Considering there is no ongoing revenue stream, how much money would it really take for AMPAS, VES, ILM, or *someone* to just buy the rights to the whole schmeer and make the pdfs available to the world as an important historical record of that era of VFX history?
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
Are claims to be filed by authors, or by copyright holders (usually the publisher)?
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I've spent my career working on rendering for film, and I'm here to tell you that I have also seen my fair share of 0 and 1 being used in the heat of battle. And some other constants I'm not sure I should mention.
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OpenImageIO can do it.
SIGGRAPH 2025 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2025/08/15/s.... I'll be adding more soon. Let me know if I'm missing anything.
Congrats! The only one I missed in the last 36 was in 2006, the week after my son Jack was born. This year, he is attending for the first time as a student volunteer! It goes by so fast!
Don't forget to register for #ASWF Open Source Days coming up Aug. 10-11 in Vancouver and virtually!
Keynote speakers this year include the filmmaking team from the Academy Award®-winning ‘Flow,’ as well as LAIKA Studios. Learn more at hubs.la/Q03z_PtC0. #SIGGRAPH #opensource #vfx #animation
A 1966 NSF grant of $80,000 finds totally unexpected “thermophile worms” living in Yellowstone’s hot springs. The discovery sits on a shelf till 1983, before becoming key to the development of PCR genetic testing.
Invest in basic research. @radiolab.bsky.social
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The statute she quoted talks about audits but the question she asked is about terminating tax exempt status. I wouldn't know how to answer that question, either. I sure hope the answer is that it's illegal, but I don't see how that's established by the quoted passage. What am I missing here?
but there are no federal or State laws prohibiting the principles of DEI,"says the letter.
The NY dept says it already follows civil rights laws, including Title VI.
