Gameboy Engineering, Ocean Photography, $16k Robots, etc.
In which I encourage you to find things both strange and surprising.
🔮 In 1974, the Saturday Review asked “some of the era's visionaries for their predictions of what 2024 would look like.” “And the more seemingly impracticable the goal, the more intense the fascination.”
👵🏼 The world's oldest known living person, “a Spanish woman born in the United States who survived well over a century and two pandemics,” has has passed at 117. Tomiko Itooka is currently 116.
🦾 Video: “$16,000 humanoid robot ready to leap into mass production.”
👾 Another video: The brilliant engineering of the original Nintendo Gameboy.
📰 This is not a joke: The Onion is bringing back their monthly print edition for the first time in more than a decade. Picking up issues when I visited Chicago was one of my favorite things in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s.
💾 OpenAI has struck a deal with Condé Nast. “The arrangement gives OpenAI license to display content from Condé Nast brands within OpenAI's products, including ChatGPT and its SearchGPT prototype.” Among their publications: The New Yorker, Pitchfork, Vanity Fair and Wired.
🥛 If you’re ever wondering where to find the best milk to make cheese…
🐋 Oceanic Magazine has revealed the final entries for its Ocean Photographer of the Year competition, selected from over 15,000 submissions.
🧐 “Being on the internet just doesn’t feel as fun anymore. As more of our digital life is driven by algorithms, it’s become a lot easier to find movies or TV shows or music that fits our preferences pretty well. But it feels harder to find things that are strange and surprising — the kinds of culture that help you, as an individual, develop your own sense of taste.” Writer Kyle Chaka on discovering your own taste.
“Write down the albums you like. Google the artists who you like. Read about their biographies. Maybe follow them on Instagram. Maybe see what else they’re thinking about and reading and who they’re listening to. Or if you like an author, read who they are reading and follow the web of connections that they build.”
✌️ That’s all, folks. Go out there and find shit you like. Keep that Hoping Machine running, friends. Talk to ya soon.
Love,
Luke
