I would argue it is either 1) neither necessary nor sufficient, or 2) that it is sufficient but not necessary. Which line depends on whether we are talking about something literally BEING a meme, or something merely having the potential to be a meme.

In the former case - whether something is a meme or not - having text is neither necessary nor sufficient. Adding text to an image does not a meme make, and equally some memes do not have text (or aren’t images at all).

In the latter - whether something could be a meme - adding text is sufficient to provide that potential. It may not be necessary (6-7 for example) but it could be enough.

“I have no memory of this plashe…”

That role was Alan Quartermaine in League of Extraordinary Gentleman. After that movie bombed he retired from acting altogether.

Which is a shame really because I remember it being… Kinda good? Clearly not a work of great art, but fun action silliness. Admittedly I watched it as a kid and never again so who knows really.

Jesus can you actually imagine if LOTR had Sean Connery instead of Ian McKellen? Hideous prospect. No shade to Connery, he’s played some of my favourite characters over the years, but christ that would have been a terrible mistake.

Miserable, pitiable folk who do not know what it means to love or be loved.

Well it kinda is? Most of the time I’ve been using VR has either been on the headset itself or wirelessly streaming from a PC. My headset is old so the quality isn’t amazing, but by and large its always worked well.

Great video from Life Take Two (ex-Mormon/MAGA woman) about this phenomenon and the reasons behind it. In short: it’s misogyny.

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Antisemitism has be co-opted and applied to any and all criticism of Israel, as opposed to it’s previous meaning, hatred of Jews/Judaism. This isn’t strictly because the meaning of the word is being used differently as much as it is that proponents of Israel like to conflate Israel with all of Judaism, or even more broadly with all Jews (as an ethnic group as opposed to a religious one). Since Israel takes any criticism to be hatred, the inevitable consequence is that criticism of Israel becomes antisemitism. I’m splitting hairs here and probably making things more complicated than they need to be… But hopefully you understand what I’m getting at.

Incidentally, even in its more broadly accepted definition “antisemitism” itself is a bit of an etymological oddity, because “Semites”, or the Semitic people, are both Jews, Arabs and others… Judaeophobia is an alternative that is unquestionably specific to Jews/Judaism.

The tie is the most egregious part, if you zoom in the pattern makes no sense at all.

Unfortunately most English speakers don’t really understand the reasons we use a lot of the weirder cases & tenses. I don’t know if the same is true when learning German as a first language, but certainly in English most people just learn past/present/future and that’s about it… You don’t really get into the nitty gritty around situations like “I had intended to go to the pub later that day”, i.e. speaking about the future from the perspective of the past.

Anyway, in the case of was/were I will do my best with an acknowledgement that I am no expert despite being fluent in the damn language.

Was/were are usually singular/plural words that take you into the past continuous rather than simple past - consider “I worked” vs “I was working”, “we worked” vs “we were working”. The former of each pair implies that the work was a distinct event while the latter implies it was ongoing (I used it again there with “was ongoing”).

The “subjunctive mood”, mentioned in the title is about hypotheticals, e.g. “If I were you, I would go to the park today”, “I wish I were taller”, . In the subjunctive the verb remains in its infinitive form, which in this case is “were”.

To be completely honest though… “I wish I were never born” might be grammatically correct, but to my ear it sounds quite old fashioned, like something a Jane Austen character might say. I don’t think the majority of people would blink an eye if you said “was”.

There’s also “had been” and “would have” to consider… “If I had been taller everyone would have thought I was pretty”, this is also a hypothetical but honestly I don’t know what the case/tense we’re using here is… I’ll just have to leave you with that :D

Just curious, does the LLM generate a text prompt for the image model, or is there a deeper integration at the embedding level/something else?

It’s a motte-and-bailey argument, in fact. The whole purpose of the “skill based hiring” argument is to serve as a comfortable retreat from the more controversial “black people can’t fly planes”.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

The company I work for (we make scientific instruments mostly) has been pushing hard to get us to use AI literally anywhere we can. Every time you talk to IT about a project they come back with 10 proposals for how to add AI to it. It’s a nightmare.

I got an email from a supplier today that acknowledged that “76% of CFOs believe AI will be a game-changer, [but] 86% say it still hasn’t delivered mean value. Ths issue isn’t the technology-it’s the foundation it’s built on.”

Like, come on, no it isn’t. The technology is not ready for the kind of applications it’s being used for. It makes a half decent search engine alternative, if you’re OK with taking care not to trust every word it says it can be quite good at identifying things from descriptions and finding obscure stuf… But otherwise until the hallucination problem is solved it’s just not ready for large scale use.

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I know the topic at hand is not funny but the image of huge, bouncy, floaty syrofoam buildings being dropped rom the air onto Gaza is very funny to me.

Well hopefully after you use the bidet there won’t be any shit there lol, but no. The last few times I used a bidet there was TP as well, you just dab yourself dry with a little bit and put it in a bin. Less paper, not in the sewer, but you get a dry arse. Best of both worlds.

Alternatively you could dry yourself afterwards.