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Ars Technica reviews the new film 'You Can See Everything,' co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, arguing the hyped depiction of Elizabeth Holmes' final days before prison is shallow and offers little fresh insight into the convicted Theranos founder.

1998年洛杉矶时报报道了南加州的BeatDown等LAN派对潮流，玩家们自带电脑通宵联机，探讨虚拟社区对线下互动的需求。

The Verge's Installer newsletter highlights a big week for tech documentaries, including films on Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk, plus new gadgets like the Apple HomeView hub and a Find My-enabled Siri Remote.

影评人评述了 Alex Gibney 执导的四小时马斯克纪录片《Musk》，认为影片将这位科技大亨描绘成现代版的镀金时代骗局操盘手，尽管内容引发争议并招致马斯克的诽谤威胁，但整体像两部截然不同的电影拼接而成。

BBC 的 Ros Atkins 探讨生成式 AI 如何在艺术领域催生『人类溢价』——尽管 97% 的听众无法分辨 AI 生成的音乐，超过半数仍希望作品由人类创作，但这种偏好能否持续仍存疑问。

Luca Guadagnino's new comedy-drama 'Artificial' skewers OpenAI's founders and the AI boom's key players, offering a darkly comic warning about the technology's dangers amid real-world controversy over Amazon dropping the film after its OpenAI deal.

A thought-provoking discussion asking whether post-AGI instant generation of personalized movies, games, and books would erode shared culture, and whether AI itself could resolve the issue.

媒体调查报道了越来越多人回归CD、DVD、黑胶等实体媒介以逃离算法推荐和流媒体服务的不可靠性，凸显消费者对数字内容所有权和隐私的担忧。

The article traces the origins and attribution of the quote 'The only intuitive interface is the nipple,' which critiques the overuse of 'intuitive' in tech interfaces by highlighting that only innate experiences like breastfeeding are truly intuitive, with all else being learned.

A tweet discusses concerns about OpenAI's culture and decision-making processes regarding security, highlighting externalization of costs.

The article explores how Gen Alpha uses 'That's so AI' as an insult to describe things perceived as inauthentic or low-quality, highlighting a cultural perception of AI that extends beyond its technical aspects.

This paper explores calibrated ambiguity as a generative resource in human communication versus multimodal language models, using the Dixit game to show that AI exhibits ambiguity collapse and lacks cultural references compared to humans.

BridgeMind celebrates reaching 100,000 YouTube subscribers, highlighting its role in advancing AI live streaming culture.

An article exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming South Korean society, affecting career paths, dating norms, and broader cultural practices.

This paper introduces ArtECulture, a benchmark for culture-conditioned visual emotion understanding in multimodal large language models, covering English, Chinese, and Arabic cultures with balanced Western and non-Western artwork. Evaluations reveal the task remains challenging, and the authors propose a retrieval-augmented framework to inject cultural knowledge into MLLMs.

A tweet praising a video made by OpenAI employee Jason using Codex, which captures the company's mission and culture.

An interview with Gowanus, a puppet representing the Luddite movement, discussing the Summer of Ludd festival and the growing anti-Big Tech sentiment, especially among Gen Z.

An observation that AI enables small teams to scale revenue exponentially while maintaining culture, creating a new Pareto frontier in business.

Made a 3D appreciation website for Chinese ancient architecture using Fable 5, including the Forbidden City, Potala Palace, Yellow Crane Tower, Temple of Heaven, Great Wall, Fujian Tulou, and Mogao Caves. It will continue to iterate.

This paper argues that NLP research on culture is a material-discursive practice where language models participate in constituting cultural reality rather than passively recording it, drawing on Barad's concept of agential cut.