Robert Christgau told us about these guys.
And they're doing a residency at MASS MoCA!
A lot of news this week, but I gotta tell you, I just saw something that actually no-kidding shocked me:
AI company unveils avatar app that recreates deceased loved ones in interactive form
…The Los Angeles–based startup, 2Wai, went viral when co-founder Calum Worthy released a promotional video showing how the technology works.
The clip features a pregnant woman speaking to an AI recreation of her late mother through her phone.
It then jumps forward 10 months, showing the AI “grandma” reading a bedtime story to the baby.
Later, the child, now a young boy, talks casually with the avatar while walking home from school.
The video ends with the grown son telling the digital grandmother that she is about to become a great-grandmother.
“With 2Wai, three minutes can last forever,” the video states.
Worthy added that the company is “building a living archive of humanity” through its avatar-based social network. He also wrote, “What if the loved ones we’ve lost could be part of our future?”
I saw the video and I felt like Kurtz in Apocalypse Now when he saw the pile of arms (“I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn’t know what I wanted to do”). I felt like the Monster at the end of The Bride of Frankenstein. My God. What have we become?
Well, not us, gentle reader! If you come across anyone who really wants to make AI Dead Loved Ones, please tell them forcefully that humanity has its back against the wall and however the battle goes we will remember the names of our deserters. We must recognize what’s sane and insane if we are to have any hope of pulling out of this tailspin.
Which brings me to this week’s news! Looks like Epstein’s Ghost isn’t gonna leave Tubby alone. For most of us (and I think this includes normal people beyond the usual liberal circles), the natural reaction is horror and disgust and maybe some nervous laughter, while the MAGA die-hards are cooking up ever stranger defenses.
You probably heard about Megyn Kelly’s “well it’s not like he fucked babies” defense (“she implied, in conversation with NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon, that it wasn’t quite fair to call Jeffrey Epstein a pedophile because he was ‘into the barely legal type’ of minors—which Kelly appallingly defines as ‘like, 15-year-olds’—who look like they could be legal adults…”). Josh Marshall finds Ungar-Sargon working yet another angle as to whoever got trafficked to Trump via the nightmarish
Schrödinger's jailbait! What do you think? Me, I don’t believe Tubby would be satisfied with almost-underage sex slaves when his buddy had the real thing on tap. No sloppy seconds for Donny Two-Scoops! On the other hand, his White House interior decorating shows he’s even less aware of what’s genuine or isn't than the buyers of Trump Steaks and Trump Wines, so who knows. (Ha ha, kidding, he guilty.) (Also ha ha: Now Tubby’s trying a “No pedo, no pedo, you're the pedo!” strategy against the Democrats, with Bondi taking the lead! How long before he tells us that Epstein actually trafficked those girls to Venezuela and that’s the real reason we’re murdering fishermen in the Caribbean?)
Almost buried in Epsteinmania is Tubby and his goons pushing yet again for the ACA-alternative “Trumpcare” -- basically, health savings accounts where, if you get sick and run out of money, you die. But what if they were actually working on it instead of just running old Mises Institute papers through ChatGPT? That’s the premise for the first of this week’s two (2) ROY EDROSO BREAKS IT DOWN freebies. Features some of Trump’s most loathsome associates! AND for the second freebie, speaking of loathsome associates, JD Vance and Steve Bannon discuss what to do about You Know What. Enjoy!
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