But, not you.

I’ve always hated that it’s not just “Damage” but “Damage per second”. Is it “Healing per second”? No. Just “Healer”.

From that article:

Lilly doesn’t know “how present my transness was in the background of my brain as we were writing” The Matrix.

They weren’t consciously making it a trans allegory. And, the studio would never have accepted it if that was all it was. In retrospect it’s obvious that that was a major influence in the story they were telling. And, they’re happy that in the present people are interpreting it that way. But, it wasn’t as intentional as people like to claim, and that’s far from the only possible interpretation.

It has been ruthlessly coopted by people who want to see it that way and refuse to believe that any other interpretation could possibly exist.

I freely admit that the the fact that the writers and directors later both changed their gender makes a good case that that was an element of the story.

But, this was also a huge budget action movie produced by a mainstream Hollywood studio in 1999 when the world was far less trans-friendly than even today. There’s no way they would have OK’d a movie that could only be interpreted as a trans allegory.

I really preferred the workflow(?) / pattern(?) that only existed for a few short years when pagers were common and cell phones weren’t. Someone would page you. You’d get it, decide if you needed to call them back, decide when to call them back, and where to do it.

You could do it from a payphone, you could wait until you got back home, or to your friend’s house, or to work, or whatever. If you wanted to stay out of touch, you could do it.

It’s the same reason that the children these days prefer to text rather than call. A text doesn’t have to be acknowledged instantly. You can think about your response if necessary. If you want privacy for your communication, you can arrange for that.

AMD acquired them in the early 2000s. The name “Radeon” still lives on, but I don’t know how much stuff is still done in Canada.

Floor plans are one of the best ways of exposing the limitations of AI.

AI knows patterns, it knows X is found next to Y. It knows that the label X tends to go with furniture that looks like Z. But, it doesn’t know why for anything. It can’t even ask the question Y. It’s just a pattern matching and generating machine.

So, it doesn’t understand the purpose of a door, or a hallway, or a bathroom. It won’t tend to put the laundry machines in the living room because that’s not a pattern it has seen, but it’s not because it understands why that might not be ideal.

It’s actually the same with software, it has just been trained on a lot more software, so it is better able to make something that blends in and looks correct at first glance.

Perverts

ATI Technologies Inc. (ATI) was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of GPUs and chipsets.

BRING THEM BACK!

That’s what happens when companies illegally leverage their monopolies to extinguish any competition.

I think he’s trying to encourage the premiers to allow US brands back onto the store shelves.

If that were enough to make a deal, it wouldn’t be awful. I think a lot of Canadians wouldn’t buy the liquor if it was back on store shelves, so it might not change much.

It could be a good negotiating tactic, because the Americans might think that it meant that the revenue for US alcohol companies might start flowing again, when in reality it just puts it directly in the hands of Canadian buyers, rather than in the hands of the Premiers.

What’s more annoying to me is that Carney is going to go with counter-tariffs. That just means that if Canadians choose to buy American products they have to pay more. And, since the US is so monstrously huge, in many cases there aren’t alternatives to American products.

What I think they should be doing instead is investigating American companies for antitrust, allowing Canadians to circumvent DRM to do things like install alternative app stores to deprive Apple / Google of revenue, allow Canadians to work around printer ink restrictions to use any ink they want, allow Canadian farmers to repair their own tractors without John Deere’s approval, etc.

Instead of raising Canadians’ costs, deprive American companies of the unfair IP rules that they use to make massive profits. Those rules were forced on Canada in exchange for the US agreeing to barrier-free access to the American market for Canada. If the US is withdrawing from their own trade deals, then Canada shouldn’t feel obliged to uphold its obligations under those deals either.

This is you:

Of course provenance matters in appreciation of art.

Wedding photographer is an interesting job. With a lot of jobs, people buy the minimum viable equipment they need to get the job done.

But, people who get into wedding photography seem to generally be people who are really into photography. Rather than a $5000 camera being the requirement for the job. The $5000 camera is a present you can justify getting yourself if the wedding photography game is going well.

It’s not a tool that goes into the case and stays there until the next wedding. It’s something to be used for the kinds of pictures that don’t pay the bills but that you love taking: nature shots, architecture, abstract art, gritty realism, etc.

A lot of my replies have edits because I’ll notice I used the wrong word

Good, keep at it. I pointed out one you missed. You’re welcome.

Ooh, an attempt to turn around and pretend you’re not butthurt! Not only did you leave that long comment, I can even see you edited it. How long did you stew on that reply?!

You think most of the artists that made famous art got paid??

Yes, I do. Have you heard of Patreon? Do you know the word it’s based on, “patron”?

Plus you think people don’t care if artwork that is claimed to be authentic is actually fraudulent??

People care about all kinds of things. Maybe instead of worrying about whether or not something is authentic, they should just think about whether they like it.

Thank you for demonstrating that you don’t actually like art for art’s sake, you care more about knowing your art comes from a famous person.

I think the one who needs to grow up is the one who left this butthurt comment.

Hmm, ok. I thought there was some trick to learn. A brake almost feels like it’s cheating. You’re right though, it looks cool.

If a museum advertises a Picasso but it is fraudulent most people would consider that a bad thing.

Who cares?

I care about artists getting paid. Sure, hate collectors all you want, but getting rid of them reduces the purchases artists do get.

You don’t need NFTs to ensure artists get paid. You don’t need intellectual property laws to ensure that artists get paid. Most of the best art in history was made before intellectual property was a thing, and the artists who made that art generally were paid.