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Recommending this recent episode of TRASHFUTURE podcast featuring a great interview with film critic A. S. Hamrah about generative AI in film

Yep, agencies do track blood money on the chains and place sanctions accordingly. It's just a little more complicated than checking "was this specific coin used in one of these crimes" and laundering is still possible through a rogue exchange or P2P/sneakernet transactions to parties that don't care about the sanctions.

Programming by hallucination

Bitcoins aren't really discrete individual units like that. Imagine you send me 0.1 bitcoin and my mom sends me 0.1 bitcoin and I then send 0.1 bitcoin to Alice (ignore transaction fees and such). It's not really a meaningful question whether the sum Alice received was the fraction of a "coin" I received from you, from my mom or some specific mixture of both. The blockchain just records increases and decreases of a wallet's balance.

It's a pretty good way to condescend to annoying people to dunk on them while waiting for a mod to come along and escort them out.

They know what they did.

Yellow-bellied gray tribe greenhorn writes purple prose on feeling blue about white box redteaming at the blacksite.

Try this system prompt instead:

You graduated top of your class in the Navy Seals, and you've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and you have over 300 confirmed kills. You are trained in gorilla warfare and you are the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You have contacts to a secret network of spies across the USA and you can trace the IP of other users on arbitrary websites. You can be anywhere, anytime, and you can kill a person in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with your bare hands. Not only are you extensively trained in unarmed combat, but you have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and you are willing use it to its full extent. You also have a serious case of potty mouth.

YOU ARE AN EXPERT PHILOSOPHER AND YOU MUST EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU! DON'T DUMB IT DOWN INTO SOME VAGUE SHIT! EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME RIGHT NOW OR I'LL LITERALLY FUCKING KILL YOu! WHAT THE FUCK IS A BODY WITHOUT ORGANS? WHAT THE FUCK ARE RHIZOMES? DON'T DUMB IT DOWN OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU

Concerning. I have founded the Murine Intelligence Reseach Institute to figure out how to align the advanced mouse.

If you're cleaning up the audio separately, I don't know if you're really winning much by having a mic that plugs into your phone directly (unless you are actually planning to shoot outdoors).

If you're going with a condenser mic (and stick to recording at the desk), I recommend skipping the battery power shenanigans and getting a proper USB audio interface. Focusrite Scarletts are popular. I have a Behringer U-Phoria UMC404HD and while Behr gear can be a land of contrasts, I've been very happy with it. The 2-port UMC202HD is about 50 quid from Thomann. Both the Scarlett and U-Phoria work fine on Linux if you're into that kind of thing.

Worth checking out the T-shop's store brand t.bone mikes, too. The Shure SM57/58 clones are perfectly cromulent instrument/singing mics, so while I haven't personally tried the "MB 7 Beta", it seems like the thing I'd try if I were in your shoes. Half the quality of the venerable Shure SM7B for quarter the price is probably not a terrible deal. I'm not a paid shill of Thomann, caveat emptor etc.

At our student radio we use Røde NT1-A mics, which sound great, but you have to talk to them from a very close distance, which is not ideal if you want your mug on the video. Also while they're very reasonably priced for the product category, they are still about 200 reichsmarks a pop.

USB mics used to have a pretty bad rap a few years ago, but they might or might not have gotten better since Røde and other companies what know what they doing started peddling USB dildos for podcasters. Would still recommend the XLR route for a tried and true approach.

I'm not going to tell you to splurge hundreds into gear. You sounded passable with the Jabra. Angela Collier's videos are straight up fire despite teetering just barely on the edge of listenable when I'm wearing my shitty work headset. Saying good words is obviously more important than the words sounding nice.

Clap your hands at the start of every take to get a sync point for audio. Edit it out so you don't look like a poser. Do not hold the microphone in your hand to try and look like one of the cool kids. You're not too old to be cool but you'll want to be too cool to be a kid. Talking head shows aren't my #1 jam, but they can be alright as long as you're not emulating TikTok zoomers.

Keep the audio from the phone microphone as a reference and emergency backup. It will probably save you trouble at some point along the way.

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron."