Pants Donkey posted:

"They bought him off with a sword" feels like something a politician would do today so good to know we've always had this problem of easily swayed nerds.

Pants Donkey posted:

"They bought him off with a sword" feels like something a politician would do today so good to know we've always had this problem of easily swayed nerds.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Every Confederate state except South Carolina had at least one full regiment worth of unionists in one Union army or another. Secession ordinances in many cases were passed by minority votes marked by voter intimidation and outright violence against unionists and their sympathizers by the state militias, between whom and the slave patrols a Venn diagram would be close to just a circle. The idea of there being a united Southern dream of secession and independence is very much a wartime myth amplified by the Lost Causers.

Pants Donkey posted:

"They bought him off with a sword" feels like something a politician would do today so good to know we've always had this problem of easily swayed nerds.

Skios posted:

skeleton warrior posted:

Likewise, one of the better Union commanders was George Thomas, "The Rock of Chickamauga" and the only Army commander to completely destroy an enemy army; but because he was from Virginia, the Lost Causers saw him as the worst of traitors, and he was largely ignored in post-war histories.

Byzantine posted:

In general the western front is heavily glossed over because the Confederates got absolutely destroyed constantly, unstoppably, and only the sheer size of the American South prevented complete collapse in the first year.

Cloud Potato posted:

Guardian:

Cloud Potato posted:

Independent:

quote:

GOOGLE’S GEMINI AI IMAGE CREATOR CORRUPTS HISTORY
Cartoon published 02/23/2024

Google’s graphics generating AI program called “Gemini” caused quite a kerfuffle. As it turned out, Gemini put an emphasis on producing DEI, anti-white illustrations and lectured unsatisfied users.

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Such anti-white racism is integral to the ‘woke,’ DEI propaganda being pushed by Democrats and the Marxist left. Biden is in alignment with this and he even said a minority of white people in America would be a ‘good thing.’ Why it would be a good thing he didn’t say. Apparently he’s trying to rush that ‘good thing’ by importing millions of non-white, low IQ illegal immigrants.

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We at GrrrGraphics welcome the advent of AI illustrations. We see the AI programs as a tool and we intend to utilize them on occasion. There are many AI graphic-generating sites to choose from. Some refuse any input that is political in nature. Free speech is definitely limited on the Google program and we doubt that will change. Google may have intentionally gone overboard with their diversity and inclusion tactics. An Asian George Washington and black WWII German soldier attracts attention. They have our attention now. The question is, will they change and allow free speech? We somehow doubt it and if they don’t do it they will quickly lose the surge of users they attracted by the controversy.


Meanwhile, it sometimes takes a lot of words in the prompt in order to get close to what is envisioned. Precise and detailed descriptions are required. Sometimes a thousand words is worth a good picture, but In our opinion AI is not quite there yet. It will get there—probably sooner than later—and it will put a lot of illustrators out of business. That’s the consequence of AI everywhere—it will cost workers their jobs.

For Google’s ‘Gemini’ to get there, they’ll need to drop their DEI woke nonsense and allow free speech. Google has paused the image creator as they scramble to fix their woke mess.

— Ben Garrison

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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JamesBont posted:

I...I don't know where to start with this one.

I'm just going to give it a Kellies Nomination: Worst Overall and leave it at that, so I can stop looking at this one before my brain starts to hurt.

Ben Garrison posted:

Meanwhile, it sometimes takes a lot of words in the prompt in order to get close to what is envisioned. Precise and detailed descriptions are required. Sometimes a thousand words is worth a good picture, but In our opinion AI is not quite there yet. It will get there—probably sooner than later—and it will put a lot of illustrators out of business. That’s the consequence of AI everywhere—it will cost workers their jobs.

For Google’s ‘Gemini’ to get there, they’ll need to drop their DEI woke nonsense and allow free speech. Google has paused the image creator as they scramble to fix their woke mess.

RoboRodent posted:

So Ben, noted person who draws for a living, reflects on machine imagining, concludes that it's actually a thing that requires real effort, and also it doesn't work, and also it will work and will put illustrators (like himself) out of business, but Google should do it, and also they should let people prompt whatever dumb or illegal images are in their head, but also they shouldn't let their AI make images of non-white people because Ben thinks that's woke.

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

Yeah it's a mess of least concealed bigotry and worst metaphor at the least. I don't know how I would characterize it other than "poo poo".

Drew Sheneman posted:

I had a reader point out that Biden isn’t as benign as he’s depicted above. That’'s certainly true, political cartoons are something of a blunt instrument. The few seconds of attention a cartoon demands doesn’t leave much room for subtlety. The larger point remains, however, the choice between the two frontrunners is stark, beware any source that tells you otherwise.

You have to give Donald Trump credit, through his years long effort to flood the news cycle with absolute nonsense he’s managed to change the way he’s covered by some of the media at large. If you had been cryogenically frozen in the mid eighties and subsequently thawed out at an early 2024 Trump rally, you’d wonder why security didn’t tackle the old man on stage talking about windmills causing cancer. Trump is such an unrelenting fire hose of bravado, lies and conspiracy based grievances the people covering him on a daily basis have become somewhat numb to it. If Biden slips up and forgets a name it’s a trending news item, if Trump mistakes Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi for half an hour it’s just Trump being Trump.

I’m on record as saying both Biden and Trump are too old for the most demanding job on Earth, and it’s absolutely essential to report on their respective fitness for the office, but we seem to be holding the candidates to different standards. Only one of these men has pledged to be “dictator for a day” post inauguration and how we frame the upcoming election should reflect that.

idonotlikepeas posted:

Drew Sheneman

idonotlikepeas posted:

NEMØ



Kellies Nomination: Worst Cartoon About a Tragedy

idonotlikepeas posted:

Ed Gamble

idonotlikepeas posted:

Ed Gamble

Doctor Hospital posted:

This mf said CRIMB

Also, I feel like Gamble's only way of making something seem threatening is to give them a crime suitcase. Look at that guy, he's so mellow looking!

Heliotrope posted:

Hey. Hey Drew. Do you think there might be another reason people don't like Biden other then age? I know Democrats decided that rape wasn't actually that bad when Joe Biden decided to run but "It's fine to help another country carry out their genocide" is gonna be a bit more difficult to sell.

Heliotrope posted:

Hey. Hey Drew. Do you think there might be another reason people don't like Biden other then age? I know Democrats decided that rape wasn't actually that bad when Joe Biden decided to run but "It's fine to help another country carry out their genocide" is gonna be a bit more difficult to sell.

Discendo Vox posted:

Take your donald the dove counterfactual exercise in motivated credulousness to the containment thread.

The Islamic Shock posted:

Dude, not getting in publicly obnoxious wars was like the one thing Trump was good at

Discendo Vox posted:

donald the dove

The Islamic Shock posted:

Dude, not getting in publicly obnoxious wars was like the one thing Trump was good at

Discendo Vox posted:

Lira's wikipedia page to save some time. The man was a Chilean fringe writer whose greatest claim to fame was involvement in the creation of the original Soldier of Fortune game. He then went through various grift spheres and conspiracy theories along the usual path- alt-right manosphere redpill poo poo and antivaxxer social media influencer, before he wound up in Ukraine spreading Russian propaganda.

I'd really like to know who this rear end in a top hat is. He supposedly got started freelancing for Canadian newspapers in 2006...he supposedly was at the Montreal gazette, but I can find no trace of him in what archives I can access.

Discendo Vox posted:

Lira's wikipedia page to save some time. The man was a Chilean fringe writer whose greatest claim to fame was involvement in the creation of the original Soldier of Fortune game. He then went through various grift spheres and conspiracy theories along the usual path- alt-right manosphere redpill poo poo and antivaxxer social media influencer, before he wound up in Ukraine spreading Russian propaganda.

I'd really like to know who this rear end in a top hat is. He supposedly got started freelancing for Canadian newspapers in 2006...he supposedly was at the Montreal gazette, but I can find no trace of him in what archives I can access.

Discendo Vox posted:

Take your donald the dove counterfactual exercise in motivated credulousness to the containment thread.

Dirk the Average posted:

Trump absolutely would continue the genocide and do so with gleeful abandon. It's not a choice where we get to choose between one person who supports it and one person who does not.