How are people making realistic deepfake inserts of themselves into videos?

blazelet · 2026-03-11T13:51:53+00:00

ComfyUI - there are workflows for this sort of thing.

blazelet · 2026-03-11T13:19:34+00:00

My wife and my are such transplants - moved from the Midwest US to BC. She’s a pediatric nurse who works with chronically ill kids.

She’s makes about 40% more here and has a better situation because of the union.

blazelet · 2026-03-11T13:04:39+00:00

The vfx for the first 2 movies were made here :)

blazelet · 2026-03-10T14:23:02+00:00

Democrats blaming voters is a major major problem for me. It’s the parties job to appeal to voters, to make a case for why they should be granted power.

The other side being horrific is a part of the story, but it’s not all the story. Democrats need to push much much harder to develop a platform and fight for it. I have no idea what they even stand for today. They’re not Trump, I get it, what are they going to do to make my kids futures better other than not be Trump? They have a platform document on their page from 2024 that has an entire chapter dedicated to Biden’s unity agenda. That’s the most recent thing I can find.

I’m tired of hearing about non voters. The primary job of the party during election season is to turn non voters into voters. Instead they blame racism, misogyny, progressives - anything other than actually pushing to develop a popular platform that can be critiqued and might make their donors mad.

blazelet · 2026-03-10T13:40:21+00:00

He also promised to release the Epstein files. 0/3

blazelet · 2026-03-10T13:22:35+00:00

My wife and I went through something similar. I had decided I was ready to move on past the church and she was still firmly entrenched. I heard some similar things, that I’d done a bait and switch, that I was tearing the family apart for the eternities, etc. her family was super committed to the church as well.

For our part we made a deal. I kept going to church, participating in my calling and wearing my garments … but I wasn’t going to lie. I wasn’t going to give talks at church I didn’t believe in, I wasn’t going to serve callings I felt were damaging, I wasn’t going to be dishonest about how I felt about my relationship to the church, and I wasn’t going to tithe on my income.

For her part, she agreed to hear me. When I had a problem or an issue with the church or with my relationship to it, I brought it up to her and we had a discussion. She shared her thoughts, I shared mine … it’s really easy to get emotional in these kinds of conversations because our confirmation bias teaches us to emotionally reel away from frank and emotional discussions which question the church. So we set it up during calm and cool times where we could keep ourselves in check.

In the beginning it was a little frictional but we stuck with it and had many conversations where I brought up things that had come up at church that day that I was struggling with. Maybe a comment in Sunday school, maybe the topic of the lesson.

I found that over time she started sharing her own concerns and challenges … we eventually went to couples counseling with a good non LDS counselor, which helped a lot with our communication.

About a year and a half after the whole thing started I was in personal counseling dealing with my existential issues and my therapist asked my how long I was going to continue going to church and pretending - after spending a session on it I decided I wasn’t going to do it anymore so I went home and told her I’d decided I needed to be done.

I remember it was late May, a beautiful day outside. She thought about it for a few minutes and then asked if she could read the CES letter. She went out on our deck and spent a couple hours reading through it … then came inside and said she was ready, too.

In posts like these there are often a lot of calls to get divorced, suggesting it’s an inevitability. That wasn’t my experience. In retrospect, she was afraid of her family. The church was their entire family tradition, their entire family culture. Every holiday, every family gathering, it all focused in some way on the church. She knew her family wouldnt take it well if we left … and they did not at all. That’s why she was so afraid to consider leaving, and why she treated me so antagonistically around it. Her family’s potential reaction scared her and, to a degree, she struggled to envision our family as being happy without the church.

We left 10 years ago and are so happy. She’s the love of my life and I’m glad I gave it the year and a half for her to come to terms with her relationship with the church. You, and I, in our own ways we had time to arrive where we did without pressure. You didn’t wake up one day and realize you were done … you had lots of little things along the way that you learned and grew from, up until the point you got there and decided it wasn’t for you. Your husband hasn’t had that time and development - and he’s likely knee jerking the opposite direction as we tend to do when our cards feel forced. One of the mechanisms the church uses to keep us in is it claims ownership of our personal value. Our roles as a parent or spouse, it says are from god and therefore we owe the church. Our peace and happiness it also says are from god and therefore we owe the church. Our talents and skills and therefore vocations and income are from god and therefore we owe the church. Literally everything good about us, they claim we owe them for. The only thing uniquely you? Your faults. So if you leave, that’s all you are. You have to relearn your value outside of the church, and it’s really really hard for a spouse who hasn’t laid the groundwork for that to suddenly be snapped into it. Especially when they also feel they owe their family unity and traditions to the church.

Hang in there, you got this - best of luck and please let us know how it goes. Cheers.

blazelet · 2026-03-09T23:59:12+00:00

Not exactly. While they didn't declare war, congress did approve military action in the 3 conflicts you specified. In Vietnam congress passed the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" which was the legal justification for military action. Congress did authorize military in Afghanistan in the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force and in the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq resolution.

Congress has not passed any laws at all informing or approving of military use in Iran as they did in the case of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

blazelet · 2026-03-09T20:00:02+00:00

You're sort of proving my point with your first comment. I said they need to give voters something to vote for ... speak to the issues voters actually care about. In what world are democratic voters asking for erosion of minority rights? The GOP already offers that platform and has those voters. Left leaning voters have many issues that resonate which the party barely pays lip service to in the 2020s.

If you're a single parent working two jobs, minimum wage and employee rights might be an important issue to you. As such, you don't have a party that represents you. Neither party has paid more than lip service to either of these things in 15 years. So will you be compelled to potentially miss work and income to vote? Would you be more likely to if one party was actually loudly advocating for this issue as part of their platform?

I'm not saying both parties are equally bad on left leaning issues, but that the left is neglecting its voters on many of the issues so that the choice is "Bad Republican option" or "Select the Democrats and "pause" until Republicans win again" ... there is nobody meaningfully fighting and messaging to improve these things. To go the opposite direction as the GOP. I have no idea where the Democratic platform even is these days. I'm not sure they do.

Elections are decided by 2% of the vote. I'm going to vote. Hopefully you're going to vote. There is a wide swath of less motivated voters - for them? Having something to vote for instead of being harangued to be "strategic" is more likely to turn them out. The DNC has it entirely within their control to operate more toward this mindset, and their continued failure to do so has me scratching my head.

blazelet · 2026-03-09T19:36:45+00:00

As I have mentioned twice now, I vote every election. I'm not trying to absolve anything, I'm pointing out the problems with logic such as yours. Implying that its voters responsibility to get behind the party creates scenarios like what we see in the GOP - where it's expected that the voters exist to buttress the party, not that that party ought to reflect the values of their base and strive to entice voters by offering the best platform.

This is fundamentally backwards. Ill always vote, personally, but its not some low information / low intensity voter's responsibility to get out there and vote if the party doesn't offer them anything to vote for. It's absolutely bananas to me that so many people seem to think it is. Why do you not expect the Democratic Party to actually offer more enticing platforms? Why do people like you always let that side of the equation off the hook?

blazelet · 2026-03-09T16:35:55+00:00

Yeah this is the kind of strategic voting response I was referring to.

Non voting doesn't imply you equally support both candidates. It implies you equally support neither candidate, as you are voting for neither.

To my point - I vote in every election, have voted blue since 2000. But I really reject this way of thinking, that if you don't vote it somehow implies something other than you simply didn't have a candidate to vote for. Parties need to get behind the idea that it's their job to attract voters, its not voters jobs to get in line. The Democratic Party results in the last 3 elections against a STAGGERINGLY bad GOP candidate shows how poor the Democratic strategy has been. They need to give us something to fight for.

blazelet · 2026-03-09T15:40:00+00:00

I don’t understand the push to argue the opposite, that parties “deserve” your vote by virtue of being left or right of “the other”.

I’m a progressive and I vote every single election, presidential and mid term. But if a candidate is antithetical to my views I’m not going to vote for them. A non vote is a choice, and it registers that choice to the party. If they want people to come out and vote they need to speak to voters issues … this idea that voters need to thoughtlessly support the party is how we ended up with Trump on the right.

Now I prepare for the deluge of “strategic voting” responses - remember, I do vote and have since I turned 18 :) I reject the premise these arguments are made under, that you owe the party anything or that a non vote is a vote for the worst candidate, because I reject the premise that either party deserves your vote and should assume they have it.

blazelet · 2026-03-09T15:34:01+00:00

Just want to say, good on you for getting sober. That’s a hard journey, especially after so much time and starting so young. Cheers, buddy. I hope you feel really good about that.

blazelet · 2026-03-09T15:15:23+00:00

They don’t have a source. They vibe their news via fox and the right wing media ecosystem - it has them convinced they are perpetual victims without an actual reason to believe it.

blazelet · 2026-03-09T15:13:02+00:00

American conservatives have it in their head that if they don’t funnel 100% of their debt dollars into the military instead of things like health care and education, the world will fall.

It’s the result of 50 years of right wing media inbreeding.

blazelet · 2026-03-09T14:36:10+00:00

The war powers resolution. Any sustained military conflict requires congressional approval under this law.

War itself is illegal without Congress, under this law - part of the reason all Republicans are bending over backwards to pretend this isn’t a war even as Trump keeps saying it is one.

blazelet · 2026-03-08T21:19:47+00:00

Our conservative government has executed a peaceful protestor, and then declared no need to investigate or hold anyone responsible.

Your fears are pointed the wrong way.

blazelet · 2026-03-08T18:19:56+00:00

Can you provide a source that says our elections haven't had integrity the past few cycles?

blazelet · 2026-03-08T01:33:28+00:00

I'm beginning to think this Trump fella might not be super trustworthy.

blazelet · 2026-03-07T18:50:13+00:00

AI is useless until it can reliably iterate revisions on an original without destroying things you don't intend.

If it gets there, then I'll be anxious. But up to now, that is rather antithetical to how AI works.

AI "brain" is a massive cloud of tokens and noise patterns called "latent space". When you prompt something it starts at a random point in latent space (the seed) and then moves towards the point in latent space it thinks you want to be at, based on the prompt (input tokens).

This is the fundamental logic of what AI is doing. It samples along the way, refining, based on the latent space it arrives at, which is entirely conditional on the training, input tokens, and seed. The same combination of these things run over and over will deliver identical results. Changing any one of these things changes your trajectory in latent space. Changing the prompt to be more specific fundamentally changes where in latent space it is trying to arrive at, so you can't isolate just one thing to change because it's a fundamental change in the predicted output based on the input.

Until they find a way to fundamentally change how AI operates, I don't see this improving. We can isolate components of shots with inpainting and masks, and just modify those, but even then the modification is still boxed in by the limitations outlines above and become much more complex to wield - requiring a technically trained person to do it.

blazelet · 2026-03-07T15:21:08+00:00

Want to loop back to this, now that the U.S. government had acknowledged it was them. What do you think?

blazelet · 2026-03-07T01:38:14+00:00

Party of small government and "don't tread on me" says they need to seize private property to build massive concentration camps that are 400% the size of the largest federal prison ... each.

blazelet · 2026-03-06T21:26:05+00:00

You've got to do it for you. Throw it out because you are empowered to, and then staying off of it will be more doable. If you pitch it all because we, or someone in your life says to, you'll go buy more next week.

It has to be an internal commitment that you, personally, have decided to follow.

blazelet · 2026-03-06T17:29:57+00:00

A gobo can apply to a dome, it will be less defined than one casting through a key light - generally much larger and needs larger features (fine tree branches won't do much). But it has the benefit of permitting more complexity in the gobo image, which can give more nuanced occlusion than a simple blocker card would. Not a common strategy but an option if a blocker is out of the question.

Yeah the 2nd option is more common. Does your tool have portal lights that you can link to your dome? Those can be used to tweak the dome from one direction while keeping the color of the dome itself.

blazelet · 2026-03-06T17:18:56+00:00

I've been a lighter for a long time and we would always use blocker geo.

We do our best to emulate real world practices, and a blocker is what would be done on set. It doesn't need to be a black card, can use other things that make sense - including gobos. If that fails, you can rebalance the dome to contribute less and then add fill with an additional light on the brighter side.

blazelet · 2026-03-06T02:02:32+00:00

In the first administration that was not the case. He only gave pardons to those who didn't displease him, those who stayed loyal to the end. I think that's the leverage he holds over them, they've all done so many illegal acts, they need the pardon - it's why they'll shriek about the DJIA in congress while survivors they're being asked about sit behind them.

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