WE KICK OFF THE SONGS THIS WEEK WITH What’s FRANKLY The one Mix YOU Need, Perhaps EVER, In the Shape OF OVER 24 HOURS OF (FROM WHAT I’ve HEARD, No less than) Superb TRACKS SPANNING A large Range OF GENRES AND ARTISTS AND ERAS AND WHICH, Honestly, IS Just a Gift FOR WHICH IMMENSE Because of THE People AT DEEK RECORDINGS FOR COMPILING IT! The AI Song Contest is amazingly (to me no less than) now in its FOURTH year, having started in 2017 and then taken a somewhat-irregular strategy to ‘happening annually’, and is based in Switzerland, and it’s, for the following few days, at least, ACCEPTING ENTRIES! Entries shut next week, so you’ll have to get a move on, but when you’ve acquired a couple of spare hours this weekend and, er, a bunch of musical tools, and an honest chunk of at-house compute, and a penchant for algorithms then, effectively, HAVE Fun! This was just a few days after the FTX collapse. A interval might be expected two or three days later. There’s ages left and you’re not going to be able to maintain this stage of discourse up for another three months, unless he really DOES fcuk his sofa.
Whitam, F.L., Diamond, M. & Martin, J. Homosexual orientation in twins: A report on 61 pairs and three triplet sets. Whitam, F. L., and Diamond, M. (1986). A preliminary report on the sexual orientation of homosexual twins. Whitam, F. L., and Mathy, R. M. (1986).Male Homosexuality in Four Societies: Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines, and the United States Praeger, New York. Kornblut, Anne E. “Firefighters endorse Clinton for Senate.” New York Times. With him I can perform the act a number of instances in a night, all the time taking the sexual rôle of a man. Within the again woods of Scotland, Ian’s wife went into labor in the midst of the evening, and the doctor was called out to assist within the supply. Also, many first-time mothers report that their coworkers grow to be increasingly anxious because the delivery date approaches, and it’s possible you’ll end up needing to re-guarantee coworkers that you’re feeling tremendous. Thus masochism and sadism appear as the fundamental forms of psycho-sexual perversion, which can make their appearance at any point in the area of sexual aberration. Ok, not ‘just’ – users with a Chinese electronic mail deal with have had access for a couple of months now (you will have seen a selection of weird and creepy ‘celebrities meet previous variations of themselves’ clips doing the rounds up to now week which if I’m not mistaken uses a model of this that’s baked right into a Chinese app) – but it’s been opened up this week to worldwide customers so anyone in the world can now make upto 6 5-second video clips totally free each 24h. You know the way this works by now – type some stuff, submit it, wait an indeterminate amount of time for The Machine to render your request after which feel a sense of mild disappointment as you as soon as again realise that getting these instruments to output something consistent or that doesn’t go full ‘OH GOD I am ON ACID WHY IS Everything MELTING?
Should any journalists be reading this considering ‘you know, maybe this would make a superb hook for that piece I’ve been longing to jot down concerning the small, inventive web as an antidote to Big Tech Hegemony? ’ which, you recognize, is ok as things go (use of archive material! Historical brand connection! Personalisable and shareable content! AI! Email capture!) but which additionally made me sigh quite a lot inside on the banality of it all (‘Your Face Here!’ is what digitaladvermarketingprmongs have been doing for actually 15 years ffs, can we not do Anything new?) and the fact that it takes about 10m, start to finish, to undergo the workflow, and you must get the end consequence emailed to you for what I assam are inevitable knowledge safety reasons, and tbh what I’m most annoyed about is that the ensuing picture of ‘Matt as a cheery nineteen thirties candy shop owner’ that I requested looked considerably more like Paul Whitehouse doing his ‘Suits You! And, you know, individuals often say teenagers. A lot about this promo by Cadbury’s made me barely unhappy, I should say – not because of the work, which is… Yes, gentle reader, we have a shortlist!
Fraternal twins at all times have separate placentas and amniotic sacs as a result of they develop from different eggs fertilized by completely different sperm cells. Fraternal twins originate from two separate eggs that have been fertilized by two separate sperm cells. Identical twins originate from a single fertilized egg splitting and are nearly genetically equivalent, while fraternal twins consequence from the fertilization of two separate eggs and share around 50% of their DNA. Some are vaguely-interactive-fiction-ish, some, inexplicably, contain oddly-horny verse written by anthropomorphised cartoon golf balls, some meld words and animations in oddly-lovely ways… I’m nonetheless Matt, this is still Web Curios, and you’re as sick as I am of the ‘b’ phrase, don’t pretend you’re not. Crawlspace: Conceptually-adjoining to the HTML Review (see Curios passim), Crawlspace is one other ‘publication’ (we’d like higher words, don’t we? It feels slightly preposterous to discuss with a digital journal as a ‘publication’ – can we coin some sort of neologism? How about…a WEBAZINE??? What? It’s pleasingly-retro ffs, and I assumed we have been all in on 90s/00s fetishism within the 12 months of our Lord 2024?) which operates somewhere at the intersection between phrases and code, and here presents a choice of…