YouTube is starting to have AI dubbing on by default for non English vids and turning off closed captions totally
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A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
WE MUST BAN SHORT FORM VIDEO TO HEAL SOCIETY
In generated videos like this, the plagiarism really shines through in how much the “people” look like famous Hollywood actors.
'There are records that crystallise genres, there are albums that carve out new spaces in established scenes, and there are LPs that, over time, end up symbolising the era in which they were created. Records that create a new musical language... Those are rare.'
R.I.P. D’Angelo
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My kitchen hack is that your cooking tastes better if you listened to D'angelo while making it
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If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.
The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.
i think this is the best interview with Mark Fell I have ever read. open.substack.com/pub/toneglow...
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.
With Ai the fascist unreality state can hallucinate false evidence of a crime you never committed.
NEW YORK CITY, YOU LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU'RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY TYPE OF 24-HOUR STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN A BAG OF CHIPS FOR NO REASON.
Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation
And little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotation
And if you want these kind of dreams it's…
Here's a recording of my live set in here in Portland from the previous weekend. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/wselman/will...
The 30 seconds of silence / swirling noise at the start is the only good part of most songs.
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Genuine spit-take moment. The whole conversation is great, too:
jewishcurrents.org/brad-landers...
christ that's so unspeakably sad. looks haunted
It’s absolutely insane that if an individual person uses 0.5 seconds of a song to make a completely different song they have to pay royalties forever but these tech scum can just take millions of books to make their garbage robots for free.
Amar mayor! Tomar mayor!
From Parkchester to Jackson Heights, Bangladeshi New Yorkers have been showing up for this campaign from day one — and I’m proud to have their support.
Solo for Wounded CD changed my life.
RIP
Sad to hear artist Dara Birnbaum has died. Her Wonder Woman video has long been a fave, and it beat Mark Leckey and vaporwave to the the punch by a couple decades.
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