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Hoimo

@ Hoimo @ani.social

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  • Imagine that

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  • That pun went over my head. He doesn't look like a coot though, but geese and ducks look alike in Duck-style, so maybe coots do too.

  • A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman

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  • I think this is completely missing the point when it's talking about "the minutiae of art". It's making two claims at the same time: art is better when you suffer for it and the art is good whether or not you suffered. But none of that is relevant.

    When Wyeth made Christina's World, I don't know if he suffered or not when painting that grass. What I do know is that he was a human with limited time and the fact that he spent so much of his time detailing every blade of grass means that he's saying something. That The Oatmeal doesn't draw backgrounds might be because he's lazy, but he also doesn't need them. These are choices we make to put effort in one part and ignore some other part.

    AI doesn't make choices. It doesn't need to. A detailed background is exactly the same amount of work as a plain one. And so a generated picture has this evenly distributed level of detail, no focus at all. You don't really know where to look, what's important, what the picture is trying to say. Because it's not saying anything. It isn't a rat with a big butt, it's just a cloud of noise that happens to resemble a rat with a big butt.

  • Imagine that

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  • I thought it was at least named after a Duck, like the McDuck family. But Rosaverse says the founder is called Cornelius Coot and he named it Duckburg for no particular reason.

    Side note: Cornelius' beak looks much more like those of confirmed geese like Gladstone Gander, so I'm not even sure he's a duck at all.

    Second side note: It's weird that Donald's family tree is filled with waterfowl of all different species, but no dogs (which seems to be 80% of Duckburg's population) or other species. Do they have egg groups like Pokemon?

  • I work for a supermarket that's recently rolled out AI chatbots to "help" customers find items in store instead of asking staff.

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  • Exactly, this isn't a difficult problem to solve. If it's even a problem in the first place, because a sensible layout with good signage is enough for 99% of customers. A website to navigate a store is probably not even worth it in terms of net time savings, but it's convenient for customers and makes them more likely to go to your store if they can see something is in stock before they even leave their home, which is where the real return on investment is. An LLM can't give you live stock updates, so that's half of the value proposition gone.

  • What completed, not cancelled, TV series or limited series do you think there could or should have been more seasons of?

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  • Ooh yeah, but on the other hand, it's now the perfect length to binge on a dreary Sunday afternoon in October. So I think instead of a second season of Wirt and Greg, I'd like a new series of similar length, maybe a little darker and chillier, for a blisteringly cold November night.

  • What turn of phrase do you hate?

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  • M.A.S.H

  • Classic

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  • Master vs main (again)

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  • I use master and apprentice. Always two there are, no more, no less.

  • We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.

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  • I try to listen to SMN once in a while, but I often leave it for when I can watch the video. It needs different editing to truly work as a podcast, there's a lot of info presented as pictures or graphs and skimmed over by the narration. And you miss all the jokes made by the title card monkey.

  • We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.

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  • The post includes a link to the very video, but here it is again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD3rSA4FSqk

    It's a very good analysis of political violence in the US. Cody Showdy generally does great work discussing not just the news, but the olds too. Fair and Balanced™©® and all that.

  • General strike against 13-hour day brings Greece to a halt

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  • Are you getting paid overtime past 8 hours though? Because there's a big difference between getting double rates for those extra hours (incentivizing your boss to hire a second worker) and demanding everyone work double shifts for normal wages.

  • General strike against 13-hour day brings Greece to a halt

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  • Not directly, but once the law allows for it, employers start demanding it. Individual workers have very little bargaining power to refuse at that point. So before you know it, the 13 hour day is normalized and labor protections have taken a knock back into 1920.

  • BritCard ID Now Mandatory — What Happens if You Refuse?

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  • That video is what you could've linked in the first place. It clearly explains the whole situation, and the colors and numbers make sense in the context (they're highlighted examples and not really exceptional cases). Don't act like you're doing any "work for free" when you yourself admit you're lazily cropping other people's work.

  • BritCard ID Now Mandatory — What Happens if You Refuse?

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  • I don't see that picture in the linked article. A similar picture, but it doesn't have the numbers and shades of green.

    I know how to use search engines, by the way. But I also think that it's the responsibility of the person sharing graphs/maps to provide context for those graphs to enable readers to understand the data without having to go and do their own research. There's no guarantee anyone finds the original source or that the source even provides the necessary context, if the sharer just grabbed a picture from Google Images without regard for the source.

    So no, I won't even attempt to find context and happily push that burden back on the person who lazily shared a graph without explanation.

  • BritCard ID Now Mandatory — What Happens if You Refuse?

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  • This map needs an explanation. Is grey just no data? Why the two shades of green? The numbers, what do they mean?

  • Seeding (Sharing) is Caring

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  • Atypical is pretty good, it's a coming-of-age about an autistic teen. It managed to evade the Department of Premature Cancellations for 4 seasons and even reached a satisfying conclusion.

  • Charlie Kirk in his own words. Half of the United States is paying tribute to this man.

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  • It's always so funny to see someone squirm under oath. They don't dare lie, but they'll do anything but tell the truth. Just lie at that point dude, reciting the alphabet to avoid answering is just sad.

  • Fox and TPUSA Declare Kirk's Holy Tissue Performed a Miracle. (No, really. 🤦‍♂️ )

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  • The shooter who went to a Charlie Kirk event, took one clean shot at Charlie Kirk, saw Charlie Kirk go sideways and left the scene? I wonder what their motive could have been, maybe they would have shot someone else if Charlie Kirk hadn't been there to bravely catch that bullet.

  • 100% genuine posting.exe

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  • Yes, it's highlighting the searched text in the results. The bolding isn't part of the original tweets.

  • Removed

    Block communities by name

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  • 11 of those comms are on ani.social, an anime-centric instance where it is totally legit to split "pictures of anime girls" into more specific comms. It's not unhinged or spam at all, but if you don't want to see anime, probably best to block ani.social tbh.

    I for one like to see all the moe on top of my local feed and not pushed down to page 5 of global.