Seems like you could apply the clever transforms to generate a displacement map (that then allows you to move it across any source image and quickly get the Droste effect).

(I still have not made it all the way to the end of the video though, perhaps that is where they end up.)

Also ripped all my old MiniDV tapes a decade ago or so. (I don't remember it being tedious.) (I recall about 12GB for each 60min tape, FWIW.)

I've known for some time now not to trust media formats to remain easy to access as time goes on. Floppy disks, ZIP disks, SCSI…

So nice the home movies are now in the cloud (and on USB drives as additional backup).

Begging for forgiveness… The U.S. needs an ask permission President. (You can argue of course as to whether the U.S. ever had that.)

If the default algo/behavior is allowed to persist, it's going to be effectively no real change.

Drop the algorithm altogether? I subscribe to channels for a reason.

It reads like AI was just collaborator. Author did the fun part, AI did the tedious connecting of band records, Shazam recordings to places, songs.

That's the use-case I enjoy with AI. Let it do the heavy-lifting, I'll enjoy the rest.

Making those connections are what builds a narrative: writing history is looking at the sources and constructing a narrative around that you think is significant. And if you really do find a connection so tedious, maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe the, for example, list of songs played one night at some event doesn't have any significance at all, it's just an unimportant detail pointlessly padding out the story.

AI here is not a tool, it's the author, or at the very least a co-author that greatly influences the human author. It selects what's important and then writes the narrative. It has its own biases. The narrative isn't based on what's personally important to the human creator, but rather the availability of data, those sources that are digitized. And then in turn the output shapes the human author's own perspective, changing even what the human will write on their own.

Do we have a list of who is doing the selling? (Directly and indirectly.)

Puts down his MiniDisc player… "Take note of what?"

Ha, funny! (<- writing that on my typewriter)

It's a shame MiniDisc wasn't more popular.

Yeah, but there was no way it was ever going to be cheap the way tapes were. Even portable CD players never got to the point that you would let a child just do what they wanted with one.

Portable CD players were way more finicky than walkmans (walkmen?!), plus the form factor was just not ideal.

A problem that was mostly solved by 1995 or so as RAM got cheap enough for a decent buffer. Still not something you could go running with but they didn't skip in cars any more. A child could play with one. Not a toddler, but a responsible-ish 8-year-old.

Yeah, I'll wait for Tech Moan to review it on his YouTube channel. I believe he has said there is really only one cassette mechanism being used today—and it's shite.

His review of it is out for Patrons already (including a comparison to the noname version), so should be up on his channel soon

Not even worth reviewing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RTPcjRbIec

In short, selling out is when your art takes a back seat to making money (when it had previously been the other way around).

consider it from the perspective of those who have no art. it's like a threat of decapitation for people who never had a head. headlessness is the norm and carries no fear

Tangent? - https://www.headless.org/on-having-no-head.htm