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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I’m a liberal WA resident, and there’s entirely too much influence here by big tech for me to trust national legislation regarding privacy baselines coming from legilators based within my state.

    This is the sort of area where I’d like to see legislation forged from a partnership between a fiercely left-leaning state that supports individual rights (OR? MA?) and a similar libertarian-leaning right-wing state that shares similar beliefs on individual liberties (WY? MT?).


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    Haters everywhere.

    First: Imo’s pizza is fine. As is Cecil Whittaker’s. It’s a distinct local thing that you are welcome to dislike, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. But credit to you for pointing people to the hill. Guido’s had my favorite pie, and they had options to use mixes of provel & mozzarella if that was your jam. And the tapas were delish.

    Second: “Toasted” ravioli are over-rated. Breading and frying a dumpling is gilding a lily. Deep fried meatballs: that I can get behind. And of course ravioli are great. But using both pasta and breading to encase a filling is just silly. It’s a carnival food gimmick.

    Third: Gooey butter cake is fine, but it really seems like a failed attempt at a pastry that people collectively decided was a happy accident.

    Finally, I know this wasn’t brought up but I always take it to my stl food discussions: bread-sliced bagels are the perfect form factor for sharing in a group setting. A bagel is a meal, and people often don’t want a meal. And it’s economical - you only need a handful of bagels for a large group rather than one for everybody. The little slices are perfect for scooping up a bit of cream cheese without a knife. It’s superior snacking and literally the only reason it gets the hate that it does is because some stylish bakery in Brooklyn didn’t think of it first.






  • Read the article.

    Machine learning and interpretative output are tools; just like the automobile, the spreadsheet and photoshop.

    The introduction of new tools means there will be fewer people manually doing the things that machines can do more efficiently. The introduction of digital spreadsheets decimated the market for paper bookkeepers, but the need for accountants (people who could utilize the new tools) exploded.

    I don’t know enough about modern animation production to speak authoritatively about this, but I’m imagining Katzenberg is talking about jobs like inbetweeners and other kinds of admittedly skilled labor that can be lazily farted out by machines. No QA for lazy productions, QA and varying levels of tweaks for high production value work, and all-by-hand for only the most rare auteur works. And most animated works are in that “lazy production” category. It’s gonna look like shit, everyone who cares will notice, but most of the people buying won’t care.

    What this also means is that money will stop flowing to high-manual-effort works. The real creative, ground breaking stuff is going to come from either people utilizing the new tools in new ways, or old established artists who refuse to change (Miyazaki, Bill Plympton, Yuri Norstein & Francheska Yarbusova, etc).