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🔗 Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History

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What happens to the next generation of gullible idiots, when they ask their AI assistant to show them “william morris prints,” and those keywords have already been tainted by the sea of Etsy images? What about when more capable models can create even-more-convincing Morris prints, sans their telltale artefacts and slip-ups? When do the generated images become epistemologically indistinguishable from what Morris created?

🔗 Guidelines for Submitting Unicode® Emoji Proposals

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The goal of this page is to outline the process and requirements for submitting a proposal for new emoji; including how to submit a proposal, the selection factors that need to be addressed in each proposal, and guidelines on presenting evidence of frequency. Follow these guidelines and supporting documents for your emoji proposal to have the best chance of being accepted.

Anyone can submit an emoji proposal, but only a small fraction are accepted for encoding. The Submission needs to be complete and meet the criteria for it to be reviewed. Submissions proposing flags or to emojify existing Unicode characters will not be accepted. If your concept does not require color, consider proposing it as a Unicode character here.

🔗 You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: A collective reading from Alaa Abd El-Fattah's book

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What you can listen to is a playlist of readings from Alaa's book. A kind of audiobook, let's put this way. Through voicing these text, we call for the release of Alaa and by extension, for the for the freedom of all political prisoners in Egypt.

Featuring: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, Abir Kobty, Alaa Abdulatif, Alia Mossallam, Basma Alsharif, Bassem Saad, Doreen Mende, Edwin Nasr, Emily Dische-Becker Haytham al-Wardany & Jumana Manna, Hera Chan, Jasmina Metwaly, Kamila Metwaly, Lama Al-Khatib, Lored Selys, Louis Henderson, Mahmoud Khalid, Mariam Mekiwi, Marwa Arsanios, Nadah El Shazly, Philip Rizk, Salma Said, Sarah Rifky and counting. Audio Editing: Radio Papesse

🔗 مين بيركب عجل في مصر؟ – Who are Egypt’s bicycle users?

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في واحدة من الدراسات القليلة عن استخدام الدراجات في المدن المصرية، إريك باترويات(1) قَسِّم مستخدمي العجل في مصر لمجموعتين أساسيتين (مجموعة أسلوب الحياة ومجموعة الناس القدام)، بالإضافة إلى الأطفال. وبيقول ان المجموعات دي مش منفصلين عن بعض لكن بينهم إلى حد ما تداخل، وإن التصنيف ده بيساعد على فهم خصائص واحتياجات المجموعات المختلفة.ز

🔗 The Illusion of Awareness: Why We See Much Less Than We Think We Do

Looked but failed to see...

This blog post describes the fascinating, recent scientific explanations for why we fail to see things that are right in front of us. Most of the time, it doesn’t matter that we’re failing to see things in front of us. We might sometimes wonder why we just hunted everywhere for our keys, only to find out they’d been right in front of us. But things I’ll describe have some real implications for many aspects of our lives, and are important to understanding how human vision works. In a later blog post, I’ll explain why I think these things are essential to understanding pictures as well.

🔗 Creatables

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Local 3D printing service.

Creatables is a provider of 3D printing service in Egypt as well as 3D scanning and 3D design services. We aim to maximize the utilization of additive manufacturing and other digital fabrication technologies through continued education and R&D in the field.

🔗 Arab Design Archive

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ADA is a non-profit initiative that seeks to enable knowledge production about Arabic design and its history through a framework of collecting, digitizing, and displaying. ADA aims to provide an open and accessible platform for graphic items to the public to counter the parallel, inaccessible, and non-existent physical archive of the second half of the 20th century.