Newsletter - August 1, 2025
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God Doesn't Tweet and God Doesn't Lie
To the Friends of Giraffe

Summer Events
We are delighted to participate in D'Art 2025, the 29th International Conference Information Visualisation - Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences ? Darmstadt ? Germany
"Together Yet Alone", an exhibition in Brno, Czech Republic. Our series "Boys and Their Toys" was shown on 3 screens, with the curator commenting, "I am very pleased with how your work was presented in the end and how it made an impression throughout the exhibition."
Our Electronic Quill article this month is titled "Do You Hotchpotch?" Looking for truth in all the wrong places, I decided to invent a never-heard phrase, derived from a pre-verbal territory of the unconscious.

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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, the new political battleground, armed with bros with dough. Here are a few of the better commentaries, including a blatent admission of failure:
At least 12.8 billion data bits have been scraped to train LLMs, including faces and personal identities; some algorithms can now detect emotions; a not-for-profit organization describes AI as "eating itself and everything else"; counter-arguments, especially recent ones, can make AI abandon facts; AI tries to dominate the browser wars as it scoops up personal data; falling in love with, and even marrying, AI avatars; an imaginary AI band on Spotify is said to be "not quite human, not quite machine, but somewhere in between"; an AI 3D printer makes functional objects from food waste; a look at AI therapy bots; ChatGPT invents a musical object which a company then fabricates; phony algorithms that can convincingly imitate real people and the attempts to disable them; China launches the first autonomous robot football game; a humanoid robot is fluent in 15 langauges and can access 147 more; China rules against blatant copyright violation in architecture; Denmark gives every human the right to copyright themselves; a new brainless robot powered by air.
Now on to other eMusings items:
Anna Ursyn's 4 new books brilliantly bridge the gap between those who code and those who don't; Bobbie Burgers skillfully blends abstraction and representation of flowers; Susan Ressler's new book continues her relentless pursuit of photographic truth; Frei Otto Warmbronn creates a new structural language for architecture; seating furniture changes color when touched; Saya Woolfalk's joyous "empathic universes"; Marwan's face landscapes illuminate the identity crisis of refugees; Henry Orlik's tiny squiggles called "excitations"; a splendid online tour of the Art of the Ancient Americas from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Dustin Yellin takes us on a "Journey Through the Mind of an Artist".
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Remember that earlier eMusings and electronic quill articles are archived online for you.
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yNot: Our Woman of the Month award for August goes to Jennifer Saunders, first woman Director of New York State Museum.
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Don't forget that our outstanding persons are permanently archived on their own page.
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More in Ynot: Denmark is conscripting women at 18 for the army; a woman-toxic network called the manosphere spreads online; an epidemic of anemia in girls and women in South Asia; a wrongly arrested Doctoral student from Tufts University describes her harrowing ordeal; women-only tours are offered; the U.S. is destroying $10 million USD of contraceptives and 500 tons of food meant for hungry children; the International Criminal Court calls for the arrest of 2 top Taliban leaders for persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan; it now appears that male dominance in human populations is not universal; women are twice as likely as men to suffer depression; the scourge of childhood diarrhea across the globe per Bill Gates.
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Giraffe's Site of the Month - Susan Kaprov's exuberant "Landscapes of the Mind".
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!Brazen Hussy - Kezia Harrell's Visual Abundance and Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland at Studio Voltaire.
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New Digital Paintings - More cross-border creatures - "The Gaze" presents the mindscape of now: who is looking, at what, and why? What is her gaze avoiding? How do we define the new gazemaster behind her? What kind of gender bending is going on here? Also "Twice As Nice", Flourishment", "Petals", and "Sorrow".
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New Blobs - In case you missed it, "Invitation to a Wedding", is also available on our front page.
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In 3D print news: cultured meat considers "agricultural sidestream"; self-monitoring thermo-plastics; glow-in-the-dark 3D printing; 3D printing a tiny elephant inside of a living cell; Stractra, an organic futuristic watch; safety measures to take when 3D printing at home; buying and wearing a pair of 3D printed sneakers; tiny machines that assemble themselves; the best vegan breakfast sandwich restaurants in the U.S.
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Wit and Wisdom from our archives: This month: Uncle Dunkleosteus. As Thomas Wolfe wrote, "Nothing lasts except beauty, and I shall create that".

Diversions for Difficult Times:
Who doesn't love good chocolate! Here are 3 of my favorite places: Burdick's Chocolates (thanks to NF); Lula's Chocolates; Xocolatl Chocolate Bar (thanks to DM).
"Grantchester", a British TV detective series shown on PBS, 10 seasons, starring the superb Robson Green with a brilliant supporting cast. Also streaming on Amazon Prime.
If you are looking for a good romp, watch the 1999 remake of the Thomas Crown Affair with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo on Amazon Prime. Fast-paced glamor, glitz, and sex with a side dish of mystery.

Don't forget that we have designed a limited number of pure silk scarves, measuring 36" square and custom fabricated in Canada.
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For the trivia buffs among you: in the first 3 weeks of July, we averaged 6740 hits per day, with a high of 14,839.
Warm regards from your Friend, the Giraffe
c. Corinne Whitaker 2025
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