I’ve been following the tribulations (and am looking forward to the trials) of Donald Trump. It’s fascinating, to me, the level of stupidity and bad lawyering that the republican fascist party has managed to scrape together.
I’m listening to the audiobook version of Ian Toll’s Pacific Crucible, which is about the naval war in the Pacific, WW2. [wc]
Obviously I’m not a lawyer. I’m just a guy who reads a lot of stuff. So, I’d like to clarify a few small points as I understand them.
I feel that listening to a semi-dramatic reading of a Trump indictment gives me a mental distance that allows me to appreciate the language and the argument as I hear it.
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My favorite thing about AI art is that the results are throw-aways. You are not asking a real artist to pour weeks of work and years of skill into something that is, basically, a joke.
Let me introduce you to Roberto Ferri.
I remember many times when opinions have flown about AI being incapable of adequately simulating a human. The famous Turing Test is one example, but I remember a decade ago having a discussion with a fellow film buff about the eventuality that game engines would allow machinima to replace human actors.
Do you see what I see?
DOJ just indicted trump on charges related to his theft and retention of classified documents.
This is the season finale of Trump US, Season 2. Let’s hope the show gets a hard cancel.
Imagine my surprise when I learned that “bronze” does not refer only to the classic tin/copper alloy. Generally, it does, but when you’re talking about other alloys, they are also often called “bronzes” of various sorts.