Interesting Links for 02-09-2022

[andrewducker]

1. How The UK Government's £120m "Festival Of Brexit" Went Rogue

(tags:uk europe festival satire viaSwampers )

2. "Sweet Child O' Mine" as a Bluegrass Song

(tags:music GunsNRoses video )

3. Russian Lukoil chief dies in 'fall from hospital window' (several others have died mysteriously recently)

(tags:Russia murder )

4. People are complaining about the use of technology in art again. This is why they're wrong

(tags:art technology viaPatrickHadfield )

5. I would like to pre-book my tickets to Muppet Dracula

(tags:Dracula movies muppets )

6. I both want this story to be true and can't bear the thought that it might be

(tags:sex music wtf )

7. Google's New AI Learned To See In The Dark! (Very impressive noise reduction and transformation of individual photos into a 3d environment)

(tags:ai photos light )

8. What does a pound donation to Eton get them versus what it gets an ordinary school

(tags:tax school UK )

9. Passing A Portal Through Itself

(tags:portal games physics video viaSwampers )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

6) The fact that that isn't a Rick Roll is both wrong and very wrong.

[andrewducker]

It's somehow even worse than a Rickroll. A Rickroll would at least be being deliberately funny!

[mme_n_b]

It was very brave of Lukoil executives to condemn the war as a company. I can't imagine why they thought they'd survive it, after Khodorkovski.

[calimac]

6) The whole idea of making love to the rhythm of music, regardless of what that music might be, revolts me. This is an expression of love, not an athletic display.

[channelpenguin]

It's crazy right? I mean it might happen if you happen to be listening to music at the time, but the idea as expressed in this tale revolts me too.

(Of course, music I hate or *new and interesting* music puts me off entirely)

[kerk_hiraeth]

Personally I am very glad that I won't have to live in a world where artificial intelligence creates art for very long.

I hate the very concept with a fiery rage.

kerk

[hutchingsmusic]

6 - I'm pretty sure this is either a bet of the form "here is the worst song I've ever heard on YouTube, bet you can't get it to 1m hits" or a straight up grift by the guy who wrote the song. Possibly both. If he's monetised the video then he's looking at $2k-$3k from a single viral post.

[channelpenguin]

The best explanations yet!

[andrewducker]

The guy who wrote the song seems bemused, but happy, about the whole thing!

[heron61]

People are complaining about the use of technology in art again. This is why they're wrong

I'm concerned about this tech because it steals from artists. All of these that I've heard of train themselves on various images, including (mostly) those by artists who have not given their permission to be used in this fashion.

[andrewducker]

If you looked at a lot of images and then drew similar things then that isn't stealing. It's only infringing if it's a straight up copy of some part of it, and they've been very careful to make sure it doesn't do that. Otherwise it's a transformative use, which society straight up encourages people to do.

[channelpenguin]

Don't all artist train themselves by looking at (listening to, reading, experiencing) lots and lots of art? Making an artwork publicly available consents by that very fact to consumption. Why is it different if a machine does it?

[adrian_turtle]

I completely agree with #5. I really appreciate the distinction between Muppets and Sesame Street characters, which is so obvious once it's pointed out but had been blurring in my mind (especially because Sesame Street characters DO have cameos in Muppet movies.)

[myka]

What the heck is up with that “song” 😭

[andrewducker]

Part of me thinks it has to be a joke. Or lots of drugs.

[anna_wing]

6. !!!!!!!!!!!