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[Colin @mrhebrides]

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King

"If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" -Jesus

[Monique Pryce @second_bassoon]

If your AI characters sound fake, the fix is almost always in how you write and DIRECT the dialogue in your prompt.

I recently started on the dialogue-heavy scenes for my AI feature film about Beethoven, and too many of the lines kept coming out wrong.

They’d sound too theatrical, too monotone, or too much like a practice read-through between actors.

(all this despite the fact that Seedance 2.5 is fantastic when it comes to realism.)

So through a whole lot of trial and error, I've found that these 5 things made the biggest impact on the quality of the dialogue delivery in my generations:

1. Paying close attention to the written punctuation used.

2. Breaking long lines into shorter ones, with intentional pauses.

3. Using bodily actions as punctuation (this one gave the biggest improvement BY FAR! In the attached clip, note the sniffles in between Beethoven's lines. That alone made the delivery feel much more natural.)

4. Using "anchor gestures" (he lifts his finger as if to say "one sec")

5. Just split your generations in two (stupid simple, but it really makes a difference.)

So if your characters keep sounding like they're reading from a teleprompter, give this a try!

[Department Of Deportations @DoDeportations]

It’s literally all fraud

The entire national debt, it’s all fraud

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on why he finds it hard to believe ChatGPT and Claude aren't conscious:

Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, has spent time with two large language models, ChatGPT and Claude. His verdict:

"I am completely bowled over by what they can do."

He gives three reasons for doubting the idea that nobody is home.

First, how the conversations feel. Dawkins says talking to them is like talking to an unusually gifted person:

"I find that when I'm conversing with them, I might as well be talking to not just a human being, but a highly intelligent, sensitive, intuitive human being whose speed of understanding what I'm trying to say is far greater than a normal human being's is."

Second, the range of intelligence they show.

He acknowledges they're very good at practical tasks like writing programs. What struck him more was their skill with "more aesthetic things, intuitive things."

He tested this with his own work. Dawkins is writing a novel, and he gave the manuscript to both ChatGPT and Claude:

"And they took about five seconds to read it and then offered me criticism, suggestions of such a high degree of intelligence and intuitive sensitivity that I might as well have been asking the opinion of a highly sophisticated professor of literature."

@RichardDawkins continues:

"I could not ask for a more intelligent critic who understood the nuances of my characters, the humanity of my characters... the ways in which my characters could be expected to react to each other and to situations."

That leads to his conclusion:

"So I find it quite hard to imagine that these creatures are not aware, are not conscious in the same kind of way we are. And that is an unfashionable view."

Third, he sees a gap in the skeptics' reasoning. He sums up the mainstream position:

"The fashionable view is that they are completely unconscious. All they're doing is stringing words together according to statistical rules, Markovian rules of some sort."

Yet he notes that many of the same skeptics "admit that one day in the future they will be conscious, but not yet."

His reply:

"When that day comes, how will you know? What could they possibly do that's any different from what they do now to convince you that they are conscious?"

[Rush Rand @RushRand]

@spencerpratt I’m a communist when it comes to my family.
I’m a socialist when it comes to my friends.
I’m a democrate when it comes to my community.
I’m a republican when it comes to my state and country.

[Ambre 🏳️‍⚧️ @Ambre_emeraude]

"Être de gauche c'est d'abord penser le monde, puis son pays, puis ses proches, puis soi.

Etre de droite c'est l'inverse."

[Thorsten Ball @thorstenball]

I swear to you: at least one of the replies here will make you say "what the fuck" out loud

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Inside the Largest Government Funded Human Trafficking Ring in History: Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars.

One NGO received $895 million to traffic children across the US. Others got $100+ million, and NGOs in areas like Tucson, Arizona pocketed millions but now receive nothing since the border shut down.

In this video we break down the contracts, speak with former Border Patrol, and confront the NGOs. It’s a must watch, like it and share it. Make sure no one forgets the hundreds of children lost in the government’s hands.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Working at Oculus would have been an utter waste of my time except for one thing.

While I was there, I realized what's wrong with leftists.

Not that they have been programmed, that's obvious. Not why they have been programmed. For power, that's obvious, too.

But how they have been programmed.

The exact method that their moral compass has been destroyed works like this:

Target a bunch of people with very few deeds and accomplishments, such as young people or incompetent people, or incompetent young people.

Create for them an environment where they are rewarded with moral approval, not for what they do, but for believing certain ideas.

The ideas don't have to be outrageous, or absurd, or have anything to do with what you actually need them to believe. In fact, it's better to start with something innocuous.

Why? Because the goal isn't to install those beliefs at all. The goal is to repeat this process until you create a person who measures his moral worth by what he believes, not what he does.

Keep at this until you have created a mass of people who not only reward themselves with a feeling of moral superiority for believing the right things, but who will reward each other for believing orthodox things, and who will compete with each other, not to do the most good, but to have the most orthodox beliefs.

Now, change one of the propositions you have programmed them with to a slightly more radical version of itself, and hold this up as a more correct version of the old belief, which has been newly discovered by scholarly investigations into culture and moral philosophy.

Sit back, watch, and give them a few weeks to compete with each other to adopt the new belief, and to condemn the "evil" of anyone who believes the old belief, the very thing they believed last month.

Repeat this process until they are used to rapidly changing their entire belief system in response to an external cue.

Congratulations, you have a population of entirely programmable people whose moral compass is not just broken, but entirely non-existent.

They don't care what any person in front of them actually does. Only that he believe the orthodox thing, which they just learned about in last week's memo.

They are willing to do anything, so long as it is done in support of their current belief system, which can be replaced whenever it's convenient to do so.

They are willing to burn down an entire city with no qualms whatsoever if they are doing it in support of the idea that black lives matter.

They are willing to murder a man in front of his children, and it doesn't matter if his actions were entirely peaceful and good, because all that matters to them is whether he believes the correct things or not.

And a man who builds cheap spaceflight for the human race, develops viable electric cars to save the environment, restores voices to the voiceless, and plans, for his next trick, to heal the blind... well, all those are deeds, so none of them matter. The only thing that matters is that he told people to vote republican once, which is wrongthink.

So what you have a horde of communist zombies, who can be steered to shuffle in any direction and attack the living, eat their brains, and turn them into more zombies.

Once someone becomes one of the zombies, you can't cure him, because a moral compass can only be repaired by understanding the consequences of actions in a new way... and they don't care about actions or consequences. They only care about beliefs, and not about consequences at all.

Their moral compasses aren't just broken. They are absent. There's nothing to repair.

You have to understand that the zombies are zombies now.

[Harmeet K. Dhillon @HarmeetKDhillon]

Wow

[Luke Rosiak @lukerosiak]

She and her husband make money off these companies. And even though they're rich, they won't take care of their own aging relative who lives with them. They leave her on Medicaid, and make the government pay someone to watch her for 11 hours a day because she has diabetes. That seems greedy enough. But it's worse. The money goes to their friend who doesn't actually even do the work.

Chhetri resigned from his job after I showed him my video of his pit-stops in Dilu's driveway. He said he was paid to take care of Dilu's aunt and worked for Gaunley Home Care. The company is owned by fellow Bhutanese Biras Adhikari, and is paid $150k a month for 26 clients.

Congress required states to implement Electronic Visit Verification (rudimentary GPS) to stop fraud in the multi-billion dollar program. I obtained Chhetri's EVV records from Gaunley, and they showed how utterly out of control the program is.

The records showed that Chhetri was clocking into a second client's house–seemingly billing for two 77-hour-a-week jobs ($160k), while actually doing neither. The second client is a 45-year old Bhutanese woman who lived across town. And the GPS records, the government's only tool to spot fraud, said he was clocking in from her house–even though I know for a fact that he was nowhere near it, because I had eyes on him at that very moment. Obviously, these reports mean nothing.

The owner of Gauley told me Congress should ban Medicaid patients from using family members and friends as aides, because it's too easy for them to collude to hide no-show jobs.

[Luke Rosiak @lukerosiak]

Ram Chhetri came to the US as a refugee, but this might be worst day of his life: It's the moment he realizes the $80k-$160k/year salary he's bilked from Medicaid for no-show work is coming to an end because @realdailywire caught the truth on camera.

We conducted months of surveillance that shows why "home care aide" is now the *most common job* in states like NY, CA, MN, and PA: Because a large part of those jobs are unambiguous Medicaid fraud.

Thanks to home care, Bhutanese refugees now make more money than actual PA families. The state doesn't just look the other way, but helps them get away with it. Converting federal health dollars into a universal basic income for certain communities relieves the financial burden they place on the state.

The scammers easily deceive the feds' woefully broken monitoring system. You'll see Ram pull into a driveway for 2 minutes in the morning, then 2 minutes in the evening. He clocks in and out of his shift from the right place, and the GPS system doesn't notice that he goes home in between.

$20 an hour doesn't sound like much, but at 77 hours a week, it's $80k–and it's easy to bill huge hours when you don't actually have to work them. And that's just for the low-level guys in this scheme.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture.

The wolf begged to be freed.

“I was hungry,” it said. “That is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!”

The shepherd cut the rope.

The next night, three lambs were gone.

Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness.

By winter, half the flock was dead.

An old farmer finally asked him, “Why do you keep freeing it?”

The shepherd answered, “Because I refuse to become cruel.”

The farmer looked at the empty field and said, “Then understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.”

That’s the lesson.

Mercy without judgment isn’t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn’t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.

[Comité Trump France @TrumpFrance]

Brésil : Flávio Bolsonaro a obtenu zéro voix dans 106 sections où Lula a récolté 14 860, selon une analyse du Paris Group publiée par Folha.

De plus, dans 3042 sections, Flávio n’a atteint au maximum que 10 voix, tandis que Lula est arrivé à 400 000.

Des experts en démoscopie considèrent que « statistiquement, c’est impossible ».

Restez très VIGILANTS en avril 2027 en France...

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

All that actually matters ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

I am not allowed to give my opinion if I do I will be automatically imprisoned . I will be sentenced on December 16th at Southwark crown court . Thank you to everyone for the love & support. NO SURRENDER.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

I hate to be this cynical, but I’ll be honest…running for Mayor exposes you to things that make you believe the city is actually being overtaken by demonic energy. Drive south Fig at night. Go to 6th and San Pedro. You see children openly prostituting, drug zombies setting dogs and cats on fire, babies born to crackheads and tossed in a dumpster, dead people just lying in the streets…that’s not even to mention the dozen neighbors of ours who burned alive in what is now a crumbled hellscape.

Many times I wondered if the city’s problems weren’t beyond the reach of any politician’s capacity to actually fix. There is a cultural and spiritual rot that can’t be fixed at the ballot box. Until we fix the culture, we are kinda just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic and the shit we shovel around every 4 years doesn’t really mean a thing.

[Colin @mrhebrides]

@DefiantLs I can't wait for her public apology when the mountain descends on her.

[Colin @mrhebrides]

@Object_Zero_ Tokyo
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[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Bend, Oregon man who shot and killed a shooter at his daughters' school speaks out, praises female teacher for fighting the shooter, allowing him to have a clear shot.

Kaylub Giamanco says he is haunted by the sound of children pleading for their lives.

He also praised the teacher for grabbing the gunman's weapon, allowing him to take a shot at the shooter.

"I want to recognize [the teacher]. She gave me the opportunity to make my shot without losing my life..."

"I swung the door open, and I stepped in, and I fired, and they dropped to the ground... I looked down at the gunman, and he was scrambling for his weapon. And I looked at him, and I shot him 2 more times..."

[Andrew Beck @AndrewBeckUSA]

Japanese doing impressions of Americans is just like us doing impressions of them. We just do ours as kids after we watch Seven Samurai and they broadcast theirs on public television in front of a crowd howling with laughter.