AI
There is now a ChatGPT plugin for Automatic1111. It allows you to use ChatGPT to write the prompts for your diffusion models. I don't really know how useful that is, but it is neat.
https://github.com/hallatore/stable-diffusion-webui-chatgpt-utilities
The other is an open source webui used for running large language models. You can run unlobotomized models, provided you have the hardware. It looks like it takes some serious ram and vram (~24Gb).
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/
There are a few language models listed on the text gen repository, including GPT-4chan.
Good luck to those of you who have the hardware.
You can use Google Collab to do it if you don't have the power. This was added by a comment, thank you CatoTheElder.
Automatic1111 tutorial
Microsoft uses AI in work platform to defeat HR and most middle management.
Could also be in Fallen Greatness. Google had a ChatGPT like program but saw it as useless to it's major products. So they canned it.
Qualcom letting it all ride on VR and AI for processors.
Robots watch videos of how a thing should be done, and then mimic it.
Videogames
Another comment or posted this. It's a Minecraft like list of games. Thank you Gemmaugr
https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?threads/list-of-terraria-likes.1210/
Sony VP wants movies, videogames and more for the Metaverse.
Thaumaturge is being made by the Witcher Remake company.
Reggie Fils Aime compared barren Miiverse to E3.
Are isometric RPGs over? Honestly, I kind of hate the design of those games, so I'm sort of happy.
Voice actress on bringing Tiny Tina to life. This is for the Borderlands movie.
Playstation 6 already planned for a release in 2027. This means they don't actually care about games, just keeping to a schedule. The date was figured out from released papers on the Activision Microsoft merger.
Take Two are letting go of publishing house for Kerbal Space Program and Outer Worlds.
The Super Mario 64 Cosmic Ray trick.
Front Mission 2 remake is getting ready for release.
Fortnite to add FPS mode.
Neo Geo arcade consolized box on Kickstarter. There is a trend to take a perfectly good neo Geo cab, and turn it into a console for your TV. MVS takes cartridges, so it's just a kit, but this one seems to allow controllers and other stuff.
Aragami creator to close soon.
Film and TV
Disney is scared to make Star Wars films. They have even canceled big name directors because of the fear.
Peak TV is over. Bad shows don't sell.
Fallen Greatness
The US went from having people with savings to tons of debt. Covid, bad policies raising prices, and the political upheaval have driven the entire country downward.
A single engineer was in charge of Twitter API when it crashed. Twitter still working.
Paris Museum changes how it displays Picasso art. He was basically a big celebrity money laundering schemes, as were several of the artists of the time.
Climate warriors spray paint William Wallace's sword.
Former Twitter HR leader talks about how she would look for Self Awareness when doing job interviews. She is not aware of the irony.
Weight Watchers gets into diet pills.
Elon Musk takes two body guards with him at Twitter no matter where he goes. Including the bathroom.
US Marine leadership say they want to be more flexible with soldiers. Their ideas are based on the idea of how long it takes to train and prepare a replacement for an able bodied marine. There's likely more to it, the full idea is in a PDF link on the article.
Paul Krugman is confused on the US economy. It's not working the way it's supposed to, or any of the numbers he has say it works.
Cars
Hydrogen powered cars are icky and you should feel ashamed for supporting it.
The Hydrogen engine could save cars.
Hugh Bonneville's love of cars.
Tech
3D printed, methane powered rocket to be fired soon.
Xfinity is not as great as it purports.
Miradock helps you turn your phone into a desktop.
Propaganda
Ken Burns says Florida is becoming like Soviet Russia with all of its rules. We've gone from Fascist, to Soviet.
Femtech is a $1 trillion dollar laundering schemes, I mean industry. Run by an artist who took a single business class.
Atlantic writes about anxiety in teens and how schools cause it. The constant push that a single mistake will destroy them forever, and long hours are talked about.
Michelle Obama cried when she realized Trump had won.
Science
A sword in a museum thought to be a fake turned out to be real.
Freelancer was fun.
I'm all about exploring, and top downs rarely let me. Arcanum is still fun though.
Exploration is definitely something I value highly as well! I find top-downs/eagle-eye/"isometric" is the best exploration format however.