Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 93. Sunrise is 5:16 and sunset is 8:37, for 15 hours, 20 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 19.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 2006, Pluto‘s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.

As filmmakers, we’re fascinated by how humans use cameras and by the immense influence images have. For 15 years, we’ve investigated the history of the camera, and we’ve turned the material we gathered into a feature documentary, chronicling how people behind the camera went from capturing the image of a backyard to today’s multibillion-dollar content industry.
The video above, “Death of a Fantastic Machine,” is a shorter version of that documentary, and here we focus on something that emerged as the key factor: how economic forces have shaped what we see, from the earliest photography to the algorithms and A.I. of today.
Some say there are an estimated 45 billion cameras on Earth today, giving humankind access to perspectives far beyond our own reach. But the very tool that could help us understand the world is increasingly used to distort it. With A.I., this distortion has reached a new level.
When any photo or video can be manufactured, what happens to the camera’s credibility? Can we still trust what we see?
A kelp gull, typically found along coasts in the Southern Hemisphere, is frequenting the roof of a building along the Milwaukee’s Lake Michigan shore: