Waiting for this gentleman to get a public apology: https://news.sky.com/story/man-arrested-after-heckling-prince-andrew-during-royal-procession-12695924

One actor, alone in a black box theater, performing this as a monologue would be more interesting.

Investment money has basically dried up. Even indies need that, unless you mean the “one person in their garage working off Patreon” type of studio. For awhile Chinese companies were holding down the fort and trying to expand in North America, but they’ve largely withdrawn that strategy and focused on domestic production. That’s why so many indie studios working on their first game shut down in the last two years.

For this to reverse itself interest rates will need to come down, but for that to happen without catastrophic inflation we would need several years of un-fucked monetary policy. So basically it’s fucked for a long time and possibly will never exist again in the way it did. This is on top of all the other issues the vfx/game industries have with crunch, chaotic management, etc.

IDK, it’s fun to think about because maybe the 128 bit UUID is still being used due to 40k-like levels of technical debt, and also weird edge cases that cause ID explosion. Like maybe the 4000 year old spec says we need to track micrometeoroids too, sorry.

TFW you live in a galaxy-spanning super civilization but your planet is dying because its ID in the central database has a UUID collision with another planet 80000 light years away.

New Year’s Resolution: I’m going to “reform” my body by going from obese to morbidly obese.

I could see people in the USA reflexively denying this is true because of the dramatic nature of “kill line”, but if you used the phrase, “barely keeping my head above water” or, “treading water” they would agree it’s true.

I just remember it being really expensive. I think it was $4 to rent? Plus the looming potential late fees. Whatever it was, at the time it seemed like a fortune. So you couldn’t really fuck around and rent “Mansquito 2: Womansquito” just for laughs because it really was a huge ripoff when a movie sucked, or was damaged, or something. Also the popular movies were never in stock. They would put hundreds of empty boxes on the shelves to make it seem like it was there, but the actual tapes were always gone.

I never noticed how caked up Neo’s podneighbor is. Pretty good for having never used your ass muscles.

The marginalia of medieval manuscripts are often pretty wild. Just my personal theory, but I always thought it seemed like one of the places where the artists could inject a little of their own ideas, elaborating on the subject or drawing parallels, using symbolism, maybe little in-jokes for the client (hours books were made for one person), etc. Sort of like the extra panel of an xkcd comic.

Reminds me of this straight-up lebensraum apologia I saw a few days ago. It’s a real humdinger.

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5681672-greenland-power-politics-realism/

Can osmium-tool do what you want?

For example if I go here and export an osm file as pittsburg.osm: https://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=18%2F40.440748%2F-79.999822

Then I run osmium tags-filter pittsburg.osm n/amenity=library -o out.osm

I get an out.osm with a bunch of libraries in it:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<osm version="0.6" generator="osmium/1.18.0">
  <bounds minlat="40.438994" minlon="-80.003256" maxlat="40.442501" maxlon="-79.996389"/>
  <node id="367964200" version="3" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:41:15Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4417942" lon="-79.9973275">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="227"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2429945"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Downtown and Business Branch Carnegie Free Library of Pittsburgh"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
  <node id="367964584" version="4" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:41:32Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4397308" lon="-80.0008734">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="223"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2430651"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Point Park University Library"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
  <node id="367964938" version="3" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:42:16Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4392024" lon="-79.9972654">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="233"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2430211"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Carnegie Library of Allegheny"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
  <node id="2127151495" version="3" timestamp="2024-05-21T20:45:12Z" uid="3199858" user="Mateusz Konieczny - bot account" changeset="151646829" lat="40.4407273" lon="-79.9997963">
    <tag k="addr:state" v="PA"/>
    <tag k="amenity" v="library"/>
    <tag k="ele" v="224"/>
    <tag k="gnis:feature_id" v="2430637"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Pittsburgh Downtown Branch Library"/>
    <tag k="source" v="USGS Geonames"/>
  </node>
</osm>

I don’t live in the UK but I got pulled into the UK camper van / canal boat / bushcraft segment of youtube. The recommended videos are often something like “London has FALLEN” on a video featuring a normal street with people walking around, but I guess not enough of them are white. It’s a whole subgenre, each channel full of people with St. George’s Cross profile pics agreeing wildly in the comments that its all gone to shit now.

It really is a tragic parallel to what you see on algorithmic “media” in the USA. Every comment section is a gutter where terminally online people circlejerk with fear and hatred as lube.

Anyway I’m thinking of starting a peertube channel where I upload art videos.

Reminds me of this animation. CW: Cartoon Body horror: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1t4rsf

Same “news” agency that reported the 12000 dead in Iran while showing a picture of 50 body bags.

I’m not sure I buy the McDonald’s worker story, the whole narrative of the arrest seems really bizarre. (Not that I eat their shit food, one way or another.)

The dialog pushing AI media seems to start from this assumption that I consume media just to have colors and words and sounds enter my face holes. In fact, I consume art and media because I like hearing, seeing, and reading about how other humans experience the same world I do. It’s a form of communication. I like the product but also the process of people trying to capture the bonkers, ineffable experience we all seem to be sharing in ways I would never think of, but can instantly verify.

What’s funny is, due to the nature of media, it’s kind of impossible to not communicate something, even if the artwork itself is empty. When I see AI media I see the communication of a mind that doesn’t know or give a shit about any of this. So in their attempt make filler they are in fact making art about how inarticulate they are. It’s unintentional, corporate dadaism.