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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Amazon Prime Video‘s Mr. & Mrs. Smith is moving to the west coast for Season 2 production.

The second season will be filmed in Los Angeles County, sources tell Deadline, with exact production details still being sorted.

Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed the series would be relocating to California on Wednesday while touting the recently approved $750M in funding for the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program. Season 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith was primarily filmed in New York with a few locations in Italy, including Lake Como and the Italian Dolomites.

Though the series was granted an incentive within the last three cycles, it is not clearly listed on the California Film Commission‘s list of approved projects. Sometimes, high-profile productions are listed under different, more discreet names.

Just last week, the commission approved 48 new films for $96M in tax credits.

The state’s production community has been sounding the alarm on runaway production for years. Calls for action reached a fever pitch earlier this year in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles fires, which were preceded by a tough few years for the industry from the coronavirus-related production shut downs to the 2023 dual strikes.

California is also competing with other states like New York, which just allocated even more money to its own tax credit program, as well as international territories whose incentives have lured production away from the Golden State.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith‘s relocation is seemingly a win for Newsom and the California film and television industry, because it signals that big budget productions would be interested in shooting in the state with the right incentives in place. It joins Prime Video’s Fallout as two of the highest profile series to move production back to California recently.

While production in California has become more scarce, there is a promising slate of television productions cropping up across the state as of late, including HBO Max’s The Pitt, Hulu’s Paradise, and CBS’ NCIS: Origins.

Created by Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane, Season 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Smith followed two lonely strangers (Glover, Maya Erskine) who have to pose as a married couple as they both begin new careers as spies, taking on new aliases, Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith. Now hitched, John and Jane navigate a high-risk mission every week while also facing a new relationship milestone. Their complex cover story becomes even more complicated when they catch real feelings for each other. What’s riskier: espionage or marriage?

Season 2 will have new leads, played by Mark Eydelshteyn and Sophie Thatcher. Sloane returns as executive producer and showrunner; Glover is back as executive producer. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is produced by New Regency and Amazon MGM Studios.

(The adblock notice and the text blurring was dumb.)

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Wrong community for AI slop.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All of the references you have ascribed to me are wrong.

So, the data you presented that I attributed to you are incorrect? So, you are saying your own information is wrong? I asked for references as you got data from somewhere.

I have stated that I am pro or anti anything.

I am assuming you meant to insert a "not" in that sentence. You missed the point: You can hold any opinion you like, but calling something a "fact" doesn't make it so.

I dunno what to think about the rest.

But yeah, I am calling the account sus. It's an observation and sorry you took it personally. Even more interesting is how you went from a clear, well worded description of your world economic views into some kind of pseudo-philosophical word salad.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I am curious about your references. The de-dollatization stuff comes directly from BRICS and Chinese propaganda and I think you have something mixed up with the WTO and SWIFT, specifically when the EU was dropping Russian banks from SWIFT in March. (Everyone seems to be fed up with the WTO at the moment.)

While you have every right to be pro or anti on anything you want, launching a new account direct into specific multi-paragraph narratives is kinda sus.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I looked into that and the only question I really have is how geographically distributed the samples were. Other than that, It was an oversampled study, so <50% of the people were the control, of sorts. I don't fully understand how the sampling worked, but there is a substantial chart at the bottom of the study that shows the full distribution of responses. Even with under 1000 people, it seems legit.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a place for that. It's called 4chan.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago

Well, the administration supposedly made some kind of minerals deal to continue to support Ukraine. (It was just bullshit PR for Trump "making deals".)

Still, I doubt any partner was surprised by this as the Trump administration is pointlessly unpredictable.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In this study, we conducted a survey (n = 742) including a representative U.S. sample and an oversample of gender minorities, racial minorities, and disabled individuals to examine how demographic factors shape AI attitudes.

 

I am writing a security paper on AI at the moment and am looking for some juicy citations.

News articles are a bad source, unfortunately. Direct references to credible studies are ideal.

Thanks in advance!

(If you couldn't tell by which community I am making this post in, I have my own bias that I would like to exploit.)

 

I haven't seen this particular issue since early versions of Connect.

 

I don't particularly care for dubstep but am more into traditional EDM, trance, electro-house. Basically, anything using simple or modified four-to-the-floor styles with heavy synth work. (Deadmau5, Rabbit in the Moon, Tiesto, etc, etc...)

Recently, I have been playing the game of "duplicate the sound" with my soft synths. I'll hear a song in my car driving back from dropping the kid off at school in the morning and then spend an hour or so with my soft synths duplicating a sound with its effects before I start work.

Copying Rezz has been interesting though. Her "signature" bass sound is a saw with a hair of distortion with some really cool (but still simple) LFO/filter work for rhythm. Add some traditional sidechain compression tied to a kick and most of the work is done. Where she excels is tying in lots of fx into the overall rhythm of the bass that seems to have lots of dubstep'esq influence.

That led me into (newer) dubstep with the drones, wobbles and all-around crunchy bass. Truth be told, it was an eye opener a few months ago when I discovered that most of the crazy "bass rhythm" sounds live above 500hz and that a basic sin wave below 500hz is all you really need for power.

My main issue is that I can't quite duplicate traditional dubstep and/or even super-clean wobbles. (An example here at 1:44: https://youtu.be/CNiLnw1t0UU)

I have figured out that (especially in the example above) that most of the sound is just lots of low and high pass filter work, probably tied to what I know as an "automation" in FL Studio. (I don't know if that is a general term or if it's FL Studio specific.) Hell, I was playing a couple synths tonight free-style and got super close to some of the key sounds, actually.

When I try and expand on that with, say, Skrillex type bass, I simply don't even know where to start or what tools and techniques to use to distort and destroy the bass line into something like dubstep.

I guess, after all of that, if you wanted to make some really crunchy bass lines, what techniques would you use?

 

loops@midwest.socal is one I absolutely know is not getting blocked. (I detest short form video..)

Some blocked political communities still tend to show up as well. This is is absolutely not good for my own sanity and mental health.

 

Weird title, sorry. Let me try and explain.

Goal: Convert simple higher level script into a low level logic gate mess. Basically, I want to build my own custom computers in Factorio with circuit networks. I can easily create any type of logic gate that I want, similar to how computers Minecraft have been built, but with more options.

It would be super nice to code in something similar to Python but have it "compile" into clusters of logic gates. Of course, functionality would be extremely limited, but that is OK and I don't need to boil the ocean.... yet...

(TBH, this sounds really close to what I know about programming FPGAs.)

 
 
 
 
 

I have two MacBooks that I acquired through two different startups. Both companies no longer exist and I was basically given the laptops. (They have just been sitting in my closet for a few years collecting dust, and it seems like a waste.)

Unfortunately, now that I want to use the laptops as part of a local k8s cluster (or even dedicated music production hardware), I am locked out of wiping the things because they want to connect to MDM servers that no longer exist or have admin passwords that have long since been forgotten.

Since these laptops are essentially "bricked" I have no problems opening them up and attempting hardware hacks to get around this stuff.

Both laptops are in various states of reset or wipe due to previous attempts to reset. (Funny thing, actually. I was personally responsible for locking down one of these laptops at the time they were in corporate use...)

Trash or treasure? I dunno. I am apple-dumb.

 

Edit: Deleting this post. It's starting to get controversial, but that's OK. Not what I planned on, but whatevers.

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