[Check out the next advance in AI generated video as demonstrated by Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video model. The technology has now advanced to where the machine can create a realistic and natural looking video from a textual description as its only input. Take a look at some samples here. So, during this election year what would Biden have Trump say, and conversely, what would Trump have Biden say to the American people? (H/T to correspondent) gjr]
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161 responses to “Sandbox – 16feb24”
Paul – “I’m adding this to the collection of threats to my life you have made against me.”
Will those go into the scrap book with the photos of you and Ann Coulter?
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I’m adding this to the collection of threats to my life you have made against me.
Have they all involved Gregory asking for permission?
Pretty weak threat!
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Ann Coulter? Really?
Paul, you dog!
Punchy, I made no threat now or before… but you have done damage to me, intentionally. With lies.
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Gregory – “You’d take typepad over me?”
I pointed out that typing in ‘TypePad’ shows a misspelling. Look at the bottom of the page. Powered by “misspelled word”.
Not sure what blue-haired old prune is in charge of that squigly red line.
‘squigly’ got a red underline – what the hell do they know?
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When you let the wokesters run the state you will pay and not just the constituents that suffer from the blm hucksters bullshit –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/amazon-s-jeff-bezos-outfoxes-washington-the-billionaire-is-saving-nearly-600-million-in-taxes-by-moving-from-seattle-to-miami-here-s-3-ways-you-can-sidestep-the-taxman/ar-BB1inwyO?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f360493719b44b94944bef50496a8ce0&ei=223
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Gregory
Are you saying that this statement is not a threat on my life by you?
“Punchy, do I have your permission to shoot you one or more times? Entry hole size can be as small as 5.56mm or as large as .45”.
You are asking me for permission for you to kill me. Pretty serious stuff. I will be seeking legal advise on how to proceed.
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” Have they all involved Gregory asking for permission?”
I’ve still not heard a yes or a no…
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Paul has an Ann Coulter AI robot doll he co-habits with. We won’t go into detail of the habits part of co-habits but I’m pretty sure most of it is illegal in several states and most countries that don’t start with the letter N.
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“I’ve still not heard a yes or a no…”
You know Paul won’t answer questions, Gregory.
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I will be seeking legal advise on how to proceed.
I wouldn’t be too concerned Gregory…..five or six years ago Punchy was supposed to set up a talk where I told all his friends with similar ethnic backgrounds why I was being so mean to him.
Still waiting for my invitation.
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Note to gun grabbers –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ohio-sees-decrease-in-gun-crime-after-passing-constitutional-carry-dealing-blow-to-gun-control-claims/ar-BB1inE9i?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f360493719b44b94944bef50496a8ce0&ei=245
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“I will be seeking legal advise on how to proceed.”
Any competent atty will tell you to stop slandering people.
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There are a variety of threats you have made against me Gregory. This is the first time it has involved permission for you to shoot me.
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Punchy… be sure your legal advice includes the advisability of calling me a big Trump supporter because I won’t join in your pummeling.
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Don 7:24 – “Note to gun grabbers -”
Save it. Gun grabbers want to disarm Americans. Logic and facts have no sway with them.
After the latest edition of Sailer’s Law in Kansas City, Biden was quick to start yapping about ‘assault weapons’.
It would be as if Roosevelt declared war on Mexico in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack.
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‘scotto — Any competent atty will tell you to stop slandering people’
That’s what I think, too.
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“This is the first time it has involved permission for you to shoot me.”
So – yes or no?
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Gregory
You have ALWAYS supported Trump on this blog whenever discussions concerning his behavior are being waged. That is supporting Trump.
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Paul 7:47 – That’s not a yes or no.
I swear if you ask Paul whether he stands or squats to piss, he will be too chicken shit to answer.
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Punchy… yes or no?
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The ponytail of ignorance confuses not agreeing to every one of his fevered rantings as defacto Trump support says the TDS suffer. He should have gotten the salve when it might have worked. LOL
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My 7:47 was not a yes or no Scott. It is a summary of my opinion of Gregory’s constant support for Trump.
Are you supporting the statement Gregory made about me giving him permission to shoot me?
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/14-of-the-best-firearms-for-self-defense/ss-AA1mPOkv?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=1689eb4305594b16b44eef02e6fab981&ei=55
Punch, I don`t have any of these. Sorta… I have a few M1911 but not exactly the ones on that list.
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Paul 8:10 – “My 7:47 was not a yes or no Scott.”
Well no shit. I think that was my point. You seem to be incapable of answering questions. Is this a long standing problem that’s been left un-treated or some kind of newly surfaced neurosis?
“Are you supporting the statement Gregory made about me giving him permission to shoot me?”
I wasn’t aware of any statement by Gregory re you giving him permission to shoot you.
In fact, I wasn’t aware of you giving him permission to shoot you.
So – your answer was yes?
Oh wait – I forgot – you can’t answer a direct question.
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Well duh we all knew what the end game is –
“It is unconscionable that illegal immigrants and noncitizens are counted toward congressional district apportionment and our electoral map,” said Hagerty.
“While people continue to flee Democrat-run cities, desperate Democrats are back-filling the mass exodus with illegal immigrants so that they do not lose their seats in Congress and maintain electoral votes for the presidency and hence artificially boost their political power, which in turn dilutes the power of other Americans’ votes,” he added.
Shortly after taking office in January 2021, President Biden signed an executive order requiring that the U.S. Census Bureau factor in all residents, including noncitizens, as part of its decennial calculation of the U.S. population. As a result, the apportionment of House seats and, therefore, electoral votes for presidential elections, could be swayed as migrants continue to pour over the southern border.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/illegal-immigration-could-major-impact-090051698.html
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Found this WSJ article through Drudge:
“Dave Ramsey Tells Millions What to Do With Their Money. People Under 40 Say He’s Wrong.”
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/dave-ramsey-tells-millions-what-to-do-with-their-money-people-under-40-say-hes-wrong-56733630
Yeah – you’re broke and he’s wealthy, so he must be wrong. Best line:
““Moralizing financial decisions is very damaging to marginalized groups,” says Israel, who is Black.”
Funny. “Marginalized People” are constantly moralizing about MY money.
The main takeaway is that these are the same folk that complain the “rich” have all the power and money while they reject Ramsey’s advice to stop handing their money to these same rich people.
They carp about “equity” of results and outcomes, but don’t want the responsibility or work put into the “equity” you have to engage in to achieve the results.
But, don’t worry – just vote for the Dems and they’ll make sure you can sit on your ass and end up at Big Rock Candy Mountain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWminVCg3TA
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“You have ALWAYS supported Trump on this blog whenever discussions concerning his behavior are being waged. That is supporting Trump.”
No, Punch. I have NEVER supported “Trump” here.
What I do is to stand up to you when you go off the rails.
Your moose turd pies are ALWAYS horrible.
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The link to Sora was very educational as to how well the AI could do complex scenes with apparently very limited written instructions. I would recommend Craiyon for some one who wants to try their hand at some AI stills for free. It does better at some kinds of images than others but it’s fun to play with.
https://www.craiyon.com/
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They still want to deny biology –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-admin-pours-1-million-into-studies-aimed-at-denying-there-are-only-two-genders/ar-BB1isbuV?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f7d2bcc1b52c48108841911a90886db0&ei=110
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re: DonB@4:34PM
Oh, you know how that will go.
Motte: Sex varies. In addition to XX and XY there’s XXY, XYY, XXYY, XXXY, XXXY, XXXXY, X, XXX, XXXX, XXXXX
Bailey: Sam Brinton is normal and is actually a superior sort of human.
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More Sora – I forwarded the link to the Sora web site to our son who is in the InterWeb biz and does computer animation on the side. He sent back a link to a Substack post from former teacher of his in college.
Interesting takes on Sora from the perspective of a person heavily involved in that sort of stuff:
https://erikfadiman.substack.com/p/post-sora-exploration?r=27fm70
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There’s always a difference of opinion and then there’s just flat out stupidity:
“I think like a scholar and practitioner of journalism and democracy, not a peddler of stocks and bonds, because once we view constitutionally protected news organizations like any other widget in a capitalist economy, then our democracy is doomed.”
“A journalism professor blames Wall Street for the newspaper industry’s collapse.”
Yeah – that’s why I stopped subscribing to newspapers – it was because of Wall St.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/18/is-wall-street-to-blame-for-the-collapse-of-newspapers-00141920
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Creepy grampa joe is bought and paid for by the chi coms –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fbi-director-says-china-cyberattacks-on-u-s-infrastructure-now-at-unprecedented-scale/ar-BB1itJOn?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=0927e45a24224b6da8a2c6a2e125468f&ei=88
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re: scotto@10:37PM
lol. That’s exactly the quote I was going to pull. I see that she is also a “International Fact-Checking Network certifier” whatever that is.
I can feel her pain to some extent since private equity firms appear to be in the forefront of stripping Nevada County of a high tech sector, but I tend to think of them as a symptom, not a cause. Where there’s a buyer, there’s a seller, and when a business or industry is on it’s way down they’ll tend to sell out to these guys while the getting is good.
It would be interesting to go through the accounting books for a local newspaper over the last 100+ years, look at the headcount, compare the product. Their modern websites are always utter dreck, a wasteland of PITA advertising/bidding for eyeballs and free ‘concerned citizen’ editorials, but it would be interesting to look for changes. Modern people simply don’t read much anymore, aside from small paragraphs of Twitter/Reddit/Tiktok wisdom and wherever Psul gets his outrage o’ the day, so there is that.
Of course, the real problem is that you have to provide a product people will actually buy and the Big Slot Machine of modern media is ‘free’.
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Don 11:25 – No, no! Putin is our enemy! Xi is a nice guy. Remember Xi was just here in Frisco and Gavin finally had the town cleaned up for him? Slobbered all over him and kissed his ass? We LIKE Xi! We HATE Putin! You need to start following orders about who you like and don’t like.
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scotto: “Interesting takes on Sora from the perspective of a person heavily involved in that sort of stuff:”
While I can see the damage that will be done to commercial artists, it’s not dissimilar to the carnage wrought by Adobe Illustrator and the LaserWriter in terms of wiping out print shops with a flood of ‘good enough’ amateur work.
My guess is that the first world to be really messed with in a jobs sense, once the tech is digested, is video games. It’s a helluva lot bigger than the movie or music business and is well equipped to deal with changes in approach I think.
Of course, the internet will be ever more enshittified, but SEO and it’s allies have been pretty darned automated for some time already.
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scenes 7:36 – What a concept.
“constitutionally protected news organizations”
If I was in a discussion group and some one came up with that line, I would probably have no idea of what to say next. What alt-reality do these people inhabit? It is truly amazing to see rational thought tossed out the window.
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“FBI Director Says China Cyberattacks on U.S. Infrastructure Now at Unprecedented Scale”
Perhaps the TLAs might consider spending more money on cyber defensive efforts and less on spying on the world.
Their prejudice towards the offense, in terms of banking Zero Days and working with vendors to spy through peep holes is noted and perhaps isn’t the way to go.
Not a bad book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/1635576059
And readable even by our local hippies as she is convinced that Trump is President because Russia, although a small organized effort on social media looks rather besides the point to me. I simply assume that working for the NYT biases your thinking and adjust my reading accordingly.
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“constitutionally protected news organizations”
My best guess is that that means “left wing media outlets need to exist because Nazis” and “if they are failing, they need government funding”.
I’m not certain how centralization of ownership is different than William Randolph Hearst, but people tend to be outrage if there own peculiar bias isn’t reflected in some popular mass media.
Naturally, the price of constructing and publishing your own local newsletter is near-zero if you value your time as worth zero.
Perhaps the Sierra Business Council could whip up a position paper on how the county government needs to fund The Nevada County Climate Change Pride People of Color Times. You can’t beat a non-profit for providing profits.
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scenes – “While I can see the damage that will be done to commercial artists…”
It will go way beyond that. Once you reduce the financial and skill barrier down to almost zero, the mind reels as to what our electronic world will be filled with. Consider the jump in a person’s world experience from pre radio and TV to the present. The next jump will be way faster.
It’s that double-edged sword thingie.
Can’t say that life ain’t entertaining as long as you’re in a position to side-step the worst of it.
But then I suppose it’s always been that way.
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scenes – “that means “left wing media outlets need to exist because Nazis”
Exactly.
The part that get me is that she claims it’s in the Constitution. A govt funded and approved information stream.
Pretty sure the Constitution was drawn up to PROTECT us from just that.
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Ahem….gentlemen…..! What about Trump?
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Seen elsewhere……da is funny.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul attempted to reassure business owners in New York that they have nothing to fear after the state’s Attorney General fleeced $355 million from President Trump for running a business in the state.
Hochul told John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM where she was asked if other New York businesspeople should be worried that if “they can do that to the former president, they can do that to anybody.”
According to Hochul: “I think that this is really an extraordinary unusual circumstance that the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are business people have nothing to worry about because they’re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior.”
Hochul was telling other businessmen not to worry because this obscure law, with which no one has previously been charged under such circumstances, is being used only against Donald Trump. It is a sort of Bill of Attainder. No one who is not Donald Trump need worry. Only, how can they not worry when a state supports this level of corruption? Watch more corporations move to safer climes.”
It’s entertaining watching the blue state lack of self-control. They really can’t control themselves when it comes to anything having to do with Bad Orange Man!
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Kay : You remember Casablanca”, right?
Jay : Yeah.
Kay : Same thing, just no Nazis.
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Pretty sure the Constitution was drawn up to PROTECT us from just that.
Constitution?
That great American document exists to provide for the citizen two 2️⃣ fundamental and inalienable rights. The right to welfare and of course, to that of endless unprotected anal sex.
Gentlemen…..a republic if you can keep it.
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scotto: (referring to AI) “It will go way beyond that. ”
oh, I understand that. I was thinking about low hanging fruit in terms of the arts. Music composition and production will be hit a treat also, especially given the mechanized angle that pop tunage already has in how it’s constructed. Next up will be copyright wars decided by robot judges.
I think the funniest near-term angle will be the changes to bullshit business jobs, like all those ‘business consultant’ 28 year olds you see on youtube’s ‘A Day in My Life at Facebook’. Powerpoint slides will be converted into a page of prose, a page of prose converted back to bullet items, all of it plausible non-useful nonsense. Whole divisions of companies can be automated, communicating with each other in a great big singularity of emailed spreadsheets, charts, and reports. A feedback loop of boilerplate. Seriously, the SBC needs to look into this as a business practice, maybe staff cuts are in the offing.
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(h/t to JHK) https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1759223136396939654
We are going to have the most diverse and inclusive civilizational collapse in history
– Oilfield Rando
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Posted by: scenes | 19 February 2024 at 10:07 AM
Seriously, the SBC needs to look into this as a business practice, maybe staff cuts are in the offing.
Nahh….no satisfaction in pontificating to an empty office.
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That twitter post lead me to this. Interesting.
https://twitter.com/Villgecrazylady/status/1759305508584882680
“Y’all want to see what a ghost donor bot looks like?
Here’s the data from a 65 yo retired man living in a 962 sq ft house in Clawson, Michigan.
From 2019-2023 the FEC has recorded him making over 15,600 separate donations to political campaigns.
The list below shows the receiving campaign, the # of donations made and the total amount donated from 2019-2023”
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Posted by: scenes | 19 February 2024 at 10:28 AM
Psul is really living in Michigan? Maybe he could afford a nicer place if he’d stop wasting so much of his hard earned Leonard Cohen cash on politics.
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