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  • Lovely! I'm excited to keep my fingers crossed for this.

    I see some people have anxiety about what if it doesn't live up to the old series, but the way I see it, if Season 9 didn't impact my love for all that came before it, why would this? I'll take the chance it might be great, and will be happy regardless to see some of the gang getting paid to have the chance to make something together again.

  • Again, this whole idea that you need to make an argument about the tradeoffs of technology in general in order to make an argument against AI is weak and needless. Do you have a smart phone you use the calculator on sometimes, or do you write out all your long-form division? Is everyone who owns a microwave, uses tax preparation software, or switches to an electric toothbrush just a lazy dumb-dumb in your mind?

    When the barriers to access are removed, that’s great

    but it dilutes the end game product over all.

    AI art is rubbish and it gives you exactly what you ask for.

    Cool? Maybe,

    This is just talking out of both sides of your mouth trying to sound fair and balanced instead of actually making a good argument. "AI art is rubbish" -- yes!!! We don't need vacuous, hypocritical hot takes on using technology to say that.

  • Massachusetts @lemmy.world

    Lowell Folk Festival (one of the largest free folk music festivals in the US) is coming up July 25th - 27th.

  • Pedantry. "Think less, shut up, accept what the algorithm feeds you from this sub without question" was still the basic gist.

    🤷‍♂️ I'm drinking tea and having a nice day. Sorry you think I'm getting bent out of shape just because I'm critiquing your poorly thought-out comments. 🙂

    you’re getting bent out of shape over such an insignificant piece of shit like me, it’s pathetic.

    My guy it honestly sounds like you're the one who needs to take a screen break more than I do. Be well.

  • We all use technology everyday to make our lives easier, but does it?

    🙄 Yes. If you disagree with something this obvious, please write me a lengthy letter explaining why and send it by horse & buggy mail carrier. I promise, I'll read and respond just as soon as I'm able.

    Do you want people writing books and creating art that have no business writing books or creating art?

    🤮🤮🤮 Maybe we should require an intelligence test before allowing people to post their opinions on the internet too? Or have children?

    If you actually think that disallowing some people to create art because they aren't "good enough," then you aren't really defending art or artists at all.

  • This is such a weird take.

    Oh poor baby, you need a wittle spell check to make sure you don't mess up the words in your important email?

    Oh little loser, you gotta have an automatic transmission to make the car go vroom vroom?

    Oh Mr. has-a-life, you have to pull out Shazam instead of knowing 8 million songs by heart?

    All of us use technology to make our lives easier, to supplement skills we don't want to sink perfectionist-level time into, to enjoy "good enough" results in one area or another.

    This kind of holier-than-thou hyperbolic snobbery does nothing to generate actual thoughtful reflection of where to draw the line with technology dependence and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques of generative AI's ethics and other negative effects. I wish this sub didn't allow low-effort meme posts because it's such a brain rot circle-jerk.

  • Games @lemmy.world

    Turn-based games festival on Steam has 400+ games in a bunch of hand-picked categories. 1 day left in the sale.

    Boston, MA @lemmy.world

    A Harvard Square T tunnel unused for 40 years might be turned into an entertainment venue

    Turn Based Strategy @lemmy.world

    Cyber Knights: Flashpoint [squad-based strategy RPG] Release Date Trailer

    Graphic Design @lemmy.world

    Copying is the way design works

    Graphic Design @lemmy.world

    Wildlife in Motion: One-Line Motion Design

    PC Gaming @lemmy.world

    Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem'

    Boston, MA @lemmy.world

    MBTA: Only 4 slow zones (out of 215 in March 2023) remaining, and lines now have managers to oversee stations

    Boston, MA @lemmy.world

    Can You Outrun Boston's Subway?

    Graphic Design @lemmy.world

    A Totally Objective Ranking of US License Plate Designs

    Boston, MA @lemmy.world

    MBTA board looks back at what's gone wrong with funding the T, while the state secretary of transportation is silent on new revenue sources.

    Boston, MA @lemmy.world

    New public art installation hides "climate monsters" in scenery viewfinders to surprise tourists outside Boston Children's Museum

    Graphic Design @lemmy.world

    A look at some cool branding design from a Belgian cultural center

    Massachusetts @lemmy.world

    Arcadia Folk Festival this Saturday, August 24th. 14 musical acts performing + a Paul Simon tribute the Friday evening before.

    Boston, MA @lemmy.world

    Cambridge Brewing Company in Kendall Square is shutting down after 35 years. Last day will be December 20th.

    Boston, MA @lemmy.world

    10 things to do in Boston this weekend

    Boston, MA @lemmy.world

    Lawsuit in works over National Grid methane gas leaks

    Graphic Design @lemmy.world

    5 ways to get creative with gradients in graphic design

    Boston, MA @lemmy.world

    Book clubs in Camberville for every age and taste

    Boston, MA @lemmy.world

    COVID levels in Massachusetts now more than twice the national average

  • The catch: Municipal red tape might stop the statue even before it can be cast.

    • The city has a moratorium in place for all new memorials in the Public Garden or on Boston Common, according to Lynn Page Flaherty from the Friends of the Public Garden, the nonprofit group that advocates for the city's oldest green spaces.
    • The bench is also already dedicated in memory to another person, which presents a problem for the effort to honor Williams.

    via Axios' brief article covering this.

  • Thank you for your efforts! I've been up voting regularly and will try to start posting occasionally again as well.

    The main things we need to do to grow the community are:

    • continue to get the word out to people who haven't yet joined. Post in c/NewCommunities, post on Reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives, do a regular search for Lemmy posts / comments in other communities and invite posters to join.
    • we should encourage everyone to UPVOTE posts here whenever possible. Upvotes not only encourage existing posters and incentivize new ones, posts with good upvote momentum could help more Bostonians across Lemmy find the community through the popular Hot or Top Day sorts on Lemmy.
  • No need to beat yourself up, just make simple changes to improve. Write a one paragraph summary for yourself after each chapter, or list key points you want to remember. The next day, review it and take 10 minutes to think about how that chapter applies to your life or other things you've read.

    Once you've finished the book, rewrite & combine your notes into one or two pages and flip back through the book to find a quote or two that stands out to you. Then set a reminder on your calendar one month in the future to review your summary page.

    Note-taking, rewriting notes, and spaced repetition are all proven study techniques. It's a little extra time, but it's nothing compared to the time you're spending reading, and it'll make a big difference in how well you remember your takeaways from it.

  • Looks cool. I'm most concerned about the tone of the show; the games are filled with absurd, exaggerated, and cartoonish elements that work well in that medium, but might come across as unbearably cheesy in live action.

    No reason not to give it a shot though. 🤞

  • Copyright protects small creators. If it weren't for copyright and trademark laws, any new and trending song / story / media would be instantly ripped off by corporations that would exist solely to throw budget at reproducing and popularizing their own soul-less versions of peoples' work, without any compensation for the original creators. Artists and photographers would never see a dime from the countless t-shirts, mugs, stickers, etc. other corporations would create and sell using their pictures.

    I know there are many frustrating issues with how copyright law has been abused by large corporations who have gotten it extended way past the point of its original intent, but remember not to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Copyright as as a basic legal concept is the only thing that gives many creators a chance to make a living from their work.