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100 Women of OpenAI

this week I found myself having to examine the default to understand why it has such a hard time generating images of older women. Often, when I try to generate an image of older women or non-white women, I get the message “This generation is blocked as the content is not appropriate.”

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Warmer Climes: Part One

There was a woman who grew a small tree on the side of her head. It was a wonderfully healthy one, with perfectly formed leaves that would sprout in spring, glow in the summer sun, turn a crisp golden brown in the fall, and lay germinating within during winter.

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American Fiction

Monk’s prostituting himself for his art, it turns out, is the very crux of the movie – his failed attempt to make a statement against it drives the hilarity and generates the dark overtones that nearly swallow up the comedy by the end of the film.

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Long Ties

It’s not often that you meet people who make their mark on history. In this case, one performance led to over a decade of meaningful meetings and moments.

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Lowline Young Designer Interviews

A sampling of audio interviews edited for the Lowline Young Designers Program Exhibition held at the Mark Miller Gallery in the Lower East Side, organized and produced by Openbox.

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Paris in Mourning

I’m here in Paris for three weeks, in the city of the spectacle. Everywhere I turn to look, there are splendid sights to be savored -- the grand boulevards, the graceful buildings carved from…

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Freedom Fridays

Yesterday I went to the dentist and the eye doctor, on the last weekday before I start working full-time at my job. Not the best use of liberty, but very practical.

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