Tootfinder

There is someone who has taken a lot of old films and used AI to colorize them badly and "boosted" the frame rate from 24 to 60fps and then uploaded this trash to the Internet Archive.
I hate this. Films shot in b&w have an aesthetic that is destroyed by colorizing them. Video games might look better with more frames per second but movies don't. We didn't accidentally settle on 24fps, it was trial and error. A film shot in 60fps looks bad. A movie that has been ar…

"When you focus on growth in GDP as your primary goal without any concern for whether what creates that growth is of real value rather than simply being capable of being counted, whilst being indifferent to the distribution of the gains, those already vulnerable are bound to suffer as a consequence... The policy failure this chart exposes is not an accident; it will be achieved by #Labour by d…

Labour is failing people by hidden design. Reform would do so explicitly.
As The Guardian notes this morning: The country’s most deprived neighbourhoods will have higher crime rates and worse unemployment by the end of the parliament, according to a report written at the request of No. 10 Downing Street. No. 10 has apparently focused its attention on what are called

The experience @… describes here is deeply familiar to me: advertisers keep shoving in front of me ads in which I have •negative• interest.
Does the massive adtech surveillance apparatus actually work on someone out there? Because it’s sure failing to target me. https://wandering.shop/@Violinknitter/115624133826239199

Niet te geloven dit, voor een flink bedrag in Rusland tegen een balletje gaan slaan terwijl datzelfde land nu burgers en kinderen in Oekraïne vermoordt.
Griekspoor doet mee aan toernooi in Rusland, minister Van Weel adviseert: 'Doe het niet' - https://nos.nl/l/2592260

Griekspoor doet mee aan toernooi in Rusland, minister Van Weel adviseert: 'Doe het niet'
Tallon Griekspoor doet dit weekend samen met zijn vriendin Anastasia Potapova mee aan een Russisch demonstratietoernooi.

Someone really doesn't like their Bändchen checked...
ACAB = all creatures are bändchened!
#39c3

A lot of what I’m archiving has like 0 hits but I just know sometime, someone, maybe in a hundred years from now, will find it useful.
It’s a nice feeling to have contributed just a little to preserving our cultural artifacts.

Looking for someone who trades the original Firefox ears for Mate (a bottle per furry ear) or stickers (up to 25 of mine) #39c3

I'm sitting at Zurich Airport waiting to pick someone up. Next to me sits a German person who has propped up their iPad on their suitcase. They are in a video conference with several people from banks and legal, discussing tax "optimization" from Germany by buying real estate in different US states and pretending to live elsewhere. On loudspeaker.
"Don't make a bank account, don't change your drivers license. We have checklists we can provide you."

TIL: the #39c3 DECT network also covers at least part of the Radisson hotel. I was just woken up by a call from someone to my DECT.
Have to switch it off next night.
Well, not much harm done, my alarm would have woken me up soon anyway for my Angel shift at 04:00 in the Cloakroom Lost and Found.

OTD 5 years ago, I posted this:
So, in the last 24 hours we had
- Zombie minks in Denmark
- almost 400 km/h wind,
- thunderstorms and lightning in Iceland
Either someone is playing an updated version of Jumanji, or some Nordic director is shooting a video clip for a "Thriller"/"Bohemian Rhapsody" remix.