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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law an overhaul of California’s landmark environmental protection rules that he says is essential to address the state’s critical housing shortage and long-running homeless crisis. The Democratic governor widely seen as a potential 2028 presidential ...

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The US stock market on Friday hit an all-time high, its first since mid-February. It marked the culmination of a remarkable recovery on Wall Street since the S&P 500 was flirting with bear market territory in early April. The S&P 500 gained 0.5%, to close at a record 6,173.07. It marked the...

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workflow.png This is one of the workflows I use for Kontext multiple images. It's very straight forward. No special nodes needed (just make sure ComfyUI is up to date) The nodes to the right of the sampler are mostly just to create that stitched together images for the examples I used. The bypassed...

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Late last week Black Forest Labs released the local version of their latest model Flux Kontext. It's the real deal. It can change image but keep the context. same pose (or change pose), add text, change text keep same style of text. It can change style "make realistic" "make the image...

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The US stock market on Friday hit an all-time high, its first since mid-February. It marked the culmination of a remarkable recovery on Wall Street since the S&P 500 was flirting with bear market territory in early April. The S&P 500 gained 0.5%, to close at a record 6,173.07. It marked the...

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Nice to see the US drop the bunker busters. Whether they completely destroyed the facilities or not, they certainly did significant damage. if more bombs needed if they find more sites/uranium storage, So be it. CNN and other lefty news jumping on the story about them not completely being destroyed ...

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Quick AI update before going traveling. AI is amazing and hasn't stopped progressing at all. Always same or faster increase in AI capabilities. As for video. The developments have come in the way of making the same videos faster with less VRAM. I can now make quality 7 second videos in about 90 seco...

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Man, I don't get it. Israel (and the US) should be blowing the crap out of Iran's military manufacturing and nuclear facilities. A couple points on Iran. 1. The average citizens of Iran mostly hate their government and were near revolution a year or so ago. I've mentioned it before that I went to s...

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Whenever fascists try to look strong, their own incompetence makes them look weaker than ever. What a fucking joke this regime is. The only problem I have with Trump is his love for Putin for some reason and hes a bit of a wimp when it comes to military action (although that might change very soon ...

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I have no desire to purchase either one at those prices. There's no way in hell I'd spend $3k on a graphics card. And since I'm also never paying more than $2k either (other than maybe a 5090 at MSRP) I guess I'm stuck with my 3080 Ti forever. And that's only 12GB so the 16GB on the 5080 would actu...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxX92BBhHBw One good thing about AI video is it will put the "real" influencers out of business. The morons that do stupid shit will get less views. "about to do the first plunge into an active volcano" At worst, it will give them more ideas to wi...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh_g9uBd0m8 AI is progressing at a break neck speed still. There were at least 5 new models that came out ranging from video, image, audio to text models. All nice advancements. Huge progress in AI voice/emotion for local AI. Just a little while ago I was gushing ove...

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And since I'm also never paying more than $2k either (other than maybe a 5090 at MSRP) I guess I'm stuck with my 3080 Ti forever. And that's only 12GB so the 16GB on the 5080 would actually be an upgrade. It would probably be best to stick with your 3080 than buy anything less than 24GB. 16 over 12...

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I received an email from Micro Center today. They have the Asus 5080 in stock for $1800 which is $800 more than MSRP. They also have the Gigabyte 5090 for $2920. $920 more than MSRP. The GPU situation these days is truly dire. Especially with companies still releasing 8GB cards. Overpriced due to d...

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Above is even better examples of VEO3's AI with voice/emotion

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https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1krgin9/will_smith_eating_spaghetti_to_this_in_2_years/ https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1kre3qp/deepmind_veo_3_sailor_generated_video/ The two examples above show how far AI videos have come in 2 years. Just a quick note. In both open sourc...

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We now take you back to Donnie Two Dolls and his so-called golden age. Yes. Hows the stock market doing today? Doesn't it feel like it played out exactly per Trump's MO? Step 1: Crazy Tariffs introduced (start with more than you want and negotiate down to what you really want) Step 2: Everyone happ...

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Finally a local music LLM that is "decent" you can run easily on ComfyUi with low VRAM and not "special"nodes etc. The quality of the voices and music isn't state of the art for AI. The cloud services have much better but for what it is, it's great: It takes me about 10 seconds t...

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Creating art should be a hobby that you do for your personal enjoyment. AI is exactly that for me. You’re not creating art, you’re typing a prompt. The sense of accomplishment a person feels when they create actual art will never be achieved by simply typing a prompt. The process of creating art is...

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S&P 500 posts longest winning streak in 20 years The US economy added a stronger-than-expected 177,000 jobs in April Headlines today from liberal CNN who hates to say anything positive about Trump. There must have been no other way to hide it this time than to give positive news. Top 5 most out...

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Not that it matters since whatever MSRP ends up being you won't be able to find them for that. Especially in the US with the current tariff situation. But if I had to guess I'd say 24GB 5080 Super for $1250 and a 18GB 5070 Super at $850. $1250 for 24GB VRAM sounds too good. I would immediately be t...

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Ooo a Thess sighting. Hi! I would tell you not to bother to engage with kool-aid drinking Winnow but then again what else is there to do around here. Biden in office: OMG a recession? Worst president EVEAG!>!? Trump in office: (Forced) Recessions happen. Big deal.. Who cares. I don't think I ever c...

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cap-01.jpg One more example of "modern" comics. This is the #1 issue of Captain America #1 2023 from Marvel. Seriously? Imagine if I posted that as AI made. Someone got paid to draw that crap. A #1 issue...trying to sell copies and that's what they were able to produce? Click on it! max t...

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comic-1.jpg comic-2.jpg comic-4.jpg When it comes to hands and "quality" art regarding AI, I know it's always a focus but also need to remember what comic art actually looks like. Superman and Captain America posted above are their classic intros. The most iconic heroes from the most icon...

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I don't see a solution to "the big picture" beyond the eventual hope that AI gets so good and for some unknown reason the wealthy agree to give up their wealth. That’s never going to happen. The greediest and most evil people in the world are never going to give up their power for the gre...

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Yes I’ve seen the propaganda convincing Republicans that this is a good thing. It’s just amazing to see a thread with the expectations falling so quickly from a golden age to recessions are fine and needed. I understand your point. For clarity: "Golden Age" isn't instant. How could it be?...

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Oh man, making comic book covers is fun! BTW I misspelled Carl Barks as Carl Banks on the Donald Duck cover I posted. It still did a decent job but I made some others that do the artist even more justice.

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Spang wrote: ↑April 23, 2025, 2:10 pm
Aslanna wrote: ↑April 23, 2025, 1:15 pm I hate how that word (slop) has become a generic word these days to easily dismiss something. Same as, and usually in combination with, 'woke' or 'dei'.
Slop is a universally accepted term for AI creations.

It's about as useful an expression as "keep fucking that chicken".

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Donald.jpg Classic comic titled "Donald Duck" Comic Book Cover. Donald and Daisy are standing on a stack of pancakes with butter and syrup. Artwork by Carl Banks superman.jpg Classic 1940's comic titled "Superman vs Captain America" Comic Book Cover. x-men.jpg Comic Book titled ...

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New AI stuff is coming out daily. The new HiDream model has quite a few artists built into it so you just need to say "Artwork by Frank Miller" for example at the end of your prompt to get that style https://jamesiv4.github.io/preview-images-huggingface/ The above has a list of 3800 Artist...

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Winnow you named this thread the new golden age and it’s only been two months and you are already okay with a recession. This seems like a very quick turn around of expectations for this administration. Hello Thess! My main point is that a broken system needs to be fixed before you can have a bette...

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regarding the FramePack video generator for tiny VRAM peeps, i'd recommend using kijai's comfyui wrapper especially how that he added 240 and 320 base resolutions. https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-FramePackWrapper I'm making 10 second videos in about 3.5 minutes. 20 second video in 7 mins with the 3...

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Trump is considering giving up on ending the Russia/Ukraine war he promised to end in his first 24 hours in office. This is because he’s not actually good at making deals. It’s why he can only sign executive orders rather than working with a Republican-controlled Congress. Trump is a grifter and a ...

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I decided since my MB has 7 NVMe slots that I'll use two of them to mirror my OS drive via RAID 1. I can't say I've ever done that before so will see how it goes! I used the $50 gift card from the power supply so the 1TB 990 Pro only set me back ~$55. Cheap! I've never had an SSD fail before but it...

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Man, like 4 awesome new AI toys cam out in the past 2 days. The new HiDream which is FLUX but better prompt adherence and better license. I've been having fun with that the past few days. InstantCharacter Model which enables you to keep character consistency WAN 2.1 has has multiple new things added...

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Electronics imported to the United States will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, according to a US Customs and Border Protection notice posted late Friday. Smartphones, computer monitors and various electronic parts are among the exempted products. The exemption applies to...

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I'm finally back doing some AI image generation after months of videos only. I forgot how awesome FLUX was. To be clear, OpenAI's image gen has its uses but local models aren't slowing down. A new model called HiDream was released a few days ago. It is a small step above FLUX in visuals as well as p...

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fucking over their own customers is inexcusable. How do you justify purchasing Android phones when Google has a history of “fucking over their own customers” too? It's because if I had to make glasses out of their name I'd be able to see through the two O's. You can't do that with Apple's name.

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I'll make a deal with you.. You stop falling for the Republican party line and I'll stop falling for whatever you think it is Apple is doing. Or has done. Pick one. Let me explain how class action lawsuits work. After the company (Apple) determines they're fucked and guilty and agree to pay up, dam...

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OMG highest one day market gain in US history. Trump just got his 10% tariffs and fucked China in the process. Trivia: What was the biggest one day gain in the US Stock Market history? Trump couldn't have done it without the whiners he knew would scream at the top of their lungs about the tariffs. T...

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Are you kidding me? That's their EXCUSE. They were found guilty and paid Complainants will receive a cut of a $500m (£394m) settlement which works out to around $92 (£72) per claim. If they were in the right, they wouldn't have paid half a billion dollars. I can't believe you fell for the company li...

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Unfortunately for me, premium phones break just as often as cheap phones. That includes the first 10 years of the iPhone 2007-2017 that I bought a new one every year or every other year. 4 ipads, plenty of ipods before that. Owned a Mac Plus in the late 1980's. I even bought some 27 inch iMac integ...

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And now the Dow is surging upward (so far). All because Trump decided to pause this whole tariff thing (except for China). Great system we have here. Yay the world crisis averted! It's still fun to watch the day to day reactions to the market. All the doom and gloomers. He raised tariffs again on C...

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I don’t think an economic system that crashes every few years as a feature is a good system. The US has been doing great over the past 100 years with that model. It has plenty of flaws. The US has benefited greatly from it's geographic location. No real threats on our continent lets us thrive. Hard...

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For me I want something quality since I'm not a frequent upgrader like a lot of people. I really intend to use this for as long as I can. If I'm only going to buy something every ~8 years then I don't have a problem spending more on it. I understand the argument. Unfortunately for me, premium phone...

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But if it makes you any less happy I did pick up an iPhone 16 Pro today at Microcenter to replace my ancient 6s. So there went another $1000. Thanks Trump! But that's just the price of blue chat bubbles in today's economy I suppose. I was surprised that MC price matched the Apple store so I got it ...

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I work from home so don't really need a nice phone. When my Samsung Sxx (whatever the equivalent of an Iphone Pro/Ultra is for Samsung) broke, I bought a $280 Samsung phone the A54 (I think). I don't play games on it (use emulator on PC for that) and I don't surf the net or use apps on it except fo...

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As for the cooling I haven't decided yet on that one. I just picked something so partspicker would stop yelling at me about it. It will be RGB though. Yeah I'm not up to date on latest cooling stuff. The huge Noctua fan I got has been super quiet. My whole build is quiet. I hear my CPU more than my...

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Whether the corporations can afford to eat the costs isn't the point because anyone with a brain knows they won't. My point is Apple makes way more profit that most companies. They aren't selling that high because of parts and labor. They're selling that high because people are buying their product...

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20 Cores. nice. 1500 Watts! You're ready for the RTX 6090 whenever that comes out. I had to search for it. 1500 Watts is around the max load an outlet 110V can handle : ) I was going to recommend the Noctua NH-D15 CPU fan but it looks like you went nuts with the CPU cooling solution : ) Looks like m...

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