Midjourney Exports CCP Censorship
Midjourney is a relatively young company that runs software to generate images from text. It generates these images after training on images created by real human beings. We need not rehash the issues...
View ArticleThe NCCIH’s AI-like melatonin-COVID note
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health is a component of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which in turn is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The...
View ArticleESPN States Tim Duncan was “Born Overseas”
I saw that the Denver Nuggets won their first NBA championship last night. I have been somewhat out of the NBA loop for several years, but I used to watch quite a bit. The first full season I followed...
View ArticleAgainst camping in ATM vestibules
New York City has a problem with apparently homeless people sleeping in ATM vestibules at night. (I have been led to understand that we are supposed to say “unsheltered” or “unhoused” these days....
View ArticleMafia Social Media Over-Sharing
New York City’s Five Families, hereafter referring to the five major Italian-American Mafia families, Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese, have seen better days, with better days defined...
View ArticleBasquiat Forgeries Made With Alarming Ease
On April 13, 2023, Mr. Christopher Parker of Smithsonian Magazine published a report titled California Man Admits to Helping Create Fake Basquiat Paintings. I begin by noting that I am not a scholar...
View ArticleAgainst “Experts Say” Headlines
On December 26, 2020, I published an essay featuring my proposals for reforming the fact checking industry. My main critique of the fact checking industry was that so-called fact checkers have a...
View ArticleOn Russia’s and China’s Self-Awareness
Current events are often dark. But nefarious actors in the world can bring a ray of sunshine to terrible affairs with their ability to make public statements with authoritative disregard for their own...
View ArticleSearching for the “Libertarian Moment”
This essay is going to lead into a joke about libertarian moments. But before I can deliver the punchline (and syllogism), we must first wade through the history of the libertarian moment. What is the...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Ronald McDonald?
Justin and Justina are two (fictional) similarly-named and unusual friends who live in New York City. Together, the make up The New Leaf Journal’s resident dialogue duo, bringing readers their...
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On Review Scoring Systems
I have published many reviews at The New Leaf Journal, most notably of visual novels and anime series. Readers may have noticed that I have not, to date, published numerical scores or rating labels,...
View ArticleProvocative Out-Of-Context Headlines
I subscribe to the Nintendo Life site RSS feed. Today I found an article with a provocative headline in my feed reader: Players Need To Start “Feeling Comfortable” With Not Owning Games, Says Ubisoft...
View ArticleBad New York City Branding on Social Media
The X account of New York City Mayor Eric Adams put out a peculiar X about the dreadful situation in Haiti. I quote the X as it was reprinted in a New York Post article: We call New York City the...
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