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Not an expert, but these are two different elements of fair use. “Transformative” is the first element, Nature and character of the new work, but which version people watch is the fourth element, Effect on the market
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When I worked at a supermarket in LA, someone dropped Mike Tyson off in our parking lot and I had to call him a cab
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When I lived in Spain, I had a British roommate who asked if it was true that “in American schools, they sing to the flag every morning”
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All else aside, LBJ got this right
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Saw it pass over us in San Diego a bit ago
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Shook Mel Brooks hand at the Santa Anita racetrack a bit before COVID
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Wasn’t she the person who hosted “Who Wants to Be Governor of California?” which was full Verhoeven level absurdity that I can not do justice to
youtu.be/q0IWZtHtecc?...
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The AI companies’ own projections require them to develop agentic AI to be profitable, while also projecting many multiples of current gross revenue from ChatGPT and its like (with no explanation of how they’ll earn it)
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The problem is that even with the high usage numbers, they are losing massive sums and have no path to profitability. Agentic AI, which is the big selling point to industry, still appears to be a boondoggle. There are kernels of value in a mountain of hype
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I have a friend who regularly bounces at local bars. If someone is kicked out and banned, he’s 86’ed
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Haha this seems to work with literally anything
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I don’t think it’s gone to the courts yet, but it seems plausible, if not likely, that these would not be considered “user-generated” per Section 230. The risk of AI output as a legal liability for sites as publishers is something I’d like to see more about, though it’s speculative for now
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The folks at 1900hotdof did a podcast on this book
1900hotdog.com/2023/05/podc...
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Don’t hope to buy a seventh seal, you can only afford a second, maybe a third if you save up
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I have an idea for a remake of Cronenberg’s ‘Crash’
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The first political party to hold a presidential nominating convention in the US was the Anti-Masonic Party, formed in response to a massive paranoid conspiracy movement.
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Rather, he’s arguing that the Internet boom caused the Nasdaq to shoot up, and so if AI is the next internet boom, we would expect the Nasdaq to behave similarly and it is. QED.
Still dumb as shit
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I think the argument he’s trying to make is that the internet boom and the Nasdaq looked the same, so if AI and the Nasdaq look the same, then AI is the same as the internet boom. It does not strike me as a good argument
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I think it’s just charting the Nasdaq composite? The red line is starting in November 2022, and the blue line in the 90s?
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Or they could do something like the below, where Christopher Plummer recreates a Nabokov lecture. There’s a place in culture for stuff like Mark Twain Tonight!, but that requires artists who love the source material, not quick cash grabs
youtu.be/4Mc5GEqfU7o?...
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That’s just taxi juice.
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I think it depends on the frequency. If overused it comes across as redundant and heavy-handed. Unless the character’s physical actions contradict or betray their emotional state, I think it’s better to be more indirect with the action
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He and Kissinger illegally bombed hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Cambodia/Laos, countries we weren’t at war with. His entire political career was built on inflaming red scare tensions in the US. Things like the EPA were broadly popular and passed through congress
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I mean, it would certainly explain some things
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I have a joke about Paris but telling it would be against my better judgment
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4) The Terminator 2 live show at Universal Studios Hollywood (1996-2013)
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The speech and debate clause gives Booker the chance to do something very funny
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Not stated here, but the bear never stops acting like a bear.
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I mean, this is somewhat close to William Kotzwinkle’s The Bear Went Over the Mountain
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Listen: Holden Caulfield has come unstuck in time.
Also, it has The Martian twice and neither is correct
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There was a guest host at bar trivia and they had some wrong answers so I was curious if they were AI generated. It starts getting things wrong by no 3, and the sources for some wrong ones don’t even include the book at all
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Because I could not stop for burger—/He kindly stopped for me—/The buns they held but just ourselves/And immortality
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Falling into a sand trap
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So I just looked at his IMDb, and it looks like, with the exception of James Bond, he hasn’t played a character with a British accent since 2011.
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I liked how in his Poe series, characters would describe events using excerpts from Poe, but the excerpts wouldn’t match the action what occurred on screen.
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It’s self-exculpatory. “Everyone was tricked, so clearly I wasn’t gullible or intellectually lazy.”
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Musk isn’t pro-Mars exploration. He’s pro-Mars colonization.
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But with more burgers
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You’re basically describing La Strada
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I think Burkman is even funnier. Being a middle-aged lawyer and willingly becoming a henchman to the single most incompetent grifter
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The title reminds me of a weird painting that always stuck in my memory (“Extracting the Stone of Madness”)
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Just sent an email to my alma mater complaining about this. Doubt it will do much, but it can’t hurt for the admin to know people are pissed
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Seconded. If this is what you say, it’s absolutely an infringing derivative work