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joesteel

@joesteel@duck.haus

VFX artist, and nerd in LA. Personal blog: joe-steel.com Podcasts: defocused.co VFX reel: artofjoe.com he/him

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Has the “Straighten” button in Photos ever correctly straightened anything before? Does that need an improved machine learning model?

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Of course it’s a Tesla. Of course.

joesteel,
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@gknauss “I bought you this present to the tell the world how much I own —I mean love! How much I love you!”

joesteel, (edited ) to random
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People famously love to post to Instagram without reviewing the photos or videos or attaching mentions or stickers. Finally, the crushing burden of using Instagram with a smartphone has been lifted.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112486160846497222

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lol
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/22/amazon-plans-to-give-alexa-an-ai-overhaul-monthly-subscription-price.html

joesteel,
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@jsnell I think the kids say "delulu”

joesteel,
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@matt but the rumor is that it’s not even included that way. Just the current version of Alexa.

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My “dos and don’t’s” opinions on presenting“AI” at WWDC based on the messy competitors and the rumors so far.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-dos-and-donts-of-ai-at-wwdc/

joesteel,
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@chockenberry @tvaziri Which is weird because Apple Music will show Recently Played on all devices, you just can’t resume. With the direction the Music app is going though they’ll probably launch a unified playback queue as a single-serving website so it won’t work with assistants or with the app.

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Trent Reznor's tambourine skills are simply unrivaled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qlUFKFHNIU

joesteel,
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@dan which was the style at the time

joesteel,
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@dan zero

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If you ever get the chance to have your Mac run out of disk space and RAM, but say it didn't run out of disk space and RAM, I highly recommend it. You see, the files are managed for you, so you don't have to worry, except when your desktop wallpaper breaks, and you can't quit or launch apps, but under the hood it definitely is taking care of things.

joesteel,
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@dan does that also keep the menu bar from turning magenta

joesteel,
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@dan finally, a way to personalize the interface

joesteel,
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@agiletortoise @dan I don't think my boss would like that

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@dan wow and it made your timeline really low res and blocky too

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Yeah, one person at a desk with an AI slot machine to “create brand-aligned images”, video, as well as process all the conversions and analytics. What a dream, what a treat.
https://youtu.be/AAyXT7V8-cw

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Hellblade II is staggeringly beautiful, I’ve never seen anything like it

A screenshot from Hellblade 2: Senua is choked by an enemy
A screenshot from Hellblade 2: Senua walks through a forest path
A screenshot from Hellblade 2: Senua’s face emerges from water with just her eyes above the surface

joesteel,
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@BenRiceM that is one hell of a temple/forehead vein

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In the Six Colors Discord last Friday I talked about how the obvious move was to put promotions in the AI output, just like promotions above search results, and I didn't even have to wait a week to be proven right.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-ai-overviews-ads/

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-trek-movie-franchise-reboot-paramount-1235904930/

Hrm.

Interesting choice. I can think of a few other people who have some Trek experience that might be able to produce a Star Trek film, but ok.

I'm sure up at the top there's totally different chiefs in charge of TV versus film and they don't interact with each other at all and don't want to. It's a bummer.

joesteel,
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@virtualbri this is all very disappointing

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Squarespace only allows blog export to Wordpress. 😐

joesteel,
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@nickheer @keenan For what it’s worth, many years ago I used Pelican (which is it’s own static site generator) as an intermediary for getting posts out of Tumblr as markdown files. I didn’t want to use Pelican as my blog, but it spat out all the files for me and handles all kinds of operations (why it seemed like overkill). I’m procrastinating on doing this again for my SquareSpace account, but it’ll be the route I try first. https://docs.getpelican.com/en/latest/importer.html

ry, to random
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Passive voice

joesteel,
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@ry but not Scarlett Johansson’s voice, amirite

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In any given situation, you can be sure that Sam Altman will carefully think through any potential societal, legal, and moral outcomes.

And then ignore them to see what he can get away with.

joesteel,
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@gknauss You would deny him exactly what he wants no matter the consequences? So selfish of you, Greg.

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Folks, I'm beginning to suspect that incredibly problematic, monomaniacal, libertarian tech-bros running companies is potentially a bad thing.

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Well at least no one did a public event boasting about their deep integration with OpenAI today.

joesteel,
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@dan Yes, I'm sorry, but ScarJo is taking you to court.

joesteel,
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@dan Are you sure you want to do that? With your back? You should just settle.

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