So yesterday the former head of Roscosmos decided that the thing to do was hold a birthday party for himself in a city under occupation. Russia’s notorious former space chief Rogozin wounded in shelling Dmitry Rogozin – who has called for the extermination of Ukraine – was in Russian-occupied Donetsk, but someone ratted him out…
A McDonalds in Texas is fully automated (except, of course, for the people maintaining the machines). Expect to see more of these… especially in places with legally mandated high minimum wages. So much for “entry level” jobs… Welcome to the First Ever McDonald’s Where You’re Served by Robots—In Texas @foodiemunster @McDonald’s has a new…
Here’s something interesting… AI-Created Comic Has Been Deemed Ineligible for Copyright Protection If AI created art is ineligible for copyright protection, that’ll set up a roadblock to the forthcoming artpoclypse. It isn’t complete protection, of course… I’m sure there’s some spectrum between “eligible” and “ineligible.” How much manual tinkering a bit of AI-art needs…
I did not wake up this morning seeking or expecting to get another cat. Well, here we are: Billy and his two siblings are strays who caught the attention of some friends who decided to rescue them. Given that the temperature will shortly be Damned Cold, the rescue effort was decided upon quickly. Unfortunately, one…
The great majority of the time when someone says “there aught to be a law,” there really aughtn’t. But a law I’d get behind: any new bill in Congress must be read, in it entirety, on the floor of the House and Senate by those who wrote and co-sponsored it before it is allowed to…
A Grand Total Of 20 People Showed Up To A Brittney Griner ‘Homecoming’ Celebration In Waco, ESPN Doesn’t Seem Happy About It The video below shows part of the “celebration.” It’s sad (and yet hilarious) in the way that Kirk Cameron’s Subway birthday party was sad (and yet hilarious).
Artists stage mass protest against AI-generated artwork on ArtStation At best they’ll *slightly* delay the development and deployment of AI that will render them utterly obsolete. Welcome to being just like everybody else. So wouldn’t it make sense, rather than *not* producing art right now, to instead take this time to crank out as…
Artwork circa 1983 depicting the Bell BAT (“Bell Advanced Tiltrotor”… so… ummm… the “Bell Bell Advanced Tiltrotor”) single-seat small military tiltrotor designed to compete in the LHX program. It is shown here in two modes. The nearest aircraft is in full forward flight; the aircraft in the background is hovering. Both are in the process…
UPDATE: twitter seems to ahve deleted the “offending” posts. here are screenshots: So today twitter posted a new rule: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817 It’s a little odd, to be sure. But at a glance, a *lot* of people read that and started screeching about how this is against EU law, how they are outraged, how this is…
