Thomas Jerome

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hi speaking as a narrative lead on a GOTY and long time builder of VO pipelines, this has literally been a solved problem for ages with text to speech and other tools so we haven’t ever needed evil shit like genAI for this solved ass problem. This is basic shit.

This may upset you but if you cancel your subscription all you will do is hurt a news organization that is evil in a time when they’re struggling more than ever

Grandma jailed after AI error linked her to crime in state she never visited: lawyer The charges were later dismissed after bank records showed she was in Tennessee at the time

If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this

Anti-sports betting (and gambling generally) is a potential plank of the left coalition. Like alcohol pre-prohibition, it is a disproportionately male vice but overwhelmingly harming the women and children in their lives.

This box is open for packing. The only thing prohibiting packing stuff in the box is my cat smacking anyone who tries to touch the box. It is open for packing things in should she not do that.

The reason anti-Catholicism is starting to bubble up on the right is that, now that they no longer care about law, they also don’t need the Federalist Society types. Doug Wilson’s comments should be understood as being of a piece with Trump promising to investigate Leonard Leo.

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

I’m not worried. The religious liberty crowd will surely be speaking up. After all, this is a much more direct attack on the Catholic faith than a birth control insurance coverage mandate, and if there’s one thing I know, it’s that these people are good faith actors.

Bluesky is going to be the place where a really nasty slur for people who go outside is invented. We are on the cusp here.

I can be trusted with this power of course, but sadly nobody else can - no offense to literally everyone - and it sounds like too much work tbh

There are some virtues that conscientious liberals could stand to reclaim, of course, but that's part of the education piece given the value of teaching by example

"Minority rule, but good" isn't a thing. You do not possess enough guns and violent men to assert it, because if you did, you would already be "minority rule (bad)."

The only way out for the liberal is through (education and various constitutionally-permitted forms of job discrimination)

O Spirit, whom the Father sent
To spread abroad the firmament;
O Wind of heaven, by thy might
Save all who dare the eagle's flight,
And keep them by thy watchful care
From every peril in the air.

we’re embarking on an amazing partnership between the UFC and law enforcement to achieve domestic violence rates like you wouldn’t believe

Fitzcarraldo

Can this be a solution?

What about this: oil floats, just dump it out of the ships, let it float through, suck it up in the other end. Works for logging.

I’m open to being wrong, it’s not like I’ve done a controlled study. But man. Just unbelievable how people talk to and behave around other people now without expecting to get punched in the nose.

Every day I collect another piece of supporting evidence for the idea that the pandemic made a dangerously large plurality, if not an outright majority, of Americans go absolutely feral. Zero sense of or interest in how to interact with other humans in shared spaces. None.

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

What if, instead of writing your own code, you could pay a new form of rent, forever

Ah, but have they considered that their work is helping some of the world's most put-upon people - American college students & graduates - maximize workforce productivity, avoid learning, and materially contribute to the destruction of literacy and culture? Do they want to be left behind?

Surely these sort of stories will go away once the villain Netanyahu is removed from power. Now to take a big sip of water and read some Israeli public opinion polling

My husband and | just received 13 traffic violations in the mail 2 of them were from STOP SIGNS. IS THIS A NORMAL OCCURRENCE IN DC?!?? Is there a lot of success in getting these things cancelled?! We just moved here and have been going with the flow of traffic! This is INSANE $1500 worth of infractio

i can't stand nextdoor but i think it's fascinating that out of 137 commenters about 120 are like "yeah it sucks to drive in dc" and the handful remaining are patiently explaining that the one weird trick to not getting tickets is to stop driving like an asshole

it's crazy that we're all on here pretending like the world didn't radically shift under our feet last week. you just can't deny the technological leap that has happened and those of you who refuse to take advantage of it are going to get left behind. I am of course talking about slay the spire 2

not the onion

I only spent a couple of years in college, but seem to recall being taught that conversations with living people were not the only way to benefit and work with the products of their experience.

Like, I remember being advised to consult Wittgenstein, but never to dig him up or hold a seance

I'd also object to the idea that a diploma has a 1:1 relationship with an education tbh

Finding, reading, and learning from material written by a person is a form of human connection, one that underpins the idea of a literate civic culture in a way that relying on ephemeral answers from a machine oracle do not.

I was already flattered enough by another reply assuming I'm an academic, but an extrovert? Congratulations to my social coping mechanisms I guess 😃

That said, I'm not sure choosing to financially support the Plagiarism Machine is an ethical alternative to sending some email