Yep, but she says these things not because they will be plausible after having seen the video. She is just creating raw material for Fox News, Newsmax, Nazi Twitter, Facebook bots, and others to use in left-violence propaganda narratives fed to people who will never watch the video or critically think about the story they’re fed.

Always nice when I see an obvious astroturf troll account and I click on the profile and see it’s already banned.

Sounds like… You gave up on you? It’s really not important information, but I tried.

Psst, Hilton: it’s ok to discriminate against fascists actively using your hotel as a base to violate the Constitution.

When you pinch the ends. You’re effectively bending the two-dimensional space of the paper towel into three dimensional space encompassing the bug.

Our brave government that finally dares to ask: What if children didn’t live as long?

The fact that she “dedicated” it to Trump (when Trump not only didn’t win, but is diametrically the opposite of deserving it) and Trump still felt it wasn’t enough is a useful evidence that there is no limit whatsoever to Trump’s narcissism. He’s not someone who tends to narcissism, he’s deeply mentally ill and insatiable. The world’s leaders need to understand that appeasement is not just a bad idea strategically, it’s solely an invitation for more demands.

Hours earlier, there were rumblings that Walz was considering dropping out. Minnesota political analyst Blois Olson claimed the governor was likely to make the decision, adding that Walz recently met with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D).

As noted in the Axios report, Walz’s administration has come under increased scrutiny due to the welfare scandal plaguing his state. The governor has argued that he has been working to root out fraud, but that hasn’t stopped Republicans — both in his state and across the country — for pouncing on the situation.

I’m assuming Klobuchar helped convince him to drop out. Traditional democrats fold at the slightest fight, but it’s a shame that Walz is giving in. Republicans will always be manufacturing some crisis solely so they can exploit it, the only answer is to fight back. Every time you give into terrorists, you’re just supporting terrorism.

But unfortunately Walz seems to not have good instincts when the sabotage is coming from inside the house. At the peak of Kamala’s campaign when he was knocking it out of the park with “weird” and connecting with voters, Kamala’s “we’re going with Cheney” team apparently convinced him to dial it down to not alienate the mythical “centrists” that are just republicans in trenchcoats. I expect this move to turn out similarly to how that one turned out.

Put a paper towel flat on a table (long side left to right, if you have a half size towel). Take your pointer finger and thumb on each hand, and touch the left thumb to the bottom left corner of the towel, left pointer to the top left, and mirror on the right hand. Keeping the left-right length of towel taut, slowly pinch both hands. From the side view, the towel’s center will rise on the left-right axis (the U-shape). Finish pinching to complete the motion.

The bug’s center of gravity is above the feet, so it turns out that as long as you keep the paper towel taut, the body is lifted and it quickly attaches its feet to the towel.

For anyone wondering:

Take a paper towel, grip both ends, gently place paper towel over the stinkbug and close both ends keeping the length taut (not putting any pressure or touching where the stinkbug is, just letting the U-shaped fold in the center where you are not touching enclose the stinkbug). Gently twist to seal exits while not squeezing the stinkbug.

You are now holding a paper towel with a non-activated stinkbug. Do what you will with that stinkbug.

Super obvious AI signals:

• buttons and their colors make no sense and aren’t correlated to a real PS3 controller.
• there’s nine status lights and literally status lights on the disk drive.
• the text is spelled “PLAYSTA.TION”.

Yes, I’m aware AI can do “pixel art.” No, this doesn’t invalidate the specific examples and logic from my prior posts. I’ve been discussing this is good faith, but you are not, you’re just reiterating and increasing the volume and insults. Have a nice day.

Buddy, I’m not defending AI, and you making some conspiratorial allegation about my motivation is just weirdly aggressive. You and other people don’t seem to understand what happens with typical generational lossy compression and resizing. Randomly resize and save any image to jpeg 12 times, and see if you don’t see similar artifact noise patterns. That’s a technical literacy thing and not your fault, but the overconfidence here is. The exact thing you’ve marked above is very typical artifacting that occurs for non-AI reasons.

I also know enough to say that I can’t be 100% positive it was or wasn’t AI at some point in the chain. But I can confidently say nobody has identified credible evidence it is AI compared to a multi-generational lossy resize by a lazy designer (and no, posting a screenshot with a vague circle and “that’s obviously AI” is not great evidence - these are not twelve fingers or mush pseudo text, this is pixel level inconsistency).

The things you and others are pointing out here are very explainable without AI, and AI likely would not be reliable enough to create some of the details you see which survived the lossy compression.

The only functional answer is a general strike. I (and I think a significant portion of Americans) are more than ready for this, but it’s a classic prisoner’s dilemma - we need credible organization and momentum.

This administration will ignore all protests because they (rightly) understand that if nobody stops them, there are no consequences. Likewise they have already shown they will ignore the Supreme Court or Congress as needed (to the extent they aren’t already stacked with sycophant enablers).

Further, Trump and Stephen Miller have been searching for an excuse to declare martial law since probably before Trump was sworn in, and violence will only accelerate the fascist takeover. There are few good options here.

Sorry…Again, what should I be taking from this?

What is “ChatGPT font”? ChatGPT and its image tool are distillation models that do not have fonts. They produce images based on per-pixel relational distillation, they are guessing what pixels should be next to each other and do not use fonts. Current models do produce text that can be indistinguishable from fonts, but there is no single “ChatGPT font.” If there is a generic font appearing here, that doesn’t tell us anything new.

For the PS1, I don’t understand what you are referring to. The blurriness and uneven lines happen from compression artifacting and/or resizing to a non-divisible fractional resolution. You can get the same effect now if you go into Photoshop, create a 32x32 pixel image, resize to nearest-neighbor 10x, then set an arbitrary similar but non-divisible resolution with a different resampler (e.g., 56x56 bicubic), and save as JPG at <40 quality. That’s extreme, but you get aliased artifacting, interpolated stepping, and so on.

If you’re taking some other features as evidence of AI, let me know.

She’s as bad as the rest, and this quote is from before this happened. If you wait for a current quote from her, I have no doubt she will defend whatever Trump did, and claim the media is lying.

She is intended to be a comforting face for traditional republicans, but she has Trump’s trust only because she (and only as long as she) rubber stamps and sanewashes everything he does.

I’m sorry. I hope you don’t have kids who need(ed) to go to college.

There are a lot of oil-related reasons his handlers have convinced him to do it. But I’m surprised nobody has said yet that Trump’s motivation - apart from his handlers and donors - is doing it is to take focus off of the Epstein files. With the new evidence that Trump sent underage girls to Epstein, it seems very likely we’ll find out Trump was actively part of organized trafficking.

Trump is not a smart person, but he knows what works. Whenever things aren’t going his way, he will escalate and distract, delay reckoning until everyone has moved on.

We should have known this was imminent after Trump’s new years’ resolution was “peace on earth.” With his demented brain, and his pathological need to say the opposite of what he’s doing, that statement might as well have been a declaration of war on the world.

Sorry again, I know I responded below and not trying to just argue for no reason, but pointing out these different things you’re identifying that actually strongly suggest these aren’t AI, or aren’t indicators of AI or not either way.

For example, Switch asymmetry. This is how Switch directional and gamepad buttons look. It should be asymmetrical, and AI probably wouldn’t get that right like it is in the graphic. You can even see the color-distorted remainder of the “-” and “+” symbols above them, blurred to hell from terrible resizing.

Things like proportions and whether controllers are depicted are just choices either a human or an AI could make.

Ok - Yes, Adobe does have insidiously integrated AI tools. But again, nothing you point to here is strongly indicative of AI, and again, just consistent with sloppy & lazy resizing (which you could just as likely see pre-2020, before AI). Adobe also has a very extensive stock library which may be where these came from.

There are some really hard to spot AI generated materials possible now, but the sloppy inconsistency here is - conversely - an indicator that they don’t care much what we do or don’t notice so wouldn’t be spending the time to generate something with all of the consistent details (see list above). Instead, the consistent details suggest human-created versions based on the real systems.