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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 12m

(Raises hand) does Shia LeBoeuf in "Fury" count?

Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 15m

Louper is actually really good (in testing), going to give it a run next week.

www.louper.io

Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 7h

Anybody have a good alternative to Evercast? I need to do a live session with someone.

Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 9h

Doesn't Fox News do this with their Fox Nation OTT subscription service?

Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 10h

It’s going to get to the point where you can’t rename a file in these things without it having to call home to parse your request Agentically or whatever.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 13h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 10h

I’ve never worked with Tighe but I did work with Randolph Mantooth, who played his partner Johnny Gage on “Emergency!” on the film “Bold Native” which also ironically features his character on a hunt for left-wing radicals. (If you’re into animal rights check it out!) 3/

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Bold Native - Full Film

YouTube video by All Sentient Beings

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 10h

You may recognize Tighe as Firefighter-Paramedic Roy DeSoto in “Emergency!” and the owner of the roadhouse in the titular Patrick Swayze film. 2/

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 11h

My dad had to point out to me that Kevin Tighe was the bathrobe-wearing Christmas Adventurer in OBAA. 1/

thereveal.film/interview-ke...

Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen

The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.

thereveal.film

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

Falling back in love with this thing even though I know it’s going to hurt me.

An Avid Dock control surface with soft keys configured for operating Cargo Cult Matchbox.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

I know for a fact what's going to happen is filmmakers are just going to keep using 24fps workflows and then spitting out a 60fps 8k deliverable using Topaz or some other AI interpolation tool—or Samsung will start building this into the TVs.

Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

The middle thing can exist if you have a massive structural subsidy, say from a nearby city through some sort of transfers at the county level. (Why yes I do live in Los Angeles why do you ask?)

Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

I have worked on some things where the editor used ElevenLabs to temp lines and the quality is never great, and training the service to make the lines requires you to upload your sound dailies to the service, which clients are generally loathe to authorize if it's new content.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

Respeecher also has a "Marketplace" tier where you can generate voices from fully artificial models and the quality of these is, accordingly, not great but can always work in a pinch.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

This isn't expressly true, there are tools like Respeecher that we can use to reproduce an actor's voice, but their top-of-the-line service is a service: you have to contract for it, you pay them gobs of money, they need to see a legal release from the actor.

Several filmmakers also told me that they've used Al for additional dialogue recording, to test out alternate or rewritten lines during the editing process, before actors are scheduled to come in for ADR sessions. Though it's a "pretty common application," this temporary, Al-assisted ADR
understandably never makes the final cut.

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 2d

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

movieweb.com

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 2d

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

It used to turn south of Glendale, follow the valley the 2 runs in and then snake its way through Echo Park and mid-city to connect with the Ballona Creek in the Fairfax district, but its course would deviate or spread all over the basin and was generally not fixed.

Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

Historically when it got to flood stage it would just randomly re-route itself through downtown, sometimes it would divert through Boyle Heights, sometimes it would find its way west of Bunker Hill and go down Flower.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

Paul Atreides merging the branches.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

And of course Czolgosz very well COULD have been part of a conspiracy except Emma Goldman’s circle was convinced he was a narc and never took him into their confidence.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 1d

I dunno you know about Charles Guiteau and the sex cult right?

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 2d

Correction, it was 8 megs of RAM and a TelePort modem that never worked.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 2d

Apropos of nothing this is the Mac I had in college in 1997, a Macintosh Performa 6205CD (with 68040 and 32 megs of RAM).

The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 2d

Just speaking as someone in this cohort, if RATM called something "fascist" in 2002 a lot of the guys listening would have taken them to mean the WTO... or Tipper Gore, or Donald Rumsfeld, or the developers of Internet Explorer, or anyone in-between. Totally floating signifier.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Scott Sistek @scottseattlewx.bsky.social · 2d

Los Angeles gets its first Severe Thunderstorm Watch in over 17 years! :O #cawx

MORE in my new ECWB weather blog:
emeraldcityweather.com/los-angeles-...

Los Angeles area gets first Severe Thunderstorm Watch in 17 years! - Emerald City Weather Blog

Heads up Mickey and Minnie: The weather is very un-Southern California-like this morning! Parts of the Los Angeles

emeraldcityweather.com

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