So…to be clear, this was formed just prior to the release of the app, and almost certainly the app was being developed by this person/group before then.

Sure would be good to know what public funds were used to pay for this app (I assume too much), and whether there was a bidding process (I assume there wasn’t), and whether this person is someone the decision-maker already had some relationship/connection to (I assume that was the case).

Because regardless of the public value of a tracking & propaganda window favoring one party (none), it would be completely shocking, just totally unheard of, if this was a corrupt overpayment and misuse of public funds to pay for substandard work to personal and political connections.

I mean, we didn’t just see this happen with Noem or anything.

You’re sitting on a gold mine - first DDR6/HBM, then DDR5, then DDR4 got expensive. If trends continue, somewhere around 2028 you’ll be able to sell that desoldered 128KB of SNES RAM for a fortune.

It’s like the FIFA World Peace Prize means nothing anymore.

I don’t know a single thing she’s done, and have been cynical about “content creators” as opportunists lowering the standard of entertainment/art.

But just now I decided, why hate? Seeing all our entertainment being produced by fewer and fewer billionaires every year… All the best luck and support to anyone who isn’t helping prop up that system.

Upvoted for a different perspective, but I suspect it ends in the same place.

OpenAI is kept solvent by investor capital, and capital is kept flowing by the perception of OpenAI being the market leader. Seedance being a better model, enough to cause OpenAI to exit the market, still ruptures the perception of value. In a market with no clear profitability path, that’s ground falling away.

It also can’t be simply commoditized because generations (I’m sure even Seedance) are expensive and still not good enough for production use, even if 50% of their consumer base might boycott if a major studio even did use it in production. Commoditization can’t occur when there’s still no economically self-sustaining, market-acceptable “good enough” product. Without that, even if the leader changes, it’s a race between lemmings (sorry) off the cliff.

I don’t know if the headline on the site changed or OP changed it, but to be clear, Delta is not targeting only congressmembers who are voting against the current funding proposal (i.e., this is not a “punish Democrats” targeted action, despite the headline saying those who won’t get special treatment are “members refusing to fund TSA”).

This is the current headline which is clearer: “Delta axes special treatment for Congress members over ‘inexcusable’ refusal to fund TSA”.

OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024, without providing a reason for the decision.

That is the strongest indication this is the beginning of the end for the AI bubble. Sora burned a ton of processing power, with no clear value proposition, just to keep the hype cycle going a little longer. Shutting down without explanation leaves the most likely one: they are out of helium to pump into the balloon. And if that balloon isn’t inflating, it’s deflating.

Should be interesting to play with when they reduce the memory requirements and get a ComfyUI workflow. For now, it doesn’t look usable on non-rich-person local hardware unless I’m missing something. There are some videos on this site too:

https://github.com/GAIR-NLP/daVinci-MagiHuman/

About goddamn time.

To me, the problem is that this is effectively the Switch Pro, and they called it the Switch 2. The marketing psychology makes a big difference. Switch Pro would imply it coexists alongside Switch and is for those who want to pay for more performance. Switch 2 implies that it’s something worthy of abandoning the prior generation. I think the former is fine (even desirable) and the later is just a bad value proposition.

Also interesting there were leaks about a Switch Pro a year or so prior to the Switch 2 reveal. My guess is the Switch 2 IS the Switch Pro.

I just checked and civil statute of limitations is five years. Criminal six. There’s hope at least, even if I’m similarly cynical.

I really hope there are people left keeping track of these things, is the only thing. By noon there will be something else awful, by design, that makes us all forget about this.

Yeah, this is the “tock” part of the “tick-tock” hardware cycle. People bought the Switch because it was refreshing and a new way to play. Now Nintendo is offering to let us pay again and more for nearly the same. It’s a little cynical but true.

They could have called it the SwitchU, but honestly that’s a disservice to the WiiU - its second screen had more innovation.

These are people who would have been intolerably immature even in grade school. Insufferable selfish whiny infants who refuse to do anything that isn’t the single thing they want most, and will break everything if they don’t get it.

Not sure why. I just tried them and they work both in the US and via a Sweden VPN. I’m not sure if they’re geolocked, but I can view them.

They’re in multiple parts but seem all here at least:

https://www.youtube.com/@PlainSite/videos

It’s incredible how every day in this country continues to be unimaginably dumber than the last.

I’m confused, are you American or not?

It seems like you wrote most of the comment being not an American (emphasis added):

More than Americans have, presumably. All this US apologia is fucking hilarious, you guys elected a pedophile.

…then you said you were an American.

It’s fine if you’re not an American. But just engage in good faith please.

When car-to-bat conversion technology is as good and cheap as it is, what excuse do we have?

Tomorrow you wake up American. You are the same person, nobody asked your permission, you had no say in the matter, but you are within the borders of America, are a citizen, and have no other citizenship. In fact, because you are American, no country will take you, and even if they would, it would take years up emigrate.

What do you do?

“Well, guess we have to hire 33,000 more ICE agents!”