gattsuru
10hr ago
This... varies pretty heavily by area and focus. The Furry Diffusion discord has some anti-spamming measures and a general ethos focused toward quality, and as a result it's able to keep the 'floor' pretty high and higher-upvoted images are generally pretty high-quality too. They're not all good, and even the greats aren't perfect, but the degree of intentionality that can be brought forward is far greater than most people expect.
That depends on both moderation that may scale in the face of a genuinely infinite slop machine and relatively low stakes (and, frankly, monomania), but it's at least pointing to ways AI creators can operate outside of full spam mode.
gattsuru
10hr ago
Yeah, it's a hard topic, and a scary one. I was considering linking this post from tumblr:
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.
It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
And in some ways, it's a funny and illustrative story, and if AI freezes at exactly this state, I'd expect that we'll see a bunch of people very proud of their predictive prowess. And then it's also a funny and illustrative story, because 'can compete with you for every skill but your one or two specific areas of focus' describes the entire process of employing skilled labor everywhere.
gattsuru
11hr ago
It's plausible, but TEGAKI seems... questionably competent enough that it'd be a weird bank shot. Beyond that, a lot of recent image models (Flux, Qwen Image/Edit, Nano Banana) show increasingly strong evidence of (or outright state they are) being trained heavily on synthetic data.
gattsuru
11hr ago
Huh. Fair if true. I saw (and was familiar with) Six One Indie for a couple previous years of their showcases, but I stand to be corrected if you have more detail.
It'd be a convenient dodge, but even if I were willing to take it, it'd probably would still be wrong. In particular, I was under the impression that no amount of money could flatten the quadrilateral explosion in regards to Attention and Context, and it turned out to not only be doable, but doable in forms that could run on a single computer in my house. (Indeed, at 30B, a single computer in my house can go up to 1m tokens), aka off by 20x my 50k token estimate. It's not free and the software development came from money as much as it did obsessives poking at theory, but it's not like ChatGPT solved it just primarily or even predominately by throwing GPU cycles at the thing.
Award-Winning AIs
AlphaPolis, a Japanese light novel and manga publisher, announced that it has cancelled plans for the book publication and manga adaptation of the winner of its 18th AlphaPolis Fantasy Novel Awards’ Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice awards. The winning entry, Modest Skill “Tidying Up” is the Strongest! [... ed: subtitles removed], was discovered to be predominantly AI-generated, which goes against AlphaPolis’s updated contest guidelines.
To be fair, "best isekai light novel" is somewhere between 'overly narrow superlative' and 'damning with faint praise', and it's not clear exactly where how predominately AI-generated the writing is or what procedure the human involved used. My own experience has suggested that extant LLMs don't scale well to full short stories without constant direction every 600-1k words, but that is still a lot faster than writing outright, and there are plausible meta-prompt approaches that people have used with some success for coherence, if not necessarily for quality.
Well, that's just the slop-optimizing machine winning in a slop competition.
Prior to today, I had never heard of up-and-coming neo-soul act Sienna Rose before, but based on social media today, it seems a lot of people had—she’s got three songs in the Spotify top 50 and boasts a rapidly rising listener count that’s already well into the millions. She is also, importantly, not real. That’s right, the so-called “anonymous” R&B phenom with no social media presence, digital footprint, or discernible personal traits is AI generated. Who would’ve thunk?
It's a slightly higher standard than isekai (or country music), and Spotify is a much broader survey mechanism than Random Anime House, and a little easier to check for native English speakers. My tastes in music are... bad unusual, but the aigen seems... fine? Not amazing, by any means, and some artifacts, but neither does it seem certain that the billboard number is just bot activity.
Well, that's not the professional use!
Vincke shared that [Studio] Larian was openly embracing and using generative AI tools for its development processes on Divinity. Though he stated that no AI work would be in the game itself ("Everything is human actors; we're writing everything ourselves," Vincke told Bloomberg), Larian devs are, per his comments, using AI to insert placeholder text and generate concept art for the heavily anticipated RPG.
It's... hard to tell how much of this is an embarrassing truth specific to Studio Larian, or if it's just the first time someone said it out loud (and Larian did later claim to roll back some of it). Clair Obscur had a prestigious award revoked after the game turned out to have a handful of temporary assets that were AIgen left in a before-release-patch build. ARC Raiders uses a text-to-speech voice cloning tool for adaptive voice lines. But a studio known for its rich atmospheric character and setting art doing a thing is still a data point.
(and pointedly anti-AI artists have gotten to struggle with it and said they'd draw the line here or there. We'll see if that lasts.)
And that seems like just the start?
It's easy to train a LORA to insert your character or characters into parts of a scene, to draw a layout and consider how light would work, or to munge composition until it points characters the right way. StableDiffusion's initial release came with a bunch of oft-ignored helpers for classically extremely tedious problems like making a texture support seamless tiling. Diffusion-based upscaling would be hard to detect even with access to raw injest files. And, of course, DLSS is increasingly standard for AAA and even A-sized games, and it's gotten good enough that people are complaining that it's good. At the more experimental side, tools like TRELLIS and Hunyuan3D are now able to turn an image (or more reasonable, set of images) into a 3d model, and there's a small industry of specialized auto-rigging tools that theoretically could bring a set of images into a fully-featured video game character.
I don't know Blender enough to judge the outputs (except to say TRELLIS tends to give really holey models). A domain expert like @FCfromSSC might be able to give more light on this topic than I can.
Well, that's not the expert use!
Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters -- and that's not saying much -- than I do about python. It started out as my typical "google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do" kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man -- me -- and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer.
That's a pretty standard git comment, these days, excepting the bit where anyone actually uses and potentially even pays for Antigravity. What's noteworthy is the user tag:
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Assuming Torvalds hasn't been paid to advertise, that's a bit of a feather in the cap for AI codegen. The man is notoriously picky about code quality, even for small personal projects, and from a quick read-through (as an admitted python-anti-fan) that seems present here. That's a long way from being useful in a 'real' codebase, nor augmenting his skills in an area he knows well, nor duplicating his skills without his presence, but if you asked me whether I'd prefer to be recognized by a Japanese light novel award, Spotify's Top 50, or Linus Torvalds, I know which one I'd take.
My guesses for how quickly this stuff will progress haven't done great, but anyone got an over:under until a predominately-AI human-review-only commit makes it into the Linux kernel?
Well, that's just trivial stuff!
This page collects the various ways in which AI tools have contributed to the understanding of Erdős problems. Note that a single problem may appear multiple times in these lists.
I don't understand these questions. I don't understand the extent that I don't understand these questions. I'm guessing that some of the publicity is overstated, but I may not be able to evaluate even that. By their own assessment, the advocates of AI-solving Erdős problems people admit:
Erdős problems vary widely in difficulty (by several orders of magnitude), with a core of very interesting, but extremely difficult problems at one end of the spectrum, and a "long tail" of under-explored problems at the other, many of which are "low hanging fruit" that are very suitable for being attacked by current AI tools. Unfortunately, it is hard to tell in advance which category a given problem falls into, short of an expert literature review.
So it may not even matter. There are a number of red circles, representing failures, and even some green circles of 'success' come with the caveat that the problem was already-solved or even already-solved in a suspiciously similar manner.
Still a lot smarter about better at it than I am.
Okay, that's the culture. Where's the war?
TEGAKI is a small Japanese art upload site, recently opened to (and then immediately overwhelmed by) widespread applause. Its main offerings are pretty clear:
Illustration SNS with Complete Ban on Generative AI ・Hand-drawn only (Generative AI completely prohibited, CG works are OK) ・Timelapse-based authentication system to prove it's "genuinely hand-drawn" ・Detailed statistics function for each post (referral sources and more planned for implementation)
That's a reasonable and useful service, and if they can manage to pull if off at scale - admittedly a difficult task they don't seem to be solving very well given the current 'maintenance' has a completion estimate of gfl - I could see it taking off. If it doesn't, it describes probably the only plausible (if still imperfect) approach to distinguish AI and human artwork, as AI models are increasingly breaking through limits that gave them their obvious 'tells', and workflows like ControlNet or long inpainting work have made once-unimaginably-complex descriptions now readily available.
That's not the punchline. This is the punchline:
【Regarding AI Use in Development】 To state the conclusion upfront: We are using coding AI for development, maintenance, and operational support. ・Integrated Development Environment: Cursor Editor・Coding: ClaudeCode・Code Review: CodeRabbit We are using these services. We have no plans to discontinue their use.
@Porean asked "To which tribe shall the gift of AI fall?" and that was an interesting question a whole (/checks notes/) three years ago. Today, the answer is a bit of a 'mu': the different tribes might rally around flags of "AI" and "anti-AI", but that's not actually going to tell you whether they're using it, nevermind if those uses are beneficial.
In September 2014, XKCD proposed that an algorithm to identify whether a picture contains a bird would take a team of researchers five years. YOLO made that available on a single desktop by 2018, in the sense that I could and did implement training from scratch, personally. A decade after XKCD 1425, you can buy equipment running (heavily stripped-down) equivalents or alternative approaches off the shelf default-on; your cell phone probably does it on someone's server unless you turn cloud functionality it off, and might even then. People who loathe image diffusers love auto-caption assistance that's based around CLIP. Google's default search tool puts an LLM output at the top, and while it was rightfully derided for nearly as year as terrible llama-level output, it's actually gotten good enough in recent months I've started to see anti-AI people use it.
This post used AI translation, because that's default-on for Twitter. I haven't thrown it to ChatGPT or Grok to check whether it's readable or has a coherent theme. Dunno whether it would match my intended them better, or worse, to do so.
If you think I do this for the adoration of the community and the fuzzy feels, look at the vote counts on most of my posts.
So... is there a reason you asked how we could interact in ways other than criticism?
Saying that conservatives should have taken HR815 as a compromise is a coherent claim, just one you dislike and disagree with.
No, it is not. A coherent claim has to have some clear logical support. There needs to be an X thus Y component; otherwise it's just an ipse dixit.
And this sort of game is what drives me bonkers about HR815 getting used as a cudgel. You're not "specifically referring to that bill", and you aren't even saying it's an example or part of your example now, but you're also not going explain any level of specific support that could be falsified, to confront any of the reasons people might disagree, and you're not going to recognize that the people defending it here had to constantly lie completely miss details about every single section.
I understand why it's not persuasive to you, and frankly to the others with dug in positions on immigrants and American identity. Do you understand why 'we will never trust any legislation on immigration again' is also not persuasive as an argument, in addition to being rather stupid?
No, my position is not "we will never trust any legislation on immigration again". My position is that any compromise on immigration needs to have immediate, serious, and costly compromises paid by the group that has spent half of the last forty years exploiting and ignoring the law for their own purposes, instead of people insisting that it's a compromise because it's an immigration bill and Ezra Klien lied about it.
If you're done with the legislative process, go join the fedposters and leave me alone.
If you think fedposting is bad, you probably will do a better job arguing against it by arguing against it, instead of just going nuts shoving words in other people's mouths.
You think the rhetoric around muslim travel bans and shithole countries and building the wall with DOD funds rather than taking a DACA deal is the 'moderate' position? Stoking partisanship is going to win you elections and make your base love you, but it's not a recipe for passing laws in congress or winning in the court of popular opinion.
Trivially, as I demonstrated in the link that coincidentally wasn't worth responding to, it's actually pretty unclear how incompatible it is with winning in the court of popular opinion or passing laws in congress.
EDIT :/ Just as trivially, the DACA 'deals' had a different result than you might remember. /EDIT
More critically, if a policy someone in the media gives a bad name, mean words, and sketchy misuses of DoD funds are all that it takes to make someone not-moderate on that position, you're going to have to give up ever Dem politician on the national level in the last thirty years, especially on gun control. Trump's actual actions were, despite his best efforts, not that far from those of the Obama era... as evidenced by one of his biggest 'scandals' on immigration enforcement revolving around pictures from the Obama era. Didn't matter. Suddenly everyone thought kids in cages were worth crying themselves to sleep over, until Biden got elected and they forgot it was even a thing.
Time will tell, but however much people like to play rules lawyer about cars being lethal weapons, I don't think normies like seeing normie moms getting shot in the head.
... there's a minor quibble, here, about the 'normie mom' hobby of spending several minutes doing three hundred point turns in the middle of a bunch of federal officers trying to do their job. But it's a distraction.
In 1992, ATF agents trying to enforce a pretty arbitrary federal gun laws -- while operating off a bench warrant issued for a 'failure to appear' to a court date that was itself issued in error -- shot four people, killing two, including an unarmed woman holding a baby. Lon Horuichi, the sniper who killed the unarmed woman, had his state prosecution dropped after federal politicians intervened heavily in the state to unseat the only prosecutor willing to consider that a Bad Thing.
There was another thing, you might have heard about it in the context of charcoal briquettes for some reason? Oh, yeah, 82 people died, a significant portion of which were women or children. Many of them in pretty awful ways! Heavily motivated by the ATF wanting a big, high-profile win on a gun-related case.
And, of course, this had zero impact on Bill Clinton's then-active campaign for a federal assault weapon ban, which passed in 1994 and only ended when an unrelated Republican wave coincided with a sunset provision. Wasn't even controversial at a federal level until a couple complete nutjobs spent five-plus years digging into it and revealed that the official story in both cases had more holes than Ben_Garison's Lankford story, and even then you didn't get national television heads suggesting that maybe you can't shoot people or burn them on a pyre for being annoying and 'resisting arrest'.
(Not that one in a hundred normies could tell you what, say, LaVoy Finicum was protesting, either, but he didn't have a vagina, so he doesn't count.)
No one cared. Progressives don't give a damn about women getting shot. They care about what's politically useful, and what's on the television. And, hell, I'm not saying conservatives are different! (although I personally try to care; in addition to my IRL work, I've pointedly tried to stick to 'don't speak ill of the dead' for this specific example.)
Because Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul and a host of influential figures on the left admitting that illegal immigration is a problem and the Biden admin fucked up combined with shifts in the general population is the ideal time to pass immigration legislation. When else do you think it's going to happen?
After a sizable Republican trifecta, bluntly, if then. There is absolutely zero tolerance for any serious enforcement on immigration, there wasn't before Trump flopped his fat ass onto an escalator, and there won't be in my lifetime. There's not a single Democrat on the federal stage that can even credibly pretend to oppose sanctuary city policies hiding convicted murderers from ICE. Wasn't in December 2024, either.
Klein, Newsom, and Hochul 'admitted' a lot of things in the same sense that they admitted some trans policies were wrong or a Fieren villain admits anything: "words are a means for deceiving humans". And you can tell that, because Trump has not overstepped anywhere near as dramatically on trans stuff, and all three are bending over backwards for those at the same time they make mouth sounds about moderation, and that Newsom was promoting benefits for illegal immigrants in this supposed golden hour before Trump's second inauguration.
Now that Trump is calling blue cities warzones and making shitposts about Chiraq and we're seeing ICE raids in our neighborhoods? The opportunity for rapprochement and compromise was wasted.
The opportunity for rapprochement and compromise was before someone else had power over you. There may well be strategic or tactical benefits for moderation on the behalf of the victors, but you have to actually make them and support them, not just that it costs political capital to do things, or that you have things you'd rather the political capital be spent on (I agree with you there!), but actually demonstrate that it's not the BATNA.
gattsuru
1d ago
If you want to interact with me in some mutually beneficial way, then interact with me. I'm not chasing you with a cluebat and then disappearing into the wilderness after every bonk. Hell, the first reply I had to one of your comments I can find is nearly three months old, and it's not some harsh teardown of your every claim: it's saying that I wanted to believe you were right, but that being right wouldn't be enough to argue against malicious actors.
Or, you could comment on ways I'm wrong. Lord knows it happens enough. I'm not a gracious loser, but I like to think I can at least notice when I've lost, and you've got the domain expertise to do a credible contest in some matters.
I'm sorry that I'm not just pointing "this (up arrow emoji)" on the MMUD or tauren druid posts, but I generally try to avoid posting unless I either have further information or a correction, especially since this time of year is a clusterfuck.
Perhaps the way I wrote my comment misled you, but I wasn't specifically referring to that bill. The majority of Trump's agenda has been through executive orders that will be reversed the day after he leaves office, particularly since the center and center-left have soured on immigration enforcement after the last year.
That's more close to a coherent claim, though I'd quibble about how the start time works.
But you do understand why it's not that persuasive as a crux of your argument? There's zero trust that 'moderate' enforcement regimes would be tolerated or accepted -- not just because of the Lankford bill showing that 'moderate' meant no actual mandate, or that literal decades before that 'moderate' enforcement meant wildly net-positive illegal immigration, but simply that Trump tried that in the first administration, it was overwhelmingly not tolerated or accepted, and indeed its use was made to justify the massive uptick in tolerated illegal immigration under Biden.
Why do you think anything could be done about immigration on January 19th, 2025?
gattsuru
1d ago
There was a moment at the end of the Biden administration where I thought there was relatively broad bipartisan agreement that something needed to be done about immigration. The left knew it was a losing issue, all the talking heads on the center left agreed something needed to be done, etc. The right (well, Trump really) chose to score political points instead and unilaterally take a bunch of actions that will be reversed three years from now.
No, the Biden administration tried to throw out a completely toothless bill to distract people before an election, and remove some of the few constraints on progressive immigration bullshittery remaining.
gattsuru
1d ago
They're definitely vastly improved, but I've still been burned recently. Both Grok and ChatGPT independently invented hallucinated time mandates (2000 and 2250, respectively) when fed in this, this, and this. To be fair, that's a hard enough problem that the FAA's gotten pushback over a proposed regulation not just because of normal problems like cost and necessity, but because literally zero mechanics can understand the charts and formula. It's one of the worst formatted set of PDFs I've ever seen, and I've worked with badly-translated Chinese microchip docs.
gattsuru
2d ago
Congratulations! and some sympathies re: Java/gradle/maven
Containerization's one of those things that I've got badly mixed feelings on. Too many businesses (and open source communities!) use it as an alternative to actually understanding and managing their dependency graph or actually setting up sane requirements. But the whole 'full isolation and discrete permissions' is good! But it's trivially easy to set up a container that doesn't actually live up to that. Most of big formats have surprisingly good behavior. But the performance overhead for using networking for every form of interprocess communication can get pricey, and even if you don't care about performance the implementation and documentation is near-universally pants.
But if you need to be able to take a server functionality out behind the shed and Ol' Yeller it, it's hard to beat, and much more practical for that purpose than having twenty VMs rolling around.
What do you think I'm arguing here?
I think you're arguing that :
I have concluded that almost everyone (including our Motte effort-posters) forms a conclusion based not on actually trying to analyze videos and consider evidence, but rather, how they feel about ICE, ICE protesters, immigrants, and Trump.
And, by conjunction, that people's current assessments are at minimum overconfident or not based on available facts on this particular case. If you can't be bothered to defend it or provide evidence about other people's assessments -- or even highlight the specific ones you think are overconfident and how! -- I don't particularly care what those underlying positions are, and I'm certainly not going to speak on them. There's a fun space for Bulverism, and I'm trying to resist it, and I'm definitely not going to consider it useful to spell out.
And I know you know I didn't speak on your ground-level positions, or make claims about your underlying biases or perceptions related to this particular shooting, because you would have quoted me if I did.
The claim of motivated reasoning could be defended. I don't think it's a particularly strong one in this case, but I haven't exactly had time to evaluate a ton of the evidence for or against. You know what you haven't done? Present any evidence that the poster you responded to here made a claim incompatible with the available evidence. Instead we get hypotheticals that don't exist.
I could debate those! LaVoy Finicum has more overlap with Good than Babbit does, in that they weren't anywhere near a federal politician, they were doing a pretty overtly illegal protest of the type that no one really expects to get arrested nevermind shot over, they had a deadly weapon but it was contestable whether they were a 'real' threat to life before the first bullet rather than just doing something incredibly stupid that could hurt someone, yada yada.
It'd be a useless debate -- Red Tribers could quite aptly point to the many ways the Feds pushed before and misbehaved after the shooting, Blue Tribers can (and regularly do) just say Guns Are Different -- but before we even get there, we have to confront the bit where Finicum wasn't a Red Tribe cause celebre. Not even here. Literally, in the sense that the only person to ever use his name on this site other than me was to say "No one cares." (tbf, two indirect references, [ed: one of which I can't find now]). He had eight mentions in the entire history of TheMotte over at Reddit, four of them were me being ambivalent, and the here's the other four. Nobody's certain from day one that Finicum must be innocent, and that his shooter must be hanged.
But it doesn't matter that it's useless, if that's what it takes to avoid someone pretending "This is inane and mindkilling, but here is where even the Motte is now", while being more insistent to actual bring an actual specific fault of analysis than the broad majority of people you're criticizing. Does it matter for that analysis?
gattsuru
3d ago
gattsuru
3d ago
Control's trying to be about an FBI-by-way-of-X-Files, but there's a number of bits that don't really match how americans see the place. Ahti the janitor/god would have been hispanic-themed (or actually Coyote) in a US-work, the Board doesn't really match American oversight concepts, FORMER seems too inspired by the formori in form and concept. The Oceanview Motel is supposed to come from late-80s Montana, and it's hard to separate how much of it's weird because of the whole shared dream subconcious thing going on, but the lack of air conditioners is not especially plausible. The Oldest House's exterior comes by way of a specific (probably NSA) construction that exists in real-world New York, but the interior is a blend of every brand of brutalism ever, and that's necessarily going to include a lot of non-American influences.
I think it works out for the better -- it's supposed to be subtly weird in a way that just cloning a Best Western and the Hoover Building wouldn't -- but I don't have the same tastes as 2rafa.
gattsuru
3d ago
Doubly so when it's a King Arthur sword that a) isn't good at its job, and b) likes to make those who attempt to use it An Hero themselves.
gattsuru
3d ago
I'll take the last option, if it's on the table. But it's not my point. Similarly, I can and have written long top-level digressions on motivated reasoning reason and its failure modes, both on the right and the left; I can highlight other top-level posters today who're pretty clearly not caring about whether what they say is true or not. But whether it's present in general isn't my point, either, and it wasn't the claim you dived in with.
My point is that I believe the majority of people commenting, and currently making earnest statements about how certain they are about the truth, would argue the exact opposite position, given the same evidence, if the tribal polarities were reversed.
(FWIW, I mostly didn't believe anyone was even attempting to be honest during the Floyd and Rittenhouse cases either. I believe them even less now.)
There are claims about a specific thing.
They aren't testable claims. There's no number of doubts in the first days of the Rittenhouse case, or situations like Arbery or Steven Ray Baca (or Babbit!) cases where the same posters have been either ambivalent or opposed to their supposed co-partisans, or others where people were willing to consider the alternative explanations for their supposed enemies. I can show myself literally writing "I'm reserving judgment on this whole thing til we get the bodycam". Doesn't matter, you threw an asterisk on at the last minute, done.
The 'what if the shoe were on the other foot' arguments write themselves. Would you consider it more acceptable were I to dive into a conversation saying, well, I don't think you're being blatantly dishonest, but darwin was three years ago? Because I don't particularly want to do that, but if it's permitted I at least need to consider what responses are available to it.
It wouldn't bug me as much you actually confronted the main truth that the other writer literally spelled out as their major update from the story ("From rest, the driver backed up her 1.5-ton SUV and accelerated towards the ICE agent"). ((or if your examples of things we Can't Be Sure of did not include multiple in strong contradiction with the evidence: so far the best example of motivated reasoning you've given is you)).
But as is, it seems like an epitome of "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table". Regardless of whether it's in the rules or not, what do you think you're even arguing here?
gattsuru
6d ago
Dreher's an old-school social con, directly and openly opposed to populist right organizations, is claiming that a number of groups that he doesn't like are inundated by the single least palatable variant of populist right (or 'right') to his cohort. There's a pretty obvious possible motive.
gattsuru
6d ago
What would look different from the world where he claims to have reached out to people in the know, and either didn't tell the truth or didn't care if he got comical exaggeration?
gattsuru
6d ago
... is the rule here that we're allowed to call large swatches of people out as inconsistent without evidence, but just not search through someone's post history to show it for specific individuals who do have that evidence?
gattsuru
6d ago
What else should it mean to "be in the country legally" if it doesn't include a situation where a judge has said you can't be deported?
Being in the country legally has several side effects, ranging from work eligibility to running the clock on naturalization. Getting a 'the government can't send you to this specific country' or 'the government can't send you anywhere else until the end of the case' does not.
gattsuru
6d ago
People here considered it, and I'm pretty sure that poster even did so in good faith. Of your own proposals, the video seems to at least significantly reduce the possibility of b and c.
I'm not going to say anything with confidence yet -- we don't even have confirmation this is real video! -- but there's a long distance between 'absolute 100% proof' and not 'particularly clarifying'.
gattsuru
6d ago
Playing a bit more Project Silverfish. It's still staggeringly unforgiving and I have a hell of a time identifying factions by eyeball before they start shooting at me, but getting more familiar enough with the conventions and map to not start each run scrambling for a compass and/or a helmet with a HUD.
Took Stoneblock 4 off the back burner. Like most FTB Minecraft modpacks, it suffers a bit from having too many random themes thrown in willy-nilly, but it's definitely polished.
Put Star Citizen back for now. They've had a bit of a tradition of year-end patches with hilariously bad balance ramifications, and this time the year-end patch dropped a pretty deep system without too many problems (and VR, mostly working)... but the balance is impressively scuffed. Might look back at it again in a month or two.
That's fair. There are some models that allow more specific control prompt-only of multicharacter composition, like Whisk, Nano Banana, and Qwen, but they have tradeoffs and tend to give 'worse' output quality if used as the only or final part of a workflow. In-painting can give phenomenal amounts of control for very complex character layouts (or background layouts), but at the cost of a lot of tedious work (cw: 9mb video file). There's been similar efforts using related technologies for comics, loresheets, game environments, and ultra-complex characters (in the furry fandom, usually things like cyborgs and complex hybrids).
Which does give more space for self-expression, but it's not going to have the volume to be visible in a DeviantArt firehose view.
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