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This week’s ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of the Denton Community Food Center—providing emergency food assistance from a central community storehouse to needy families and individuals in the City of Denton and Northern Denton County struggling with hunger insecurity.
Foofaraw will…
The December issues of Foofaraw Zine, Four-headed Foofaraw, and Little Letter of Nonsense are here!
Of course, all stories will be published for free on the web throughout the month, but paid supporters receive a PDF/EPUB with all of the month's stories at the beginning of the month, along with…
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The day is Sunday.
The air is cold and crisp.
But there is still time to vote for us for Chill Subs’ Best Lit Mag Awards.
This week was supposed to be a productive one for me.…
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Read Nicole’s story, Occupational hazards, on Foofaraw now!
Who says I distrust technology? (Just kidding; it 100% started with me…
Hernández was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Bombing boats from Venezuela without any (publicly released) evidence, while pardoning someone who was tried and convicted of doing the exact…
The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.
Four hundred thousand kids dead in less than a year. But hey, the Trump administration saved less than half a…
Incredible animated student short film from France. Produced in a stunning knitted stop-motion animation style to create some beautiful visuals. And if you stick around for the whole thing, it gets pretty deep.
LeCun thinks we need completely different approaches, including what he calls “world models,” before we can talk seriously about AGI. His timeline? At least a decade, probably much longer.
I’m obviously no expert, but I’ve been saying this for years. LLM’s are not a path to AGI or any…
New newsletter that I’m excited for from Manu kicking off in the new year.
Coca-Cola is back with another series of AI-generated ads to herald the holidays — and they look just as bad as they did last year.
What an expensive and ugly ad. People keep saying “ThIs iS ThE WoRsT AI WiLl EvEr bE,” and sure, but also, it’s absolutely terrible…
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