Creators

In an Instagram post shared shortly after the first presidential debate between Harris and Donald Trump, the star ended the will-she-won’t-she speculation and threw her support behind the Harris/Walz ticket. Interestingly, she cited recent AI-generated fake images of herself:

Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site. It really conjured up my fears around AI, and the dangers of spreading misinformation. It brought me to the conclusion that I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter.

Wildly popular fashion designer Sandy Liang designed a Galaxy Z Flip 6 phone case and sent the device to influencers during New York Fashion Week.

Flip phones are experiencing something of a tech Renaissance among young people. This collaboration hits on the nostalgia and trendy aesthetics — but will it make anyone ditch their iPhone?

Arun Maini and Matthew Perks spent about a year turning a $25,000 88-inch LG OLED TV into a towering functional smartphone running Android skinned to look like iOS.

Inside the phone are eight 50W speakers, 128GB of RAM, and Canon and Sony cameras for taking photos. It weighs upwards of 440 pounds and requires beefy Anker portable batteries to keep it powered.

Back in 2022, LG Display revealed high-resolution displays that can be stretched, folded, and twisted, and now we see them imagined as material that can be used in clothing and accessories.

Korean designers Youn-Hee Park and Chung-Chung Lee have incorporated them into clothing and handbags and will present them at Seoul Fashion Week.

The Department of Justice filed a very redacted transcript of the classified briefing House lawmakers received before passing the bill that could ban TikTok unless it spins out from its Chinese owner. If you squint around the blocks of blacked-out text, you can kind of start to see how the DOJ will likely defend the bill in oral arguments on September 16th.

I’ve always wondered, and Lucas Zelnik has a shockingly simple and good answer:

I think the biggest thing is to stay in front of people’s faces. You just have to put out so much content. Jokes take so long to write. I will put out chunks of material but very selectively, and, frankly, I probably won’t put out any more material until I’m ready to release an hourlong special, which I think I want to give that a few more years.

Matt Denton, a talented engineer and designer who helped bring Star Wars’ BB-8 to life, turned a 33-year-old Lego Technics motorcycle set into a rideable electric bike.

The giant Technic pieces, created on a 3D printer, assemble just like real Lego, although a hammer is occasionally needed at this scale. The bike is strong enough to support an adult, but is occasionally a challenge to steer.

A new study found the number of people working in fashion in the city has dropped by nearly 30 percent since 2014 — just as Fashion Week kicks off on Friday.

The US fashion industry has been declining for decades, but companies like Shein and Temu threaten it even further. I recently discussed the rise of ultra fast fashion on Slate’s What Next podcast.

I’m a big fan of Elgato’s $279.99 Prompter, which doubles as a teleprompter and extra monitor. It’s now even better thanks to automatic scrolling, which will adapt the pace of your scrolling text based on the pace you’re reading from a script. This AI-powered feature is ideal for YouTubers, content creators, or anyone doing a presentation.

If you struggle to understand why so many artists, writers, and other creatives find generative AI objectionable, just read this essay from Ted Chiang. Creativity itself is complex and subjective, but Chiang makes a good argument for why its absence is a notable flaw in AI-generated content.

Here’s one of many thought-provoking excerpts:

The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning.

After announcing last week that it would have to “temporarily cease operations” due to the ban of X in Brazil, popular celebrity-watching account @21metgala — which is apparently run entirely by Brazilian admins — is back, with the caveat that its connection is “unstable.”

Brazilian fans play an outsized role in online fandoms for actors, musicians, and other celebrities.

Brazilian fans of musicians, actors, and other celebrities play a huge role in cultivating fandoms online — and it’s unclear what will happen to stan Twitter (X) now that a judge in Brazil has ordered a ban on platform. A Timothée Chalamet updates account has already announced it’ll cease operations, and I bet this won’t be the only unexpected collateral damage.

You can grab your QR code from the YouTube app. Big year for QR codes!

A reader asked the Denver Post why it hadn’t covered a grisly and salacious 2014 murder in Littleton, CO. It hadn’t, because the crime never happened.

But there it is on YouTube and Spotify, accumulating millions of views with seemingly AI-generated voiceovers and faces. True crime fans say they reported the videos months ago after YouTube recommended them, but they aren’t being removed.

The platform’s Search Visibility Page tells sellers what they should update in their product listings to improve their position in the on-platform search — an important way for sellers to get in front of buyers. That might mean adding a return policy, swapping out a product image, or changing shipping cost.

I have said before, and still firmly believe, that Every Frame a Painting is the best YouTube series of all time. And now, after eight years of silence, it’s back! (Apparently the folks at XOXO this weekend got a preview of the duo’s short film, too, which fills me jealousy.)

BRB watching all the EFAP videos again for the 9,326th time.

Kamala Harris is the latest participant on Track Star, a TikTok game show where players identify a song for money.

Internet shows like Track Star are a new kind of media circuit for public figures. Democrats want these viral moments — and they’re trying hard to make them happen.