#Primitive-Technology grass mat loom #video. The loom is horizontal so it can be three meters long, but I feel like it is at an inconvenient height for working at, and also involves a lot of walking back and forth. Then he uses the mats as thatch for a small lean-to shelter, which seems like a pretty suboptimal use for them (“Gaps will let rain through”, as he says, so he folds them double), but I guess he doesn’t sleep out in the bush. Also I think he probably needs to treat them with some kind of preservative to keep them from rotting, smoke at least. #scouting #bushcraft #bootstrapping
apparently "cloudTk" lets you embed #Tcl #Tk applets in web pages again, like the old Tcl plugin, except it’s just proxying noVNC to a Linux host so it doesn’t work
#Sora-2 #video #humor of Hawking boxing, Hawking diving, Pikachu at a traffic stop, etc.
more #Sora-2 #video #humor with #Trump kissing Putin, selfie video from the Last Supper, Tupac and Biggie and Jesus at the Goodwill store, Michael Jackson and Hitler shouting in each other’s faces
more #Sora-2 #video #humor: Michael Jackson in jail, Hitler coming out as gay, a medieval witch conjuring a smartphone to film her burning, a giant shark tempting a sailor with a mermaid, Michael Jackson teaching algebra, a dog on a roller coaster, Benjamin Franklin getting arrested, Einstein and Bob Marley in UFC, Michael Jackson getting pulled over, a baboon liberating a dog from a crocodile, the police pulling over a cat driving a fighter jet, Stephen Hawking on a skate ramp, Tupac in heaven, Einstein escaping a traffic stop in his convertible, Bob Ross painting 9/11, Michael Jackson as a Jedi, etc.
WSJ article from the #Milei election said Massa was trying to beat him by promising to eliminate all taxes. #Argentina #politics #history
animation explainer #video channel Kurzgesagt (24.6 million subscribers, 70 full-time employees plus freelancers!) laments how #AI will probably make their channel non-viable because AI slop will soak up most human attention
#Sora-2 #video #humor including Jake Paul getting pulled over in rainbow makeup, Stephen Hawking on a forklift, cats and horses getting blown away by the wind off people’s front porches, VHS children opening Christmas presents including a deportation order and a Content Violation, Bob Ross playing Minecraft and Call of Duty, etc.
More #Sora-2 #video #humor including a dinner between the Mona Lisa, the Girl with a Pearl Earring, and the Scream; rapper cat on skateboard; some kind of game show; Mr. Rogers explaining Generation Alpha slang; Einstein arguing with a UFC referee and lecturing on smartphones; MLK Jr. giving speeches about setting up servers; Ronald McDonald driving down the 110 in a burgermobile; security guards stopping a golden retriever from shoplifting ribeyes; MLK rickrolling you; pulling over a giraffe; anime Jesus throwing down the moneychangers’ table; an arrest for farting on the neighbor’s doorstep; a burglary by a leprechaun; J-Pop; more anime; a photorealistic Princess Peach in a pink Cybertruck; George Carlin claiming aliens invented Ozempic on Infowars; Muammar Gaddafi; Sam Altman on a game show choosing to release an AI slop generator; a skydiver outside the airliner window with a sign that says “I was your pilot”; Tupac giving a TED talk; C-3PO being traumatized by R2-D2 rejecting him on national television; cats fighting on the rooftop with lightning; mobility scooter GTA; a cat doing a kickflip; etc.
#Sora-2 #video comparison between real video and fake #AI video, which are pretty hard to tell apart. Then exploration of the risks; there’s a video by Tupac saying he faked his death, for example. Bob Ross fighting Mr. Rogers in the WWF ring isn’t as realistic. Einstein in the UFC against someone named Carter. JFK speaking: “I understand this artificial intelligence is blowing your minds. You know what blew mine? A bullet.” MLK and JFK doing a ding-dong-ditch in a doorbell cam. MLK cussing and crying about how he can’t handle having dreams all the time. Lots of concern about fake news. Most of the video is about concern for human animators and dumbshits talking to cameras and whether they can compete economically against AI.
"Otherhalf" offers “immersive #AI companions”: virtual anime girlfriends.
#video comparing #Sora-2 to other #AI video generators Veo 3 and something called Wan 2.5, which is even worse than Veo 3. He uses "higgsfield.ai" to edit his photos with text instructions using "Nano Banana", which I guess is some kind of model. But he’s largely focused on marketing wank. #neural-networks
more #Sora-2 #video #humor including MLK Jr. talking about Tung Tung Tung Sahur
#videogames streamer YourRageZ lent his “cameo” to #Sora-2 so his fans could make #humor videos about him, to which he reacts hilariously in this #video stream
#Buddhism #video of Thich Nhat Hanh talking about “hungry ghosts” who are still alive in the flesh but do not know how to trust to receive love. #religion
#Ukraine #politics disturbing account from a foreign volunteer
#video on #Murray-Smith’s channel by his brother explaining that he has died, committing suicide a day before his last video posted.
#humor #video of #Sora-2 and Mr. Rogers discovering the problem of the paperclip maximizer
#video on new anti-#Shahed #weaponry #drones from #Ukraine, battery-powered quadcopters with 500g of explosives for US$595, using a DJI digital transmission module. Displays some captured Russian drones.