You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
Right? It would be so easy to make this an experiment that’s available, instead of shoving it down everyone’s throats. We could all laugh at the cute fuckups of a vaguely brain-like network that’s been dunked in raw internet. We’d also appreciate the times where it does something cool. We’d go ‘oh that’s why they’re funding this weird new technology,’ instead of ‘wow that’s almost as good as five years ago, before you ruined your central product to hyperfixate on some bullshit metric.’
President Joe Biden is taking fresh steps to help keep gas prices from climbing. For Republicans to see this as “disgusting” and “disgraceful” is bizarre.
The Idiot has never outsmarted anyone. He just does crimes in the open and is politely excused from consequence by a protective layer of corrupt bastards.
He was caught on tape extorting a foreign ally for electoral interference. He was turned in by nonpartisan career diplomats. He was impeached for that fffucking obvious high crime. But then nothing happened.
His idiot son proudly shared the e-mails where his campaign colluded with Russian agents to exchange foreign policy for electoral interference. But then nothing happened.
The FBI found classified documents laying around every room of his mansion - including the fucking pool closet - and we’re still waiting to see if our courts are functional enough to do anything about that.
He’s openly inviting quid-pro-quo bribery, now. Why hide it? Consequences aren’t allowed to happen to him.
I came into this thread to say ‘obviously just tear people a new one for sharing photorealistic whatever of actual living persons,’ but then I got stuck on the ‘whatever.’
Is it illegal for me to paint a public figure, in the nude? There’s contexts where it can be political commentary. There’s contexts where it’s just smut. But do I not have the right to imagine damn near anything and put it to canvas?
I guess we could still treat the push-button version of it differently.
Harm prevention is absolutely part of the government’s job. We just limit it to places where the obstacles are tolerable, relative to the problems they impede.
The issue here is that there’s no chance of impeding a damn thing. And if we’re honest the problem is a fancy version of taking scissors to a photograph and pasting it into a magazine. Reliable punishment after-the-fact is about all we can do.
The ones who were there 47 years ago remember it clearly: Han shot first. But in nearly every version of 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope that you can find today, Harrison Ford’s charming smuggler was a little slow to the trigger in his face-off against Greedo — one of the many changes that director George Lucas made to the...
George, you don’t even own your movie anymore. The mouse bought it for four billion dollars.
Art belongs to its audience. Nobody has a right to censor it after-the-fact - least of all the artist. If you wanted it to be yours alone, you had the choice, and you instead decided to publish. Any control after that is a gift from us to you, and it’s a gift for the explicit purpose of getting us more art.
Matte paintings were used before the dawn of competent computer graphics to simulate a larger/more dramatic/exotic location than can be achieved in a film studio. Paint was directly applied to glass, which then sat between the camera and the actors (leaving a clear section to capture them)....
So… not compulsory then? Or do you just get fined or something? Anyway, earliest policy U-turn of the Conservative campaign so far - will it be their best?
Well, not to repeat myself, but Koi No Yokan is really really good, and there’s a reason millennials cannot shut up about Around The Fur and White Pony.
The Deftones managed to pull off what they were heading toward in their self-titled album, which was deeply iffy back in 2003. Going from Around The Fur and White Pony to the likes of “Good Morning Beautiful” or “Lucky You” was jarring. Even promising tracks like “Minerva” felt unpolished and off-brand. “When Girls Telephone Boys” had the right energy but wasn’t exactly an easy recommendation for new listeners. It’s the kind of song where you think you know the lyrics, and then you read what they’re supposed to be, and you understand even less than you did before.
Saturday Night Wrist captured more of the frisson from their earlier work. “Cherry Waves” and “Kimdracula” in particular. But it’s considerably more relaxed than anything previous. Even seemingly frenetic tracks like “Combat” feel halfway to pop. Diamond Eyes has more of the vibe but less of the polish. It does let parts of each song stand out more. “Command / Control” and “You’ve Seen The Butcher” aren’t great songs, but they understood what was good about them, and let it come to the fore. “Risk” is solid.
They finally nailed it for Koi No Yokan. The first song is so-so - as is tradition - but beyond that it’s just A+ material. Spacious, detailed, bombastic, and like little else. The classic vitriol comes out in “Leathers.” The gentle new stuff becomes “Entombed.” The dreamy frisson evolves into “Rosemary.” It’s unambiguously a fantastic album.
No idea what the fuck happened on Gore. They had it and they lost it. The first track is one of their best songs ever, and then it’s half an hour of ehhh. The album only picks up for some transitions on either side of “Phantom Bride.” For about two non-consecutive minutes, Sergio Vega and Stephen Carpenter get to flex, and then it closes with a track that just leaves you wanting.
Ohms veers back toward the right idea. It’s a lot more 90s than even their self-titled album, between the opening track and the middle run of “The Spell Of Mathematics” through “This Link Is Dead.” Tracks like “Error” are novel, and modern, and clean. Holy shit, the things this band has done to clarify and distinguish all the work they put in. I can’t even listen to 80s wall-of-sound sludge anymore. Better to convey the world’s loudest guitar than a whole orchestra constantly going hard.
But now I want to check back in after another twenty years, because they pissed off the bassist they’ve had since Diamond Eyes. I have no fucking idea what they’re going to sound like next. I might be more interested in whatever that guy does without them.
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
Republicans enraged by Biden’s efforts to keep gas prices lower (www.msnbc.com)
President Joe Biden is taking fresh steps to help keep gas prices from climbing. For Republicans to see this as “disgusting” and “disgraceful” is bizarre.
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George Lucas Explains Why You’ll Never See A 4K Restoration of A New Hope (www.inverse.com)
The ones who were there 47 years ago remember it clearly: Han shot first. But in nearly every version of 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope that you can find today, Harrison Ford’s charming smuggler was a little slow to the trigger in his face-off against Greedo — one of the many changes that director George Lucas made to the...
Imperial Hangar Matte Painting - Harrison Ellishaw (c.1977) 🇺🇸 (www.igorstshirts.com)
Matte paintings were used before the dawn of competent computer graphics to simulate a larger/more dramatic/exotic location than can be achieved in a film studio. Paint was directly applied to glass, which then sat between the camera and the actors (leaving a clear section to capture them)....
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‘No one going to jail’ for avoiding UK national service, says Cleverly (www.theguardian.com)
So… not compulsory then? Or do you just get fined or something? Anyway, earliest policy U-turn of the Conservative campaign so far - will it be their best?
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