Margot Robbie

The Japanese car companies put all their eggs in the hydrogen basket, despite their early head start in EV with the Toyota Prius and such, and as hydrogen looks to be more and more of a dead end due to transportation and safety concerns, of course they are going to be sandbagging EV adoption to buy time and catch up.

Boeing has generally been one of the lynchpins of China-US trade relationship, and with both the current geopolitical climate and the ongoing quality issues of Boeing aircrafts, of course the Chinese airlines would want to hedge their bets and take a risk on domestically produced jets, even if it is new and relatively unproven at this point. It doesn’t mean that they will stop buying from Airbus or Boeing completely, though.

The C919 uses many American/European produced components/subsystem, most notably the CFM LEAP engines, which is also used by both Airbus and Boeing.

“GNU is Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit” is still a better name for GTK than “GIMP ToolKit”.

It’s a name that will definitely raise some eyebrows in the less technically inclined circles. (and maybe a few “Pulp Fiction” references about “bring out the gimp”)

Barbie!

Lemmy doesn’t have Karma, it’s not visible on the webUI currently and will be completely removed in the next version.

If they only appreciate me enough to hand me my Oscar this year…

Instagram had slowly morphed from a website to share artsy filtered cell photos to an advertisement platform, where people are turning themselves into characters living the perfectly imperfect life on social media, in an attempt to turn themselves into living advertisements, to buy and sell products, Every photo (especially the natural looking ones) is carefully shot, curated and edited by a team to imitate authenticity, no different than shooting a movie or a TV show.

So then, what happens if that role of a living advertisment can automated by machines, equally as heartless and unrealistic as these performance of perfect daily lives on Instagram? Why go through the efforts, the hours and manpower, to conduct the photoshoots and Photoshops for that one perfectly imperfect targeted post, when anyone with a modern GPU can effortlessly make thousands of machine generated pictures with way less work in the same timeframe?

Why should the role of “social media influencer” even exist then?

I’ve been unhappy about the state of social media for a long time now. But as it appears, the role of the social media influencer, as the lowest common denominator of photography, will be the first to be rendered redundant by AI automation, which brings me hope that in time, social media can be brought back to what originally was: a place for people to talk to people.

Especially when your identity on Signal is STILL only tied to a phone number, instead of a username, and there is nothing less private than actually giving out your real phone number.

Absolutely baffling.

Great episode.

It’s always the one you least suspect, like disguising yourself as an impersonation of yourself.

Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie can use any operating system at home as she please!

I think Facebook dating works better because you get a much more complete, natural profile of a person over a long period of time compared to Tinder and friends. Twitter… is not that.

(Watch my movies too, please😊)

Elon Musk’s entire career since his PayPal days has been throwing one horrifyingly bad idea after another to his employees for them to figure out a way to bring into reality, then take credit for all of his employees’ work once they somehow realize these idea in order to shamelessly market himself as a tech genius, a “real life Tony Stark”, to make his employees realize even more bad ideas. Until his management of Twitter exposed him.

Can’t wait to see what kind of trainwreck a dating app designed by a misogynistic thrice-divorced deadbeat manchild would look like.

It’s a pretty bad idea to fire the majority of your employees if you want them to basically recreate Stripe (not just PayPal/Venmo) and somehow mush it into Twitter.

Also, that market is saturated, most banks and credit unions in the US already supports Zelle, and Venmo, CashApp, and PayPal are very estabished tech financial players in this space.

Again, if there ever was a possibility of an American WeChat equivalent to be built, the only one who ever had a chance to build it was Zuckerberg more than a decade ago, during the very short time period when the general population was adopting Facebook, but the old Facebook users have not started migrating off it. Trying to build WeChat in the US in 2023 is foolish at best.

THANKS, NOW I DON’T HAVE TO HOLD DOWN THE SHIFT KEY WHEN I TYPE ANYMORE!

You should probably not listen to the opinion of anyone who pays Elon Musk 8 dollars a month for an emoji.

Have you watched the ending of that movie? Refusing to participate in a broken system is always an option.

If you would like to support your favorite creators, buying their merchandise or donating to them would be far more effective.

I’m not cheap, I’m frugal, there is a difference.

Paying Google for them to stop shoving ads in my face doesn’t feel like a good purchase and I don’t want to support that kind of behavior, and I’m smart enough to use uBlock Origin and ReVanced (Little bit of a struggle though.)

It’s more about principle than anything else.

Global town square? If anything, social media in the modern age is like Time Square: dirty, overcrowded, covered in billboard ads for brands, filled with cartoon characters in costumes and CD hawkers who are only there to take your money, and of course, the people shouting their political agendas at you through megaphones.