I like the part where Dr Grant just looks dead straight into the camera and in a serious tone says ‘There are dinosaurs here. There are dinosaurs in this Jurassic Park’.

Spunch Bob Sqor Ponts

🎵She’s got that long-ass snoot. Boots with the fur🎵

Sure, but that’s not my decision to make. The ask was for other communities that are not politics focused. If people want to gather in one of those over another, that’s their choice not mine. I just listed some I’m aware of, that’s all.

Luckily we can do both. Push for better air quality, but don’t dismiss achievements that happen in other areas at the same time.

• https://lemmy.world/c/climatehope
• https://slrpnk.net/c/energy
• https://feddit.uk/c/goodnews
• https://kbin.social/m/goodnews
• https://sh.itjust.works/c/goodnewseveryone
• https://lemmy.world/c/hopeposting
• https://lemmy.world/c/lemmybewholesome
• https://slrpnk.net/c/reclamation
• https://lemmy.world/c/worldinprogress
• https://slrpnk.net/c/zerowaste

Some of these communities are more active than others, so if you do find them interesting/valuable please post.

Maybe some do, but mine just looks like this:

They are, but their stems and centre piece are plastic, which just ends up in landfill or litter. A reusable brooch is more environmentally friendly, but at least now they have paper stems and (im assuming) paper centre pieces so when they get thrown away they’re not so bad.

One thing I do find nuts is that the poppys have only just moved to paper stems. Every year they’d be busy handing these things out only for the plastic stem and centre to end up in landfill. I bought one of the reusable metal brooch versions a while ago, and just wear that each year, but it’s sad that the disposable nature of them wasn’t taken into consideration when they were designed.

You into masks, baby? Kinky! I like that, baby, yeah! Behave!

I find it crazy that Black Ops, a series that’d surely sell gangbusters with minimal marketing thanks to word of mouth, gets a marketing budget bigger than the GDP of a small country. Yet a new IP that noone has heard of yet gets a far smaller budget. It seems completely back to front, to me.

Well, can they?

Give her a medal

I’m not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that fan art cannot, by it’s very nature, by classed as original and therefore shouldn’t be able to be sold?

I have yet to meet any artist with this kind of deep anti-AI sentiment

Unfortunately this isn’t the case. Just look at the anti AI discourse from people like Steven Zapata or Karla Ortiz, or the discussion on platforms like Mother’s Basement or Art Cafe. There are plenty of artists who absolutely believe that AI art is worthless, without merit and is coming to destroy ‘real artists’.

I think that’s an overly simplistic description of how LLMs work, but I take your point. My response would be: how is a LLM trained on other artists work any different to a human artist taking inspiration from other human artists? Is an artist who creates fan art of Batman also derivative? In your argument it’s a clear breach of copyright, so should we be going after anyone who has ever drawn a picture of Batman as having broken the law?

You forgot to mention ‘AI slop’…

Well said. These anti AI arguments tend to be a prime example of protectionism. ‘Technology is great until it comes for my area of expertise, in which case my area of expertise must be protected at all costs because my work has greater value’.

This was a really interesting article. The parallels with modern day concerns are remarkable.

Most likely you’re correct, but I was basing my assumption from the following:

However, the Port Authority of NSW said no oil spills had been reported by vessels.

Time may tell I guess…