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The environment the coffee is served in is a significant part of the business.

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?

That doesn't change the fact that its an iconic American brand, directly associated with American culture and design.

Heads should be rolling at Ray-Ban, they've permanently tarnished an iconic American brand by aligning themselves with big tech.

The majority of artists abhor AI, this is a particularly bad example.

> 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 should be celebrating the theft of music from artists. Everyone can participate in making music today just as they always have throughout human history - learn to sing or play an instrument.

Greek mythology is full of sex, and the Odyssey is no exception.

> "The Odyssey features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality".

A pretty succinct summation of Nolan as a filmmaker.

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.

Very impressive. How are you managing to produce such a clean model without artifacts?

Nonsense. Ray Harryhausen's work today is still incredible, by any standard.

Please stop using AI for creative work. This is utterly abysmal.

> That's because sandboxing is quite hard

colima makes it pretty easy, on macOS and linux at any rate.

https://colima.run

> Dammit! I live in Europe and the cyber truck isn't even available here..

Europeans are notorious for their good taste.

The thing about meditation is, if you're doing it, there is no "you" that it is either good or bad for.

> 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 scientists agree that we’ve passed the tipping point.

> 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.

OpenStack already exists

Photography also works, or hell you can even photograph birds.

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.

> 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.

It is much more than that, egalitarianism is fundamental to French culture.

I guess software licenses are meaningless now since anyone can decide their llm clone is not derivative.

Yes, there’s a huge market in the UK, Australia and New Zealand for low quality tea.

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.

Chinese tea is again a whole different world from Indian tea, and has a much broader spectrum of complexity. You could spend a lifetime learning about Chinese tea.

People still use tea bags even though what they contain is a byproduct of tea production and barely counts as tea.

Capitalism subsumes all culture, even counter culture, destroys its essence and commodifies it.

UC Berkeley just banned the use of AI for conceptualising, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing student work.

> LLMs to drive NPC dialog

Far more interested in dialog and characters developed by a writer - simulation is boring

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.