Unexpected KACA

https://github.com/hxu296/tariff/blob/main/tariff/__init__.py#L27

(caca is a slang term for poop)

Haven’t seen these two paint alternatives mentioned yet:

1. Krita
2. Inkscape

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Indeed, hence the dumb joke

Palantir sounds like a medical condition of the feet. Palantir Facetious or something.

ETA: in case you don’t get it

lmao, maybe we were at the same festival. I was at Bonnaroo in 2009 or 2010, watching Primus, and got handed a mystery pipe. Turns out it was opium and it agreed decently with the mushrooms 😅

Ahhh, I don’t miss hangovers. I’ve been much happier and less sick since I switched to LSD.

The mark of a true performer. That sounds like a damn good time, both of them.

Yo, that’s Benn Fucking Jordan, aka The Flashbulb!

He’s always had great views on this stuff. From his wiki about piracy:

After the collapse of Sublight Records, instead of taking on another contract, Jordan purchased his previous licenses and released his most anticipated album, Soundtrack to a Vacant Life, on his own record label, Alphabasic Records. On the day of its release, he personally uploaded copies of the album to music piracy sites, including a small HTML file explaining his relaxed views on file sharing and showing listeners where they could give support if they desired. This resulted in attention by the mainstream press, and the album became the most downloaded album on many popular file sharing networks.

Jordan has spoken extensively on issues of net neutrality, free speech, and copyright laws in the music world. In an interview with TorrentFreak, he encourages involvement in these issues and warns against corporations like Amazon or iTunes and their ability to stem the free flow of information. File sharing, to Jordan, is a way of bypassing this potential oppression and accessing information freely. In the aforementioned interview, Jordan notes that “file trading is just a peephole to a much larger picture. Copyright, in its current state, holds information at ransom for monetary value. While in music it can stifle culture and art, with literature and education it can be nothing less than a weapon of class warfare.”

In a 2024 episode of “The New Music Business” podcast Jordan reviewed these perspectives in the context of having been the subject of False Streaming Activity and having had his music taken down by distributors.

Implying that rich motherfuckers aren’t the actual problem, and were before AI was even a thing

did LinkedIn merge with Twitter overnight?

Is anyone surprised? Maybe the surprising part is that she’s still alive and only got fired.

Indeed, CSAM no-doubt:

Tens of thousands of explicit AI-generated images, including AI-generated child sexual abuse material, were left open and accessible to anyone on the internet, according to new research seen by WIRED. An open database belonging to an AI image-generation firm contained more than 95,000 records, including some prompt data and images of celebrities such as Ariana Grande, the Kardashians, and Beyoncé de-aged to look like children.

It’s a really interesting thought, and under ideal circumstances would work IMO. Obviously things are never ideal and there would be all sorts of roadblocks and gotchas as something like this was developed. Things we could think of now, and other things we probably couldn’t. Not to mention the whole problem of, “who develops it and how much trust can you give them?”

As I was reading the idea, it made me think of the suits from A Scanner Darkly that the undercover narcs wore. Basically heavily obfuscated the voice and displayed always-changing patchwork human features to anyone observing from the outside, including trying to hide body shape. Something like that could get similar results. Obviously a video filter would be much easier to develop than a sci-fi suit, but still.