DIYPhotography Tuesday October 1, 2024
If you’ve been thinking about photographing an amazing light show, here’s good news: The next 6 months will be the best time to catch a glimpse of the northern lights, notes DIY Photography. But why stop there? You might also want to travel to catch glimpses of the night sky in places where light pollution is less of a factor. DIYP also has a good on planning for such a trip. Don’t forget to check the Bottle scale for light pollution: Bortle 1-2 regions are the a perfect choices for night-sky photography.
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DAZED Tuesday October 1, 2024
Photographer Alice Mann spent four years documenting South African drum majorette teams—a sport, notes Dazed, that remains a vital source of empowerment and community” in the country. A new exhibition of her series “Drummies" at London’s David Hill Gallery (on view through November 30) features 19 photographs, many of which have never been seen.“[Drummies] was done on hundreds of rolls of film,” Mann says. “I’ve got these really thick booklets of all of the negatives. It feels like a shame that so many of them haven’t been seen before.”
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engadget Tuesday October 1, 2024
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), Chairwoman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, and seven of her Democrat colleagues are urging the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department to probe generative AI products like ChatGPT for potential antitrust violations, notes Engadget. In a letter to Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, the group noted that AI products “have significant competitive consequences that distort markets for content.”
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The Washington Post Tuesday October 1, 2024
After battering Florida as a Category 4 hurricane Thursday, Helene dumped historic rainfall on Georgia, the Carolinas and other states, spurring flash flooding and leaving scores of people confirmed dead, with others still missing. The highest death toll was in North Carolina, where flooding wiped out whole communities, notes The Washington Post, which features images of the devastation in that state from photographers including Travis Long (The News & Observer); Melissa Sue Gerrits (Getty Images); and Jesse Barber (The Washington Post).
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