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An art critic reviewed TikTok’s most-followed visual artist, spawning a parasocial pile-on: the original review is worth reading, a thoughtful and nuanced take that makes the subway artist's reaction even more bizarre https://news.artnet.com/opinion/devon-rodriguez-parasocial-aesthetics-2380960

Epic Games sells Bandcamp amid 16% workforce layoff: definitely worried about the future of the singular indie music platform, a lifeline for many artists https://pitchfork.com/news/epic-games-sells-bandcamp-amid-layoffs/

snes.party: play SNES games with instant online multiplayer in the browser; also: nes.party https://snes.party/

Hacker legend Kevin Mitnick, dead at 59: Free Kevin https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668

The Free Movie: MSCHF made a site to "crowd pirate" a hand-drawn frame-by-frame recreation of The Bee Movie https://thefreemovie.buzz/

b3ta’s Expand Art image challenge: "help us to grab the AI by the Jackson Pollocks and expand classic works of art to show how it should be done" https://b3ta.com/challenge/expandart/popular

Employees begged Google not to launch Bard AI: a "pathological liar" that's "worse than useless" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-19/google-bard-ai-chatbot-raises-ethical-concerns-from-employees

Copyright lawsuits pose a serious threat to generative AI: for his new newsletter, Timothy B. Lee wrote a great overview of the complex fair use questions at the heart of the Stable Diffusion lawsuits https://www.understandingai.org/p/copyright-lawsuits-pose-a-serious

Lander: perfect little browser-based Lunar Lander clone, add flips for a higher score or try getting the most spectacular crash https://ehmorris.com/lander/