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Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars: evolution of a masterpiece
I was surprised to learn that Rocket League was actually a sequel to a PS3 game by Psyonix called Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. With such a catchy title, it's hard to see why it never took off to the same extent as Rocket League did. Having said that, apparently it was downloaded on PSN over two million times, so if anything it just goes to show how I don't keep up with…

This morning, I opened a PDF to find Adobe Acrobat giving me an AI-generated summary of it. That led to a rabbit hole of finding all the places Acrobat’s AI Assistant has to be turned off. Here they are: https://www.wordsbywes.ink/articles/tools/turnin…

Turning Off Adobe Acrobat's AI Assistant - Words by Wes
This morning, I opened a PDF to find Acrobat giving me an AI-generated summary of it. Since I frequently deal with unpublished manuscripts and other confidential documents for clients, I can’t have them processed by generative AI tools (and I don’t want my PDFs being read by LLMs either). So…

Just one more damn aggravating thing (in a very long list) about getting old that sucks: Every once in a while I'll be sitting in my chair reading a book or scrolling here and out of nowhere a blop of saliva goes "down the wrong pipe" and I spend the next five to ten minutes coughing my lungs out.

It's good to work again. I was never a champion. Let alone 4 times. But I tore a rotator cuff re-building my fence four years ago, and I'm still re-habbing every day. Be good to yourself. (Saber fencing looks incredibly hard!) https://mindly.social/@deliaturner/11217389775…

Regardless what you think of "Web3" and DAOs, it's interesting to read about the new legal form Wyoming just created.
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/duna-for-daos/

The DUNA: An Oasis For DAOs - a16z crypto
a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

Wenn jetzt das oberste Gericht in USA die absolute Immunität des Präsidenten festlegen würde, dann könnte Biden am Wochenende die Diktatur ausrufen. Ob sich die MAGAner wohl dessen bewusst sind?

Trump gets the nasty laughs he seeks at someone else’s expense, especially when he sneers at a person’s physical limitations.
People who behaved that way were once scorned. Now they become the Republican nominee for president.
There are few among us who don’t know how it feels to be the butt of a joke.
That includes Trump’s supporters.
But with their always aggrieved state of mind, they have anointed Trump as a strongman who allows them to belittle those they see as …

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump didn't choose his supporters, his supporters chose him
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. Renée Graham �of�The Boston Globe looks ...

We live in Mike Judge’s discarded first draft of Idiocracy. https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112159363585014085

Vision-Language Synthetic Data Enhances Echocardiography Downstream Tasks
Pooria Ashrafian, Milad Yazdani, Moein Heidari, Dena Shahriari, Ilker Hacihaliloglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19880

Vision-Language Synthetic Data Enhances Echocardiography Downstream Tasks
High-quality, large-scale data is essential for robust deep learning models in medical applications, particularly ultrasound image analysis. Diffusion models facilitate high-fidelity medical image generation, reducing the costs associated with acquiring and annotating new images. This paper utilizes recent vision-language models to produce diverse and realistic synthetic echocardiography image data, preserving key features of the original images guided by textual and semantic label maps. Specif…