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Aye. But only C-suite for now. I am actively looking to fill two positions. COO and CFO. I have just engaged the services of a Colorado-based recruitment firm I met at Spannabis.

Are you familiar with scrimmages? Do you have video? Do you think they were playing full tilt? You need to make a number of bizarre and aggressive assumptions in order for this 'example' to have some relevance to be used as a cudgel against transwomen's rights and dignity. Take a moment, let some introspection percolate. I'll refrain from the valid label here out of TrackerNeil's request but y'alls transphobia is quite determined.

I hear you, but what about the notion that all art is somehow influenced by what has come before. No piece of pre 21st Century Art was created in a vacuum. Just ask Ed Sheeran's lawyers.

yooo, congrats. that's awesome. you hiring?

I am more bummed about Atalanta/EL loss than losing the EPL run in. I never thought we'd compete in EPL for as long as we did, specially with the injuries in the middle of season and the rebuild (and Klopp bombshell). But I really thought we'd win the EL (or at least get to final...). But at the end of the day, I still like watching Liverpool and the style. But it does feel like a season of missed opportunities considering how close it all was. One bad month

Poetry...is a dog fart. Gone with the wind, but the dog remains.

Speaking as an artist, the artist's message is usually just bollocks.

The simple answer is no. A more complicated answer would involve how the AI was trained. IF it were trained ONLY on your own art style, using ONLY your personally created input, and then used as a tool in CONJUNCTION with your own creation, then the answer gets more muddied. You can also say that we, as humans, just copy shit we've seen before, and yeah that's sort of true. But that's not the question. Google is currently working on an "answer bot", an AI that will answer any search query within Google's platform. The aim is to answer the question before you even ask. Where does Google get the answers to the questions you want to ask? Something we should all think about, especially those of us making a living by providing information to others online.

Nile Rodgers and his lawyers are coming for this AI mofoko. ....but I do like the AI funk.

I loathe the idea of the "death of the author." To be clear, I'm not denying it as a concept or as reality. All authors die eventually, literally (i.e. they can't explain what they meant forever) and figuratively (as the context changes, so will the reception of a given work). And yet, as real as it is, I'm reluctant to accept it as fact, because to view art this way is to adopt a form of "individualist constructivist" perspective according to which the only meaning that matters is the one that is constructed by the individual on the receiving end. And while this always ends up being the case eventually, I feel that is insulting to both art and the artist to accept this state of things and claim that once the message has been mediatised the original message itself no longer matters. I think the artist and their message should always matter and that, while reception may evolve, the interpretations of the message that are closer to the original intent will always be "truer" than others. That doesn't mean better, because "wrong" interpretations can be interesting and even sometimes may magnify a given work (Bradbury ). But simply that to come close to the meaning of the work as intended brings you closer to a successful act of communication between human beings, and that as hard as this may be, especially across the distances of space and time, this should always be viewed as a good in itself, and that humans should endeavor to achieve this, to better understand one another. So in an nutshell, while all authors do die eventually, I would say the "observers" should strive to help them exist, and then keep them alive as long as possible. To do otherwise would mean cutting ourselves off from each other a little bit more, and eventually, once we are all reduced to mere consumers, we will have lost something precious and be nothing more than beasts. And funnily enough, it turns out mass production of objects through industrial processes is unsustainable. Call me crazy, but I do believe there is a lesson here.

Hah. Didn't think of that. The novel in question, after searching, was Noble House, set in 1960s Hong Kong. I didn't realize that they made a miniseries of it, too, with Pierce Brosnan in the lead.

How do you explain the peaches

I was just watching Davie504's latest video where he messed around with AI, and mostly on the art side it's terrible, but then he inputs the lyrics of a song he wrote as part of a collab (or maybe it was the concert) with TwoSetViolions, and, well.... the result was actually pretty impressive, IMO and all considered. He certainly seemed surprised after how dodgy the AI images had been.

That's 2 separate issues. Yes, they are. On a whole other planet of better. Ask the most dominant female athlete of all time (Serena). Whether we need to legislate is a whole other issue.

And later went on a quest to vanquish 4 evil white men from the lands, while masquerading as a man?

There have been known doping athletes who won some, but also lost some despite their doping. The fact that they lose despite having an unfair advantage doesn't make the unfair advantage non-existent. It's still an advantage they have. I'm reminded of Oscar Pistorious and the debates over his blades, and particularly the enusing performance of other double-amputees who saw his performance, saw the rules adjusted to allow his blades ... and then went a step above and switched to longer blades because the rules allowed them to do so, which turned out to make a clear and obvious improvement on their performance by giving them greater stride length than they had had before (which Pistorious and his team complained about, rightly). And yet, how many athletes did this "really" affect? Very few! And yet ... people cared, as they should have, because these were all questions of fairness. Just as people care about doping, as with Lance Armstrong. Re: US Women's team being destroyed in a scrimmage, the FC Dallas Academy U-15 team won 5-2 (as Zorral says). Looking up the goal scorers reported in the article, only Kameron Lacey made any real headway professionally, apparently playing some games for the Jamaican national team and is now on a Division II team in the US after a year in Division III.

Bloody hell mate, are you ever not complaining? Ffs. I seriously can’t remember you ever posting anything positive in this thread. Players miss chances, they have runs of bad form. It happens.

Yes, and how many of the artists making the more "worthwhile art" do so without listening to music to aid their own creating? Not many, I'll wager. And I wonder how many of these artists (and anyone else banging on about Supporting the Artist, frankly) spend absolutely nothing on music, other than their Spotify and Amazon Music subscriptions.* We're to be lectured by these people about about stealing from artists? Give me a fucking break. As with most hotly debated topics, we don't need to look too far to find the hypocrisy. Anyway, in my view, music supersedes all other art forms in its power to move and inspire. Music underpins everything we do. There can be no art without music. Such a shame society seems to place such little value on the people who produce it. * Never had, never will pay for one of these services. Unless you're Taylor Swift, this shit is worse than Napster. New bands, if I like your shit, I will buy it from Bandcamp. Preferably FLAC lossless audio.

https://www.si.com/soccer/2023/11/10/carli-lloyd-confirms-uswnt-once-lost-team-15-year-old-boys BTW the loss was 5-2.

I had been attempting to get back into the dating world after some trouble with mental issues, and I’m in a terrible spot. I had a female friend, who was also a roommate for a number of years, that I got closer and closer to. With the end result being I am in love with her, and she is engaged to someone else. I met her and became friends with her through them dating, so I never would have even met this person on my own. Wow does this suck. Any attempts I have made to move on so far have just met with complete failure. Have gone out on dates, not always just first dates, and I can’t move on. Im sure the problem is I still want to remain friends with her, we are close friends and I’ve shared a lot of stuff with her. But that feels like that’s a terrible idea, and I’ve been in this position for a couple months now. I hate the thought of losing someone I have shared so much of my life with, but I’m so lonely and feel so isolated. I have to figure out how to move forward and find someone who will reciprocate the feelings that I have

I hope we sell this Darwin bum.I'm sick of seeing him miss simple chances.

whew

Interesting quote I found perusing through a Song of Ice and Fire RPG from Green Ronin publishing. In it’s description of Howland Reed we’re given this: Now granted this is a role playing game, so I’m not sure if this is considered canon, semi-canon or complete nonsense. I suppose it depends on how they got their information. If it came from George it might call to question the orthodox assumptions about the tower of joy. I’m not sure I’ve seen anyone think that they stormed the tower and were with Lyanna for days before her death. Also note that the RPG decided to use the connector “and” as opposed to “where”. In other words, they aren’t necessarily describing Lyanna’s last days as having occurred in the tower of joy.

I guess the problem I am having is where the actual, ya know, literal problem is here that is supposedly being legislated. Are there a lot of trans women angling to join women's national soccer teams? And are they so much better than the normal women that we need to preemptively legislate or fret about it?

A bunch of children beat the best female adult team in the world, comprehensively. And they weren't even remotely the best under 15 male team in the world. I doubt they were in the top 500, maybe not even in the top 5000. It highlights the insane difference between men and women in certain sports.