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And just like the LA Times.

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"Democracy Die in Darkness"

@drahardja my personal way of doing subscriptions: I cancel them just after signing up.
It's a moment I'm interacting with it anyway, I won't forget it in the future, and even if I notice it shortly after it ran out I already saved a day or two.

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Fuck that. Don't resubscribe. They should pay you to watch their drivel. But since they won't the least you can do is turn on your VPN and torrent like it's 2009.

Never had any streaming subscriptions in my entire life 😎
Is it, like, the same as piracy, but they also take money from your account every month and limit what you can do with the content?

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Bhaggeag

So wrong looking!

If it's going to be a label it shouldn't be in the white box!?!?!

@drahardja thanks for the laugh

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@drahardja 😂👍😂👍😂

@drahardja 🙃

@drahardja inevitably pushed by people who know nothing about how it works (aka bosses).

@drahardja @pluralistic Labor laws would in no way stop AI.

We need federal laws directly banning the tech and the use of it. With jail time. That's the only thing that could stop it.

@drahardja @pluralistic I'm not sure why you're framing it as either/or. Both laws should be applied when it comes to stealing IP or abusing labor.

@drahardja @pluralistic I've been actually thinking Freedom of Speech, freedom from compulsion to speech, and freedom from speech that might incriminate you, all apply to being pushed or regulated to use an AI. 🤔. I can see this having applications in labor law, for sure.

@drahardja And if they already had optics good enough to capture that text on the 11, it’s totally unnecessary to do this now. If anything, optics and sensors got better over time.

@drahardja I can’t re-create that behaviour with my 15 Pro Max. I wonder if I have a turned off somewhere? Or have they re-tuned it?

At this point it's a misnomer to call this "photography". It's not photography if the post-processing pipeline makes its own artistic decisions like performing object segmentation to treat different parts of the scene differently, or using any AI whatsoever to influence the output. I'm fine with things like stacking multiple exposures (to reduce noise) or local tone mapping (to improve dynamic range), but this shit?..

@drahardja imagine... the world's biggest fraud's biggest money maker is, itself, a fraud. https://robertvanwey.substack.com/p/the-case-for-criminally-charging

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> Failures that forced a recall in China that continued to be shipped in the US.

One of the major ironies of life is that the horrible, mean, nasty, evil Chinese government (and I'm only being a little bit sarcastic: the Chinese government *is* vile in many ways!) offers its citizens far better consumer protection than does the good guy (totally sarcastic here, mind) USA.

This leads to an interesting, and unexpected, phenomenon.

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@drahardja i can't even make a post dramatically exaggerating the absence of regulatory action against tesla at this point. "next year we're gonna find out they just randomly explode" like there's just nowhere left to go

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I have three real nightshade in the garden. Only one flowered this year. Hopefully to seed. I have been using AI models (wellblow up dolls really ... sorry enough about me ... 😆

@drahardja seen a couple of tools like this show and then promptly be defeated over the last year :/

@drahardja I have a crisp $1 bill that says that image was created by AI