Jeff Waiste

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Quote: "This is how USAID spent your tax dollars"

I think people have lost the will to try fact-check this guy due to the volume of lies he spreads.

Also it's actually pretty difficult with this image and quite time consuming.

It just happens I had nothing better to do. /1

[Jeff Waiste @JeffWaiste]

@dieworkwear You are suggesting I am not perfect already and, frankly, how dare you

[Jeff Waiste @JeffWaiste]

@Speedkicks @jchensor This idea there being an offline and online is called "digital dualism", coined by Nate Jurgenson back in 2011, and he claimed even then it was fallacious. I don't totally agree, but he made some good points, and having a term for the concept is helpful.

https://t.co/DrdnGFeouX

[Jeff Waiste @JeffWaiste]

@AnandWrites Meh, it's pretty innocuous, there are no REAL stakes in if you can call yourself a New Yorker.

You could argue that it feeds into our tribal instincts, fueling othering over belonging, fostering in-group vs out-group behaviors. But you could say that about lots of things

[Jeff Waiste @JeffWaiste]

Oh cool, another reason not to use cash

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: President Trump’s signature will appear on American currency, in a first for a sitting U.S. president. https://t.co/rRiMR7PSKO

[Schaffer the Darklord @schafferthedark]

When MAGA’s sharpest minds rationalize hatred for their perceived enemies (Democrats, immigrants, journalists, educators, liberals, etc.) it’s always: “They’re evil, and they want to destroy America.” This is also how a child would explain Megatron to a grown-up.

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

First, regarding your comment that some of these videos do a “~ better job than the games.”

What genuinely concerns me is that this kind of statement reflects a fundamental lack of understanding of technological history and chronology.
Reacting reflexively to the final output, without any grasp of the process that led there, ends up revealing more about your own approach to learning than about the work itself…and that is something you may want to reflect on.

It’s like asking,
“Why didn’t they use naval gunfire at the Battle of Artemisium?” or
“I was watching WWII footage and wondered why they didn’t just use military satellites for reconnaissance. That would have been far more efficient.”

Or, to put it more plainly, it’s exactly like sitting in a revival screening of a pre-1980s film and hearing the couple in the next seat whisper,

“Isn’t this kind of lame? They could’ve done it way better with drones and CGI.”

That painfully clueless conversation…the kind that makes you quietly sigh and wish they would stop talking…is almost a perfect match (my experience).

To begin with, the video you’re pointing to is itself one result of training on visuals we created and stories we designed. While the presentation may appear photorealistic on the surface, the character interpretations diverge significantly from the original, the visual expression still carries a strong sense of inconsistency, and when it comes to language..both spoken and written—the sense of unnaturalness remains noticeable
(almost as if the kinds of localization mistakes we humans make had simply been amplified).

What can be properly and legitimately evaluated here are the remarkably rapid pace of AI’s technical advancement and the fact that, from a cost perspective, it continues to become increasingly advantageous over time. Those aspects are genuinely impressive and absolutely worth acknowledging.

However, that has nothing to do with declaring this a “better job,” nor does it validate the judgment behind that conclusion, or serve as any meaningful assessment of creative ability.

We work in a technology-based profession. Given the nature of our industry, its convergence with AI is not a matter of choice but an inevitable trajectory. But watching your reaction reminds me of myself back in 1990, when Photoshop was first released.
I excitedly told my older sister…who was already a professional manga artist

“See? The age of hand-drawing is over!”

as if I had personally discovered or invented Photoshop. Looking back, it feels oddly nostalgic.
Ah… I see now.
What I’m really looking at here is my past self.

[Jeff Waiste @JeffWaiste]

@DivestSPD Yeah, I don't generally know the specifics, but if there's a fatality on a roadway, I know to expect that road to be closed for a long while, especially at night.

Sometimes, you can see them "investigating" in the traffic cams (3 or 4 guys standing in the road chatting, lol)

[Jeff Waiste @JeffWaiste]

@Antsamon In their defense, VGC is deliberately misrepresenting their own article, which itself is just a couple quotes from an interview done by a better website.
But yeah, they should know better

[Jeff Waiste @JeffWaiste]

@VGC_News This is a blatent misrepresentation of what he said in your own article, which itself is mostly composed of a couple of quotes from an interview done by a better website.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Well, for one, it's a set. Not his home. The set is intentionally designed to communicate specific ideas about gender and "authenticity," despite the contrivance.

But a lot of what Matt does is about performance. For instance, his need to tell people that he's only interested in manly things. Anyone who has had an opinion on home decor — or enjoys accompanying their wife on these trips or engaging with their wife's hobbies or interests — must be secretly gay. Which is to say, in his worldview, not fully male.

I also think that many right-wing aesthetic discussions on here are about performance, partly because people are rarely discussing an aesthetic's intrinsic qualities. They actually know very little about design, tailoring, material, quality, etc.

Instead, much of the discussion is about what the item broadcasts. In the above, the person talks about how he likes a particular shoe style because he thinks they will impress certain people and piss off others (both of which appear to be his goal). The appeal here lies in the reaction from others, not the item itself.

Conservative aesthetics are often about performing ideas regarding tradition. Or to signal you're an alpha male. Or that you hold specific values. Again, the appeal entirely hinges on there being an audience.

Matt is not a very aesthetically inclined person — something he reminds people of, so that people know he's a straight, traditional male. But to the degree he is, he chooses aesthetics to reify this idea.

Very few people are so neatly ordered. Even if they are a straight, traditional male, they may like certain things that don't fit the stereotype. Perhaps they're into cats. Or they like baking. Or maybe they play the flute.

Matt has no contradictions. Everything is neatly aligned: the beard, the flannel, the canoe with the old books and the fish above the crackling fireplace. It's a kind of performance you typically only see on comedy TV shows.

I should note there's a case to be made that almost everything (and certainly with regard to fashion) is inherently performative. I just think some are more transparent than others because the hold so little nuance.

[Jeff Waiste @JeffWaiste]

#2xko_bugs lemme know if y'all need to see the whole round or game or need any other info. <3

[🟡 The tumboy 🟡 @TheTumboy]

it’s funny that the main argument for AI is usually not that it’s good or useful, just that it’s inevitable so we might as well learn to live with it. even its advocates talk about it like it’s a plague

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

it's still absolutely perfect

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

For hating political violence, conservatives sure do love to cheer it on so long as it’s the state doing it against American civilians they don’t agree with

[Jeff Waiste @JeffWaiste]

@JoshStrifeHayes Sure, yeah, the ludonarrative dissonance is strong in 2077, I'll give ya that.

But while it LITERALLY tells you to hurry, THEMATICALLY it's asking you what makes life worth living.
Quiet life? or blaze glory?
Hurry through plot?
Or cock slap some cops?

Also, Panam <3

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

From Feb 4th 1939

[meredith @noyeahobviously]

Got me defending Jimmy Kimmel and agreeing with Tucker Carlson, I hate it here