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Missed out on seeing the northern lights? Meta has you covered

Feedback was feeling left out after failing to see the recent aurora borealis, but was delighted to find Meta providing an AI-generated version. Definitely absolutely just as good as the real thing

23 October 2024

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Josie Ford

The 17th Feedback

Feedback is feeling peculiar. The mood swings are even more drastic than usual, to the point of constituting a whole new personality. It is as if, like a Time Lord, Feedback has taken an insufficiently homeopathic dose of strychnine and been forced to regenerate into a whole new body with a radically different mind.

One immediate mood alteration is that Feedback is now suffering from severe FOMO. Specifically, we have the FOMO that comes of living slightly too far south to see the recent aurora borealis displays. Happily, those selfless people at Meta (owners of Facebook, Instagram…

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