Negro Matapacos (“Cop-Killer Blackie”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.
he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.
Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.
His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.
Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.
After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.
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Finally found an example of something AI that is actually interesting and not a degraded version of reality.
Someone plugged the lyrics from Future’s Turn On the Lights into one of these tedious AI music engines to make a version on the style of a 1970s soul track. By itself still pretty cheap and boring.
But since he’s terminally online Peggy found, sampled and chopped that version to make the beat for either on or off the drugs and ended up making something genuinely unique and interesting that wouldn’t really exist without the AI step.
AI is a super fun tool. I am excited for the day when people can smash fanfiction into original works and have it redone as they see fit.
Long before that is fun though companies will find ways to enshitify the process but there is a windows were AI can be a new fun way to interact with media. Just that space is not explored in the discourse and that sucks.
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