It sort of feels like the salute (or sniper check lol) emoji is the emoji of 2022. Anyway, here’s a meditation on its use by departing Twitter employees:
According to Mr. Clowes, the former Twitter engineer, the army of saluting emojis was “probably one of the more tragically beautiful mass people group things” he has ever seen.
[The New York Times]
Thankfully, clever folks like Ana Diaz over at Polygon are here to help. The latest example: this explainer on the bizarre “dabloon” memes that are all over the place.
[Polygon]
I don’t know what this means and I don’t think anyone should ever find out.
James Vincent examines the AI-generated, oddly colored future of art and tries to find answers to important questions like whether or not it’s against the law.
The most obvious suggestion is to license the data and pay its creators. For some, though, this will kill the industry. Bryan Casey and Mark Lemley, authors of “Fair Learning,” a legal paper that has become the backbone of arguments touting fair use for generative AI, say training datasets are so large that “there is no plausible option simply to license all of the underlying photographs, videos, audio files, or texts for the new use.”
BuzzFeed built a digital media empire in part by aggregating viral content from social media. A decade later, what’s next?
Technology needs more buttons and knobs, and Elgato has just delivered some with its new Stream Deck Plus. Loupedeck might have gotten there first, but the combo of knobs, an LED touchscreen, and bigger buttons makes my fingers tingle with excitement. Here at The Verge we are rather fond of the Stream Deck, and we’ll have a full review of the new Stream Deck Plus soon.
