Chaos & Amazement #2442 Nobody Cares! the MrBeast of OnlyFans, and Favorite Dance Moves
This week's *Chaos & Amazement* brings a blend of tech updates, cultural quirks, and a few unexpected twists—from OnlyFans stardom to the latest on AI and dance moves you'll want to try out yourself.
Tech News
Fiverr's new AI ad really grinds my gears. While they claim it's "delightfully ironic," many creatives do care about AI's impact on their careers. Also: a musical?!
Emojis are interesting. They are a new, complex addition to our millennia-old efforts to communicate, and they have a social, cultural, and even philosophical story to tell. https://bigthink.com/thinking/everyday-philosophy-do-emojis-help-or-hurt-our-language/
Fresh AI (and some robots too, sorry)
Image-to-song and video-to-song are now possible, bringing us closer to a media world where anything can transform into anything else—an amazing update from Suno AI https://suno.com
Always wondered what New Wave track those upside-down bats 🦇 were dancing to? 👉 https://x.com/suno_ai_/status/1849563704926273620
ElevenLabs has introduced Voice Design, a new AI tool that generates a unique voice from a text prompt alone. E.g. “Create a voice that sounds like a disgruntled potato that has been baked too long.”
I usually don’t think humanoid robots are the best solution, but this one is impressive: Clone’s new android, Torso, uses artificial muscles and has 25 degrees of freedom (DoF) in its hands. This means each hand can move in 25 independent ways, allowing for complex, human-like motion.
Meanwhile Chinese startup EngineAI has unveiled SE01, the first humanoid robot that doesn’t walk like it just pooped its pants. Its push-ups, squats, and overall agility are both impressive and a bit unsettling.
From my blog
People Need People, Not Apps, to Feel Less Alone https://bnox.be/2024/10/people-need-people-not-apps-to-feel.html
OnlyFans and the MrBeast of Adult Content https://bnox.be/2024/10/onlyfans-and-mrbeast-of-adult-content.html
Weird and Wonderful
Future Timeline, a fascinating site that maps out predictions for the future—covering the next century and beyond, even up to the end of the universe.
There’s so much joy in watching this guy learn people’s favorite dance moves.
Tiktok failed to load.
Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browserCasper is really trying hard with that bridge in the Fluffy song:
Tiktok failed to load.
Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser