twitter built itself on doing this the most nonsensical and annoying way possible.

and you are more reasonable than many. many others would deny that people are dying if you can’t show them people that have died.

if you save the child people will discredit your story. it’s not a story of a child dying if the child doesn’t die. you can’t capture what is happening if you stop it from happening.

there’s much more purpose to nature documentaries.

no one would care about any of these animals or there plights without them. zoos and nature documentaries are the biggest drivers or interest and donations in the protecting the natural world.

not interfering with what is happening is more than just a nature documentary thing, it’s a journalism thing in general. the only reason journalists get access to the places and things they do is because they don’t interfere. interfering with the natural world is a hard thing to do right. usually the obvious answer is the wrong one when it comes to preservation and restoration. and i mean sure, there’s times when it’s obvious that your interference wouldn’t be a bad thing, but part of the point of following a code of ethics is to remove the human element. follow the code strictly and you will never cause harm.

imagine if a bbc earth filmmaker accidentally got an endangered animal in a remote area sick because he decided to remove a fish hook. that remote area would never allow anyone to film there again.

but generally, the goal of journalists is to show things as they are. to educate the world on the problem. to do that you must show the problem playing out without intervention. and if there is no problem, if it’s just an animal being hunted then you’d likely be causing harm to something else by preventing it.

a journalist believes they can do more good by showing one child dying to the entire world than by using their talents with words and cameras to somehow save a single starving child. they went there in person to do what they think will be effective in the long term. you could also go there in person to get hands on and save the animals if you want. they are no more guilty of not saving these things than you are.

haha, i suppose so. funny to think that people generally have not respect for what bit has to say because he’s a fake AI written by a human. now the we have real AIs writing things like that people don’t like it and want to discredit them.

what we have now just creates derivatives of existing works, but a true ai in the future would probably be built off of the foundation set by these LLMs. will that be derided in the same way? maybe some entirely new social or political issue will come into play. I doubt many people could have predicted three major political opposition to ai being artists worried about copyright and environmentalists worried about power consumption. who knows what the future will hold…

ooh wasn’t there a post going around yesterday about a bug that actually puts comments on the wrong threads?

claude is an ai model. this is ai generated content.

yes, obviously, but how does not voting for Harris accomplish that?

sony a7siii.

I’m a pro videographer. my favorite subject is wildlife.

the a7siii still blows me away with its lowlight performance. i can shoot with my big 150-500 for almost an hour before sunrise and after sunset.

www.knappkinmedia.com - my personal website.

ok, how?

the choices are genocide vs worse genocide. the choices suck, but they also shouldn’t be hard

twitter has always been very confusing with this.

it’s basically like a forum chain, where each reply is added over the top of the last, except the chain is upside down after the top level comment. so when you quote someone theit post will be below your post, if someone then quotes that post your new text will be placed below the first quote. at the bottom of the tweet. so it stacks new quotes at the bottom with indentation. so the top is always the newest. the bottom is the second newest, then follow the chain up from there.

it’s a terrible system that is unnecessarily complicated and difficult to read.

yes, i did. and no, things are not ok. there’s way too many outright Nazis and they love this stupid frog

most of the people that use it hatefully don’t know that and don’t care. it’s used both ways for hate, makes it really hard to differentiate.

and the swastika is ancient. that doesn’t mean people using it in the West aren’t usually dickheads.

yeah, the intentional extirpation of a species is pretty heinous, but i mean… look at what the Dutch were doing that century. or what was happening at plantations and mines around the world. hell, compared to what’s happening at mines and plantations and factories around the world today.

makes you realize it’s not really worth comparing evils beyond a certain point. it’ll only serve to make you feel bad and maybe hurt someone’s feelings for no reason.

hmmm, as a percentage of the population and when considering frequency? probably black people. in plain numbers, probably the racists.

interesting, yeah having to lug it around inside is a big turnoff for me. is there a good way to lock them up and leave them somewhere? that’s sort of an open question.

there are definitely large communities for one wheel enthusiasts. i think they’re often less about tinkering and more about meeting up and riding together. from what I’ve seen they are largely organized through message groups and discord.

from what I’ve seen, my friend doing the open source one wheel isn’t alone in his efforts, but the group around it isn’t nearly as big as the cousin euc guys. i think he’s like 90% to “completion”, though I’m sure he’ll never stop tinkering.

another big appeal for me is their use as filmmaking tools. I’m a videographer, these go great with a gimbal. i wonder if an euc would be similarly useful.

i would love if you’d be willing to tell me more about safety.

im definitely turned off by how you look when you stand on it, but i could be convinced to look past that with enough reason.

I’m also curious if they would work as well as a one wheel for filmmaking. I’m a videographer, i have peers that use one wheels very effectively with gimbals to get really nice smooth tracking shots.

the note about carrying it around is useful. like i said, having 4 dudes carrying a one wheel enter a room can cause a problem. there is often not that much space to actually put something like that down and out of the way.

is there a good way to lock these up to like a bike lock or something?

oh that is handsome. but I’m more interested in what a person looks like on it. it’s more about the awkward sort of stiff lean that your have to do on them. i just can’t see that and not think it looks a bit goofy.