There’s a huge market for slop: junk food, slop entertainment, fast fashion. We’re a planet of slop lovers. AI slop will remain popular among many.

I only know Seven Eleven. Had no idea they had competitors.

The colonials must have a reputation.

You’re so close. I don’t want to ruin the magic by finding the answer, but curiosity got the better of me and I found the script. The line is “Canis patrol…” (whatever Canis is).

Edit: now when I listen I hear “Gayness patrol” 🤷‍♂️

I have no idea! It’s all I can hear. It’s episode 11 “The Young Lords” of season 1 (the only season).

They seem a little unnatural to me too. It’s like they force a certain perspective. The algorithmic “enhancements” don’t help either, especially at night time. It’s almost impossible to get a good photo at night with the iPhone, by comparison.

We did some amount of joking around with the camera and I don’t remember getting a blur, but I was able to change settings to achieve it and get some nice effects like when car lights leave long red streaks behind them. I was lucky though, I had someone explain the main settings to me like ISO and shutter speed.

Most people I’ve mentioned it to don’t seem to notice. A more obvious example is distant objects like mountains, or the moon, looking absolutely tiny. But it happens with objects just a few meters away.

I still have an iPhone and I prefer the pictures my Fuji Finepix took back in the 2000s. It didn’t put that weird fisheye effect on landscapes that make background objects look like they’re a kilometre away when they were only a few meters away. I’m still surprised by how good those pictures are, and the way the lens automatically extends and retracts is just joyful. I never think that of my iPhone.

The pictures are more grainy, and have other shortcomings. But they look like what I saw with my eyes.

The comments here are not understanding that this message is about mental states.

I thought the 1990 TMNT movie was excellent. Live action can be done well.

“A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product.”

That’s men acting as they intended using a product as intended. There is no plot twist here.

I didn’t think we had much iconic sci-fi to parody these days.

Should we also not have Wikipedia articles?

Anyway, the solution to your problem is media literacy. They just need to state matters of record. On date X this was confirmed to have happened. On date Y this was alleged but not proven.

Well begun is half done.

I wonder if a fediverse-friendly version exists. It would need to be slick to get the critical mass that makes those kinds of sites useful (like review sites, etc).

the point about showing skeptics this isn’t a hobby project is the real unlock here.

This is my conclusion too. These tools aren’t associated with meme distribution.

I’ve used Loops a lot, but not the analytics tool. When I say “analytics dashboard” to anyone who needs those tools, and I tell them there are over a million MAU they do perk up.

I don’t know what they do with that information, but they definitely get a first impression that ActivityPub (which is what I’m really promoting) is a serious and growing contender.

Yeah, it could be much better. The reason I think it’s worth posting is because Loops.video has a record of doing what they say to a decent standard, so it’s not just wishful thinking.

These are the kinds of tools that people use to justify the use of big tech (well, audience reach too). Hopefully this is a cause for optimism.

I’m torn on this one, because I think we are complicit for not doing the basics of deleting our accounts. We learned about how powerful boycotts are in school as teenagers.

I get that they buy up all the competition, but for most people these are luxuries rather than essentials.

This seems to mean that Meta can’t have the case dismissed. So I’m guessing that other companies who can demonstrate similar downloading patterns, or present similar evidence can also bring a case forward.

I’d imagine that the outcome of the case will be more telling.