To think I nearly wrote an article about Dwayne Wade today. Really, you don’t know him? He used to be a basketball player. Still doesn’t ring a bell?
See what I mean?
This is my review of Campanology Coffee Peanut Butter Cup Porter (Trader Joe’s):
As we enter this brave new world where everyone can hook up their Metaverse console, don their vibrating underwear and watch that scene from Requiem for a Dream—you know which one. They even have it on a loop now. …Right. Who is to say what ideas are yours to claim? I ran into this issue myself recently with the Halloween 
Costume memes that’s been going around. I could complain the internet stole my gag, but my problem is I can’t really prove I came up with the idea nor would it be meaningful if I could. The joke is out and chances are I saw it somewhere else and just applied a dry, mildly autistic form of humor to it.
Which brings up this article about AI driven artwork. An artist named Hollie Mengert had a problem being identified in the AI prompts from a stylistic standpoint.
“For me, personally, it feels like someone’s taking work that I’ve done, you know, things that I’ve learned — I’ve been a working artist since I graduated art school in 2011 — and is using it to create art that that I didn’t consent to and didn’t give permission for,” she said. “I think the biggest thing for me is just that my name is attached to it. Because it’s one thing to be like, this is a stylized image creator. Then if people make something weird with it, something that doesn’t look like me, then I have some distance from it. But to have my name on it is ultimately very uncomfortable and invasive for me.”
Cry more, pussy.
Even without getting into the moral issues associated with IP 
(personally I think once an idea leaves your skull it cannot be truly yours anymore), she is missing something fundamental: the machine learned “her style” and emulated it. That is, if you want to call it “her style”. For her as an art student to learn, she had to view images herself. She had to create based off previous images she “saved” in her head and learn how to produce it. The AI is doing the same thing. The fact a programmer needs to enter a series of prompts is no different than a client like Disney handing her a list of things they would like to see in work they ask her to produce. To argue the AI is infringing on IP rights is arbitrary because it is producing it the same way she did.
Ironically, the poster child for IP absolutism for the past century even teaches the public how to produce their IP. At the California Adventure park, they host animation tutorials explaining step by step in sketching Disney characters. By her logic, my daughter is going to get sued by Disney.
🚨 🚨 🚨 White Girl Beer Alert 🚨 🚨 🚨
Laundry list of flavors backed by dark roasted coffee tend to be my thing if it isn’t sickeningly sweet. Unfortunately, this one crosses that line by a wide margin. Its like eating one if those peanut butter buckets at Rocky Mountain Chocolate factory, where too much is in fact too much. A damn shame if you ask me because at 9% abv, this is otherwise a bargain. Campanology Coffee Peanut Butter Cup Porter (Trader Joe’s): 2.4/5
H/T: Heroic Mulatto for the featured image.
Is this AI not smart enough to be able to learn to draw like a good artist?
No it just copied that one lady
On topic for reasonoids!
https://archive.ph/aKtYA
Silicone Saturday.
And, I’ll just leave this here.
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! Well done good fellow.
Cry more, pussy.
WTF?
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That “beer” sounds revolting. I have recently been buying something called [gets can from refrigerator] “Pub Beer” lager from Ten Barrel Brewing.
I like it. It tastes like… beer.
Ten Barrel does some good beers. I visited them last time I was in Oregon and tried a bunch of different ones. I’ll look for the Pub Beer.
Thanks!
Ten Barrel is part of AB-InBev, so they’ll have solid quality control.
All beer tastes like beer…by definition.
Also lager is the millennial of the yeast world.
Lagers have been making a come back locally. More shocking to me is that one local brewery decided to brew and can an English mild.
People have been brewing with bottom-fermenting yeast in cool environments like caves since the 15th Century, so make it a half-millennial.
Yeah, I like beer that tastes like beer myself.
It is Dwyane.
I can’t even. How do you even pronounce that?
Social signal
Who?
If done well, peanut butter porter is delicious. Just reading the label makes me thing it’s not done well. Mexi’s review seals the deal. Not that I could buy this beer anyway…not only do I live in a cruise ship desert, but a Trade Joe’s desert, as well. So unfair.
Is it karma or a series of bad choices?
Yes.
Cruise ship desert, is that Nebraska?
Worse, North Dakota.
Yeah, I’ll pass on that one.
(personally I think once an idea leaves your skull it cannot be truly yours anymore),
100%
May the best marketer win.
*insert sad clown .gif*
Listen, I have always worked in companies too small to defend patent infringement from big ones.
And yet we still kick their asses. IP is a joke.
Chinese scientist casually explaining why they have to sneak US military software secrets out through 3rd party companies to the CCP.
So he acknowledges the value of the US IP while blatantly stealing it. Now THAT is a joke.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/report-missile-tech-funded-by-us-taxpayers-through-the-us-government-ends-up-in-china/
I wonder how much IP they stole versus bought or “traded”.
Most of it they bought through third party ostensibly “American” companies who bought it legit from DoD contractors but failed to comply with strict export control laws.
By total coincidence, the names of the owners of the third party American companies are all Chinese in origin. US citizenship, but not US allegiance.
As far as I can tell this is a big problem in defense, and one of those open societies leaving the gate open a bit too wide things… why we refuse to shut the door after a problem has been identified for 30 years I will let the reader ponder.
We know yours is the best
Is this the right place to use ‘Ok Groomer’?
Also, this must have been what The Hat was on about when he talked about Roe V Dwyane Wade bullshit…
‘Is this the right place to use ‘Ok Groomer’?’
yes.
There is no wrong place to be honest.
Speaking of basketball players, media is no match for Kyrie.
OK, Kyrie. Then I have a follow-up question: do you know where you come from?
Does he know where he’s going to?
In a perverse sort of way, you never disappoint.
You have to see the movie. It’s riotously bad.
I remember!
Song is money, though.
From the one with two “Ns” in it.
https://youtu.be/vCdq2y7zhY4
I can’t imagine having to put up with that nonsense but then again, I can’t imagine being multimillionaire either.
IP… I hope trshmnstr is doing well. I don’t believe I’ve seen him recently. Got involved in a some IP stuff at work. I have a whole new appreciation for the work that those attorneys do, and do quite a bit to develop and refine an idea.
Last I talked to him he was really trying to move up North. He may be in process of doing so. I miss him around here too.
Out on the coast for the weekend. Raining like a mofo.
Manzanita?
Close, in Astoria. Reminds me, we do need to go back there. Nehalem Bay SP is a great spot.
Super nice. I love it out there.
Enjoy the weekend!
Just outside of Astoria is Ft Clatsop National Monument. They have put up a reproduction of where the Lewis and Clark party spent their Pacific Coast winter on the same site. A rainy day is a perfect time to visit to truly get a feel of how cramped their abode was. The visitor center also has free maps of other L&C sites though most of them are on the north bank of the Columbia.
There is some hiking at the NM as well.
It’s now Lewis & Clark National Historical Park. I remember going to the NM as kid. Over in Warrenton is a memorial to the first mainland shelling by a hostile power since 1812.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/35884
Spent a lot of time in the area over the years. Camp Rilea across the highway for drills and ATs in the guard, Seaside for vacations, Camp Meriweather for Scouts, etc etc.
I’ll stick with Guinness.
OT: Nevada gubernatorial election.
The incumbent is Sisolak (D), He’s neither popular nor unpopular. Sure he’s a corrupt liberal tool, but he doesn’t really get people riled up one way or the other and eventually cancelled all the lockdown crap at once one day.
BUT his (sisolak’s) billboards and signs show “BIDEN” in big letters in the Biden font with the 3 parallel lines for “E” right above the name Sisolak. With Biden’s numbers in the tank, why on earth would he yolk his campaign to that pathetic sack of shit with tissue paper skin stretched over it??
Makes no sense. Might even be why the equally uninspiring GOP candidate Lombardo is leading slightly in the polls.
In other IP news
Whoops!
Bangor?
Damn near killed her!
Ha! Good catch.
In 20 years these kids will view drag queens the same way we now look at scary clowns.
I hope so. When Ron played “Kinko the Clown” yesterday I realized that Iinko had become the new normal.
Linko the clown. Ha! Even better.
lol
I don’t understand Disney as being a poster child for IP absolutism. Disney lobbied to have IP be more European so they could make more money. There seems to be no philosophy behind it. Dunno what regulatory capture has to do with moral justifications for IP.
Is it ok to copy an artist’s style. Yes
Is it ok to represent your work as another artist’s work. No.
Simple enough.
Back from the grocery store. I saw one of these in the parking lot.
“Nice” is not the word I’d use to describe a Jeepster, but it was a really clean and straight example of the breed. Green, not red, with a hard top.
As long as it isn’t one of the latter bull nose versions, they are cool.
Oh my.
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1588232936087764993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1588232936087764993%7Ctwgr%5E5e9cafaa64de2ca4f96a31cb9e4f19a2f86b7cdc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnotthebee.com%2Farticle%2Fwatch-this-guys-coming-out-video-is-one-of-the-funniest-things-ive-seen-and-its-not-what-you-would-expect
Here’s the entire video that set him off. We will need a lot more people like this guy (if it’s real) to stop this run away crazy train.
“Coffee Peanut Butter Cup”
Hipster Juuuiiiiccccce!!!!!
No. That’s a different beer made in the CLE suburbs.
Heh. I even reviewed that one.
Your first 5/5. ;P
https://youtu.be/IP3qZDXFRik
On topic?
Chemical enhancement improves the sound.
https://komonews.com/news/local/downtown-protest-on-i-5-blocks-ambulance-carrying-patient-in-critical-condition-seattle-downtown-washington-state-patrol-harborview#
Assholes. War in Ethiopia? Wooden towel shampoos for the lot of them. No arrests or citations, of course.
‘protesting the war in Ethiopia.’
That’s the kicker. Deport them all to Ethiopia (especially if they’re not from there)
Hear hear!
Boats.
Well, I made 20 pints of applesauce this afternoon.
Practicing for the end times.
Ooh! What variety of apple?
haralson, spartan, fireside, rhode island greening, and northwest greening.
I…don’t think I’ve ever seen any of those at the local farmers’ market. Are they nice, tart cooking apples?
Spartan is a child of Macintosh. So sweet.
Fireside is another sweet apple.
The other three are tart apple-pie apples.
👍🏼🍎🍏
I’m a fascist, not a socialist. Got it?
President Biden on Saturday said people holding signs calling him a socialist were idiots, while warning that Republicans want to cut health care benefits for Americans three days before Election Day.
“Social security and Medicare are more than government programs, they’re a promise. They’re a promise. Work hard and contribute and when the time comes, things will be easier for you,” he said in remarks at Jones Elementary in Joliet, Ill. “It’s a rock-solid guarantee, an iron-clad commitment. Generations of Americans have counted on it and it works.”
“I love those signs when I came in — socialism. Give me a break, what idiots,” the president added. “No one ever doubts I mean what I say, sometimes of course I say all that I mean.”
Whaddaya mean, whaddaya mean?
Another incident where biden’s handlers are shown to be fools. In 1960 the Supremes ruled in “Flemming v Nestor” that SS payments are a tax and accrue no rights for a taxpayer to be paid all or any of their money paid.
From the SSA’s own site: https://www.ssa.gov/history/nestor.html
You don’t need to read deep into ruling. It is right there in para 1 and 2.
-1 lockbox
That word (and yes, I remember the reference) always reminds me of a certain song, and I just found this classic renditon of it. 😄
Watched Moonfall. Glad they mashed up Armageddon and The Abyss…thr world needed that.