• verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works
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      15 days ago

      Yeah, so have a dead lady talk to no one, without asking her relatives if they mind hearing Great-Auntie promoting Instagram, while they’re doing the school drop off. They will not mind, they love OFF. Real estate agents are contacting this family like mad, as they are about to acquire a chain of radio stations.

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            14 days ago

            As a note, as this story is about a Polish radio station the word you’d want to use is “pierogi” or “pierożki”, no “s” at the end either.

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              13 days ago

              I intended to use the English plural of the Anglicized word for potato dumplings. The potato dumplings I mentioned are a metaphor for testicles.

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                I got the testicle part :P it’s just that “piroshkis” doesn’t sound Polish at all, and since we’re talking about Poland… Even “pierogis”, with its unnecessary “s” would be better.

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    These would be 20-year-old Emilia Nowa, “a journalism student [and] pop culture expert,” who is “passionately following the latest trends in the world of cinema, music and fashion”; 22-year-old Jakub Zieliński, who’s studying Acoustic Engineering at AGH (a Kraków university); and rounding out the three was 23-year-old Alex, a former psychology student who is “socially engaged, passionately discussing topics related to identity [and] queer culture.”

    Do people even ‘bond’ with characters who are totally fake? How can you be into their life and story and everything, when none of it is real? It’s different when you’re watching a cartoon or something. It’s objectively not trying to pretend to be human. This above feels gross.

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      14 days ago

      Have you ever seen a movie or read a book?

      It’s not the bonding part with fake characters that makes this weird. It’s pretending they are in any sense real.

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    Lister: “Rimmer, death isn’t the handicap it used to be in the olden days. It doesn’t screw your career up like it used to.”

    Rimmer: “That’s what they say, Lister, but if you had two people coming for a job and one of them was dead, which one would you pick?”

    Lister “It depends which is better qualified.”

    Rimmer “Bullpats. When was the last time you saw a dead newsreader?”

    Lister “Channel 27 had a hologram reading the news.”

    Rimmer “Oh. Groovy, funky Channel 27. Big smegging deal. You livies hate us deadies.”

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    15 days ago

    So this a terrible use case and clearly fake interviewing dead people is plain silly.

    That being said, I do have quite a drive to do everyday and I end up listening to the radio whenever I get bored of audio books. I would absolutely love a system that would mix up my favorite songs with AI hosts talking about recent news and subjects I specifically care about.

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      15 days ago

      Spotifys AI DJ is almost there. He mixes songs you listen to and songs they think you’d like. I don’t remember it ever really talking about the news though.