LoneLocust

The_Icarian, 21 days ago to random

intransitivelie, 21 days ago to random

What I wanted from AI: hundreds of robot servants to automate away all my stupid, repetitive tasks, leaving me free to pursue the life of the mind.

What I expected from AI: self-driving cars maybe, at some point.

What I got from AI: a wrong-answer machine which steals money from me and is powered by burning the rainforest.

PaulvdVijver, 22 days ago to random Dutch

#Verdwijnpunt | Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal door @robhoeijmakers

taiwanreporter, 22 days ago to random German

Very good read. "That’s what TSMC is really competing with at its Arizona fabs. It’s having to pay a multiple of what it would pay in Taiwan, for workers who are less elite and less passionately committed to the company. This is not an advantage of Taiwanese management or Taiwanese culture — it’s a function of the fact that Taiwan is a less wealthy country than America, and one that has chosen to throw many of its best people into a single national champion company." https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/whos-afraid-of-east-asian-management

daringfireball, 22 days ago to random

Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/24/publishing-ai-slop-is-a-choice

limneticvillains, 22 days ago to random

Stolen from some randomer on Twitter, it'll be better appreciated here.

cdarwin, 22 days ago to random

Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp
A decade ago, a hedge fund had an improbable viral comedy hit: a 294-page slide deck explaining why Olive Garden was going out of business,
blaming the failure on too many breadsticks and insufficiently salted pasta-water!
But – as David Dayen wrote at the time – the hedge fund that produced that slide deck, #StarboardValue, was not motivated by dissatisfaction with bread-sticks.
They were "activist investors" (finspeak for "rapacious assholes") 🔸with a giant stake in Darden Restaurants, Olive Garden's parent company.
They wanted Darden to liquidate all of Olive Garden's real-estate holdings
and declare a one-off dividend that would net investors a billion dollars,
while literally yanking the floor out from beneath Olive Garden,
converting it from owner to tenant, subject to rent-shocks and other nasty surprises.
In other words they wanted to asset-strip the company
("asset strip" is what they call it in hedge-fund land; the mafia calls it a "bust-out," famous to anyone who watched the twenty-third episode of The Sopranos)
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

phxrailfood, 23 days ago to Phoenix

This week's review: Strikethrough name and steamed dumplings on Roosevelt Row
https://phxrailfood.com/2024/05/24/lovebite-dumplings/ #phoenix

benroyce, 24 days ago to ai

this is not #AI

this is not a scene from a movie

this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in #portugal a few days ago, may 18/ 19

fucking amazing! positively biblical

#space #meteor

experts say it was a #comet fragment, a few feet wide

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/blue-meteor-falls-through-the-sky-over-spain-and-portugal/news-story/7bd39d794d6a5e79feade5723e4d4787

amazing meteor video

heavyboots, 24 days ago to climate

Literally nothing except scheduling software could drop cargo ship emmissions by around 20%!?

This needs to be implemented on ALL shipping immediately! With global temperatures continuing to rise dramatically, every little bit helps and this is actually a huge benefit relatively speaking.

https://newatlas.com/marine/blue-visby-cargo-emissions/

#ClimateChange #Shipping

scottsantens, 26 days ago to random

Do not confuse welfare with Universal Basic Income. If you get $1k in welfare does it make sense to take a $1k job, lose your welfare and end up with the same $1k? No.

If you get $1k UBI, does it make sense to take a $1k job and end up with $2k? Yes.

This is why so many pilots show increases in work.

Javier, 27 days ago to random

Saw some text online that made me want to turn it into signage. What good are graphic design skills if you can't have a little fun with them.😜

fusionpatrol, 26 days ago to DoctorWho

This week, Simon and Eugene are looking at the 3rd episode of the 2024 series of Doctor Who with the episode Boom.

They discuss different approaches towards the writing of different writers, faith, and the logic of the landmine with the flashy lights.

https://media.blubrry.com/fusionpatrol/content.blubrry.com/fusionpatrol/685-Doctor_Who-Boom.mp3

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:19 — 91.1MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS

https://fusionpatrol.com/2024/05/21/685-doctor-who-boom/

#DoctorWho #Podcast

LoneLocust, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to Podcast

Talk about silk purses from sow’s ears!

I take my 13yo #podcast episodes, some of which we recorded over Skype and sound pretty janky, run them through #LogicPro’s #StemSplitter, isolate the voices and process them through the #Adobe #EnhanceSpeech tool, then re-integrate it replacing the original voices and it actually sounds pretty good.

AI tools have their place (just probably not as information repositories.)

(Needless to say, I don’t have the original master recordings anymore.)

noondlyt, 29 days ago to random

Dance like no one's filming you on a trail cam.

A young elk dancing and splashing in a small pond in a shaded wooded clearing.

snazzyq, 1 month ago to random

Apple’s attention to detail is INSANE. You can’t watch this and not smile.

xankarn, 30 days ago to random

Justice Alito, you’ll remember, shuns the SOTU, because attending a presidential address sends the wrong message about our independent judiciary.

The bad faith of some people knows no limits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html

janmschnurr, 1 month ago to Taiwan

Fukdup Fried Chicken. They currently have eight outlets in #Taiwan. Pictured is the one in Da'an District, Taipei City.

I have not yet found out if the branding is intentional.

darmato, 1 month ago to random

An embittered former dining critic lays it all out.

I’m not quite there. Yet. But I’m an endangered holdout, and it’s a struggle, man.

https://open.substack.com/pub/haterade/p/nobody-needs-a-restaurant-critic?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

marcelias, 1 month ago to random

🚨BREAKING: Arizona Court DISMISSES Republican lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's Election Procedure Manual. Another big win for win for the voters of Arizona. Another loss for the RNC. https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-2023-election-procedures-manual-challenge-rnc/

musicguynphoenix, 1 month ago to Podcasts

Do you MAKE or GUEST on #Podcasts? If so, sign up for a free CREATOR account over at Podchaser!
Why?
I am so glad you asked. Here's why in 3 mins.

https://youtu.be/MdUPUXmKWsg

musicguynphoenix, 1 month ago to Podcasts

Do you make or listen to #Podcasts? If so, sign up for a free user account over at Podchaser!
Why?
I am so glad you asked. Here's why in 3 mins.

https://youtu.be/03RAJd96DrU

pluralistic, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: AI "art" and uncanniness; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/

#Pluralistic

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taiwanreporter, 1 month ago to random German

It's been more than 5 years since the great documentary "American Factory" came out.

Did no one at TSMC bother to watch it? This reads like falling into the same cross-cultural traps all over again.

Inside TSMC’s struggle to build a fab in the US suburbs http://restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-arizona-expansion/

spocko, 1 month ago to random

Sheep talking about Wolf sign. I COULD say "I am going to be a dictator."
Caption reads "He tells it like it is."