squidsoup

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by squidsoup 22d ago
Isn't film photography verifiable with a physical negative? i.e. you could verify a digital reproduction of the analog photo by comparing the digital image with the negative. Tedious, but sound?
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by squidsoup 1mo ago
That doesn't change the fact that its an iconic American brand, directly associated with American culture and design.
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by squidsoup 1mo ago
Heads should be rolling at Ray-Ban, they've permanently tarnished an iconic American brand by aligning themselves with big tech.
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by squidsoup 1mo ago
The majority of artists abhor AI, this is a particularly bad example.
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by squidsoup 1mo ago
> I just want cool pictures hanging on my wall. That's decoration, not art. > Now every person can make satisfying music. It’s incredible and amazing and should be celebrated because suddenly everyone can participate. No one shou
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by squidsoup 2mo ago
Greek mythology is full of sex, and the Odyssey is no exception.
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by squidsoup 2mo ago
> "The Odyssey features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality". A pretty succinct summation of Nolan as a filmmaker.
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by squidsoup 2mo ago
It's a pity that Apple neglects its creative apps. I've been working on a video project using Motion recently, and while not as capable as After Effects, it's pretty serviceable and with some love could be excellent.
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by squidsoup 2mo ago
Very impressive. How are you managing to produce such a clean model without artifacts?
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by squidsoup 2mo ago
Nonsense. Ray Harryhausen's work today is still incredible, by any standard.
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by squidsoup 2mo ago
Please stop using AI for creative work. This is utterly abysmal.
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by squidsoup 2mo ago
> That's because sandboxing is quite hard colima makes it pretty easy, on macOS and linux at any rate. https://colima.run
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by squidsoup 2mo ago
> Dammit! I live in Europe and the cyber truck isn't even available here.. Europeans are notorious for their good taste.
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by squidsoup 2mo ago
The thing about meditation is, if you're doing it, there is no "you" that it is either good or bad for.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
> Optimism in general is out of fashion, and pessimism is pervasive. Hardly surprising given we are not collectively making sufficient change to avert climate disaster. There’s no negative bias or spin there - the majority of climate sci
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
> It's actually not so hard for me to just not take part in social media Unfortunately that’s not quite as easy for people in creative professions that must now use social media to promote themselves and their work.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
OpenStack already exists
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
Photography also works, or hell you can even photograph birds.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
What you're describing is really why the Backrooms is resonating with the kids today - the homogeneity of an environment and culture devoured by capitalism.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
> That the dogs are just about always subordinates and subservient makes the relationship easier to work You've clearly never lived with a border collie.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
It is much more than that, egalitarianism is fundamental to French culture.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
I guess software licenses are meaningless now since anyone can decide their llm clone is not derivative.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
Yes, there’s a huge market in the UK, Australia and New Zealand for low quality tea.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
India, China and Japan are the largest markets for quality whole leaf tea. Tea bags contain fannings and dust, the lowest quality byproducts of tea production. Try a single estate TGFOP and you’ll never want to drink tea from a bag again. C
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
People still use tea bags even though what they contain is a byproduct of tea production and barely counts as tea.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
Capitalism subsumes all culture, even counter culture, destroys its essence and commodifies it.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
UC Berkeley just banned the use of AI for conceptualising, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing student work.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
> LLMs to drive NPC dialog Far more interested in dialog and characters developed by a writer - simulation is boring
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
It doesn't matter under Capitalist Realism, the banks were bailed out, the AI companies will be bailed out, and you will pay for it. There is no alternative.
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by squidsoup 3mo ago
> I think a great example of what probably will happen is found in Suno, the AI Music thing. I don't know if y'all have tried it, but it now produces really good stuff. Suno doesn't make music, it makes simulacra of music.

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