Similar tactic for cellular service: tell them the company you work for is giving you a phone. That has worked for me in the past. It’s impossible for them to compete with free.
I keep one in my travel wire pouch thingy.
Hey, you’re just doing your due diligence by removing malware.
I deleted mine. Leaving old accounts around gives hackers another thing to potentially get into. You could always log in, ensure it’s locked down, and log out forever.
The people in this thread that ignore valid reasons for disdain towards AI are exhausting. “Just let me lol at thing and move on.” Me, I miss the days of even just drawing a meme up in MS Paint. I don’t want this Uncanny Valley dog shit. It’s not actual intelligence, it exists solely because of theft, and it’s ruining the environment.
I have avoided working for the FAANG companies my entire career and I’m happier for it.
Dude sounds like he’s just some confused fishing buddy that a friend hired.
I recommend skipping the article and instead skimming through the TED talk. It at least sounds like they’re using it as a tool to assist their artists, but the end result still has the same exact uncanny valley look we see on every AI video any ol’ person on the internet can make.
And there is where art truly goes to die. Suddenly every creative outlet is using the same tools and everything comes out with the same exact weird sheen. ILM is supposed to be a pioneer in this stuff and I respect that they’re not straight up replacing artists (yet) with this, but they’re ultimately sacrificing any aesthetics they’ve employed for years.
At the end of the day, all of this stuff boils down to speed, and that endless increase in speed is driven… by capitalism. We’re sacrificing aspects of our creative processes so that we can churn more out, instead of taking the time needed to make something truly unique.
Something tells me the amount of clicks that button gets is way, way lower than Google will ever admit.
Damn, you are living the life.
America has been dead to me for years. It’s a crumbling empire and I have no respect for any of its leadership. I will never give up on myself or the working class, but we have far too much rabid individualism and egos to work together.
The people will weather the storm and come out the other side, albeit differently, but any semblance of government here is trash. Both parties are nothing but greed-driven parasites and everyone knows it. The new generations aren’t fooled by the same bullshit propaganda and the ruling class knows it. That’s why they’re ruling with an iron fist and the cops have zero accountability.
Cop cities going up everywhere; a military base on every continent; Israeli money weaving into everything; the Democrats are useless fucks; the Republicans are unmasked fascists. This country is in the final stages of late capitalism. I don’t want to live here and haven’t for years, but I persevere for family and friends. I’ve already told my wife if a revolution ever happens, I’m probably going to be the 65-year-old man that dies in it.
This is something my fellow Americans need to come to terms with:
I was super bummed when it reached EOL. I wish they would let folks host their own servers for it.
John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant.
A meme that shows an image of Jordan Peterson on the left, and Henry Rollins on the right. The title at the top reads:
Why listen to glorified motivational speaker Jordan Peterson when you can just listen to Henry Rollins
The left column below Peterson reads:
The right column below Rollins reads:
Alt text: Screenshot from the Pause menu of the video game “Barony”. The selected menu item reads “end life”.
Seeing a subscription actually makes my decision easy. I see it and immediately know to avoid.