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by Nonc Hilaire
Sun May 26, 2024 7:15 pm
Forum: Tea Time
Topic: Levitas
Replies: 4784
Views: 460726

Re: Levitas

noddy wrote: Sun May 26, 2024 12:35 pm hah, also the plain girl takes off her glasses and becomes the hotty cliche.
Oooh, yeah. Reminds me of when I would go to the library to check out the librarians.
by Nonc Hilaire
Sun May 26, 2024 7:12 pm
Forum: Science + Technology
Topic: Generative ML [AI] | ChatGPT and other software
Replies: 99
Views: 8410

Re: Generative ML [AI] | ChatGPT and other software

I took a deeper dive into AI generated models. There are a lot of them out there. TO the point that real models are the exception. At least IMHO. I came across this "Virtual model" https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3JMtW_bZxPY/maxresdefault.jpg Funny thing is outside a couple of very obscure web sit...
by Nonc Hilaire
Fri May 24, 2024 11:52 pm
Forum: Tea Time
Topic: The beauty of women
Replies: 9949
Views: 819350

Re: The beauty of women

Nyakim Gatwech, Sudanese fashion model
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by Nonc Hilaire
Fri May 24, 2024 9:53 pm
Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
Topic: POTUS Election 2024 | Here we go again . . .
Replies: 147
Views: 20208

Re: POTUS Election 2024 | Here we go again . . .

Heracleum Persicum wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 8:47 pm .

Tom Cotton emerges as a top contender in Trump’s V.P. race.

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So Trump’s pickin’ Cotton?
Anything for the black vote.
by Nonc Hilaire
Fri May 24, 2024 8:15 pm
Forum: Tea Time
Topic: Levitas
Replies: 4784
Views: 460726

Re: Levitas

Edas Wong. His portfolio is great.
https://www.instagram.com/edaswong/p/C63p-DOSGAs/
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by Nonc Hilaire
Thu May 23, 2024 1:45 am
Forum: The Muslim World | The Middle East
Topic: Iran
Replies: 1785
Views: 316490

Re: Iran

When Rouhani was President he let Israel to seize the documents (physical and digital - they had to physically ship 55k paper reports out of Iran) about Iran’s nuclear defense program in 2018. Combined with Rouhani’s executing Iranians Israel sounds like one of Rouhani’s friends. If Israel was respo...
by Nonc Hilaire
Wed May 22, 2024 2:26 pm
Forum: East Asia | Japan; China; Korea; Taiwan; Mongolia
Topic: Japan
Replies: 1198
Views: 141143

Re: Japan

The current fad among Western utopian urban planners is the so-called "15 minute city" without taking into account the required amount of public transit. One does not need a car in Tokyo and the surrounding Kanto region . . . Tokyo_Rail_and_Metro_network.jpg On the other hand, living in t...
by Nonc Hilaire
Tue May 21, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: Science + Technology
Topic: Generative ML [AI] | ChatGPT and other software
Replies: 99
Views: 8410

Re: Generative ML [AI] | ChatGPT and other software

Ok, so we have: Pattern recognition, surveillance and AI putting it on steroids. But, would AI make surveillance worse than it is already? How much worse? How much worse can it get? The ability of AI to help create bioweapons in combination with CRISP. Will an extinction cult have it easier buildin...
by Nonc Hilaire
Tue May 21, 2024 3:58 pm
Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
Topic: Are we seeing the end of the American liberal order ?
Replies: 111
Views: 10014

Re: Are we seeing the end of the American liberal order ?

I don't know if this is relevant to this topic, but what does it mean when a restaurant chain is going bankrupt at least partially due to the public not practicing something like discipline and self control?......... And yeah, you can say it was solely a bad business decision among at least several...
by Nonc Hilaire
Tue May 21, 2024 2:58 am
Forum: Science + Technology
Topic: Generative ML [AI] | ChatGPT and other software
Replies: 99
Views: 8410

Re: Generative ML [AI] | ChatGPT and other software

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/ You aint seen nothing yet, oh baby. There’s your opportunity, Noddy. An AI app that covers your tracks by flooding your history with related nonsense. The only way to keep your data priva...
by Nonc Hilaire
Mon May 20, 2024 4:23 pm
Forum: Tea Time
Topic: Levitas
Replies: 4784
Views: 460726

Re: Levitas

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by Nonc Hilaire
Sun May 19, 2024 1:40 pm
Forum: The Muslim World | The Middle East
Topic: Israel
Replies: 2989
Views: 863312

Re: Israel

Yemen is being paid to mess up shipping.

They are making money not wasting it.
by Nonc Hilaire
Sat May 18, 2024 3:46 am
Forum: Science + Technology
Topic: Generative ML [AI] | ChatGPT and other software
Replies: 99
Views: 8410

Re: Generative ML [AI] | ChatGPT and other software

Wiley shuts down 19 journals due to AI manipulation of the publishing process.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/16/ ... urnals_ai/
by Nonc Hilaire
Wed May 15, 2024 1:27 pm
Forum: Art + Architecture
Topic: Computer Games
Replies: 759
Views: 874881

Re: Computer Games

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 6:00 am
Def a PC game 😎
by Nonc Hilaire
Wed May 15, 2024 3:26 am
Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
Topic: Local government and politics | NYC et al, RIP?
Replies: 188
Views: 27889

Re: Local government and politics | NYC et al, RIP?

How do I get X posts to format correctly? I just get links😢
by Nonc Hilaire
Mon May 13, 2024 10:13 pm
Forum: Tea Time
Topic: Political Levitas
Replies: 2383
Views: 432352

Re: Political Levitas

https://x.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1789563706554155482

Now for sale: Isr@3li Ambassador paper shredder.
by Nonc Hilaire
Mon May 13, 2024 7:09 pm
Forum: Tea Time
Topic: Levitas
Replies: 4784
Views: 460726

Re: Levitas

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by Nonc Hilaire
Sun May 12, 2024 4:14 pm
Forum: The Muslim World | The Middle East
Topic: Israel
Replies: 2989
Views: 863312

Re: Israel

https://x.com/haaretzcom/status/1789668 ... JrDBjLl66A

Israeli press continues to rail against the Kazarian Mafia infiltration. The Israelis are brave to police their own corrupt government in such a small country. Retribution could literally live next door.
by Nonc Hilaire
Sat May 11, 2024 5:58 am
Forum: East Asia | Japan; China; Korea; Taiwan; Mongolia
Topic: Japan
Replies: 1198
Views: 141143

Re: Japan

…whereas Osaka is know for its food and humour…
In best Rowan & Martin style, that sounds like Osaka to me.
by Nonc Hilaire
Thu May 09, 2024 4:23 am
Forum: Art + Architecture
Topic: Poetry
Replies: 138
Views: 33875

Re: Poetry

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: Thu May 09, 2024 12:54 am Did you hang out with the literary crowd down in New Orleans?
Not much. The Maple Leaf Bar was the intersection. Poetry readings on Sunday afternoons and doing laundry while James Booker played stride piano for free on Tuesday nights.
by Nonc Hilaire
Wed May 08, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: The Muslim World | The Middle East
Topic: Israel
Replies: 2989
Views: 863312

Re: Israel

Mossadegh sold the Persian Empire to British Petroleum for a mess of pottage.
by Nonc Hilaire
Wed May 08, 2024 8:29 pm
Forum: Art + Architecture
Topic: Poetry
Replies: 138
Views: 33875

Re: Poetry

I drank with Everette often after he lost his faculty position. He died of alcoholism and of thinking Huckleberry Finn was the greatest novel ever written and that John Barth was the world’s most creative novelist. IRRELEVANT I’m not going to dignify Mozart or metaphysics any longer by pretending th...
by Nonc Hilaire
Wed May 08, 2024 7:56 pm
Forum: The Muslim World | The Middle East
Topic: Israel
Replies: 2989
Views: 863312

Re: Israel

. Israel will be fine, but under new management. Hopefully genuine Jews and not a different set of pretend Jew banksters. Yes The "New Israel" will be part of the "New Middle East" , integrated into .. with entirely different foreign policies, friends, etc etc . I think Greater ...
by Nonc Hilaire
Wed May 08, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: The Muslim World | The Middle East
Topic: Israel
Replies: 2989
Views: 863312

Re: Israel

Israel will be fine, but under new management. Hopefully genuine Jews and not a different set of pretend Jew banksters.