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The Goods—No. 42: Sexist deepfakes, hyperreality fashion and colour witchcraft

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Welcome to The Goods — a curated collection of interesting, weird and wonderful things we’ve been reading, watching or listening to.

Welcome to The Goods — a curated collection of interesting, weird and wonderful things we’ve been reading, watching or listening to.

COLOUR WITCHCRAFT

Poline is a MIT-licensed and open-sourced magical technology that seemingly defies explanation, drawing lines between anchors to produce visually striking and otherworldly palettes. Colour us impressed.

DEEP(LY SEXIST) FAKES

In a recent interview, former model and activist, Jess Davies, talks about sexism and illicit deepfake Ai content, and it's not great. Like, really not great and we’ve been to some corners of the internet.

GET YOUR HEAD INTO THE GAME

We’ve been playing in the volumetric space for a little while, but this live demo from the NBA showing how you can use your phone to augment an avatar of yourself into a streaming NBA game, is next level.

HYPERREALITY FASHION

Watch Agus Panzoni’s analysis of the intersection between fashion, Ai and the macro trend behind MSCHF's latest success, the Astroboy Boots. Who would have thought that Kim Kardashian's prairie photo shoot had so much in common with the most divisive boots of 2023?

DESIGN MONOPOLY

After the shockwaves settled down from Adobe’s mind-boggling 20 billion dollar acquisition of Figma, the DOJ is now preparing a lawsuit to block the deal from happening, citing a monopoly in the creative markets.

STOLEN FOCUS

We loved this Atmos interview with Johann Hari, author of the new book “Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Focus and How to Think Deeply Again”. He talks about the intersection of the climate crisis and attention crisis, and why cognitive (and planetary) degradation will continue if we don’t snap out of it.