Writer for several YouTube channels, including The Casual Criminalist, Decoding the Unknown, Into the Shadows, Megaprojects, Warographics, and my own.
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American Pope being a real one for the world
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Never have I removed a like so fast after checking the comments. He “Vibe coded” himself into digital purgatory. Actual clown behavior.
POV: You've spent the last 6 hours trying to regain control over your PC after Windows forced itself as the only operating system.
I have Linux on a 2TB NVMe.
I have Windows on a 1TB NVMe.
Linux is set to boot priority in BIOS.
WINDOWS STILL BOOTS.
Windows is a virus.
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microslop is now trending on here 🙃
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now blogging about AI slop. Nadella wants everyone to move beyond the arguments about AI slop, in a "pivotal year for AI". Full details here 👇 theverge.com/news/852630/mic…
Same guy. Same aura.
There was a line from Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address yesterday that took my breath away. He said he intended to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people in the last century. Socialist and Communist forms of government around the world today—Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc.—are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdani caricature as “rugged individualism.” In fact, it is the economic system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity of the human person. For God’s sake, spare me the “warmth of collectivism.”
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This reminds me of another scummy corporate practice… never giving you perfect scores during a performance review. You can perform your job perfectly, but managers are required to mark you for something. You must have a “goal” toward improvement.
Every day I get a little angrier at the state of the news media…
Far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left. politico.eu/article/how-far-…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Christmas is literally “Christ’s Mass”, a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus.
Its celebration by atheists does not deprive it of its Christian meaning.
britannica.com/topic/Christmas
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I don’t remember the exact quote but I heard something relevant once:
“it’s nearly impossible to write a compelling authoritarian villain because you have to either make them:
a) completely incompetent
b) cool as hell.”
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar's argument for authoritarianism 'was done a little too well,' but still believes 'you can't just make your tyrants cardboard villains' pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fallou…
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Back when I was pitching short stories and flash fiction to publishers I ran across more than one who specified “submissions only accepted from *date* to *date*, submissions from BIPOC accepted year round.”
Glad to see someone finally talking about this.
compactmag.com/article/the-l…
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It’s all just so shortsighted…
Disney has signed a deal with OpenAI & invested $1 billion into the company
Sora will now be able to AI generate videos based on animated, masked & creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar & Star Wars
Curated selections of AI generated videos will be released on Disney+
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I sincerely believe that greedy corporations pushing AI into every aspect of our lives will be cause people to start rejecting tech. It will start slow, but then everything will crash all at once. People will sign off and read books and work puzzles and dig out their old consoles
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I used to blame monetization for destroying most of the internet by encouraging people to be rude/cruel/idiotic for clicks/revenue, but then I remembered Reddit exists…
Proves that some people just do it for the love of the game…
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Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I don’t enjoy when my meats have the texture of mashed potatoes… I want a little chew…
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