This probably explains a lot of it.
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Fake People
Let’s face the reality. People are shit.
With that being said, it is little wonder why this story is relevant.
Researchers at Netease Fuxi AI Lab and University of Michigan have recently created MeInGame, a deep learning technique that can automatically generate character faces by analyzing a single portrait of a person’s face. This technique, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, can be easily integrated into most existing 3D videogames.
Pretty soon. We won’t even need the “real” input photo and computers will just generate characters for us. I am also going to assume that computers will also generate fake voices to go along with it.
What does that mean?
It means big movie studios will be able to make a movie without all of the overhead of the actors. I’m sure there will be labor rattling in the beginning but actors are expensive. They also can say bad things in public, hurt your brand, etc.
A computer that you control, will probably not do that.
Hell Weekend Ends
Well, it was pretty exciting but the weekend upgrade thing is over.
Well, for now anyway. I expect we will be still working on things for most of the week.
Collective sigh…
P.S. Yes. Nude girl jumping is appropriate.
Cancel Culture
I am surprised to see this from California.
“Cancel culture and the efforts to silence differing opinions and voices should be a growing concern for all of us,” said state Sen. Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore. “A climate of intolerance has been established and has stifled healthy and normal debate. Anyone who values their own freedom of speech should be concerned.”
Hell Weekend Begins
I guess another term for it would be major system upgrade.
I’m not sure how much writing I’ll be able to do over the weekend but I am hoping to keep to the schedule.
I’ve gotten a brilliant idea to write a screenplay for my next big thing. I’m still working out what the movie would be about.
Frickin Laser Beams
Looks like we’re going to finally get some Star Wars style weapons after all.
CW lasers may be effective enough for now, but fall short of science fiction. They just aren’t capable of firing at that speed. While they can melt their targets, burn them or mess with optical sensors by zapping them with high-intensity light, they are nowhere near vaporizing the outer layer of a drone like the USPL can. The UPSL improves on CWs massively. This thing is rugged enough to withstand being beat up, but can aim with precision and do irreversible damage. It can turn pieces of a target to vapor, screw with sensors enough to make them useless, and also overpower the innards of the electronics from the Dark Side.
Yes.
Population Control
I just thought of a brilliant idea.
How do you weed down the population?
Float a story about the Earth being flat. The people that believe it…
…they’ve gots to go!
Like I said, brilliant.
Goodbye Facebook News in Australia
You won’t hear me say those words very often.
Facebook made a decision to turn off the news feeds for Australia.
Australian users cannot share Australian or international news.
International users outside Australia also cannot share Australian news.
“The proposed law fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between our platform and publishers who use it to share news content,” Facebook regional managing director William Easton said.
“It has left us facing a stark choice: attempt to comply with a law that ignores the realities of this relationship, or stop allowing news content on our services in Australia. With a heavy heart, we are choosing the latter,” Easton added.
Last Day of the Month
I’m filing this one under shizz because it just should be.
It is snowing.
That is really all I have to say…
…or do I?
I started watching a show on Netflix called Fate which is a lot like Harry Potter except with all fairies. I’ll write a more appropriate review when I finish the first season. Of course, since we’re talking about Netflix it could only get one season and be really good but since Netflix decides whatever the show can get cancelled.
I’m not bitter about the cancelling. I get enraged about it. Why bother sinking all of your resources into something only to decide too soon that it wasn’t making you enough income? Look at Firefly. Jesus. That show should have lasted a shitload of seasons longer than it did. Everyone knows it.
Ok. This post about nothing in particular is over now. Everyone can resume with whatever they were doing which is probably infinitely more interesting than reading this garbage.
The picture is courtesy of this post who thinks that micro plastics are everywhere and we should all care about it.
1% Mob Mentality
I am by no means, a one percenter.
In fact, I am probably on the opposite side of that spectrum.
I do not desire to have anything that a one percenter has. If I did, I would create a task list and goals that would get me to that end. It is really pretty simple really.
We can do anything if we actually set our minds to it. We really can.
During this past “peak season” when online shipments are going through the roof, I am the busiest that I will be all year long. It is always a dreaded time of the year for me and the people that work for me.
This year I decided to do something really radical. I decided to try and write a short story during “peak season.” I set a goal with clearly defined road maps along the way and followed the plan. The result?
Not only did I write a short story during “peak season” but I wrote nearly three of them. I finished the 3rd story shortly after the new year.
I am currently finishing up the 4th story and will soon be onto the 5th story. The goal is a nine story set that I may plan on actually publishing.
There is a point to all of this. If you want something that someone else has that, in and of itself, is a problem. That not withstanding, if you want something that someone else has or even just their lifestyle you can do it. If, you work at it.
There lies the rub. People are lazy. People are stupid. People love lashing out in a pack mentality. I think it is perfectly fine to want what someone else has as long as you are willing to do what it takes to achieve it for yourself.
Thinking that someone else owes you something is retarded. Yes. I’ll use the word and if you don’t like you can fuck off. Only a retarded cunt thinks that way. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that if you think the world owes you a pickup truck then I think the world should run you over with said pickup truck. That is what you deserve.
It is no wonder that I think people are shit.
It is because they are.
Not. Bitter.
