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calling this one "a gnome absolutely shredding". i DO wish beepbox had longer runtimes. how am i supposed to throw in a bridge when the song is only 51 seconds long yk
WAIT I JUST DISCOVERED "CHANGE LENGTH OF SONG" HOLY SHIT GUYS WE'RE SO BACK
One of my favourite restaurants being a filming location in the vampire lestat is awesome because wow cool that's two of my favourite things having a surreal crossover but also because it gave me the inspiration to make this for my friend's birthday
So, I'm sitting here, watching something on a streaming service, and I keep getting a specific advertisement.
I keep getting Trivago commercials, and at first, they're weird, and a bit unsettling, but you can't place a finger on why, but after the 500th advertisement, you notice why it's unsettling.
The actors move robotically, their lips are synchronized with the words strangely, lining up, but out of sync, yet the most unsettling part is the actors are too detailed but look fake.
So, after some googling, I discovered my gut feeling is right, Trivago uses one actor, they record the lines, and then they use AI to modify the actor's voice, and then create multiple people generated from previous, real Trivago commercials, where they hired real actors.
They also use AI to edit out actors from old, and real commercials, which I didn't notice as I'd seen the same commercial hundreds of times that they blur together;
These teeth have always been unsettling to me anyway
Creepy teeth guy is the real human too,
WHAT???? HE'S THE REAL GUY!!!???
I suspect he has veneers on his teeth.
i love this guy
Actual marketing tactic that DOES exist btw. I can't remember the term, but all major businesses have special roles specifically for people who understand how to manipulate human behaviors & emotions. Why are snacks at the checkout area? Temptation. Why is candy so low to the ground? Children. Types of store lighting can affect peoples mood. Cheaper products are low or very high so people won't look for them. Branding companies have this as well for packaging & logos that hide products lack of quality & manipulate people to impulse buy.
I know damn well I watched a documentary on this in high school, but that was quiet awhile ago. Everything is designed to subtly manipulate your perceptions & tastes. Once you see it, it's everywhere & you can work against it out of pure spite.
I don't know if this is still a thing but they used to go so far as to make the flooring material in big stores in shopping centres slightly softer than the floors outside the store, so that customers would stay inside a bit longer since people have (largely subconscious) preferences about floor textures based on how easy they are to walk on and how much they hurt tired feet. The amount of research that goes into choosing the lighting in makeup and clothing stores is bonkers. Bakeries often smell a lot more like fresh bread or donuts than their actual baking activities would create -- they pipe the smell out front on purpose. Grocery stores are deliberately laid out to be very slightly confusing -- not confusing enough to impede buying, but confusing enough to send people down a few wrong aisles to look at products that they wouldn't otherwise see. Signs are often placed in aisles so that you have to go into the aisle a bit to read them clearly, or at least take a good look down it.
Do yall know about the butt brush effect?
Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, they’re pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted
Meanwhile there’s always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and we’ve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said it’s fine
AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes a
Went to an antique market while visiting partner's family in South India. Who do I see amongst the gods? Jar Jar Binks.
it is genuinely infuriating how many people grasp the concept of "there are several different sects of christianity, some of which are conservative and controlling, but others which are more progressive, and you can't treat the whole religion as a monolith", but absolutely cannot wrap their minds around the idea that islam, the second-biggest religion in the world, is also not a monolith.
Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.
This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)
The woman says "Ridiculous..."
If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link
At last, I have invented a bag to let cats out of.
It's got catnip in the kitty faces and it's lined in crinkle plastic. They want to kill it so so bad
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html
OMG
Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.
OH MY GOSH????
When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governor’s office at the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge, he not
The 13th Amendment provides a loophole that allows for the legality of unpaid prison labor, which is sometimes called "modern-day slavery."
Grew up next to Angola. It’s much worse than you think
I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed
I’m from Mississippi and it’s like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything they’ve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.
Did it 👍 (eventually)
One of my friends is teaching a course this year and she decided to run an “experiment” on her students and the syllabus. Conclusion: she is hilarious and students never read the syllabus.
BLEAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
