I would actually be okay with libraries having those AI services. Even if they were available only for a fee it would be absurdly low and still waived for people with low or no income.

I would also recommend Pandora. I’ve had a family plan for years so I don’t know for sure but there used to be a free (ad supported) tier that you could check out. And to reiterate comments from above, custom playlists and song/album play on demand is available (though some tracks are only available in discovery mode).

I love going to used music/movie stores. So much good stuff there that can’t be edited or de-streamed out of existence.

This doesn’t appear as bad as some of the other ai legal stuff. Formatting references isn’t really about generating content as much as structuring it and AI (usually) doesn’t have the kind of problems with hallucinations when just tasked with reorganizing data. I’ve used GPT for reformatting references to APA style and it worked really well. I’m surprised Claude couldn’t handle this task.

Also bummed that there doesn’t appear to be a book called a statisticians guide to making inferences with noisy data, because that sounds like a book worth checking out.

This should be required viewing. Such a bummer we lost Alan Rickman too early and missed put on a sequel.

Yikes. As nice as it would be to have an extra $2500, I can’t imagine a scenario in which using this jackwad’s platform is a good idea.

Oh yeah I’m sure there will be something. Definitely not a deal breaker for me. But I’m curious to see what they do for navigation.

No minimap? Ugh.mt husband have played every Borderlands game together multiple times and that minimap is our saving grace. We are constantly splitting up to do different things or grab stuff and the map makes it so much easier to find one another. Will be a bit chaotic going without, maybe they will make it an option in coop or something.

I get why this was shuttered. I love Borderlands but can’t imagine an mmo of the series that I’d want to play.

But if it makes this hacker happy to pursue launching this service himself, more power to him I guess.

Unless they get creative this likely won’t do anything but piss off the human users. Research from a couple years ago found that bots are better than people at captchas.

This is sort of the way ::: spoiler spoiler The Wrath of Becky ends. After exacting her revenge for the second time, she gets approached by a CIA person who basically offers her a job as a field agent/professional killer and she ends up getting support ro take out one final bad guy with a flipping tank. It’s a satisfying ending for the movie and for Becky. :::

If you haven’t seen those movies, they’re worth checking out. They’re like 2 hours of revenge/justice porn, very violent and gory but entertaining.

Isn’t this charging model the same reason Kindle stopped allowing in app purchases? I thought they had said it was a Google play store thing though. Is Google doing it too or is there pricing something different?

Here’s the main one I used to get started.

https://www.udemy.com/share/101Yfa3@8XPxXbG1DlivBLYGDQBz4q_2ELh5RBS7IxJQFAsw6_JZaeTT-te7EdqUz3kcjiTo/

I’ve started one on creating abstract art in Affinity that seems pretty good and I have a few others in my learning queue from him on specific parts of affinity that look really good but I haven’t done yet.

Him and Lindsey Marsh have a bunch of content out there on the whole suite. I took Lindsey’s course on graphic design theory that was pretty good but that course used adobe so i used it more for general concepts. I think either of them would be a good place to start.

Also udemy has some fantastic courses to learn the whole suite, each can be purchased for lifetime access for $10-15 USD. The instructors I bought from are still actively updating their courses and I get all the new stuff, even though I bought when AD was still on v1.3.

If you’re looking to learn it’s a really affordable way to do it.

I just watched that again for the first time in a while. It definitely hits different in the age of AI driven layoffs.

Highly recommend.

These researchers conducted research in a manner that was totally unethical and they deserve to be stripped of tenure and lose any research funding they have.

It already sounds like the university is preparing to just protect them and act like it’s no big deal, which is discouraging but I suppose not surprising.

Oh yeah this recipe looks better than the one I used. I would never have thought to bake the potatoes instead of boiling them thanks for sharing this! Maybe I’ll give gnocchi another go sometime.

Having recently tried to make gnocchi, I have so much more appreciation for people who can make this successfully. Mine turned into little balls of sludge and were VERY unappealing.

Yours looks very yummy.

60% of the time, it works every time

AMEN. I’m sure many women will agree with me that getting hit on in a linkedin dm is so demoralizing.

I’ve had men as me if I did sex documentaries (?), just tell me I’m hot, and ask to connect because I look like I’m nice, all sorts of creepy stuff. These guys have impressive profiles and look like they’re doing well, but they are slimeballs and it made me not want to use LinkedIn at all, which is hard when you’re on the job Markey.