noellemitchell

noellemitchell, 3 days ago to movies

Sony Will Use AI to Cut Film Costs, Says CEO Tony Vinciquerra

"“We are very focused on AI. The biggest problem with making films today is the expense,” Vinciquerra said at Sony’s Thursday (Friday in Japan) investor event. “We will be looking at ways to…produce both films for theaters and television in a more efficient way, using AI primarily.”"

Wow. So I expect the quality will go way down.

#movies #film #AI #tech #news #media #press #entertainment #cinema #tv

https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/sony-pictures-will-cut-film-costs-using-ai-1235010605/

noellemitchell, 4 days ago to mastodon

Wow! The Who to follow suggestions in the #Mastodon feed appear to be personalized 👀

When I click "see all" it takes me to a list of profiles. Above each profile it tells me why each one is being suggested.

The reasons: "Popular among people you follow", "Popular on mstdn.social", and "Similar to profiles you recently followed"

Interesting. 🤔

#fediverse

noellemitchell, 4 days ago to Health

Why do I feel like we're making the same mistakes with bird flu that we did with covid?

Dismissing this case with "oh he had chronic conditions" is extremely dangerous. Not to mention the fact that there's a lot of people who have multiple underlying health conditions.

#health #news #birdFlu #virus #pandemic #covid #press #media #worldNews

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-health-ministry-bird-flu-patient-died-chronic-disease-not-virus-2024-06-07/

noellemitchell, 5 days ago to news

Still loving being on Flipboard. I feel like it works better for getting news than social media. 💯

#Flipboard #news #SocialMedia

noellemitchell, 5 days ago to AdobePhotoshop

A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies

"On Wednesday, Zhang opened her email to find a horrible shock: her bill for using Vercel, a web hosting company, would cost $96,280 for the last week."

Wow 😳 that's quite a bit... :blobcatmoney:

#Cara #app #art #Meta #AI #tech #news #media #press #web #artists

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/06/a-social-app-for-creatives-cara-grew-from-40k-to-650k-users-in-a-week-because-artists-are-fed-up-with-metas-ai-policies

noellemitchell, 6 days ago to news

Uh oh...

WHO confirms first fatal human case of bird flu A(H5N2)

"This was the first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with A(H5N2) subtype of bird flu reported globally and the first H5 virus infection in a person reported in Mexico."

"The victim had no history of exposure to poultry or other animals, WHO said."

How did they get infected then...?

#news #health #pandemic #mexico #worldNews #press #media #BirdFlu

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/who-confirms-first-human-case-avian-influenza-ah5n2-mexico-2024-06-05/

noellemitchell, 5 days ago to mastodon

Have I spent a lot of time on #Mastodon today? Yup. 😁 :mastodon: #Fediverse

noellemitchell, 7 days ago to Pixelfed

Instagram confirms test of ‘unskippable’ ads

"Instagram confirmed it’s testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media."

"“We’re always testing formats that can drive value for advertisers,” a Meta company spokesperson told TechCrunch."

Looks like it's time for people to move over to #Pixelfed :pixelfed:

#Instagram #meta #tech #news #press #media #SocialMedia

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/03/instagram-confirms-test-of-unskippable-ads/

noellemitchell, 12 days ago to fediverse

According to FediDB, monthly active users on the fediverse have dropped to 1,005,573 😳 Looks like they might drop below 1 million if the downward trend continues.

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia

https://fedidb.org/

noellemitchell, 15 days ago to internet

I forget that Twitter exists until I see someone talking about it online 🤔

My reaction is "oh yeah that platform I used to have an account on two years ago" 😆😂

#SocialMedia #X #Twitter #tech #internet

noellemitchell, 15 days ago to internet

Wait Internet Archive is down?? 😳 What will I do with my time now? 😩 Read books I already have? 😔

#internet #reading #books

noellemitchell, 16 days ago to shopping

I've never shopped at Shein or Temu and I'm hoping to keep it that way forever

#FastFashion #shopping #shein #temu #consumerism #capitalism

noellemitchell, 16 days ago to Pixelfed

"Cox said that Emu can make “really amazing quality images” thanks to “Instagram being the data set that was used to train it” which he described as “one of the great repositories of incredible imagery.”"

This is a great reason for people to switch over to alternatives like #Pixelfed

#fediverse #Instagram #photography #art #news #Meta #media #press #AI #tech

https://petapixel.com/2024/05/14/meta-is-using-your-instagram-photos-to-train-its-amazing-ai-image-generator/

noellemitchell, 17 days ago to linux

I wonder how many people will be switching over to #Linux because of #Microsoft's #Recall feature :blobthinking: :linux: #tech #AI

noellemitchell, 17 days ago to food

Just made a batch of super delicious hummus 😋 it turned out really good 😁 :ablobcathungry3:

#food #cooking #hummus

noellemitchell, 18 days ago to mastodon

I really like the fact that you can bookmark posts on #Mastodon, it's very useful 😊

noellemitchell, 18 days ago to webdev

I don't know why or how my #Neocities blog has 17K views, it's not that great looking lol 😂

#html #coding #blog

https://noellesbookshelf.neocities.org

noellemitchell, 18 days ago to twitter

"Elon claims that X is now up to 600 million monthly active users, and around 300 million daily actives."

"X also reported reaching 500 million monthly users in March 2023, so based on these stats, X seemingly added 50 million more users in a year, but has now added another 50 million in just eight weeks."

😂😂😂

Highly doubt X gained 50 million users in only 8 weeks.

#X #Twitter #SocialMedia #tech #news #press #ElonMusk

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/elon-musk-x-now-600-million-monthly-active-users/717078/

noellemitchell, 18 days ago to random

subscribes to yet another podcast I probably won't get around to listening to :ablobcatcoffee: :blobcatlaugh:

noellemitchell, 19 days ago to books

"Even as industry sales were slow in 2023, membership in the American Booksellers Assn. continued its years-long revival. It now stands at 2,433, more than 200 over the previous year and nearly double since 2016. About 190 additional stores are in the process of opening over the next two years, according to the ABA."

#books #bookstodon #reading #news #press #business #SmallBusiness #ShopLocal

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-05-23/independent-booksellers-continued-to-expand-in-2023

noellemitchell, 19 days ago to DuckDuckGo

#DuckDuckGo is working again! :party: :blobhappy:

noellemitchell, 19 days ago to DuckDuckGo

#DuckDuckGo isn't working right now, it keeps giving me the message "There was an error displaying the search results." :blobcat0_0: :blobcatthink:

noellemitchell, 19 days ago to DuckDuckGo

"A global outage is affecting a variety of Microsoft services, including its Bing search engine and Copilot AI tool.

Users turned to social media on Thursday to complain about the outage, which is also impacting third parties, including the search engine DuckDuckGo, which relies on Microsoft’s infrastructure."

#DuckDuckGo #Bing #Copilot #AI #News #tech #Microsoft #press

https://techcentral.co.za/microsoft-services-hit-by-global-outage/245222/

noellemitchell, 19 days ago to knitting

Yesterday I started knitting again after years of not knitting a single stitch. I forgot how much I love it. 😁🧶

All the stitches came back to me as soon as I picked the needles up again. I didn't have to look up how to do any of it, I guess it must be muscle memory. 👀 :knitting: :ablobcatknitsweats:

#knitting #handcrafts #needlecrafts #crafts

noellemitchell, 20 days ago to mastodon

Judging from all the posts I'm seeing on #Mastodon, I feel like a lot of people will be switching over to #Linux soon. 😅

#tech #technology #Microsoft #AI #MicrosoftRecall #windows