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How much must Joaquin Phoenix suffer for his second Oscar? An awful lot, writes BRIAN VINER
Warm intros are awful for diversity, so why do investors keep insisting on them?
There are oodles of advantages to having a diverse workforce, but you can’t simply take your homogenous workforce, add diversity, stir and hope for the best.
Warm intros are awful for diversity, so why do investors keep insisting on them? by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
I dumped my boyfriend because he had cancer …I felt like an awful person, now I’m running London Marathon in his honour
A WOMAN who dumped her boyfriend because he had cancer is now running the London Marathon in his honour.
Danielle Epstein, 32, said she ”felt like the most awful person” after leaving ex Jelle Fresen when he was diagnosed.
Danielle Epstein, 32, dumped her boyfriend who had cancer and is now running a marathon in his honour[/caption]
Jelle Fresen was sadly diagnosed with cancer back in September last year[/caption]
Danielle and Jelle when they were together[/caption]
Her former partner was diagnosed with a grade 4 medulloblastoma – a type of brain tumour – in September 2022 when he was 37.
The couple were buying a house in London when Jelle, who works as a Google software engineer, suffered dizzy spells and vomiting.
Jelle was diagnosed and had to re-learn to walk after an operation and also had radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
The tumour type is so rarely seen in adults it is among the least well understood, and the prognosis is variable.
Physics teacher Danielle experienced panic attacks and her mental health plummeted and the pair ended up splitting up.
She moved to Thailand with her dad but has stayed friends with Jelle, who will watch her run the marathon on Sunday in his name for Brain Tumour Research.
Danielle said: “I still love Jelle deeply and want to support him, but I came to realise I couldn’t stay with him as his partner.
“I felt like the most awful person, leaving somebody because they have cancer but it was damaging my mental health and it wasn’t helping Jelle.
“We’re still figuring things out and finding ways to continue our relationship as friends. Our whole lives came out from under us.
“We were on a certain path to a certain future and within one day we knew it wasn’t going to work out like that anymore.”
She continued: “I was so worried and devastated, I couldn’t sleep or eat.
“I was having panic attacks and was on so much medication to sort myself out I just couldn’t function.”
In August, after numerous consultations with GPs and ineffective treatments for an ear infection, the vomiting became much worse.
Jelle went for a private MRI scan using his health insurance with Google, where he works as a software engineer.
The mass was discovered and he was booked in for surgery in September, after which it transpired the tumour was cancerous.
The surgery left nerve damage which resulted in palsy to the right side of his face, and a squint which causes double-vision.
He also can’t fully close his eye and must use eye drops and ointments constantly.
Speaking about the London Marathon, Danielle said: “I felt so helpless watching all this unfold, so I knew I had to do something.
“I’m not a runner, but Jelle has done marathons before, so I thought it would be a challenge for me and a nice tribute to him and it felt like something to aim towards.
“I won’t be fast, but I’m determined to get round.
“Training has been tough physically and mentally, just keeping going when you’re so bored is challenging.
“But I have the best motivation; if Jelle can go through all of this then I can run a marathon.”
Jelle said: “I will be there on the day to cheer Danielle on, I think it’s incredible what she’s doing.
“When she said she was going to do a marathon, I must admit I had my doubts.
“I think she only did about 5km when we were together and that was with a lot of complaining.
“I’ve got so much respect for her discipline and perseverance.”
Carol Robertson, national events manager for Brain Tumour Research, said: “We’re so sorry to hear about Jelle’s diagnosis.
“While his tumour type is rare, brain cancer is not, with one in three people knowing somebody affected.
“We’re very grateful to Danielle for taking on this huge challenge to help raise funds for our cause.
“Our Marathon runners are supported every step of the way, and we look forward to cheering her across the finish line.
“If you have your own place through the ballot, we would love you to join our Fighting Force London Marathon team.”
The Food System Is Awful for the Climate. It Doesn’t Have to Be
Game Boy games are mostly awful, but GBA on Switch Online Expansion Pack is huge
The Game Boy was incredible. It was a piece of gaming hardware that was essentially sent to the ‘80s from the future. To have video games of the quality they are on the Game Boy, even with its lack of colour, felt like some Tomorrow’s World stuff back when I was a small child. I had a Game Boy. I lived that early era. Everyone wanted a Game Boy. To be rather hyperbolic, it was unbelievable that this was a thing we could buy.
It was a completely different era, though, one where what was accepted as “good” is vastly different to how we judge video games today. Over 30 years have passed since those wonderous days, and it makes me more than a little sad to say that It was a mistake to go back.
Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man, now, but revisiting original Game Boy games a few years back (on original hardware) left me scratching my head, wondering if the passage of time had made all those games I loved become obsolete – relics you might look at in a museum/pages of Retro Gamer and nod knowingly (or even lovingly) at. For as much as my brain memories said “I bloody love this game,” my brain thoughts there and then were saying, “how did I play this back then? It’s… not good.”
Group Of Kids Come ‘Eye-To-Eye With Bigfoot’ After Following Awful Smell In Forest – Mirror
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AI-generated ‘Seinfeld’ is just as awful as it sounds
A new Twitch livestream tries to answer the question: What if AI made never-ending Seinfeld? “Nothing, Forever” is an experiment using OpenAI’s GPT-3 natural language model to produce (occasionally coherent) dialog between pixelated counterparts of Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer. Although it’s closer to surreal performance art than the beloved 90s sitcom, it conjures images of a strange, dystopian future where we entertain ourselves with endless content generated by robots.
“Nothing, Forever” immediately hits you with well-known aesthetics. Scene transitions show the exterior of a line of New York City brownstones over the sound of a quirky jazz bassline. It frequently cuts to “Larry” (the Jerry equivalent) performing what AI passes as standup comedy. Scenes inside Larry’s apartment show him chatting with George, Elaine and Kramer’s counterparts about appropriately mundane topics. Their conversations, while mostly unintelligible and lacking structure or narrative, make their inspiration clear.
On the other hand, the stiff and rudimentary character models look like they walked out of a 1980s Sierra adventure game. Their voices are robotic too, and Jerry and George sound less like their real-world counterparts and more like Mr. Van Driessen, the hippie social studies teacher from Beavis & Butthead. Finally, it’s a stretch to say the generated dialog is coherent — much less funny. (If not for its laugh track, you wouldn’t notice the laugh lines.) Generative AI’s current limits are as much on display as the show’s influence.
“Aside from the artwork and the laugh track you’ll hear,” one of the show’s creators posted to Reddit, “everything else is generative, including: dialogue, speech, direction (camera cuts, character focus, shot length, scene length, etc), character movement, and music.” The stream has little human involvement and changes based on viewer feedback from the Twitch stream. “The show can effectively change, and the narrative actually evolves based on the audience,” said Hartle in an interview with Vice. “One of the major factors that we’re thinking about is how do we get people involved in crafting the narrative so it becomes their own.”
That goal may be far away, as any narrative — much less a personalized one — seems beyond its current capabilities. Still, with a sizable budget and several years of technological advancement, it’s easy to imagine someone producing more watchable generative programming, an endless stream of personalized, assembly-line digital media. “Our grounding principle was, can we create a show that can generate entertaining content forever? Because that’s truly where we see the future emerging towards. Our goal with the next iterations or next shows that we release is to actually trade a show that is like Netflix-level quality.”
AI company promises changes after ‘voice cloning’ tool used to make celebrities say awful things
Awful Modern Warfare 2 spawns can see you die twice in one killcam
Bad Modern Warfare 2 spawns are always something you have to deal with in the frenetic, fast-paced fracas of the FPS game, but seeing a player die twice in one killcam emphasises just how awful they can be at times. Spawning in what feels like an unfair position has happened in all the Call of Duty games, and not even the best Modern Warfare 2 loadout can save you from situations where you are dropped in full view of the enemy.
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