This is actor worship, the new cult that appeared in the 1950s originated intentionally from Hollywood.
Normal human societies correctly identify that people who lie about everything, including everything about themselves for money are practicing a type of prostitution, and treat and have treated actors accordingly throughout human history.
In case of books, middlemen were horrifically abundant. Publisher, editor, official state censor/today's sensitivity reader.
Direct self publishing removed most of those, and now published, edited and officially state censored/sensitivity read "best sellers" sell five digit copies on a good release.
Meanwhile there are more book reading happening than ever, mainly on the back on direct self publishing which bypasses all of those.
Doesn't XL usually mean "eXtra Large"? Who can cure my ignorance of this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
jonsneyers on Feb 7, 2020 | root | parent | next [–]
It may not be the best name, but it sure is better than the names of the projects it was based on: PIK and FUIF. At least if you speak Dutch. A "pik" is a penis and a "fuif" is a party, so the combination would be the "penis party" image codec. I prefer "JPEG XL".
The etymology of the name "XL" is as follows: JPEG has called all its new standards since j2k something that starts with an X: XR, XT, XS (S for speed, since it is very fast and ultra-low-latency), and now XL. The L is supposed to mean Long term, since the goal is to make something that can replace the legacy JPEG and last as long as it did.
Actors fundamentally are just middle men between the story teller and the audience. Generative video and audio AI like many IT developments is removing middle men from the relationship.
Where's my $2000 from DOGE savings? Does no one remember the last time?
$5000 doge dividend https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/2...
$2000 tariff dividend https://truthsocial.com/@realD...
Then there was the 1400% - 1500% savings on drugs https://www.presidency.ucsb.ed...
Now there's also: $500 obamacare rebate checks https://www.yahoo.com/news/pol...
You may want to consult other replies, where your side openly brags that they get to do that because he did racism and shiet.
"well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C"
That didn't jibe with my recollection, so I just checked. The Paris agreement was for 2 degrees C. The IPOCC said it should be 1.5.
The Guardian - We abandoned Journalism and don't care about facts.
Link to Paris Agreement https://unfccc.int/resource/do... ctrl f 1,5
Emphasizing with serious concern the urgent need to address the significant gap
between the aggregate effect of Parties’ mitigation pledges in terms of global annual
emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with
holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 C above pre-
industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C above pre-
industrial levels,
Sir, your side has shot the man who demonstrated how left's ideas don't hold up in debates in the neck on front of his children.
And then your types are on the record going into the streets singing "we got Charlie in the neck" and other similar heinous shit.
Sit down.
It's the same shit porn sites asked kids in the 1990s. "What is your date of birth".
Yes sir, I was born on january 1st 1970. Now let me the see the titties.
Honey, no one cares about academia any more. It's been studied by people who replaced them after far left subverted the academia. The corpos. And you can see the results not because they publish what they find, but because they act to generate results they want in reality based on things they found by studying each subject.
Refer to Spotify's current recommendations algorithm for details. Log in as a young person and observe as your recommendations rapidly take you down the AI music route.
Because that's what gets best retention and best payout.
Shut up and take my money!
Unless my math is wrong, per capita cost of $241/month we get 132g (4.66oz) cookies/day and eat all the plastic waste. Piece of cake!
Again, if you think the artists don't use AI, it's because they didn't tell you.
A good example here is "I'm stuck, what rimes with x" that is a stereotypical writer block for song writers. Do you know what easily solves that problem?
LLM trained for it. I.e. Suno.ai.
Song writers writing a specific tune that just doesn't sound right that want to iterate on several close variants to determine what would sound better. Do you know what does this quickly? Suno.ai.
Again, the artists probably could, as we say it here, "climb up the tree ass first" and do this themselves. It will take them thousands to tens of thousands of times longer to solve the problem at hand than AI would solve it. But they could do it by hand.
But successful people are always starved for time. So they take every tool that will let them have a significant amount of extra time. AI is currently by far the most important tool in this category.
A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected.
