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Interesting article on the cultural biases at work in AI: AI and the American Smile.

YouTube video of a rescue beaver making a Christmas dam. From the description:

This beaver is being raised by wildlife rehabbers after being orphaned as a newborn. Her parents were killed and their dam and lodge destroyed. Beavers are classified as nuisance animals in many US states and can be killed anytime. Beavers need to spend 2 years with their human rehabbers. They need to have lots of opportunities to practice instinctive behaviors. This beaver enjoys playing this game inside the house but lives with the other orphaned beavers outside most of the time. We hope you fall in love ! This misunderstood and unique species needs lots of it!

If you want to make donations towards our wildlife rescue fund, it’s called Woodside Wildlife Rescue. Every penny helps. https://www.woodsidewildliferescue.org

And one more link post. This is a long comment from one of yesterday's Ask a Manager blog posts, in which she asked for creepy/spooky things that have happened at work. If the link doesn't go directly to the comment, ctrl+f ofr "earbuds" then scroll back to the top of that comment. (The comment is about a spooky thing that happened, and how they figured out what was going on.)

Two Twitter threads from Ursula Vernon on Midjourney and how it takes a lot of noodling around to get workable images.

Thread 1: https://mobile.twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1554684156784820224

Thread 2: https://mobile.twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1555017878629486592

If you need a momentary silly break, here's a compilation of text tones as dance moves: on Twitter or on TikTok, as you prefer. You can poke through their Instagram to see the dance/choreography duo Cost n'Mayor work out each move. Found via Metafilter.