The actual AI takeover in action.
We’re never gonna conquer the galaxy like this.
Month: January 2025
Lino
My childhood kitchen flooring was the 2nd from left- which was yours? (1970s).
The second one from the left was in my grandparents’ house and the fourth one from left was in my parents’.
Bland
pic.twitter.com/GqhrK8YhbR I am shocked. I saw this AI video and tried to find out who the performer of this great song is. Lyrics on Google, nothing found. At some point in the comments: 100% Suno generated.
Suno has become so good that it is indistinguishable from real music.— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) December 30, 2024
Ha, what? This creation has the same insipid characteristics that every other AI song I’ve heard possesses. Dynamically, it’s extremely static and generic. The rhyme scheme is predictable and is basically just a simplified ballad one.
The music is a standard ol’ four bar in 4/4 time. It all sounds so extremely AI-gen to me.
Securidad
Someone should really do a deeper dive into why when someone says a change or restriction is for “security,” so many people accept it readily, nod sagely in agreement, then become snivelingly obeisant.
That’s always puzzled me. Yes, I know there is a lot of literature slantwise to that subject, but I mean something really specific. I’m referring to as close as we can tell to finding out what happens neurologically there that just seems to shortcut all thought and consideration.
It’s like a scifi cognitive hack and I think that’s equal parts horrifying and fascinating.
Pealegal
True, but there’s more to it than that. And the “more” paints progressives in an even worse light, unfortunately. I remember the tail end of the pay toilet battles during the early and mid-1980s. The progressives got them banned because “no one should have to pay to do a basic bodily function” and because their position was that there should be free and plentiful public restrooms1. But then they never bothered to build any political power to achieve this goal.
Like much of progressivism, the pay toilet battle highlighted a tendency which has metastasized to be even worse now — they take something away, even if imperfect, and replace it with nothing at all.
And that’s never a winning strategy, weirdo degrowther fantasies aside.
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People like me flocked to Berlin because it was ‘poor but sexy’. Those times are over. Europe turning back into a backwater.