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IT'S BOOOK DAYYYYYYY (and the crowd goes wild) A long-awaited return to Rapid City and the world of Karen Memory! www.patreon.com/posts/137115...
I can only judge by your art ofc but I think it may be
The marketing ruined it for me. They were all "ooh, scientific accuracy, we hired Kip Thorne!" And then it's as dumb as a box of rocks.
Try August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN, it may scratch the itch
Ooh that sounds wonderful
This is because they use other LLMs to *train* it, presumably? Like we don't know for sure but they're talking about have other models do the classification of examples instead of underpaid Africans
God why is the left always like this, our Democrats are just as bad
For Word: -lack of AI -retain preferences better so I don't have to keep turning off smart quotes -fix whatever bizarre N^2 nonsense causes chugging in long documents with lots of tracked changes
Honestly the inter-city stuff is kind of a distraction. What the US needs is more city-and-surrounds train networks, like NYC has. And those CAN work.
Trains used to be much, *much* more expensive. Riding the Transcontinental Railroad from Nebraska to SF (so half the US) cost something like $2,500 in today's money. It's not that trains literally *can't* work with low density, it's that they can't be competitively priced with alternatives.
Also, charging on the road is *expensive*, often nearly as much as a gas-up. (100 miles something like $2.50 at home, $6.75 on the road, $8 for gas for comprable-ish cars)
This is honestly kind of an outdated stereotype now, things have gotten MUCH weirder (in a good way) in the last two decades or so.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
(the real answer is that they DO need labor and are just trying to make it cost nothing)
But if you own everything and don't require labor, literally what is the point of money? You can't buy anything with it!
Presumably they will be replaced with robots
What is this?
One wonders who they think is going to buy the products
I need this as a jigsaw puzzle
Specifically that AI would be used not for actual work but as a wage cramdown by claiming creatives are now "editors"
If only someone (everyone) had foreseen this
Definitely
It doesn't explain it though. They could all be bad!
Of course, to save time, you could just watch them all at once: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPC...
Oooh good call bsky.app/profile/chri...
Durarara OP 1 definitely deserves a mention www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov3e...
Tell Me Why is great because it provides immense contrast with Kajiura Yuuki's amazing internal music, like eating something bitter before dessert
Cribbed from the responses: Ghost in the Shell SAC (esp S2), Serial Experiments Lain, and one of my favorites Paranoia Agent www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsN...
Oh yeah, that was a good one!
And there was a period where you couldn't legally make an AMV without using the Lucky Star OP www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwhS...
Haruhi is definitely iconic www.youtube.com/watch?v=C337...
Oooh, @koptev.bsky.social reminds me of the inimitable Read Or Die OVA op www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ly...
At the risk of being obvious, Evangelion www.youtube.com/watch?v=fShl...
TANK (Cowboy Bebop) is very hard to beat. I'd also offer up Attack on Titan OP 1 and 2? Lemme think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Okp...
Because of the increasing energy load of AI *you personally* are going to pay 20% more on your electric bill next year
We need to talk more in terms of the electricity that gets used, which is much more fungible (though still not entirely); both for emissions reasons, and more more prosaically b/c US wholesale electricity costs are up *10%* in the last year b/c of data centers and expected to rise further
I definitely agree with this. I sideeye hard whenever I see "water use" cited as a strike against *anything* because it such an intrinsically local problem; you can't just add it across the world like CO2 emissions, you'd need to know where and when
But so much of it has no action! They sit around talking inanely for ages
What passes for kids content on YouTube these days
Oh I think we would. Cult of personality regimes almost never survive the death of the Leader. I'm not saying things would be great right away but it would be a huge win
These problems are created by the need to link everything, to the *second*, with the original. It would be easy to have the rebels escape and assume they were, like, transporting the plans under diplomatic cover a little while later. But no we need creepy CG Leia.
Also, why is Leia there at all? Senator Organa sent his beloved daughter on a suicide mission into a war zone?
The ending makes no sense either. In ANH Captain Antilles tried to bluff Vader that he's on a diplomatic mission, which is stupid if Vader literally JUST saw them escape from the rebel fleet.
There's some fun to be had in the last quarter but the whole first 3/4 feels like a slog to me
Like that's not completely wrong, but even so the characters are a mess
Like the space battle is cool and all but that's like a quarter of the movie at best Dunno if this counts as a hot take
I understood that reference!
I finished, finally, watching Andor S2. (Spectacular obvs). So now I'm rewatching Rogue One and guys how did this get the reputation of being "the good one"?
A face turn, presumably?
This guy looks more like he's about to tell Ghandi and Machiavelli he's going to war
Yeah I deeply hope that's going to be good
So glad you enjoyed!
LOL yes
Like, okay, it's obviously hyperbolic, but when you commit crimes *at scale* you should expect to be punished *at scale*. This is the kind of thing that (hopefully, if they don't weasel out somehow) happens when you pirate everything on the internet at once.
Bank robber warns that if he has to compensate EVERY person he stole from, it would financially ruin the bank robbery industry.
It makes total sense in retrospect, the whole house is basically a proofing box. It rose for 12 hours when it probably needed like 6. All that's left is sticky goo
Unexpected consequences of the AC being out: today's bread is *remarkably* ruined
Wonderful video from daycare today of a song instructing "throw your beanbag up and catch it", and nine toddlers hurling beanbags in random directions at full speed
Yeah! I don't need to see the Waynes gunned down AGAIN or Uncle Ben Say The Line
The new one, at least. I don't remember the old one well.
Isn't that Casino Royale?
That's a lovely cover!
Anyway the new Superman completely rocks, obviously. Great movie.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD EXCEPT ME by @djangowexler.bsky.social, closes out the Dark Lord Davi duology very, very nicely. My review is up @sffworld.com www.sffworld.com/2025/08/ever...
Or to put it another way: if you are making SUPERMAN (or a handful of others: Batman, Spiderman, etc) you have an opportunity that most movie writers would kill for -- you can skip over the expository setup (bc WE KNOW) and get straight to cool stuff! So, you know, DO THAT
Right but a) atmospheric absorption is the key difference, way less energy makes it to the ground, and b) in the movie he's always lying down He's much better off lying down on the equator then standing at the pole.
Not saying NEVER do an origin again, but let's have ten years of in media res and straight to the weird stuff, please.
It *particularly* helps with a story as well known as Superman's, of course, but the contrast makes obvious how big of a point of failure this is for superhero movies. The structure of "non-hero to hero" just imposes some narrative constraints that make everything too similar.
It's mind-boggling how much the decision not to start with the goddamn origin story makes things better. It lets the movie actually be ABOUT something cool, rather than the same obvious beats again.
Anyway the new Superman completely rocks, obviously. Great movie.
Even so, the solar energy flux is pitiful compared to the tropics
If Superman is solar powered why does he live in the least sunny place on earth?
She was actually super good and well behaved, it was more like after an hour the excitement wore off and she's like "oh this is boring and uncomfortable"
Ooh which place?
This book is great
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I might need to search them later when someone says "per my last email"
If you don't know that trick clicking on them one at a time IS a pain though
Getting to inbox 0 is not as hard as people make it out to be. You just hit "select all" then "mark as read", it takes like a second
Back from trip. Kind of disheartening travelling with 3 y.o. who at the beginning was like "OMG we're going on a PLANE, so exciting!" and about midway through you could see the dawning realization "oh this actually sucks wtf"
Dark enough here to see the Milky Way and also the inevitable line of Starlink satellites chugging along
Yeah this vacation has been exactly that issue
In an AirBNB and the number of dead bugs about is extraordinary. Why can this owner not keep his bugs healthy?
For basically the same reason that Twitter polls aren't accurate samples of public sentiment
The focus groups are the important part though. There's a lot of evidence that unpleasable internet fans don't sway actual numbers much one way or the other
Obviously with a single creator like GRRM it doesn't work bc why should he care, but I wish more companies would realize that the shouting people are a small irrelevant minority
They also very freely use language like "the community is the most important thing" or "the fans are the most important" and it has gone to their heads.
I feel like corporations have trained fans that angry entitlement get results, they will cave and redraw sonic the hedgehog or bury Rose Tico or whatever you want
I just don't think it's earnest, he's not looking to be satisfied. Every single person commenting "you moron" is doing EXACTLY what the author wants
Guys this is a very dumb take and please let's stop *quoting* it and giving them clicks This is pure "YOUR FAVORITE THING SUCKS RAGECLICK HERE" 'journalism'
Found a friend for @caseyblair.bsky.social
I just finished "How To Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying" from @djangowexler.bsky.social and it was so much fun. A knowing and irreverent isekai story; sweary, violent, and often laugh-out-loud funny. Sometimes being the predestined hero doesn't work out and you have to find a different path.
One of our cats used to come yell at @caseyblair.bsky.social whenever she sang.
*to the TMNT tune*
Norwegian home invasion.
I'm not going to choose among my top three: "Saint Death's Daughter" by @csecooney.bsky.social "The Vengeance" by @emmanewman.bsky.social "How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying" by @djangowexler.bsky.social (I mean, why do one book recommendation when I can do three?)
Thankfully we're still hanging at the airport playground
Air traffic control nonsense delaying my flight 2.5 hrs boooo
And it was great to see everyone who came to @djangowexler.bsky.social's and my tea meetup!
Definitely not