Most of these nations are Russian allies and have no reason to support Ukraine, which is the Israel of eastern Europe

Yes they are lucky they found something, the timing of their search was just in time

I already know scientists moving to Europe because they couldn’t find places to work in the US. Labs are not hiring here anymore, but the Euro labs seem excited and able to being in new talent

Glad to be introduced to this band, the music is great and I had never heard of them before all this. Hopefully the Streisand effect helps them

All porn is illegal in China. There are hundreds of queer romantic novels and such not being targeted, because they don’t cross the line into graphic pornography. This is being framed as anti queer but it is actually anti porn

And what’s so bad about that?

Just one more sanction and they will fold!

Not only is it too late, she actively enabled his rise by pandering to his base and allowing them to get away with everything with no real opposition. She is just as complicit

I mean, one of those three arrows is for communism. It is an explicitly anti-communist symbol. They are equating communists as fascists when they say anti-fascists

oof anti communist three arrows logo for the list

I don’t blame the father for not choosing a better target but it would have been great to go Luigi mode instead of just off a retired cop who wont be actively abusing citizens as much as the majority of other cops. He was obviously breaking down and wouldn’t have had capacity to plan such a thing but if you are going to potentially end your life in such a way there are more impactful ways to do it

So they are just going to buy it at a mark up from India. It’s amazing that Europeans put up with this shit from their leadership

The image generator to 3D model to animation pipeline isn’t too bad. If you’re not a great visual artist, 3D modeler, or animator you can get out pretty decent results on your own that would normally take teams of multiple people dozens of hours after years of training

Ultimate cope. Much like the US saying they will renew manufacturing, the reality of making that happen would take at least a decade and billions of investments. Mines, processing facilities, factories and employees with the skills required to operate them don’t just appear overnight. Especially when the system is bloated with grifters funneling the investment capital into offshore accounts and pushing back deadlines.

The alternative is that more Ukrainians die which has already destroyed their economy for at least a generation and will only get worse. A country with only elderly people and disabled people won’t be a country very long

Having a chance of winning means you are on the right, that’s the whole thing

He’s Putin me on!

I’ll admit, this video particularly stands out to me because it is an honest attempt by a team of professional artists to integrate AI into their workflows, knowing that if they don’t, they will be less likely to keep getting work in their industries.

There are certainly many more people using AI with no intention or technical expertise who are a part of ending art workflows that technical artists and other professional have spent years training to do. The industry has already been rough since 2020, finding work is hard without AI replacing jobs.

These production capitalists are choosing lower quality AI amalgamations because they are “good enough” for someone who’s intention is primarily making money, and they cost exponentially less than a human. This trend will continue to repress the quality of art by and large, but the technology itself isn’t bad and it can offer an opportunity for an independent art rebirth if artists learn to use it for themselves and promote their own works like the music video example. The problem is certainly with capitalism and not the technology in my eyes, but I do think the capitalist use of AI will have an overall harmful effect.

Here’s a music video done with AI assistance (including Comfy UI) that is pretty cool: https://youtu.be/envMzAxCRbw

Here’s a similar article about a person doing this in the US, for comparison:

https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

Yes, we’ve known for a very long time that people join gangs due to social alienation and a need for community. It isn’t new info and it doesn’t change the fact that they have adopted violence and terrorism to make up for being lonely