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Its only a matter of time before tech will be able to generate controlled/scripted moving images of full synthetic humans

that time arguably happened yeaaaars ago. character movement animation rigs are a hell of a far cry from where they started

Will the mass devour it like crazy because it is heavy ...

you know, there's a good conversation to be had about the cultural void that's come about as a result of the marvel generation having economic leverage and disposable income, and the extremely fucked state of affairs from the film industry having gone where it has in the last ~20y alone, but I don't know if I know enough to be the one to do it. although I'd welcome pointers if anyone knows a film/media critic with some chops that's taken this on

related to the marvel generation, I occasionally think about this post. when I do end up thinking about the shit. which largely happens when I once-in-months look to whether there's anything good to see at cinema

Haha I saw it from new comments view, didn’t check the thread title

Constellation Energy shut down the Unit 1 reactor in 2019 — not the one that melted down in 1979, the other one — because it wasn’t economical. Inflation Reduction Act tax breaks made it viable again

almost like it was literally in the article

it seems matty boy's recently become a student of the sbf school of thought too

It also helps to recognize how much many of these people see all of this as a competition, and trying to out-unique/out-possess their peers

ah yes, $42, definitely a "the same amount of compute is used" figure

these results are remarkably damning. I knew things were bad, but god damn this is impressively shit

fuck your black friday then

the institutionalisation of it is/was also just fucking nuts

and then in recent years it's slowly been creeping out into other countries too, with other vendors in other places aping "black friday deals"

I have no mouth and I must scream

handy to know, ty

I just learned about this “wonderful” little item too

SimCity infrastructure plans

oh hey, balaji’s lord of the flies cosplay island thing starts tomorrow

guess we should prepare for a flood of impression thinkpieces and naval-gazing wankery

(yes that’s intentional. no I’m not sorry)

apparently they haven’t even applied for restarting it: https://mas.to/@bascule/113171475130373516

which is just about perfect, given the rest of the claims in the industry