I’ll let you know when it happens… /s

Just kidding. I’m not THAT big of an asshole.

Tweeter and the Monkey Man - The Headstones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLEvl_uplUk

Tsukomogami and Patina: In Praise of Old Things

It’s the concept that old mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses (for example) all age individually. They develop their own quirks and foibles as they are used. They almost (as in Tsukomogami) develop a soul.

We are fundamentally losing that to a society that is about consumable mass-produced trash, and on a long enough timeline, it’s going to mean losing a fundamental piece of who we are as a society.

It’s funny that if you look at the picture above, it has zero “real” context clues. No signs, no name tages, no MAGA hats. But you can still instantly tell who the MAGA asshole in it is.

I tend to think that the pro AI people are of a younger generation, because if they were closer to Gen X, they’d be feeling betrayed rather than excited.

Gen X and Millenials built the internet. We populated it with our forums, our blogs, our facbook profiles. We were the first ones sharing our photos, our very lives, with all of our friends and family. We created what it would become and we trusted that it was a community resource. Then along comes a couple of billionaires, they suck up everything that you have built and then have the balls to charge you an entry fee!

It’s like if you and your neighbourhood all got together and decided to build a playground for your kids, and when it’s done, some asshole asks the city for the right to the land and puts a toll booth up.

More than any other concern, THAT betrayal is what pisses me off the most. How fucking dare they say that I have to pay to access a system that was built on community content. They can fuck themselves sideways with a rusty sledge hammer.

Using AI to double check your code is very different from using AI to replace your skilled creative talent on a motion picture. It’s not even an accurate comparison… GL isn’t talking about coding, he’s talking about visual effects, writers, even actors…all of whom who’s careers are at risk.

You want to use AI to make sure you didn’t miss a semicolon at the end of a line, great…knock yourself out. But that has literally nothing in common with what Lucas is blathering about here.

Of course he did. He loves updating his classics every time some “new technology” comes along to let his freak-flag fly.

We’ll be seeing a re-re-re-re-release of A New Hope shortly where he uses an AI generated Boba Fett and Solo giving them a scene or two to develop a backstory.

100%. I’ve been saying it for years that at the end of the day, the only punishment that actually works is the public shaming.

Bring back the public perp walks. March the criminal through the streets with a big banner announcing their crime, and then leave them them in a public cell in the middle of town for a few days with their name on it, their crime, and no privacy so that people can come and see them.

A few days of that will do more to cure recidivism than any jail you can name.

And they should be.

Unless he shows up in person to do his job, we can assume that every thing posted is just a bad fake created by his staff.

The entire purpose of highschool reunions was rendered irrelevant as soon as social media was invented.

Who knew that ingesting toxic orange spray tan by sucking Trumps cock all these years would end up fatal!?

I never thought in my lifetime the United States would need “International Observers”.

Hold on a sec while I go digging into the tickle trunk for my Gary Oldman “Everything!!” meme.

I live in Canada.

It’s fine, I guess. But my biggest regret is that I didn’t register my dual citizenship (child of portuguese citizens) so that I could explore the E.U. and settle down somewhere in Europe. Now, I’m 50, with too many bills to pay.

Grab opportunities when you’re young, kids. If you don’t, then before you realize it, you’ll be to stuck in the bullshit mundanity of daily life to do it later.

Thank you! Appreciate it.

Hobbies, such as photography. Which brings me to my question…

Anyone know what camera, lens and film-stock (or if digital, what settings) were used to capture that look in the screenshot posted? I love it. It’s a still from “The Mastermind” and I haven’t been able to find any technical specs on the production.

“This too shall pass”

If something good happens, it’s a cautionary warning to stay humble.

If something bad happens, it’s a comforting reminder that things will get better.

Queen Rock Montreal

It’s the one concert that I wish I had been born early enough to attend, but alas I was only five years old at the time. When the album came out in 2007 was when I became a Queen fan.

Does the cat use Arch, BTW?