virtualbri

virtualbri, 6 days ago to cars

Ok so…
1: 4pm Tire blows out in off city area of LA.
2: New spare doesn’t fit.
3: Wife calls 30 min service place pay $400 for new tire and install
4: 60 minutes later they say “another 60 minutes.”
5: Another 60 minutes, guy arrives in Prius with used tire.
6: Used tire doesn’t fit
7: Guy leaves with blown tire to buy new one
8: It’s past 7pm all the local stores are closed
9: He calls to say he is “going downtown” to get a tire, will take 50 minutes.

🫠 #Cars #Repair

radicalrobit, 11 days ago to random

honestly feel like I'm losing my fucking mind reading this shit. how does this make any fucking sense? you send an AI bot to a video meeting you're not attending where presumably other coworkers will also send their bots?????? to what fucking end? what is the point of this? why are we having NPCs video chat with eachother? what gets done with this? what is the purpose? how is this not just a fucking email? is this what jokerfication is? this doesn't make any fucking sense!

noellemitchell, 7 days ago to movies

Sony Will Use AI to Cut Film Costs, Says CEO Tony Vinciquerra

"“We are very focused on AI. The biggest problem with making films today is the expense,” Vinciquerra said at Sony’s Thursday (Friday in Japan) investor event. “We will be looking at ways to…produce both films for theaters and television in a more efficient way, using AI primarily.”"

Wow. So I expect the quality will go way down.

#movies #film #AI #tech #news #media #press #entertainment #cinema #tv

https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/sony-pictures-will-cut-film-costs-using-ai-1235010605/

virtualbri, 7 days ago to Dogs

Get smart dog automatic throwing machine so you don't have to throw by hand for an hour to him and can try to do other things.

Teach smart dog to use it.

Realize smart dog knows how to use it, and can use it, but only wants to use it if you put the ball in for him.

#dogs

arstechnica, 8 days ago to random

How to build a DOA product: Humane AI Pin founders banned internal criticism

Questioning the design and dev progress was apparently "against company policy."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/report-humane-ai-pin-did-7-million-in-sales-wants-to-sell-for-1-billion/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

verge, 8 days ago to random

Tesla CEO Elon Musk could leave if $56 billion pay package not approved, shareholders warned https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/24173064/tesla-board-chair-warn-elon-musk-leave-pay-shareholders

virtualbri, 5 days ago to scifi

Just stared "Service Model" from Adrian Tchaikovsky. Best to go into it knowing nothing. It's hilarious, and not at all what I was expecting after reading some other Tchaikovsky books.

#SciFi #Books

virtualbri, 8 days ago to random

Late Capitalism

virtualbri, 5 days ago to politics

Reading about French EU elections.

#EUElections #politics

StillIRise1963, 9 days ago to random

Are white Americans going to elect a nazi?

virtualbri, 6 days ago to random

There is nothing quite like getting your spare tire out for the first time and discovering it doesn’t fit.

I don’t even know how that’s possible.

I mean it came with the car….

virtualbri, 6 days ago to random

There are still places deep in the middle of Los Angeles where you can blow a tire and be in the middle of nowhere.

I am at one of those places.

virtualbri, 8 days ago to random

This is one of those days you smell a coconut flavored sunblock and you need to be anywhere but inside

virtualbri, 8 days ago to random

80th Anniversary of D-Day, the kind of planning and sacrifice for good Americans are entirely incapable of today.

#DDay #USPol

JoshuaHolland, 10 days ago to random

Obsessing over the polls is pointless. These people are going to pull out all the stops to steal this election. #maga #fascism #Election2024

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-think-tank-lawsuit-election-officials-refuse-certify-results-1235032235/

virtualbri, 12 days ago to random

Thanks to @lauren pointing it out, I'm enjoying "The Andromeda Strain" again, (free on YouTube with ads). It's one of those peak 70s sci-fi films; everyone should watch. Very 70s, but also very hard sci-fi, both in the best ways.

And once you're done watching read: https://theasc.com/articles/the-andromeda-strain-may-1971 which is a great article about all the special care taken to make the movie.

TheSpaceshipper, 10 days ago to random

Nicholas Meyer's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was released 42 years ago today.

With one of the best space battles around.

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virtualbri, 10 days ago to scifi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzY2r2JXsDM

Woah.

As a UCLA student I was brought in for a test screening of Alien 3 (they got students all the time), which I thought was terrible, and I haven't watched the sequels since.

This I may watch.

#Alien #Scifi #Movie

virtualbri, 10 days ago to random

Sorry, way too late for that sale.