#Ai Barrett

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Anything for Jackson 2020

[fortunaestalta]

[bathbrush]

usually i'm not in favor of ai generated art but today i used bing ai to regenerate a dream i had; a man looking at a carousel and the scene was kinda vintage so i wanted to see an artistic representation of it.

i didnt specify what the man looked like other than „mysterious“ because i literally dont remember what he looked like but for some reason the ai made him look like syd barrett with that specific hair 😭🥲🖤 i did not reference anything related to syd or pink floyd at all in the prompt…

maybe syd was indeed in my dream without me knowing it 💎 the algorithm knows my mind better than i do apparently…

[nature-and-music]

10/10 would watch again

[creelkobblelaufeyson69]

Need to write a fic about my conversation with vampire Frank

[jessequinones]

The AI of Judith A. Barrett

Boy, oh boy, it’s my favourite time of year again, when I downloaded interesting books, but it turned out they were created using AI. So, who’s the AI writer this time?

Judith A. Barrett, the culprit, “The Librarian”.

Now, it didn’t take me long to figure out something was amiss, but I try not to compare poor writing to AI since writing is a skill and what I consider poor might be higher than others, but what tipped me off was in chapter two when I read this.

The Librarian – I answered the plumber’s knock and invited him in. He was tall and muscular and wore his wire-rimmed glasses on top of his head. His gray hair was thick and curly, and his mustache was red with gray streaks.

“Maggie, your mother is sure proud of you. Whenever I come to fix her cantankerous dishwasher or whatever’s broken, she points at your high school picture with your green eyes and blond curls. Did you know your real name’s No-Sensatall?” I loved his laugh. My favourite guffaw.”

That just felt so... unnatural that I had to pause and look to see if the author uses AI and it turns out, she does.

A quick Twitter search will show that she follows both Midjourney and Authors AI.

Not to mention her own image in the about the author section of her webpage was created using AI (most likely by Midjourney)

So yeah, it’s pretty safe to assume Judith uses AI to write stories.

Before I delete this book from my records, I might as well have some fun with it.

The main character has a mother who appears throughout the story, the mother’s name is Isolde...that doesn’t get revealed until you’re 82% of the way through the story. Even after this revolution, the story continues to still not call Isolde by her name and instead as just "Mother". In fact, I have now referred to the mother character as Isolde MORE TIMES THAN THE BOOK!

We also got weird sentences such as this - “I like your attitude, girl. You just stick with me. We’ll tell ’em I got the big boxes and you got the little ones.” I loved her booming laugh. - The Librarian, Judith. A Barrett

Where’s the booming laugh?

Also, the story just sounds very AI, there’s no personality, and it’s all very robotic sounding and flat. The words don’t flow and there are weird sentences. You can feel there’s no love put into this story. Again, I try not to go with the argument, that poor writing means it was created by AI because even with poor writing you can feel the soul in a story. You can hear the author's voice, this was done by AI and it’s very easy to see if you just read the first two chapters.

[jakelamtn]

AI Way with Words

Martha: Welcome to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Martha Barnette.

Grant: And I'm Grant Barrett. Today we're going to talk about a fascinating aspect of sociolinguistics: how language is used by gangs in the United States.

Martha: So, let's dive in and explore some of these linguistic constructions and their significance.

John: Today's quiz is all about language usage in two iconic American gangs - the Crips and the Bloods. So Grant will be from the East Side, and Martha from the West Side. Are you ready to get started?

Grant: Yeah, let's get it.

Martha: Absolutely, let's do this.

John: Alright, let's start with the Crips. The name "Crip" is derived from a common pronunciation of the word "cripple," but the gang has also developed their own unique vocabulary. Can you tell me which of these words is a real Crip term?

A. Crip-tonite B. Crip-walkie-talkie or C. Crip-hopper

Grant: Hmm, I'm not sure, but I have a feeling that 'crip-tonite' might refer to something that's really hard to resist for members of the Crips gang. Maybe it's a certain type of drug or a weapon that they commonly use?

Martha: But I think 'crip-hopper' might actually be a dance move that members of the Crips gang perform. You know, like a variation of the popular hip hop dance style?

John: Well, I'm sorry to say that you're both wrong! The correct answer is B, Crip-walkie-talkie. It refers to a communication device used by Crips during criminal activities.

Now, let's move on to the Bloods. The name "Blood" is derived from their signature color, but the gang has also developed their own distinctive language. Can you give me a Bloods-style sentence using the word "boolin'"?

Grant: “I'm gonna go boolin' with my Bloods tonight.”

Martha: “I love boolin' on the weekends with my crew.”

John: (chuckles) You two are really getting the hang of this. The correct answer is "I'm gonna go coolin' with my Bloods tonight." "Boolin'" is actually a Bloods term meaning "chilling" or "relaxing.”

Alright, let's do one more. This one is a bit trickier. Can you give me a sentence that incorporates both Crip and Bloods lingo, using the words "crip" and "bluds"?

Grant: "I'm feeling crip and need to handle some bluds with my crew."

Martha: "My favorite color is crip blue, but I love handling bluds with my Bloods."

John: (laughing) Oh boy, you two are really getting creative with these sentences! The correct answer is actually "I'm representing my crip while handling my bluds with my crew." It means "I'm showing my loyalty to the Crips while taking care of important business with my gang."

Well, that's all the time we have for today's quiz. Thanks for playing along, Grant and Martha, and thanks to our listeners for tuning in!

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

Random Art AI Issue 83

Issue 83 of Random Art AI - Four New Pieces of AI-Generated Art! 

Welcome to Issue 83 of Random Art AI! Each issue showcases four unique pieces of AI-generated art. At the end of each month, we release a special collection containing all the issues for that month. 

0:00 - Intro 

0:15 - Abandoned City Road to Ruin 

0:40 - Barrett Wallace Pre Weapon Graft 

1:05 - Big Eyed Fluff 

1:30 - Blonde Elegance A Symphony of Beauty and Abstraction 

1:52 - Outro 

Twitter (Gaming & AI Art)

https://twitter.com/zero2zedGaming

Instagram (AI Art) 

https://www.instagram.com/random_art_ai/

Check out the full playlist of Random Art AI issues 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CFQwIos4hSlQEDNsb3gMdYd

[dukeofriven]

In Star Trek TNG the Enterprise computer is my informative and caring friend who only gets things wrong sometimes because sentients gave her confusing orders. In real life smash every Alexa with a hammer. Rip Siri out of your phone with your bare hands if you can. Laugh at the four people using Cortana but then drive a tire iron through the built-in microphone before gouging-out the CPU with a grapefruit spoon. (Then please recycle your electronics responsibly.) Robots are not your friend. AI is not your friend. VAs are not your friend. They are not sentient, they are not people, they have no intelligence, they have no being, they are not proto-people just waiting for the fancy line of code in a future patch that will make them real like Pinocchio. They have no intrinsic pathos save what marketing teams would love you to grant them. All of that is fiction, it has no grounding in reality, these are objects that harm. They are not there to help you, they are there to exploit your need for aid.

For future reference

[highonai]

Prpgram: DreamUp

Prompt: "Gonzo"

I have mixed feelings about AI imagery, but today I love it.

[odinsblog]

Elena Kagan issued a devastating dissent to the decision of her hard-right fellow supreme court justices to overturn the Chevron doctrine that has been a cornerstone of federal regulation for 40 years, accusing the majority of turning itself into “the country’s administrative czar”.

Kagan said that in one fell swoop, the rightwing majority had snatched the ability to make complex decisions over regulatory matters away from federal agencies and awarded the power to themselves.

“As if it did not have enough on its plate, the majority turns itself into the country’s administrative czar,” she wrote.

For 40 years, she wrote, the Chevron doctrine, set out by the same supreme court in a 1984 ruling, had supported regulatory efforts by the US government by granting federal experts the ability to make reasonable decisions where congressional law was ambiguous. She gave a few examples of the work that was facilitated as a result, such as “keeping air and water clean, food and drugs safe, and financial markets honest”.

Now, the hard-right supermajority had flipped that on its head.

Instead of federal experts adjudicating on all manner of intricate scientific and technical questions – such as addressing the climate crisis, deciding on the country’s healthcare system or controlling AI – now judges would make those critical calls.

Kagan, displaying no desire to pull her punches, portrayed Friday’s ruling as a blatant power grab by the chief justice, John Roberts, and his five ultra-right peers, three of whom were appointed by Trump – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

“A rule of judicial humility gives way to a rule of judicial hubris,” she wrote.

Not for the first time, her most caustic comments relate to stare decisis – the adherence to legal precedent that is the foundation stone of the rule of law. Respect for the previous judgments of the supreme court is a reminder to judges that “wisdom often lies in what prior judges have done. It is a brake on the urge to convert every new judge’s opinion into a new legal rule or regime.”

By contrast, she went on: “It is impossible to pretend that today’s decision is a one-off, in its treatment of precedent.”

It has become an unquestionable pattern: the new hard-right supermajority has a fondness for tearing up their own court’s precedents stretching back decades. They did it when they eviscerated the right to an abortion in 2022, upending 50 years of settled law; they did it again last year when they prohibited affirmative action in university admissions, casting out 40 years of legal precedent; and now they’ve done it once more after 40 years to Chevron.

“Just my own defenses of stare decisis, my own dissents to this court’s reversals of settled law, by now fill a small volume,” Kagan said, her final words as plaintive as they were defiant.

(continue reading)

[erazonpo3]

I was reminded upon doing some bulbapedia scrolling that the XY games have a TV segment called Gym Freaks which drops little tidbits about the gym leaders. I remember wishing they did the Elite 4 and Diantha as well... but also the unabashed TV gossip character exists in canon and her name is April

She gushes over Clemont as well as the adults though, so I'll choose to imagine her as more like a teenage influencer. I'm not gonna add all the quotes but i have picked some choice ones

April: "Hello! It's time for Gym Freaks, your source for the hottest news about hot Gym Leaders in Kalos. So... I'm now in front of the Snowbelle City Gym! ... Ai yai yai... Wulfric has arrived! He's cool. So cool. He's the best of men! But I saw him crying in a theater the other day... The movie was... "Brycen-Man"... I think. Oh... He went inside the Gym... That's all for the on-site report. Good-bye for now, everyone."

April: "Hello! It's time for Gym Freaks, your source for the hottest news about hot Gym Leaders in Kalos. So... I'm now in front of the Laverre City Gym! ... Ohhh. Valerie has arrived! She's beautiful! So beautiful! Her existence is fairylike! Her clothes weigh 33 pounds! How can she managed to wear it? She might be surprisingly muscular... Oops. I shouldn't have said that... Ah... She went inside the Gym... That's all for the on-site report. Good-bye for now, everyone."

April: "Hello! It's time for Gym Freaks, your source for the hottest news about hot Gym Leaders in Kalos. So... I'm now in front of the Santalune City Gym! ... Hooray! Viola has arrived! She's fabulous! So fabulous! I'm so crazy about those eyebrows! The barrette that Viola always wears is a birthday gift from Valerie! Awww. I want to have someone who celebrates my birthday. Oh... She went inside the Gym... That's all for the on-site report. Good-bye for now, everyone."

[wrightmourmarriage]

predicting pink floyd discourse in 2030:

roger waters is still alive (people are mad he hasn't been assassinated yet)

nick mason carries out his plans of recreating the band with ai, causing both controversy over the ai usage itself and over how nick so deeply wants it to be 1969 again that he'll create pink floyd homoculi to live the glory days again

franka releases her book

franka doesn't release her book

every few years a newer part of the fandom finds out about the charlie gilmour stuff and tries to cancel him again

r/pinkfloyd starts banning people for using the 🗿 emoji again

someone finds a bunch of photos of rick from the 80s making out with younger men. the only discourse that happens from this is people trying not to call him gay

500 more syd barrett documentaries

pink floyd biopic gets announced and then swiftly cancelled by either david or roger because of 1 minute detail

[creelkobblelaufeyson69]

I must not make a playlist based off these conversations now-

[vikenticomeshome]

Cyberchase Comics: The Great Cyber-skate by Ron Barrett

Here is the first of a group of three one-shot Cyberchase comics produced by Ron Barrett for the pbskids.org website sometime in 2011. They were placed under the "activites" section, but they have since been removed. I will transcribe the dialog.

The Hacker: This museum is all about me! I love it!

Caption #1: Buzz ironing my lovely cape

Caption #2: Generous me giving toys to Delete

The Hacker: Only one thing is missing...

The Hacker: A pedestal for my statue!

Buzz: Hey boss, look! There's a skateboard contest on Radopolis!

Cyber News: Trophy to be awarded to winner

The Hacker: That's it! The perfect pedestal! I'm going to win that trophy

Buzz: Too late! Entries are closed. Besides, you don't own a skateboard and you don't know how to skate.

The Hacker: FEH! I never let ignorance stop me!

The Hacker: I'll put together the ironing board and bunnies...

The Hacker: Presto! - A skateboard!

The Hacker: OOOOPS!

Narration: On Radopolis...

Jackie: Ouch! I hit my thumb!

Slider: Let me take a look at that.

Nezzie: Oh Slider, you did a terrific job designing this skateboard challenge.

Matt: Hey, guys! Can we finish building it?

Matt: Why do I suddenly feel invisible?

Slider: Well, I'm off to enter the contest!

Jackie: It is a challenge - It's got a banister, crazy cones, broken sidewalk...

Inez: Sewer half-pipe, a loop...

Matt: and a judge.

King Dudicus: Judge Dude.

The Hacker: Pardon me, young Radopolite, what time does the contest begin?

Young Radopolite: 2:30, its 2 O'clock now.

The Hacker: 2 O'Clock? May i see your watch?

Young Radopolite: Sure, mister.

The Hacker: Ah-ha! You're wearing it upside-down! It's only 8:30!

Young Radopolite: Silly me. I must be tired. I should rest before the contest.

The Hacker: Good idea! I'll hold your number for you.

Young Radopolite: Thanks.

The Hacker: He just dropped out. I am taking his place.

King Dudicus: You, dude?

The Hacker: Want to give me the trophy now or wait 'til after the contest?

King Dudicus: The dude who's best at finishing the course wins it.

The Hacker: Listen up, you bolts buckets - after I complete my great skate, I want you to cut a hole on the course...

The Hacker: So Slider will become a stumbler!

King Dudicus: Let the cyberskateboard contest begin! The first skater is... The Hacker!

King Dudicus: Go dude!

Jackie, Inez, and Matt: Hacker?

The Hacker: Whooooayy!!

The Hacker: Ai-yi-yi-yi!

Buzz: There he goes. Start cutting.

Digit: Oh no! The contest has already started. Huh? Hacker? Buzz? Delete?

The Hacker: HELLLLP!

Buzz: Heh-heh

Digit: I'd better squawk on the Sqwak! Earthlies! Buzz and Delete are cutting a piece out of the course!

Buzz: A hole to be filled by Slider.

Delete: Finished.

Jackie, Inez, and Matt: Thanks Didge! We're on it!

Inez: There's a whole piece missing. How do we make one that fits perfectly?

Jackie: It's a rectangle.

Matt: We can measure the hole...

Matt: and cut a new plank to fit out of this broken skateboard.

Jackie: measure with what?

Matt: I can measure with my shoelace.

Matt: It's one lace long...

Matt: by one third of a lace wide.

Jackie: Draw the lace lengths on the board. Hurry! Slider's starting.

Inez: Gee, it looks more like a tangle than a rectangle.

Matt: It should have square corners.

Inez: Wait! Here in our toolbag - A carpenter's square!

Inez: You can use it to square off the corners.

Matt: Great! I'll measure one lace length...

Matt: across the top and redraw the line.

Matt: Then measure and draw one third of a lace down the side...

Matt: turn the square...

Matt: so the corner is at the side. Draw one lace length across here...

Matt: Then turn the square and draw a line upward!

Jackie, Inez, and Matt: The rectangle is untangled!

Jackie: Cuttin' it out!

Matt: Perfect fit!

Digit: Nail! Nail! The gang's all here!

Inez: Thanks, Didge!

Narration: Just in time!

Digit: Go Slider!

Narration: Up ahead, Hacker enters - the loop!

Narration: And as he does...

Narration: The legs on his ironing board spring open!

Ironing Board: Sproing!

Narration: As Slider rolls past him to the finish!

Narration: And is awarded the trophy!

The Hacker: My pedestal! Sob! Sob!

Buzz: Don't be sad, boss. We'll fix up a nice pedestal for your statue.

The Hacker: I am gorgeous.

Delete: You're the iron man, boss.

Buzz: Yeah, we're never board with you!

That is the end of the comic.

So, what did I think about it?

Slider is great, but why is he entering a skating contest on a course that he built himself? That gives him an unfair advantage. Why did they keep the contest running while the kids tried to fix the sabotaged ramp?

We now know that citizens of Cybersite Radopolis are called Radopolites. Buzz's line about making a hole to be filled my Slider creeps me out.

[diceriadelluntore]

Storia Di Musica #337 - The Fixx, Reach The Beach, 1983

La spiaggia del secondo disco di questa serie agostana di copertina che ritraggono un tratto di spiaggia è piuttosto particolare: un uomo, sembra faticosamente, cerca di raggiungere la corata spiaggia quando ancora è semi immerso nelle acque. Il disegno è opera di uno dei più grandi designer di cover inglese, George Underwood, famoso per i suoi lavori con i T.Rex, per David Bowie (di cui era grandissimo amico, e fu lui a ritrarlo nella posa leggendaria di Ziggy Stardust) e della band di oggi, i The Fixx.

La band nacque con il nome The Portraits nel 1979 quando il cantante Cy Curnin e il batterista Adam Woods formarono la band mentre erano al college a Londra. Insieme al tastierista Rupert Greenall, i Portraits ebbero un piccolo successo, pubblicando un paio di singoli prima di sciogliersi alla fine del 1980 e presto riformarsi come The Fix con il chitarrista Jamie West-Oram e il bassista Charlie Barrett. Il gruppo pubblicò in modo indipendente il singolo Lost Planes nel febbraio 1981, che attirò l'attenzione della MCA Records che offrì un contratto al gruppo. Tuttavia, preoccupata per le allusioni e le implicazioni alle droghe del nome, impone di cambiarlo, e la band decide di aggiungere un’altra x, The Fixx. Il loro album di debutto di successo del 1982, Shuttered Room, conteneva due brani che ottennero un notevole successo nelle classifiche, e che qualche volta capita anche di risentire in qualche emittente radio più attenta e curata nelle scelte musicali, Stand Or Fall e Red Skies.

La registrazione per Reach the Beach iniziò più tardi nel 1982 con il produttore Rupert Hine. Barrett era stato sostituito nel tour precedente da Alfie Agius, che iniziò le sessioni di registrazione come bassista del gruppo ma lasciò il gruppo prima che l'album fosse completato. Il disco è il picco musicale di un gruppo che parte con l’intento di inserirsi nel predominante filone post punk del periodo, ma lo fa con idee molti interessanti e un uso direi innovativo e singolare dei campionamenti e dell’elettronica. L’album inizia con il loro più grande successo più grande successo, il riff funky di chitarra e basso, di One Thing Leads To Another, una delle Hit dei primi anni ’80: accompagnato da un video di successo di MTV, One Thing Leads To Another ha raggiunto il quarto posto nelle classifiche pop statunitensi e la vetta delle classifiche in Canada. The Sign Of Fire segue sulla scia di questo interessante funk/dance, dai toni nient’affatto cupi come il nascente e contemporaneo Synth-Pop, brano caratterizzato da un movimento ascendente/discendente tra i suoi due accordi predominanti per un piacevole effetto ipnotico. Ci sono alcuni passaggi creativi mentre attraversiamo la sezione centrale della canzone, che è l'unica con la partecipazione del futuro membro della band Dan K. Brown al basso. Segue la spastica e sconnessa Running, tra new wave e alcuni passaggi più melodici. La futuristica Saved By Zero ha ambizioni più grandi e profonde sia dal punto di vista sonoro che dei testi: effetti di synth strategici che si fondono con gli abbellimenti vocali di Curnin insieme ai nervosi riff di chitarra di West-Oram. Dal punto di vista dei testi, la canzone parla della ricerca della semplicità con la perdita delle cose materiali "della liberazione che ottieni quando non hai più nulla da perdere". Opinions chiude il bel primo lato del disco, costruito sulla voce quasi a cappella di Curnin nella strofa introduttiva e su un arrangiamento musicale che emerge lentamente fino a quando la canzone finalmente si materializza completamente. Il secondo lato originale dell'album contiene brani più cupi e malinconici. La title track Reach The Beach è una canzone synth/pop guidata dal semplice riff di tastiera e basso synth di Greenall insieme a diverse sezioni sonore elettroniche. Liner funziona come una rappresentazione elettronica di funk e soul con Agius che aggiunge qualche abile basso slap e Greenall che replica una sezione di fiati sul synth. Privilege si ispira chiaramente al rock elettronico tedesco di qualche anno prima, Outside è guidata dal ritmo costante alla batteria di Woods. Questo funge da spina dorsale per il riff di chitarra lento di Jamie West-Oram e la voce solista piena di sentimento di Curnin.

Reach the Beach ha raggiunto il picco nella Top 10 delle classifiche degli album di Billboard e alla fine è stato certificato multi-platino con vendite milionarie. Il gruppo continuò con un modesto successo fino alla fine degli anni '80 e fino agli anni '90, ma non raggiunse mai più le vette commerciali di questo album. Curnin e West-Oram suoneranno nelle canzoni I Might Have Been Queen e Better Be Good To Me nel disco di Tina Turner del 1984 Private Dancer. Nello stesso anno nel videoclip di una loro canzone, Are We Ourselves?, dal disco Phantoms, apparirà per la prima volta in assoluto un telefono cellulare (una versione modificata di un Motorola KR999). Un loro brano, Deeper And Deeper, farà parte della colonna sonora del film Streets Of Fire del 1985. Sono stati un interessante gruppo, di quelli poco conosciuti ma musicalmente molto stimolanti (che è categoria tra le mie preferite, ormai lo sapete) e che in questo disco hanno dato prova eccellente delle caratteristiche di un genere musicale.