Uli Hesse

looking for an invite code... much appreciated!

@U12Schutz 👍

Wow! @REWE_Supermarkt liefert Getränkekästen und Flaschen bedeckt mit Vogelkot aus #Really!? #verbraucherschutz #hygiene #lebensmittelsicherheit

Ok, so after playing with text-to-video more, I’ve decided it’s actually a semi-shittyy workflow that isn’t very practical for storytellers and is pretty terrible (and expensive) from a production standpoint. The real solution is likely a combo of image-to-video with text prompting, where the style/look/feel comes mostly from the image, which can be generated anywhere, and the text prompt is used mostly to direct the camera movement. The issues with going straight from text to video are that it’s expensive, slow, and difficult to consistently control the overall style and vibe of the shot. The ideal workflow for me would be to use Midjourney for pre-production (casting, production design, storyboards, and shot lists) and then bring it into image-to-video for the cinematography, using text to prompt the camera (and perhaps some VFX) This would save a ton of time and money, and allow for greater control of things like lighting, coloring, style, look/feel, atmosphere, set design, etc. Plus you get the advantages of features like image blending and permutations. More control + faster/cheaper = win. Obviously it's still VERY early and text-to-video will get cheaper, faster, and more coherent to the prompt in the future, but I still don't see why you would wanna skip the pre-production process and jump straight to a tool that is far slower and WAY more expensive than image generation. What do you think?

@nickfloats @threadreaderapp pls unroll

New: the bombs weren't real. Neither was the voice. We've traced some of the nationwide swatting wave to a specific swatting-as-a-service. Uses syntheiszed voices to target schools, more. The automation of swatting tech threatens to make it more prevalent. vice.com/en/article/k7z…

Das Klinikum Bourg-en-Bresse ist von einer Cyber Attacke betroffen. Keine Lösegeldforderung, nur Schaden. Zum Glück hatte das Klinikum vor zwei Wochen eine Übung zu just diesem Szenario durchgeführt.

@aakashgupta @threadreaderapp pls unroll

Twitter is not the same as it was last week. The algorithm has undergone more than 30 changes. I’ve been monitoring the GitHub repo for you. Here’s what you need to know:

*Red Team Blues* is my next novel, a #PostCyberpunk anti-finance finance #thriller; it's a major title for my publishers @TorBooks and @HoZ_Books, and it's swept the trade press with starred reviews all 'round. Despite all that, #Audible will not sell the #audiobook. 1/

"Twitter has removed restrictions on Kremlin-linked accounts... [This] comes after it emerged that Twitter was no longer limiting the reach of Russian state media organisations." Once again: Twitter is a national security threat. telegraph.co.uk/technology/202…

Idaho's new, so-called "abortion trafficking" law isn't just meant to further restrict abortion access. It's intended to provoke a new constitutional showdown over women's freedom using "parental rights" as a Trojan horse. My latest for @MaddowBlog here: msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-…

Breaking News: Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $8.9 billion to settle claims that its talc products caused cancer, potentially ending a yearslong legal fight. nyti.ms/3m6e9Qi

ChatGPT strikes again. A journalist contacted me to research her profile on @lexfridman. ChatGPT informed her that @_KarenHao and I were his top critics. It cited articles we'd written about him, gave links, and summaries. Only problem: it's all false. Here's what she sent me:

Broken twitter has real-world consequences theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Hollywood to End COVID-19 Safety Agreement The COVID-19 guidelines that for the past three years kept casts and crews safe during production amid the pandemic will expire on May 12. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

One of the most overlooked features about our AI moment is over a billion people can access, for free, to the most powerful large language models on Earth. Being rich doesn’t get you better AI. There is nothing you need to to buy, you can just experiment. oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/how-to-use-a…

+++ EIL +++ Die Tarifverhandlungen für den öffentlichen Dienst von Bund und Kommunen sind vorerst gescheitert.

as Twitter plans to remove legacy verification & solely promote Blue subscribers on users' feeds, here's some new Twitter Blue data: ➡️ 50% of all paying subs have less than 1k followers ➡️ around 18% have less than 100 ➡️ thousands have 0 followers mashable.com/article/twitte…

Lieber Schwarm! Welches Tool ist derzeit das beste, um gesprochene Sprache in Text umzusetzen?