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Will Your AI Ghost Pay Your Debts After You Are Dead?

31-05-2024 21:32 via thestranger.com

"The growth potential is endless, endless, endless."by Charles MudedeThe word on the (virtual) street is that AI has transformed the science fiction of digital ghosts into a reality. The technology can, it is claimed, convincingly imitate those who are no longer with us, the living. Their afterlife is provided by "re-creation services." They are called deadbots (or griefbots). They can interact with and send emails to those who are stuck in the time of the departed, which is, of course, the past

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Ticket Alert: Justice, Dwight Yoakam, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

31-05-2024 18:45 via everout.com

Plus, Ellen's Last Stand...Up and More Event Updatesby Audrey VannFrench electronic duo Justice will make you D.A.N.C.E this fall in support of their forthcoming album, Hyperdrama. Country music legend Dwight Yoakam has also announced a stop in Everett this July. Plus, legendary bully Ellen Degeneres will drop by on her Ellen's Last Stand...Up tour. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus some news you can use.
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The From Far It All Seems Small Comp Defines a Healthy Portion of Seattle's Rock Scene

31-05-2024 18:45 via thestranger.com

The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox this week.by Dave SegalTV Star, "Ride" (KR Records)
Supercrush, "Lost My Head" (KR Records)
The desire to curate scene-defining compilations has existed in Seattle since at least 1988's Sub Pop 200. Nearly 30 years later in 2017, Crane City Music spotlighted the Emerald City's underground hip-hop movement with Solar Power: New Sounds in Seattle Hip-Hop. Now, Supercrush member Mark Palm's KR label is releasing From Far It All Seems Small, a 14-tra

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UW President Provides “Proof” of Antisemitic Graffiti … from Out of State

31-05-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com

While it does not appear Cauce will retract her accusations against the protesters, this latest episode shows students will continue to push back on UW administration with or without tents on the ground.by Hannah KriegProtesters from the recently disbanded Liberated Zone call on University of Washington (UW) President Ana Mari Cauce to retract her statement describing their chants and signs “vile and antisemitic" after she used photos that appear to be from Florida and California as proof

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Slog AM: A No Good Very Bad Day for Trump, Boeing Coughs Up $11.5 Million in Worker Back Pay, Dave Reichert Brings Gun to Seattle Times

31-05-2024 17:40 via thestranger.com

The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamYou've already heard this news: The 45th president of the United States is now a convicted felon, found guilty on all 34 charges in the hush-money case, actions that influenced the outcome of the 2016 election and altered the trajectory of our cursed little country forever. By now, your liberal family members have finished their gleeful texts, your conservative family members have exhausted their fingers from all their furious Facebooking, an

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