Links for June

Hello Dear Readers!Here’s a fresh serving of links to tickle you rcuriosity in June: Spike Japan, is an old blog that looks at the decaying and depopulated parts of Japan. Check out this travelogue of Kinugawa Onsen – NSFW part at end: GANBROOD is an artist who makes satisfyingly-ambiguous images with AI. Nat Sarkissian’s flowers are a generative artwork that can “sway in the wind” I hate the idea of NFTs, but I love this hot gushy AI Slop by artist ClownVamp 💗💗💗💗 (here’s a writeup on this art installation) So, I was reading about the battle of Dien Bien Phu, where the Vietnamese broke the French’s colonial dominance over “Indochina”. And this little detail jumped out: The French forces came to Điện Biên Phủ accompanied by two bordels mobiles de campagne, (mobile field brothels), served by Algerian and Vietnamese women. When the siege ended, the Viet Minh sent the surviving Vietnamese women for “re-education”. But of course the French army travels with combat brothels! And they…