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July 1, 2025 - Enola Wasn't Gay
To the Friends of Giraffe

Our cover image this month is titled "Ekstasis", from the ancient Greeks, meaning to extend our awareness beyond ourselves.
Brand new this month: We are desgning pure silk scarves, 36" square, to bring you joy in these fractured times. You will find the first 2 in our Boutique, as well as the small AI Portraits on glass.

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Our Electronic Quill article this month is titled "Enola Wasn't Gay", reassessing what happened to younglings and oldsters alike at Hiroshima. Think of enola spelled backwards, as we did in our book called "Alone" .

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Our section called "Other Voices" includes eMusings, yNot, Site of the Month, !Brazen Hussy, and Just Desserts.
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eMusings: AI - Full speed ahead as we plunge into unknown territory with greed as the engineer. Here are a few of the better commentaries:
Google's AlphaFold 3 predicts the interactions and structure of all of life's molecules; Gemini 2.5 Pro panics; China races ahead with humanoid robots in electric vehicles; small bedside device lets you visualize your dreams; Chinese robots move, and then bring back, an entire neighborhood; Anthropic gives Claude its own blog; AI hallucinations make false accusations and write someone out of history; Reinforcement Learning views probabilities and evaluates uncertainties; organs-on-a-chip avoid animal testing and make artificial blood vessels; fast and inexpensive bedside testing of premature babies; "finishing school" for AI algorithms, dating back to Isaac Asimov; anthropomorphic agents can fool people into thinking they are real; the Chicago Sun-Times publishes a reading list with nonexistent books.
Now on to other eMusings items:
Niki de Saint Phalle's exuberant creations; Olga de Amaral, the "textile alchemist"; Angela Fang Zirbes evokes isolation with eerie, haunted interiors; Molly Greene uses rhythmic pastel ribbons to ask what is familiar and what is strange; Chiharu Shiota builds dazzling installations; Jenny Saville. the Body Artist, celebrates women as they are, not as men fantasize; "living tattoos" embellish building exteriors; Biometric Architecture reimagines stadiums around the world.
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Remember that earlier eMusings and electronic quill articles are archived online for you.
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yNot: Our Woman of the Month award for July goes to Hildreth Meiere, brilliant art deco designer.
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Don't forget that our outstanding persons are permanently archived on their own page.
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More in Ynot: Funds are canceled for a University of Hawaii career program to bring women into geosciences and community outreach; "mankeeping" as an unpaid source of female labor; the history of murals ignores women designers; Iran's morality police use AI to threaten and emprison women; the U.N. says the world is unprepared to give women equal rights by 2030; women in skateboarding; the highly-regarded Nurses' Health Study at Harvard Medical School/Brigham Women's Hospital has its federal funding severely cut; outrage in Nigeria for its "No-bra, no-exam" rule for women students.
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Giraffe's Site of the Month - for the first time in 31 years we bring you 3 exceptional sites this month: Rick Rubin combines ancient wisdom with Claude by Anthropic; Dagmar Schurrer's Cyberswamp; and Jacob Adler examines every pixel image ever made.
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!Brazen Hussy - Saskis Colwel's Skin on Skin, and the Rijksmuseum's 200-year-old illustrated condom.
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New Digital Paintings - We quote Andrew Lloyd Webber: "Open up your mind, Let your fantasies unwind, …Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar. And you'll live as you've never lived before".(1) Look for "Tangerine Dreams", "Silence Was A Woman", "If Love Were a Tapestry", and "Passions of the Vine".
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New Blobs - In case you missed it. "Love For Sale". Lonely? Need a sweetheart, a child, a family? Just bring your wallet. The series ia also available on our front page.
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In 3D print news: 3D prints 10 times tinier than a human hair; plant-based codfish on the way; complex networks of blood vessels for 3D printed organs; a 3D printed artificial brain; futuristic 3D printed sneakers; 3D printed leather from apple waste; a new material for 3D printed ceramics that bends under pressure; new inorganic composite glass; specialized performance gloves; plant-based beverages now available in Southeast Asia; a robot that runs on air rather than electricity; inflatable workboots for astronauts; a magnetic 3D printed pen that might be able to identify Parkinson's Disease.
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Wit and Wisdom from our archives: This month: Krepildockerschpe Meets the Fulfulde. Here is how AI views Krepildockerschpe: "The main theme of Corinne Whitaker's book Krepildockerschpe is the exploration of big, philosophical questions about humanity and existence, approached with a blend of wit, joy, and childlike curiosity. The work uses digital paintings and poetic text to invite readers to reflect on the meaning of communication, the invention of language, and the mysteries of being. It encourages multiple readings and personal interpretations, fostering a sense of wonder and openness that mirrors the spirit of playful language creation."

Music Madness: AI generated music, composed in 2018. Think Eastern flow rather than Western linear narrative. Picture yourself on the fringe of an exoplanet, on the cusp of infinity, where rhythm is meaningless and pattern nonexistent. You hear languages that have never been spoken, sounds you've never heard, meanings that have never been probed. Your past has been wiped out and an unknown tomorrow beckons. Let A.I. lead you from today's chaos into the land of Krepildockerschpe.

Diversions for Difficult Times:
Streaming: "Hamish Macbeth", oddball, offbeat detective series with a comedic underbelly. Set in the Scottish highlands, this eccentric detective saga from the BBC will leave you chuckling. As you progress, it keeps its whimsy but turns increasingly darker, with strong emphasis on ethical dilemmas. 3 Seasons, on Amazon Prime.
"The Intern", with Robert De Niro, new on Netflix. When I tire of bombs bursting in air and the rhetoric of hatred, I welcome a charming film like this to wind down. One note: Hollywood seems focused on stories of young brilliant women who lack confidence being MENtored. See also "Hidden Love", and "Grand Maison Tokyo".

Octavio Paz, Nobel prize-winning poet, reminds us that coherence and equilibrium are "the momentary exception" in the random swirl of disequilibrium that is the rule.

A friend writes, "Thank you for Giraffe". Sometimes a bit of kindness is enough to spread sunshine across my entire day.
Warm regards from your Friend, the Giraffe
c. Corinne Whitaker 2025
(1) "The Music of the Night", from "The Phantom of the Opera".

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