I enjoy watching videos about theoretical particle physics, space exploration and discussions/lectures on science. Holy crap the last six months has seen an explosion of A.I. Slop videos! Scripts that are ChatGPT-created, voiced by A.I., with imagery that is either A.I. created, or simply stolen from the internet.

For this subject of videos on YouTube I’d say that 1 in 5 are A.I. Slop these days. It’s pretty crazy.

Perhaps to its credit I just noticed last night that YouTube had added this to the description text on a few videos:

How this content was made
Altered or synthetic content
Sound or visuals were significantly edited or digitally generated.

Now if we could just get a setting to completely ignore content with that warning...

My SO and I were talking the other day, and your “Grand Arc” comment mirrors my own question: Do people nowadays even know what a “Mini Series” even is? Hell, do they still have them at all!?

Shows used to run for 26+ episodes a season, always starting in the Fall. So when “Mini Series” were introduced, it was an amazing thing! They were like a really long movie, but unlike the series of the day. they told (a) cohesive storyline(s) across the entire “Mini Series.”

These days an entire season is 8–10 episodes, and as you mentioned they almost all write in “Grand Arcs” instead of having standalone episodes.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

Of course this is performative, so they can point and misdirect when they eventually get busted asking the same companies to do the same thing but for their own despotic ends. NOT those of another government.

They are manufacturing scarcity within the richest country in the world. If you're scared of losing your job that doesn't really feed your family, because everything that you could afford just got way more expensive, and the bills are piling up, you're too far gone to even remotely think about fighting back. Therefore you hope that the people you voted for will do so for you, and we're seeing in real time how that's playing out.

The MAGApublicans are a cult. Full Stop.

It won't matter what he does, they'll blame it on the Democrats (or anyone else), the MAGApublicans will continue to gulp down the "Orange Dick" flavored Kool-Aid, and nothing will change.

I mean we are (and have been) staring right at Trump all over the Epstein files! Trump just admitted that J.E. "took" an under-aged girl he was employing (who later took her own life), and the legacy media (and the public at large) doesn't even blink.

If Child Sexual Assault & Trafficking isn't the point where you walk away, you have no point where you'll walk away.

So higher prices at Walmart is an easy, "Biden did it, and that's why we're renovating Alcatraz so we can throw all those nasty, evil, democrats that ruined our beautiful country in there, and finally have a chance to 'Make America Great Again' in 2028 during my 3rd term," and the MAGApublicans will go mad with The Rapture of Trump.

And blame those evil democrats because they're even poorer then before...

People following the law are being arrested in the court house after their legally proscribed hearing to follow said law. So, you want to try another excuse to justify this regime's illegal behavior?

As for the "letter of the law" that seems correct. However that's not what's happening.

This regime is going after people based on the color of their skin. If you want to argue that point then please submit 2–3 articles from reputable news sources that show illegal white people undergoing the same treatment we've seen brown people being subjected to...

It's sadly not satire. DarkOx has drunk the Kool Aid and is fully espousing the cults talking points.

We finally got Sonic to our neighborhood, and you simply cannot beat unlimited 10GB fiber for $50/month. Sure most sites you connect to aren't that fast, yet, but it's top quality service at an unbeatable price. Not surprisingly Steam is by far the fastest site I've connected to for downloading.

I gotta say after decades of getting fucked over by Comcast/Xifnity it was pure joy to walk into their office with my kit and ask to cancel my service. Their rep. never even tried to talk me out of it, nor ask about if/who I switched to! Just processed my request and let me walk out.

Sonic has to be giving them a run for their money in the markets Sonic serves, because just in our apt. building of 24 units over half of us have switched from C/X to Sonic!

With the ruling from SCOTUS today that Federal judges can't enforce Federal law nationally, the corrupt SCOTUS proceeds to implement the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" at pace. If you take into account everything that's been happening, we're already past the point of no return.

Trump will continue to violate the laws, our constitution, and our rights until he is indeed King of America.

We're 26,000 light years away, and dispersal is our friend. But on the bright side we'll never see it coming! Oh wait...on the bright side we'll barely see it coming.

That much energy should have an effect on objects between us and Sagittarius A*, some of which may output light. Therefore we may see the affect of that much energy on those objects before it hits us, but depending on distance it's not going to be a lot of warning of our impending extinction.

The Kerr metric is 0 to 1. With 0=non-rotating to 1=c (c=299,792,458 m/s). The theoretical maximum is 0.998 c.

After punching GoogAI in the LLM for a bit there's no minimum nor maximum "mass" needed to achieve that rotational speed. There are several factors that contribute to that number, of which mass (as far as I can tell) is not a primary player.

A "Kerr Black Hole" (one with spin) has a ring-shaped singularity in the center, according to current theory.

Correct! A rotating black hole, literally referred to as a "Kerr Black Hole," has a ring-shaped singularity in the core, and two event horizons. Remember that once you cross the outer event horizon Space/Time becomes Time/Space (they reverse) and things start getting very weird...

Here's more on the subject in lay terms: How Does the Event Horizon Affect Black Hole Spin and Space-Time?