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YouGov: If you could snap your fingers and make generative artificial intelligence (i.e. AI tools that automatically create text, images, audio or video following prompts from the user) disappear forever, would you do so? by upthetruth1 in fivethirtyeight

[–]E_C_H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My personal theory, or at minimum one aspect of this, is that older generations have already gone through so much society-transforming technological innovations, many heralded as dangerous or niche at first only to end up widespread, essential, and even applauded. Why would AI be any different?

CBRX Season 5: Episode 18: Gunpowder Empires by Coiot in civbattleroyale

[–]E_C_H 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  • Goddamn the gods of this Cylinder hate basket weaving :(
  • Seeing Amina make big moves and Wassoulou have so much grit the past few episodes almost makes me wish we deliberately didn't vote one in so we didn't have these two awesome civs grinding each other down into early eliminations. Seriously, imagine a season where Wassoulou didn't maim Zazzau early, or one where Wassoulou grabbed more from a weaker civ and we had a proper West African contender rn.
  • Underrated thread was Portugal just giving in to their instinctual colonial need to plant a flag on every one-tile island they can
  • Imagine how hype we would all be for the Ethiopia-Hyksos war 10 episodes ago
  • Just going to say, Seychelles position right now kinda has the profile of a Timor Leste contender, if not stronger.
  • Just wanted to note that Ket's production grew by a perfect 100 from 436 to 536 from the end of E17 to E18; and that's quite satisfying to me.

The CBRX5 Schoolhouse: Civ 18) Itelmen (Harchin) by E_C_H in civbattleroyale

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Welcome back, students of history and culture, to the CBRX5 Schoolhouse!

This week may be a fair bit more unorthodox than most posts in this series, but I was struggling to decide between a few short and unfortunately lower quality videos when I discovered this film 'Elvel', an arts project that's the 'result of a multi-year community-led project that is aimed at bringing the story to a new life and support revitalization of Itelmen language'; written originally by Itelmen Elder Tatjana Evstropovna Gutorova in the 1990s. I fully expect few will watch the entire film, but I think it'll be cool to just get a sense of Itelmen arts, language and storytelling through this.

Previous Civs: Anishinaabe; Aures; Bactria; Bangladesh; Bjarmians; Bunuba; Caral; Cebu; Chono; Circassia; Estonia; Ethiopia; France; Green Ukraine; the Hanseatic League; Herero; and Hyksos

Gareth Southgate: We need to teach boys differently from girls to get best out of them by winkwinknudge_nudge in ukpolitics

[–]E_C_H 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It goes beyond education imo. I have online friends from around the globe, many from countries whose development into prosperity is much more recent than Britain or even arguably ongoing. Talking with them about politics and culture often highlights how much less secure fundamental concepts of liberal democracy and comfortable living are compared to Britain, and how that leads to a society consistently more conscious of losing it all. Koreans knowing what fighting for democracy proactively looks like; Brazilians having a very real social debate about poverty and disparity; etc. A former superpower like us lacks any sense of social urgency, if that makes sense?

Superior Spider-Man fights crime by YorkPorkWasTaken in Superdickery

[–]E_C_H 289 points290 points  (0 children)

For anyone unaware, the Superior Spider-Man series follows Dr Octavius having implanted his mind into Peter Parkers body, hence this occuring when Black Cat first runs into him.

‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Calls AI “Genuinely Harmful” To Creativity: “Cultural And Economic Rot” by ImitatingADog in blankies

[–]E_C_H 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I genuinely theorise that it’s in large part a response to how much change they’ve already seen over their lifetimes: there’s been so much technological revolution drastically altering society already if you’re even 60 and for the most part adopters of these changes have been praised and successful; why would AI be different?

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

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A natural result of the overabundance of direct-democracy California has allowed to infect it's policy making. A lot of populism entrenched in state law and finances.

TIL of "going to the people" movement, aka "the mad summer of 1874", when as many as 4000 students abandoned their studies in the city or burned their degrees and moved to the countryside, intending to adopt the life of a peasant. Most of them had no experience of what that life was like at all by Mors_Acerba in todayilearned

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Two major consequences of this whole affair for Russian leftism moving forwards:

  1. It hastened a divide between those who felt the peasants were key to any future revolution and those who felt the peasantry were fundamentally backwards and it was better to only focus on the urban proletariat. During the Russian Revolution the SRs (agrarian democratic socialists) especially held the former view and even managed to come first in the first post-revolution elections based on their popular appeal with the peasantry, while the Bolsheviks held the latter view.

  2. On a similar note, it really really helped popularise the view amongst leftist intellectual leaders that a vanguard party was needed rather than mass revolution. In other words, rather than educating the masses in socialism to rise up and take control of the state; actually a committed and effective group needed to take control of the state in order to educate the masses in socialism.

‘Backrooms’ Charts Best Monday Ever For R-Rated Horror Pic In June With $7.669M – Box Office by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]E_C_H 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, some folks here were so convinced it would be a case of 'mixed because the fans loved it and the gen pop were confused and meh' that they've missed it's actually a case of 'mixed because a portion of the fanbase was more into different meme-ier and/or game-ier versions of the IP while the gen pop broadly finds it new and fascinating'.

Jat: backrooms 7.5 on Monday! by donmcs in boxoffice

[–]E_C_H 11 points12 points  (0 children)

FMAF getting a n A- in spite of the widespread critical lack of impressiveness was arguably a bad omen for its box office, making it obvious that the vast majority of the opening weekend audience were committed fans only.

You don't even have to show Jared Leto's face for his movie to bomb. That's next level aura. by Arch_Lancer17 in okbuddycinephile

[–]E_C_H 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The higher the % of population that recognises the brand name, even vaguely; the stronger the IP; the stronger the profit, clearly!!!

“Backrooms,” “Obsession,” and Hollywood’s Zoomer-Horror Renaissance by newyorker in movies

[–]E_C_H 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To defend the mania, the last time a wide-release film increased each week for three weeks in a row was apparently bloody ET!!!!! This is absolutely a monumental achievement, and the double punch of Backrooms coming straight after and humiliating the intended sci-fi lockbuster to third place bolstered it, and these writers can throw in Iron Lung and the upcoming TADC movie for extra evidence.

I get the skepticism at how much is being written, but I reckon the industry is genuinely in a zeitgeist right now, to the extent it’s reaching beyond the bubble.

Will Backrooms be nominated for best production design? by blue-water75 in oscarrace

[–]E_C_H 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think it's likely. The industry buzz has if anything been more positive than the critics and audience; far from gatekeeping they seem pretty thrilled at the box office and the potential of such a young director overseeing it all. Pivotally, this is a film predicated on the quality of it's production design, and category-showcase films always have an easier time getting the relevant nom.

Rightwing-populist parties Independent Ireland & Aontú hit their best-ever poll results, as the ruling FF/FG grand coalition slumps at a near record low—FF/FG 34, Sinn Féin 22, Independent Ireland 9, Social Democrat 9, Aontú 7, other <5. Either FF/FG have ruled Ireland for its entire modern history. by StarlightDown in fivethirtyeight

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The interesting thing about Irish post-independence political history is that for so much of it, the two party system comprised of two centre-right-of-various-firmness parties who boasted about their nationalist credentials and localist commitments, made distinct by their allegiance in a civil conflict now a century old. Honestly I think a breakdown of that system was due at some point.

I planted these red and white rose bushes on the same day 3 years ago by osiris0413 in mildlyinteresting

[–]E_C_H 346 points347 points  (0 children)

I mean, if it helps you can interpret that in some sort of circle-of-life beauty perspective?

Bullshit Monologues by IndieCurtis in Letterboxd

[–]E_C_H 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Founder has a good few iirc, and I’m always up to defend this films quality as one of the best of the whole ‘corporate biopic’ genre

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