's basically a stadium in the metaverse and a small dip into the digital community space for MLB, though this isn't an immersive experience like you might get one day with something like Apple's Vision Pro, notes Mashable: It’s basically a website where you can wander around a digital stadium with an avatar, play some mini-games. "When you hear the crowd roar, it's not a canned thing. It'll actually be the other people present," MLB exec Kenny Gersh.
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MY MODERN MET Friday July 7, 2023
For the past decade, the photographer and activist who goes by the name Suitcase Joe has documenting the disenfranchised living in Los Angeles’s Skid Row. “At first, I just wanted to photograph all the people living in Skid Row. I thought about what the photos would look like to someone seeing them a hundred years after I took them,” he tells My Modern Met, ahead of the publication of is second book, Grey Flowers(Burn Barrel Press). Now he writes down the conversations he has with the homeless.
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The New York Times Friday July 7, 2023
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long wanted to dislodge Twitter and provide the central place for public conversation online, notes The New York Times. He’s made his move at last: As we noted earlier this year, Meta has been working on a Twitter-killer app, and now the app, called Threads, has been launched. Within hours of its debut, the app announced 10 million sign-ups, reports The Guardian. Zuckerberg says his app will one day eclipse Twitter. “It’ll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1bn+ people on it,” he noted.
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Audubon Friday July 7, 2023
We recently spotlightedsome of the winners of the 2023 Audubon Photography Awards. But now you can view different versions of the images: The National Audubon Society approached the winning photographers and asked them to briefly describe their photos to “someone who can’t see the image.” Audubon then used those descriptions to create new images with the AI image generator DALL-E. In an explanatory article, Photoshelter chairman Allen Murabayashi warns that AI technology poses “fundamental questions” to wildlife photography.
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