So, if you've ever watched me write with a pencil, I rotate the pencil a quarter turn after every word - this is a throwback to drafting class where we learned that kept lines consistent, otherwise you wear down one side of the lead and lines get wider. This pencil does it automatically, every time you lift the pencil, so every letter, it rotates a tiny bit so you're always using the sharp point of the lead. #kurutoga
Happy #caturday from Old Man Chickenbone, who was being very cute sleeping on the couch but when he realized he was being photographed he attacked my cellphone
Weekend #movie: Scott Pilgrim vs The World - I am a sucker for unique visual storytelling - the story of self discovery, wrapped in the trappings of video games, fight movies, comics, theatrical staging, and angsty music, uses those motifs to communicate far more than the script does. This hightened-reality method of storytelling - scenes transition without a cut, hats appear from nowhere - is also one of my favorite techniques too. #cinemastodon
@Bluegrass_Nomad I hadn't seen it before, and I havent read the comic - i know it mostly from memes. There's always a danger of "guys fighting over girls" stories to leave a bad taste but it subverts it without sacrificing the love story. There's some things that are definitely a product of the early 2000s - but apparently there's a TV show remake coming out this fall, it'll be interesting to see how that goes.
More fun from the Elbow Lake MN #policeblotter: turtle rescue!
Motorist Assist: On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at approximately 5:00 p.m., a deputy while on patrol in Erdahl Township located a motorist on the side of the road with their hazard lights on. The deputy stopped and found the motorist to be moving a turtle across the road and did not require assistance.
Every few months I run a Voight-Kampff test on the current (free) #AI image generators, and they continually fail at knowing what a tortoise on its back looks like, so humanity is safe from the androids so far. I mean, you know what a turtle is? It's like that.
@zleap the difference versus a Turing test is that in the Blade Runner world, the "androids" are designed without the ability to have human feelings, and the Voight-Kamff test is designed to test emotional response. So, basically they can pass a Turing test - they can have a normal human conversation - but if you check things like pupil dilation and heart rate when asking them an emotional question you can tell they're not human.