▶ Japanese robot solves Rubik’s Cube in 0.305s
son ni ichi GO BRRRRZT!
▶ Chrome extension I have needed forever: Go to Tab thats Playing Audio
(note, settings: pin to toolbar)
▶ On David Lynch’s REVENGE OF THE JEDI
▶ I likely played with this but worth a revisit:
Interactive YouTube drum machine
▶ Great site listing tape echo machines – some I didn’t know existed!
▶ one hour of Japanese Small Homes Under 60sqm/600sqft
▶ Speech Restoration Comparison
SpectraLayers 11 vs Clarity Vx 14 (Neural Network 1) vs Clarity Vx 14 (Neural Network 2) vs RX11 vs Acoustica 7.5 vs GOYO Supertone Clear 1.1
They also did a Music Unmix Comparison but fcked if I want to listen to those bits of “music” – yeech! I prefer MUTE to UnMix.
▶ Tim Hecker interview
▶ handy use for old boom pole
▶ From ‘Raging Bull’ to ‘Un Chien Andalou’— A New Show Traces Cinema’s Greatest Storyboards
▶ What disingenuous mofos!?
“Just because Meta admitted to torrenting a dataset of pirated books for AI training purposes, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Meta seeded the file after downloading it, the social media company claimed in a court filing this week.
Evidence instead shows that Meta “took precautions not to ‘seed’ any downloaded files,” Meta’s filing said. Seeding refers to sharing a torrented file after the download completes, and because there’s allegedly no proof of such “seeding,” Meta insisted that authors cannot prove Meta shared the pirated books with anyone during the torrenting process.”
Full article at ArsTechnica
So they admit they downloaded, but ‘claim’ they didn’t seed/upload it… other than to their AI??
We be living in strange times! Really have to wonder how long until Trump starts banning “degenerate art”
▶ “All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes checked off.
Dog x spectral gate?
▶ a reminder by Dostoevsky to count your blessings!
