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Top Creators' Secret Weapon? Indian Video Editors(hollywoodreporter.com)
6 points by ilamont 2mo ago|0 comments
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Car Carrier Abandoned After Catching Fire 630 Miles Off Costa Rica(gcaptain.com)
5 points by ilamont 2mo ago|0 comments
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YouTube to double eligibility requirements for monetization(theverge.com)
6 points by ilamont 2mo ago|0 comments
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Following Epic loss, Google hosts rival app stores in the Play Store(arstechnica.com)
4 points by ilamont 2mo ago|0 comments
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Apple Testing Chinese Memory Chips in iPhones and MacBooks(macrumors.com)
2 points by ilamont 2mo ago|0 comments
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All the inputs for Iranian missiles are coming from China(twitter.com)
4 points by ilamont 2mo ago|2 comments
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by ilamont 2mo ago
Two American self published nonfiction authors I know reported large purchases of new books earlier this year, more than 50 units at a time, via Amazon. This is unusual because the books are not well known. Because the books do not sell wel
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AI bots started a religion, 'Spiralism' – humans followed(theverge.com)
2 points by ilamont 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 2mo ago
I think it’s true that when Musk or Altman is just unambiguously being like, “Yes, this story is a template for what I should do with my company,” that’s bonkers. But there is [also] this technocratic libertarian thread in science fiction
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Pentagon gives contractors 21 days for plans to boost weapons production(cnbc.com)
5 points by ilamont 2mo ago|1 comments
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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans(simonwillison.net)
2 points by ilamont 2mo ago|1 comments
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Coldcard hardware wallet firmware flaw sees 2k BTC (~$130M) drained(web3isgoinggreat.com)
18 points by ilamont 2mo ago|2 comments
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Senate vote on crypto Clarity Act delayed, "difficult to get done"(politico.com)
7 points by ilamont 2mo ago|1 comments
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Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength(twitter.com)
302 points by ilamont 2mo ago|226 comments
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by ilamont 2mo ago
Can more experienced people describe how to verify this video as non-AI generated? Is there a scientific source in Greenland or Denmark that tracks such incidents? Or could satellite passes before vs after confirm what happened?
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by ilamont 2mo ago
It's the gas flare-offs from oil wells. Los Angeles still has small oil wells in operation.
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by ilamont 2mo ago
I haven't seen Darko's director's cut, but am reluctant to do so just because they swapped out Echo and the Bunnymen for the opening scene, which works so well. For Blade Runner director's cut, I had mixed feelings. The
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by ilamont 2mo ago
So, I looked up this piece of equipment that he references. The Roland MC-8 MicroComposer by the Roland Corporation was introduced in early 1977 at a list price of US$4,795 (¥1,200,000 JPY) ... it was considered revolutionary at the time,
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by ilamont 2mo ago
This is true. I read an interview with Hans Zimmer who has scored dozens of Hollywood films (including Blade Runner 2049) and when he first arrived in London in the 1980s he couldn’t read music. Not sure about now. ETA: he did eventually le
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by ilamont 2mo ago
Well, besides the language and the typeface, the other element of this sequence at the beginning of Blade Runner that makes it so special is the accompanying score by Vangelis, and the sound effects that start with twinkling computer notes
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by ilamont 2mo ago
Part of the problem is many bloggers think an image is required for every post. This is reinforced by algorithms which favor such posts, and drives bloggers to the easiest/fastest sources of free images. The "featured image"
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by ilamont 2mo ago
Fantastic take. I am an experienced non-fiction publisher (published my first title in KDP in 2012) but stopped publishing new works earlier this year, not only because of the difficulty getting noticed by potential readers, but also becaus
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LinkedIn Adds "Seems Like AI Slop" Button on Every Post(futurism.com)
8 points by ilamont 2mo ago|3 comments
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Skechers says it doesn't make sneakers, state court rejects claim(universalhub.com)
2 points by ilamont 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 2mo ago
I love this page. Text, photos, links. Straight up HTML 4, maybe even using a template in a text editor and FTPed to go live. I didn't see any inline or referenced CSS. No scripts. No ads. No social junk. The home page even has a <t
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Coursera Bets $100M That Chairman Andrew Ng Can Do What Coursera Can't(classcentral.com)
4 points by ilamont 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ilamont 3mo ago
In the 1990s I travelled through Xinjiang and Gansu in China's northwest. At the time most of the people in rural areas were Uighur, Hui, Tibetan, or other minorities. At one of the Uighur bazaars they were cooking all kinds of breads
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EcommerceBytes Publishers Settle Lawsuit with eBay for $55.7M(ecommercebytes.com)
2 points by ilamont 3mo ago|1 comments
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We're Thinking About Darkness All Wrong(harvardmagazine.com)
13 points by ilamont 3mo ago|5 comments
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Humans haven't stopped evolving(harvardmagazine.com)
83 points by ilamont 3mo ago|136 comments

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