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A look at Runway's second International AI Film Festival, which it says grew from 300 short-video submissions in 2023 to 3,000 in 2024 with 10 finalists chosen (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
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Runway, Sora, and Hollywood: AI Films Actually Get Good
Artificial intelligence has changed filmmaking a lot over the past year, even though the technology is just getting started. But first…

A look at Runway's second International AI Film Festival, which it says grew from 300 short-video submissions in 2023 to 3,000 in 2024 with 10 finalists chosen (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Runway, Sora, and Hollywood: AI Films Actually Get Good
Artificial intelligence has changed filmmaking a lot over the past year, even though the technology is just getting started. But first…

A look at Runway's second International AI Film Festival, which it says grew from 300 short-video submissions in 2023 to 3,000 in 2024 with 10 finalists chosen (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Runway, Sora, and Hollywood: AI Films Actually Get Good
Artificial intelligence has changed filmmaking a lot over the past year, even though the technology is just getting started. But first…

so, there is this this space filling curve called a Gosper curve, which got some neat property like forming a fractal island that can tile the plane.
however, the best part of it is that it's also called a flowsnake 😃.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve

Gosper curve - Wikipedia

Grateful Dead from Thu, Apr 4, 1985 at Providence Civic Center
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Grateful Dead Live at Providence Civic Center on 1985-04-04
Set I Alabama Getaway > Jack Straw Dire Wolf > El Paso She Belongs To Me My Brother Esau > Friend Of The Devil Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Deal Set II I Need A Miracle > Crazy Fingers Samson & Delilah > He's Gone > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Black Peter > Around & Around > Turn On Your Lovelight U.S. Blues Comment Jerry Garcia - Guitar Bob Weir - Guitar Brent Mydland - Keyboards Phil Le…

Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb predicted that special counsel Jack Smith will ultimately and successfully seek judge Cannon’s removal from the case by the 11th Circuit:
I think that Jack Smith– I think the filing today makes it plain that she has to rule, and if she doesn’t rule under either scenario, they’ll be in a position to take her up to the 11th Circuit. And I think the 11th circuit will likely take her off the case.
“Just to be clear, you’re saying that you don’t b…

Former Trump White House Lawyer Predicts ‘Incompetent’ Judge Cannon Will Get Booted from Ex-President’s Docs Trial: ‘The 11th Circuit Will Likely Take Her off the Case’
An attorney who worked in Donald Trump's White House predicted that Judge Aileen Cannon's "partiality" will lead to her removal from the former president's documents case.

> We think building this new tool – which makes cancelling union membership much, much, easier than cancelling Amazon Prime – is a breach of this law.
https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/05/02/legal-challenge-to-amazon-uks-new-one-click-…

For men who are feeling good about being called “big dog”

I'm getting a lot of mileage out of following the podcast "Prosecuting Donald Trump." I don't get half of the legal detail, but it sure makes it clear what to expect.
For example, today's verdict was no big surprise, whereas SCOTUS taking the immunity case, was a bit of an unexpected blow (if I understood correctly).
If you just looked at (left-wing) social media, you would get the complete opposite impression.

Good news from The David Suzuki Foundation
To save a world in a grain of sand
Storage systems ensure wind and solar energy is available 24/7. Lithium batteries are good, but come with their own problems. As Euronews Green points out, “Grains of sand, it turns out, are surprisingly roomy when it comes to energy storage.” Following up on a smaller power station it built in Kankaanpää, Finland, in 2022, Polar Night Energy is now constructing the world’s biggest sand battery in Porna…