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April 1, 2024
To the Friends of Giraffe:

Our cover image this month is named "Free to Do As We Desire", one in a series whose titles are taken from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. We stand on the shoulders of yesterday. We are the shoulders of tomorrow.

Let's start April with a bag full of goodies. "Yotta and the Popinjays", a parallel world that I and AI have conjured up for you. You didn't really expect me to pick a boring name did you? What fun is there in that! You'll find it right on the front page.

Our Electronic Quill article this month is titled, "Dancing the Slango". We look at governing mushmouth nonanswers, AI as a foul-mouthed narcissist, the absence of boundaries, and a species that is running out of time.
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Our section called "Other Voices" includes eMusings, yNot, Site of the Month, !Brazen Hussy, and Just Desserts.
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eMusings: AI has captured the newswires. Will we all be captives as well? Here are some thoughtful links:
Hidden (and overt) biases in LLM's; a 4-legged robot conquers untaught obstacles; Devin, the world's "first AI software engineer"; Sora generates videos; re-using the same character in multiple images; self-healing robots; H1 from China is said to "exhibit near-human levels of comprehension… [for] complex tasks"; Genie can create AI video games, sort of.
In other eMusings treats: Black Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in London; "Unit" follows a single dancer through space and time; an extensive survey of Willem de Kooning; "Speak to the Eye" from the late Vera Molnar; a new biography of Keith Haring; Anna Samat's totemic works based on Pua Kumbu weaving and dollar store finds; Edward Burtynsky's large-scale photographs of environments; "A Cacopny of Rocks" derived from Chinese mythology and Taoist traditions.
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yNot: Our Woman of the Month award for April goes to Sarah Chapman, first woman to lead a labor strike.
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Don't forget that our outstanding women are permanently archived on their own page.
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More in Ynot: women in the Middle Ages found ways to express their feelings; a partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory and a college in Durango, Colorado, brings indigenous women into nuclear physics; the first American woman to sail solo nonstop around the world; 10 groundbreaking queer women; the mental and physical benefits of strength training; watching fetuses grow without harming the fetus; the world's largest bullfighting arena is set to re-open, with female matadors as well as male; the "Flying Feminist"; debunking the myth that the Roman Army was all male; the profound influence, often unacknowledged, of women architects; the few women who excel in audio technology.
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Giraffe's Site of the Month - Fluid Forms -watch them created in a fascinating video.
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!Brazen Hussy - a belated tribute to Pussy Riot.
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New Digital Paintings - AI and I welcome you to "Once Upon Tomorrow", with "This is No Fable" and "Discreet in Conversation".
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New Blobs: the new face of sculpture, here for your viewing. "It's Complicated" - tell me what you see!
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Have you ever seen galloping turnips? Listen to them now in an AI composed musical jamboree from 7 years ago.
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In 3D print news: recyclable houses; fully biodegradable wood; a slithering snake robot to help out in disasters; sub-sea stations for 656 feet under the oceans; a 4D Knit dress with heat-activated yarns; the world's first 3D printed windpipe is surgically implanted; the world's first double hand transplant; Uni Mostro, Puma's 3D printed shoe; CRISPRed pork coming to supermarkets; 3D printed skin that can grow hair (in rats, anyway); 3D printed eyes; a new light-weight material for rocket or airplane parts; reptile and amphibian vertebrate skeletons soon to be available for 3D printing, direct from museums to you.
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Diversions for Difficult Times - all from Netflix. In protest I will no longer watch amazon prime.
"Divorce Attorney Shin", family and friendship, heartbreak and compassion, with doses of humor and charm. Superb ensemble. It takes a touch of genius to pull this off under the rubric of divorce, but they do it. I really want to adopt the Korean custom of slurping noodles and drinking soup from the bowl. Rotten Tomatoes gives this one 5 stars and I agree.
"Into the Beat" - Don't watch it for the story, or for the plot. Watch it for the ferocity these young street dancers bring to the screen, their passionate dedication, and the extraordinary choreography.

Editor Geoff Davis has just published volume 2 of AI Anthology, available as a free pdf to download. Whitaker's "Let Us Prey", a frontispiece, was described as "a significant image - AI as alien intelligence (like cephalopods - but 'chatting' with us) and angelic (as inspiring / metaphysical), and a book too."
Thanks to GS for this quote from Alexander Hamilton: "When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour - known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty - when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity - to join in the cry of danger to liberty - to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion - to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day - It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind'".
With warm regards from your friend the Giraffe.
c. Corinne Whitaker 2024

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