#mitigated present

Me: "what. who summed up the early 21st century in just three words?"

Twitter: "The President. By accident."

"But... we don't even have cybernetic implants yet?"

"Yeah so it turns out that some people either haven't been reading enough science fiction, or have been reading too much science fiction, so a businessman, for example, can get one-shotted by an auto-generated SCP Wiki article."

"Well. Fuck."

I'm not going to post video much, because video tends to use a lot of bandwidth and storage, and Tumblr is not known for its healthy financial position.

We are now in the position where a determined artist (someone who could actually do character sheets or key frames) could, in theory, use AI to animate an entire low-budget, sometimes wonky-looking, animated series about a clique of Tumblr users. (On the other hand, at least for Grok, it's not based on keyframes yet—which is, in some ways, not surprising.)

We are also in a position where every Internet meme could potentially be animated. Very cyberpunk. But does it really add much, or is it just noise?

As with AI image generation before, what you can do with depends on whether you're flowing with or against the currents of the training data. And also as with AI image generation before, there's an implicit, gambling-like element—each image rendering takes a little bit of time, and you don't know if you'll like the result, or if it will just be bad.

This is going to sound weird, but an e-Ink tablet with pen sounds like the correct device for Frieren, as in the elf. [...] Imagine a 38-inch e-ink display mounted to a wall, with an almond-colored bezel. It is displaying a high-resolution version of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa. It's probably some kind of elf technology. (What does it do? I'm not sure.)