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3 days agoMichael Burnham
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3·6 days agoI’m not sure that doesn’t make prospect even more terrifying.
6·12 days agoThe Monadnock Building is “the tallest load-bearing brick or masonry building ever constructed,” and it looks to be about sixteen floors, though I suppose it’s quite possible there are non-structural brick elements in taller buildings.
Perhaps you could get AMD to pay you $35 billion for the hypothetical potential of amusement later on.
2·2 months agoWhy would I?
The Plants that Would Not Die
Great, who’s going to go tell Richard Feynman?
Watch the original Gone in 60 Seconds, from 1974. The car stunts are absolutely insane, to the extent that they probably shouldn’t have been allowed to make the movie the way they did, but it happened and I’m glad that cameras were rolling. The Nic Cage remake was trying to make a movie safer, slicker, and more coherently, but there’s no replacement for a bunch of insane stunt drivers risking their lives and the lives of everyone around them.
You know, without any prompting, I heard this guy’s voice in a Russian accent.
My kid got into Lady and the Tramp, so I watched it about a dozen times in a row, and Holeee shiiit is that thing beautifully animated. The backgrounds are needlessly lavish, and look at this…
I’m in awe of the work done on Tramp’s ears. The expressiveness, and the subtle balance of flexibility and internal structure is exquisite. You can find other examples of masterfully-done materials all throughout the movie.
Other movies might get more attention, but Lady and the Tramp is worth looking at for some peak Disney animation.
Unironically Desmond Morris’ theory as to why human boobs look like that.
Check out his close friend and confidant, Johnny Aloha!
Speak for yourself. I’ve got two brother cats and I refer to both of them as little kitty cat mans.
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
I actually think the “it’s soulless… FOR NOW” panel is pretty important.
People who believe in the value of human creativity have been pretty casual about saying that AI generated work isn’t as good as work created by a person, but what happens if in another iteration or two it actually CAN produce “good” “art”? Like, what happens if it’s cranking out screenplays and paintings that DO pass muster? We’ve got to be prepared for that possibility, and try to act now to make sure that our world is structured around preserving human dignity on its own merits. The existence of a faster work-doing machine shouldn’t necessitate that all human workers must now starve.
Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, On the Town, 1949
I was going to say that I kind of wish The Devil existed, because then we would know that truly horrible people would eventually face damnation, and in a way it’s nice to imagine that cosmic justice could exist.