I had a month trial of Paramount+ that shut off literally mid-movie. Like 20 minutes from the end, it just stopped streaming.

Go to Goodwill and shop some DVDs. I’ve discovered so many films that are either not available on streaming or are available but have never been recommended to me. Just watched The Game with Michael Douglas recently which I had never heard of and was pretty good. For $3/pop, it’s not a huge risk.

There are so many layers to this meme. Like just the vibe would be so difficult to explain to someone who doesn’t get it.

Followed by “look! You can make your cat look like anime!”

That sucks. Sorry about your luck.

I think OP is talking about all of the future data centers that are allegedly being build despite nobody even knowing where. Nvidia has agreed to pay OpenAI $10B per gigawatt of datacenter for 10 gigawatts of datacenter build up over the next few years.

Unlikely that will fully materialize, but that’s the current outlook.

IDK, I think turning them into paintball arenas would be pretty sweet.

Wait, people assumed it was the Coke ad because it was AI? Do you have a source on that? That’s hilarious. Coke might have done everyone a favor if they monopolized AI advertising.

Not a fan of the take that openly criticizing something is “playing into their hand.” These things need to be discussed an openly criticized. I mean, they did take the ad down following criticism, so there’s something.

Each bullet is a shot. The average shot length is like 2-3 seconds. Even if it wasn’t AI, it would be difficult to watch. The shot lengths are likely short because AI can’t keep it together that long when generating video.

CRT televisions could give off a small amount of X-rays.

Really captured Nicholson’s character. Great art.

Beware of Geese bearing gifts.

What’s funny is how it all wasn’t immediately clear to me. Like I knew it was AI, but couldn’t immediately articulate the problems. It started with the skater; the way he tried to get up felt super off to me. It was only after close inspection that I noticed he was swapping appendages.

Which is a really weird thing. I feel like some kind of subliminal uncanny valley thing is really going to fuck with people if they keep pushing this stuff like it’s normal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTomb

I’m not sure what you mean about the premise of “wool” in the story though?

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I just didn’t buy the impact of the cleaners. Like it’s supposed to be a mystery why they choose to go through with it, but we find out they go through with it because a VR helmet convinces them that what they saw through the cameras was a lie when really the VR helmet is a lie. So like…what’s the point? If you can make VR helmets, why not build a robot to clean the cameras? If you still need a scary death sentence, just kick people out of the silo and watch them die due to exposure as they clamor to get back inside. The result is the same: outside scary, don’t do anything that gets you forced to go outside.

Making a lie to cover up another lie seems like a very roundabout way to solve a lens cleaning issue.

As for the rest of the wool references, puns do not metaphors make.

The only Kindle book I’ve ever returned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBylNJQEbg&list=RDVMBylNJQEbg&start_radio=1

The Silo series. First one was okay though the protagonist could be a bit of an idiot at times (I’m freezing, I should light these small tires on fire. That’ll keep me warm for 2 minutes while I choke on the smoke), but as a hard scifi, the series never answered enough critical questions (how do they get clean air?, is there really an oil deposit under Atlanta?). Also, the entire premise of how “wool” enters the story is so contrived, I failed to catch why it was necessary both in-universe and from a storytelling standpoint.

The second book was a prequel and the back stories of one of the characters was so fucking boring and predictable I just started skipping his chapters.

I read Wikipedia for the third book.