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Where’s no 8 from?

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I was going to use Sam Kriss' description from https://samkriss.substack.com/p/five-prophets but then I used another description of the same story that I had saved from I'm not sure where (I think a tweet that screenshotted a book). Might have to ask google/chatgpt :)

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It must be a short story from Brian Fawcett's Cambodia. See this LA times book review mentioning Tibetan peasants in WW2 Germany: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-11-vw-28-story.html

And this history blog where this story is discussed: https://www.strangehistory.net/2010/05/31/tibetan-soldiers-in-the-second-world-war/

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Serious wtf moment here. I read Sam Kriss's piece and thought he had made up the story wholesale, and even congratulated him on the characterization. You mean this shit possibly really happened?

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Lol yea most of that article was fake, but that particular anecdote was not. He's a master.

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The whole selection is fantastic, esp. the artworks, thank you for sharing.

I've been thinking, particularly about the AI ones, perhaps that's its best application for it so far? I mean to produce visuals that are impossibly hard (or impossible) for a human to make by hand, something weird and unhinged?

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I had a similar thought - I want my AI art to be as surreal and non-human as possible!

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