With the uptick of AI image generation and soon video, and the current strike where it's one of the key issues, I had an interesting thought:
Once this is in full swing (and hopefully in a way that's equitable for actors), I'm imagining we'll eventually have an AI actor version of the Willhelm Scream. Have this one background actor who's in *every* movie and cinephiles will point, and I don't mean like Stan Lee cameos where they get dialogue and a face shot, I mean like Alfred Hitchcock cameos where it's a game to spot them.
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* One of the points I've heard they're striking over is because studios want to pay a background actor for one day of work to scan them in and then use their likeness forever. I hope they come to an good arrangement for the actors in this, they deserve to get paid.
From @danikowal on facebook:
Me, not following the submarine lost in the ocean news:"Look, you just can't add the suffix -gate to every damn thing that goes wrong and blows up in the faces of the rich and powerful!"
*sees the company willingly called itself Oceangate*
"...well that's just asking for trouble..."
*learns that they fired the engineer who said it wasn't safe*
"...okay and NOBODY had a problem with it failing crush tests?"
*realizes that they are specifically going to see the 'unsinkable' Titanic*
"...yeah okay that's just freakin' hubris at this point."
Random PSA/infodump just because I'm reminded that people don't know these things and still think cryptocurrency is investment fraud (notably people calling it a ponzi scheme).
First, to be clear: crypto sucks, but it is not investment fraud. It's an entirely legitimate investment, just a risky one (all investment is gambling).
The biggest problem I have with people calling it a Ponzi Scheme is that it's confusing people on what a Ponzi Scheme is. So here's a short intro to the two big types of investment schemes:
- Ponzi Scheme: These schemes typically look like entirely normal investment opportunities that some person or organization is offering you. The notable aspects that are required for a Ponzi Scheme are that you're being promised returns on your investment (not you buying and selling investments, but just making the investment once and getting routine payouts) and that they are continually looking for new investors (no set amount of money they're trying to raise).
Part of what makes these schemes especially deceptive is that they're often started accidentally. The basic structure of these is that whomever you are investing with is not actually investing in the way they're telling you, they're taking the money you gave them to pay the returns of earlier investors in the scheme.
- Pyramid Scheme: These schemes are always intentional frauds and are painfully obvious to anyone who knows what a pyramid scheme is (they survive because of how many people don't know what pyramid schemes are and the sheer amount of manpower they have to spread the fraud).
The basic structure of a pyramid scheme is that, unless you are one of the original investors, you are not investing directly in the organization. Instead you will always be investing through other people under the promise that you'll make money by convincing other people to invest through you. They spread aggressively because you're incentivized to put pressure on everyone below you in the pyramid to spread it as aggressively as possible.
MLM's (Multi-Level Marketing) are a type of pyramid scheme in which your "investment" is buying materials to sell on their behalf. Notable in comparison to legitimate work, there will be no controls to limit competition in the area (meaning each added person you didn't bring in yourself is cutting into your ability to sell product) and you will be expected to "buy in" through another "investor" rather than with the company itself directly.
Notably, these fail because there's a practical limit to how many people you can add and once you stop adding people the revenue dries up.
My Sibling's cat had a nasty eye infection and they had to take them to an emergency vet visit.
Thankfully after all the tests they established it was just a nasty infection, so he'll be fine with no lasting damage... save to my sibling's wallet.
The vet bill is nearly $600 and my sibling could really use help paying for it.
Currently I only have Cash App set up for myself ( $ShiriBailem ), but when my sibling has a chance to charge their phone I'll edit to add their payment info as well.
Edit: My sibling has a paypal account at tubularseries@gmail.com if you'd like to send them help directly.
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Been feeling wiped out and critically low energy lately. But I just want to share that my siblings have brought me so much joy these past few weeks, one providing video documents of neighborhood stray kittens, the other documenting their progress training crows for mischief.
And the memes have been great as well! ❤
I just wanted to put out there that I love my chosen family so much
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Stolen from DagoniteCore on Facebook:
The Barbie movie is so pink that before you buy a ticket they make you verify that you are not Anish Kapoor and that you are not seeing the movie on behalf of Anish Kapoor
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@Cătă it's absolutely not a platform for discussion imo, and it's more about keeping it short. Everyone is incentivized to get to the point rather than writing longer posts.
It makes it hard to rant and get into heated discussions, but easier to get a dose of bite sized content that's easy and quick to read.
Alternatively, Friendica's format is much more suited to longer posts and ongoing conversations.
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@Shiri Bailem Yea, it is. I do not always post rants, but I sometimes like to elaborate my arguments when I get into a discussion, despite taking me quite some time :D
So I guess Twitter will never be the place for me :D
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Day 1 of pride, 1 post in and I've defederated 3 servers for hate speech...
(fyi/ftr: when I see hate content I specifically check the admin accounts for the instance... if I see hate speech there then I defederate because it's never going to be moderated for it. If the admin accounts are clean, then I'll just do a normal report)
This is a long article, but the theory hits *hard* with me and connects really well.
The basic gist is that autistics almost always define our identities by what we do and our personal traits, while non-autistics almost always define their identities by their relationships (in particular to social groups)
If you don't have it in you to read all of it, definitely read the section: "How does having an experientially-constructed identity impact relationships?".
neuroclastic.com/the-identity-…
The Identity Theory of Autism: How Autistic Identity Is Experienced Differently » NeuroClastic
Terra Vance posits that Autistic people experience empathy and emotions differently because the way autistic identity is structured differs from non-autistic people’s identity constructs.Terra Vance (NeuroClastic)
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@bike I suspect it isn't that much different. Collectivist societies can be awful in their own ways.
They're still better imo, but they have a tendency to focus too hard on traditions and conformity on top of the ideals of communal responsibility.
But in all cases it's a mesh of peer pressure and group identity vs our value identity.
@ProPublica you might want to consider changing servers, newsie.social is getting defederated for allowing NewsMax (allowing alt-right propaganda gets servers defederated here pretty quickly)
There's a very high chance I'll be defederating them in the near future as well
I love this, especially the name though it's hard to read with compression: The Shattle
By the time this thing arrives I think I’ll have shit myself waiting for it.
RE: dads.cool/users/InternetEh/sta…gotta go, my ride is here
Got told someone was trying to serve me papers weeks ago... they *finally* got to me (after telling them weeks ago where to find me...)
All that annoying anxiety for... relative died and they're foreclosing on his house.
I disowned all of them years ago... apparently they're going to annoy the shit out of me by dying...
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develop branch and it should fix those parent-uid = 0 rows.like this
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I really want to blame my cat for making a mess because she climbed ontop of a messy table and proceeded to knock everything off as she positioned and stretched...
But did she really make the mess or just redistribute it?
Whelp, that was faster than expected. Friendica already has an early BlueSky account connector (for puppeting an account since they haven't yet federated).
I've applied the latest (2023.5) update of Friendica and enabled that addon.
*and* this now means I get to feel less annoyed by people talking about BlueSky as an alternative to current fediverse platforms...
Still leaning on "probably not worth it to sign up for it", but... maybe I'll get in a mood?
Why You Must Keep The Monsters Human
*(Reposting because my node crashed and lost all my posts and I want to keep this one pinned)*
I've been mulling over making this post for a little bit, but I think it's really **really** important.
It's critically important that you remember and acknowledge the humanity of monsters. Not for their benefit, but for *everyone else's* benefit.
When someone commits a monstrous act or shares a monstrous belief, we want to think of them as an inherently vile and non-human thing.
But doing so shields and protects other monsters.
When you make a Nazi, or any kind of abuser, into a one-dimensional monster. When you make their whole existence *center* on this monstrous act or belief... you make it hard to see their humanity. And that's the point, you don't *want* to see their humanity.
*** You Don't Want To Believe That Someone You Know And Trust (Maybe Even Love) Is Capable Of Such Atrocity. ***
And that's the problem. Because when you reject their humanity, that humanity becomes their shield. Your friend Bob can't possibly be a Nazi or a child-abuser, he's such a loving father and he helped you move!
Because you see their humanity, you can't possibly imagine them as monsters because the monsters have no humanity in your eyes.
There's a reason that when serial killers get caught their neighbors say they couldn't imagine them doing such things.
So don't ignore their humanity, keep it in your mind... so the next one can't use it as a shield.
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Well ***fuck***
... I got my Friendica server all rolling, and then the database corrupted itself. I had set up backups last night but apparently it was just a day too late.
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