May 6, 2021
Thu. 05/06 - Is This Podcast Cheugy?
Are you cheugy? Am I cheugy? What the heck is cheugy? The more we post photos of ourselves online, the easier it is for AIs to recognize us. But what if there were a way for them to forget our faces? And a useful site that will tell you exactly how long you need to watch any TV show you want.
Are you cheugy? Am I cheugy? What the heck is cheugy? The more we post photos of ourselves online, the easier it is for AIs to recognize us. But what if there were a way for them to forget our faces? And a useful site that will tell you exactly how long you need to watch any TV show you want.
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Links:
- Cheugy: Is New TikTok Slang Aimed at Millennials? (Rolling Stone)
- 'Cheugy' Is Hard to Define But Easy to Identify (The Cut)
- What Is ‘Cheugy’? You Know It When You See It. (NY Times)
- Thu. 08/27 - Why Pumpkin Spice Will Never Die (Kottke Ride Home)
- How to stop AI from recognizing your face in selfies (MIT Technology Review)
- "Can I Binge?" is an excellent single-serving site for managing your TV time (Boing Boing)
- Can I Binge?
- Surprise COVID trend: Doomscrolling moved to desktop (Axios)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
