Johannes Baiter

Als zynischer Linker mit ETF für die Altersvorsorge hatte ich es mir bisher theoretisch echt leicht gemacht, entweder der Kapitalismus geht vor die Hunde,(yay) oder man hat weniger finanziellen Stress im Alter (immerhin). Jetzt so konkret wird's doch komisch 🙈

He's one of the few filmmakers where you can just legit take any random frame from one of his films, no matter which period, and put it on your wall.

I think I've been there! Is that Jigoku Valley/Noboribetsu?

Lol, genau an den Typen musste ich bei OP auch denken. Zweimal jetzt gesehen, jedes mal cringe pur.

Except for controlling Squall in that scene, 25 years later and it still irritates me 😅

Ich muss es so hart sagen: ich dachte, ich lese eine kleine Anfrage der AfD, aber sie stammt von der Union.

551 (!) Fragen zu Organisationen, Hintergrund seien „Proteste gegen die CDU“, darunter die „Omas gegen Rechts“ und andere.

Bin ehrlich entsetzt.

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Gerhart Baums letzte Rede, (die er nicht mehr halten konnte):
„Angst ist der hinterhältige Dämon der freien Gesellschaft“

It certainly feels like they not only expect a radical reaction, but also hope for it?

A lot of us are rolling our eyes at how fascists are misusing the term “doxxing.” Alas, joke’s on us, because what they’re really doing—as fascism always does—is redefining language. They’re using “doxxing” as a synonym for “journalism,” enabling the criminalization of the latter.

This album was absolutely essential to a particular time in my life, I get chills every time I listen to it. Probably my most listened to electronic music album ❤️

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And they're not pulling any punches, full names and bios for the boots performing the coup for Musk and Thiel.

Fascinating Hacker News comment from Tom Gally, a professional translator (Japanese to English) who uses LLMs as part of his workflow, which he describes in detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897856

Wrote a bit more about this on my blog here […]

Inspired by the AI hostility on this platform, I decided to share how I use AI.

“I treat AI as I would a collaborator or a pretty good intern but I remain responsible for the final outcome.”

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It's truly incredible. That last season was really hard to watch though, we only managed one episode a night, it was too painful otherwise 😅

"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

Undervolting the Steam Deck is really amazing if you won the silicon lottery... Managed to get a stable -20/-40/-40 CPU/GPU/SOC undervolt, and now I'm getting stable 40fps with very few frametime spikes in both RDR2 and Elden Ring ♥️ This is with the optimizations from medium.com/@a.b.t./here...

I think it is, but I really liked the first season, so ymmv.

Real-time Collaborative Annotation for IIIF Collections Collaborate in real-time on IIIF image collections. Annotate, view, and explore high-resolution images with your team. Even without a login.

It’s great to see more websites use #IIIF & prominently display "Copy manifest URL" links. But while building liiive.now, I noticed something: many sites block outside use, despite showing the link (CORS...). Likely unintentional & suggests external re-use remains uncommon. There’s still work ahead!

👍🏼 Point taken. I see the problem, it's the logical conclusion to the way things are developing at the moment. I just think that this specific example is nothing particularly new (see my reply with the garbage dvd cover).

I'm not shilling for Bezos and his exploitative shit here, I just wish the Anti-AI discourse was a bit less hysterical and at least interested in an honest discussion 🙈

I doubt that there wasn't some human in the loop here, at least for selecting the final image, maybe even some compositing work. And then, how is this worse than some unpaid intern photoshopping some assets together?

Not all of them go hard...
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😅 sorry for the lingo, but what's so bad about more people being exposed to classic films, even if it's through means that are sketchy?

Of course the AI slop posters on Prime are horrible, but then shit artwork was totally normal for VHS and DVD releases as well. AI is replacing those, not stuff like the beautiful Criterion covers. And if it drives engagement for stuff like the original Nosferatu version, why not?

With all due respect, Jon, this is not a big deal? Publishers have been using custom movie posters for different releases for as long as there has been a movie industry. Nobody's complaining about Criterion creating their own artwork for their releases.

I don't even know if there's such a thing as an "original" movie poster for that film. Different publishers made different versions for different releases, it's really no big deal IMO. Here are some versions from the time of the original release. More here: de.movieposterdb.com/nosferatu-ei...

Sorry, war mir nicht sicher ob du die zu den üblichen Verdächtigen gezählt hast und wollte nochmal sicher gehen:-D

Slow Horses!!!!!!

😂👍🏼 I'm probably just old and bitter