This problem becomes even more asinine when you consider that the whole point of the Return to Office drive is the “Magic Hallway Conversation” that happens during those informal break time periods.

I guess I don’t understand. If you don’t vote, then the Democrats will move further right to grab more of the Republican votes…

It seems that ampwall.com may come sometime as an alternative to Bandcamp? Time will tell…

I agree. My 3070 runs the 8B Llama3 model in about 250ms, especially for short responses.

So the way I used to get consistent characters was using a mix of:

img2img (denoise: 0.7) with the same model posed into the position desired.

Then using a weighted down character lora and a weighted down celeb name, to help give a consistent base.

And finally a prompt with all the same details each time. (Well apart from changing expressions in the prompt each time.)

Wait. So the way to get consistent characters without LoRA training is to use a LoRA?

I think it’s kind of like how politicians “pause” their political campaigns when they concede. Technically they could come back to it, but almost certainly won’t.

I totally agree. I always think it’s weird when they have interviews or podcasts about talking to CEOs and they all say something like “you just have to work hard enough”. Yeah. Okay.

Where are the podcasts where they ask lottery winners for some vapid aphorism about hard work paying off?

I don’t understand. Isn’t the way not to be suspected of perjury just not to lie to the court in the first place? It doesn’t seem like extortion to me.

I think this was due to the conflict of interest by the old lawyer, who probably told this witness, “Just say you didn’t see anything or don’t remember and you’ll be fine.”

It turned out it wasn’t fine and the guy found a new lawyer. This new lawyer is being a zealous advocate and trying to keep this guy out of jail.

Things like this always make me wonder if a state could legally turn into a dictatorship.

Could Florida legally change it’s constitution to say “All governing power rests entirely in Ron DeSantis” and dissolve it’s representative bodies? Obviously it would still be beholden to voters for national elections (representatives and senators), but statewide there could be nothing.

It’s a direct competitor to Notion, but also other knowledge management apps (Obsidian, Evernote, etc.)

Thanks for sharing this article. I agree that those points mentioned are not possible for GenAI. It is a pipe dream that GenAI is capable of global governance, because it can’t really understand the implications of what it means. It’s a Clever Hans and just outputs what it thinks that you want to see.

I think that with GenAI there are some job classes that are in danger (tech support continues to shrink for common cases, etc.), but mostly the entry-level positions. Ultimately, someone who actually knows what’s going on would need to intervene.

Similarly for things like writing or programming, GenAI can produce okay work, but it needs to be prompted by someone who can understand the bigger picture and check it’s work. Writing becomes more editing in this case, and programming becomes more code review.

There’s a LegalEagle video which sums it up: Trump’s Bombshell Federal Document Indictment

Essentially,

• Trump took classified information during his time as president and failed to return them
• When asked to return them he failed to comply until forced
• When forced to comply, he still kept many documents the government knew were missing and lied to the government and his lawyers indicating that they were returned
• Was caught on tape admitting that he knew they were classified and that it was wrong for him to have them

The first bullet point apparently happens often (Biden, Pence, Hillary have all done similarly in the past). Trump is singular in that he didn’t readily comply with the request for the return of documents and the consequent lies to the government (also illegal).