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Cake day: March 28th, 2023

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  • Utterly doomed licensing. I mean rule #1 of a clean-room reimplementation is to not openly admit you’re ripping off another product.

    Secondly, as others have said, “AI did it” is not a clean room. Otherwise I can make the next pokemon game and just say that I got AI to reinvent the word pokemon and to generate all the pictures of pikachu therefore I’m good.

    Thirdly, the amount of horrible AI verbiage makes the documentation alone awful to read, I have no temptation to try this.





  • The 1972 animation version/book? Hell yeah. It’s actually one of my favourite videos (even if it does make me kinda sad). It’s not perfect, but it’s a serious call to people to re-evaluate their impact on the world and think about what’s truly sustainable. Should be required watching for all people.

    The 2012 movie? Never seen it, but my understanding is it’s utterly corrupted meaningless shite, and I’m meaningfully convinced it’s deliberate propaganda to obscure the original message.

    I mean jesus, they then licensed Lorax IP to a fucking ICE SUV. Dr Seuss must’ve been spinning in his grave

    Mazda used the likeness of The Lorax’s setting and characters in an advertisement for their CX-5 SUV. … Universal chose to partner with the Mazda CX-5 because it is “a really good choice for consumers to make who may not have the luxury or the money to buy electric or buy hybrid. It’s a way to take the better environmental choice to everyone.”