Is parodic a word?

Walther Benjamin examines this point extensively in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, which should be required reading for everyone, but especially anyone who thinks that AI art is the same as human art. The crux is that an authentic work (you can think of it as the “original”) has some… thing , some Je ne sais quoi that he calls the Aura. It’s a feeling you get from the real authentic thing. It’s the reason people line up at the Louvre to see the tiny Mona Lisa behind thick plate glass instead of just looking at a poster. Or why NFTs tried to be a thing and basically failed after the meme of it all died out.

No, live, laugh, love smells like pumpkin spice. This photo smells like patchouli and weed.

I really love the style of this. What kind of technique did you use? There look to be a lot of small, individual brush strokes (which I would think would take forever to do), but I could also see maybe pushing with the side of a larger brush to get a bunch of little strokes at once.

Unless this came along with a massive overhaul of the tax system I don’t see how it would fix anything. Say you kill billionaire #1. Now he’s dead, but his 5 kids are billionaires. His money doesn’t magically get recirculated, most of it isn’t even real so it doesn’t get taxed.

You’d need a wealth cap and it’d probably need to be almost global in scale to prevent these dipshits from running away (at least until they learned to realize that there’s essentially no lifestyle difference between $50M and $50B.

My main things are better calibre integration and better formatting options for PDFs, since I read research papers as well as books on mine (and honestly for that reason alone I will probably eventually buy a large-format e-reader someday when the prices are not LOL).

Aside from those, koreader supports a bunch of other formats that the stock reader software does not (can’t say I’ve ever used them though), and there are also a LOT of customizable options. KOReader offers fine control of margins, line spacing, font boldness/kerning, two-column layouts, custom CSS overrides and better gesture support (swipes, taps) for frontlight, warmlight, screen refresh, etc.

I’m sure there’s a performance tradeoff with large documents, but I haven’t used the stock reader in a long time so I don’t really know. Likewise for battery life, but I tend to charge mine often enough that it’s not a problem.

Some models show that big swaths of the equatorial regions and the “monsoon belt” may become uninhabitable without AC because wet bulb temperatures will exceed 30C which is around the point where humans are no longer able to cool themselves. Since the global south is also less developed on average it means the electrical grid demand currently can’t possibly handle that level of demand.

It will be very hard to exterminate humanity but climate change could make a pretty good try by collapsing ocean food chains or instigating a methane clathrate gun effect. Even if those don’t come to pass, the global south is gonna be fucked - maybe instigate-global-ecoterrorism kind of fucked.

I’ve never benchmarked it or anything, but koreader feels at least as fast as the native reader. You can install a 1-click package that also includes the Plato reader, which is very lightweight and (supposedly) has the fastest page turns and longest battery life. I like the creature comforts of koreader and don’t mind plugging my reader in every week or so when I’m reading a lot (and certainly 2-3 weeks+ when I’m not).

If Pearl Jam couldn’t fix it in the 90s and Taylor swift couldn’t fix it in the 2020s that tells you just how much money is behind them.

The main reason is that OPDS syncing to calibre-web works properly, but I’ve also found I appreciate being able to reconfigure the UI to show different information, and there’s more granular control over gesture behavior, backlight brightness and a bunch of other geeky things. I agree, the stock reader is fine and I’d definitely take a big-stock kobo over a kindle any day (my last reader was a rooted Nook that lasted almost 15 years before I broke the screen)

I’m a fairly heavy reader and don’t have any problem with long sessions. I honestly don’t know if I’d even notice a difference with a higher resolution e-ink. Maybe if I was reading manga or something really image-heavy, or in a stupid font. Yep, the backlight isn’t always-on, and koreader actually gives you a good deal of control over how it appears.

Get a used kobo and install koreader on it. I got a used H2O Aura a few months ago for about $50. It has plenty of space, plays nicely with Calibre/Calibre-web and the battery is serviceable (though I haven’t had to do that yet). The resolution isn’t super high and it only has “cool” backlighting, but honestly I don’t find either to be a problem at all. Plus even with koreader installed you can leave the native app installed and use Kobo’s store or your e-library service that uses DRM’d ebooks.

It’s only because our medical system has bad outcomes all around. Our rich have poorer outcomes than the middle class in most other western nations with socialized healthcare.

Octarine. Life is magical.

Because it’s Odin’s day (sometimes spelled Woedin’s day)

The people around me (south Florida) who use e-bikes as their primary means of transportation are mostly poorer people of color who probably don’t even have a license. The people who use them for fun are mostly wealthier and white and do have licenses already. Draw what conclusions you will from that.

It seems like you were swiping a lot on the complex screens before it would register a page turn. Is it “missing” those swipes or does it just take a long time to acknowledge them?

Multiple countries have had the ability to put tons of weapons in space for a half century (and we know there are/were a few up there), so I don’t agree with you here - once we abandon our treaties, one country putting arms in space will inevitably lead to all countries putting arms in space “for defense”.

This, but Omni Man is talking to himself.