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Like IDK how someone can watch that and say "yes this is the same class of entity as the *checks notes* Nike Float in the Pride Parade"

Watching the first ep last night, I was just happy it had stuff like artistic intention in the camera work, there was color and texture in the frame, the acting was well done and supported by the film making, the score was great, the plotting was tight... things that seem like a rare gift anymore

I've definitely been exploiting the moment to Opera Post at my friends.

If I was in LA right now this would be a must see for me www.laopera.org/performances... . Flew down to see it last time they staged it... such a fucking cool experience.

Any two stroke engine yard equipment should be at this point. Just fills the neighborhood with the most grating loud sounds possible, and by their nature two stroke engines spew unburnt gasoline (which means benzene) and oil into the air which, again, can easily fill a small neighborhood.

meanwhile you know what's ALWAYS fucking entitled to make noise? CARS and PLANES and INDUSTRY! Not people!!!!

Like spewing clouds of gasoline/benzene laden exhaust, drowning out the birds with what is probably a chainsaw engine, constantly buzzing around at high revs because it's his hobby.

But he's 1. white and 2. making the noise with an engine so it's socially acceptable vs a black man with a stereo.

We live in a two lane moderately used urban street. There's a dude who drives by during commute that has enough bass to rattle the windows of the house... lasts ten seconds at most

This dude is an endearing saint compared to the neighbor who always races around their unmuffled hobby mini motorcycle

The rapid scramble to exploit this resource, the massive ecological and local economic devastation that resulted in, the manifest destiny mythologizing by the low level oil men all the way up to the super rich who wanted to use this new found thing to reorganize society according to their priors...

Ah, fair.

WRT the 19th century comparisons, there's a great article waiting to be written comparing the US oil boom in the 1800s after the civil war with the current AI tech boom

www.amazon.com/Anointed-Oil...

Why the 19th though? IIRC wasn't one factor in 1600s England's censorship of the press the sheer volume of "crazy shit" being written (aside from the use of the power for cynical self interest, both for institutions and individuals)?

Good summary for the entire Trumpian era tbh

Whether he pulls out or not (I can already see them trying to frame the situation to support selling a hasty pullout as a total victory) the foundational column has already been knocked out warring in the region will continue regardless... weird that the markets don't see that.

My first time hearing about this and seeing that Met has it on demand...

poster for The Unknown Known by errol morris

might be time to rewatch this one

make it a double feature!

That being said, I think coupling that stance with high confidence "social media is harmless for children to be immersed in" type statements seems extremely premature.

Thanks for taking the time to compose an earnest response. I have a lot of disagreements with your points but to concise, I personally do not think that censorship/surveillance, especially when it's coming from this regime, is the answer at all...

Maybe but then again, could be a "big tent" type deal... or both!

Okay if fucking Trump outlasts Bruce Campbell I'm fighting god barefoot in a Waffle House parking lot.

Totally innocent and peace loving Bibi to, idk, anyone else:

Why bother?

complexity, and straight forwardness than what could ever be represented on a social media feed. It's a social activity that we spent hundreds of thousands of years to develop the innate capacity to do well, and no one owned it.

Person to person interaction (say kids at the skate park or just hanging around town) what they do, what they say, how they exist isn't tracked, monetized, shaped via algorithms, doesn't require a license agreement, isn't owned and operated by a for profit corporation, includes far more richness...

are tracked and used to further encourage users to endlessly scroll the feed of low substance thought fragments. It flattens the complexity of the world to what can be rendered on a 2d screen and a pair of speakers. It sets the mental lens through which reality is perceived (as TV did before)...

Social media is a corporate owned/operated product that profits off its users. It's driven by tunable algorithms that prioritize user engagement at the expense of everything else (hence why misinfo and right wing outrage gets overrepresented). Every interaction on the platform, as well as many off..

Agreed. The machine is basically built to feed you endless, disparate thought *fragments*, themselves produced (either cynically or earnestly) to conform to algorithmic expectations (many of which are structural i.e. not just content trends).

Makes 20th music century radio look like longform art.

Sent an image I thought was cool to a friend, then looked closer at it and realized it was AI and felt absolutely icky.

I hate that this is what happens to my feelings with art now. It stops me from just experiencing joy of looking at art and now I have to be suspicious every time I feel something.

someone should compile all of trumps recent quotes about killing, death, and whatnot. He seems oddly fixated on corpses. On creating death. Celebrating it. It gives him a gleeful little smile to talk about it. Whether in boats, or overseas in war, or on a street in MN. He has literal blood lust

Don't forget the "I hate Obama and by extension his deal; I need to solve Iran in a bigger more powerful way to show I'm the better President" angle

So the utility of the LLM products in the military's use case is being a "natural language" front end for doing mass data parsing (along with stuff like large scale OCR, audio to text, facial rec, etc)? Like with the Iran strike they prompt a chatbot with "give me a target that fits XYZ parameters"?