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Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor - the new sexy Doctor! https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/ncuti-gatwa-is-the-doctor

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Individuals’ ‘free speech’ is one thing large corporates monetising the targeting of its own customers with poisonous / unwanted (and potentially upsetting / harmful) messaging is something else Curious that YouTube and other platforms in Ireland, which is an EU member, approved such ads earlier this year (although they weren’t in fact run) https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/extreme-and-violent-anti-lgbtq-hate-approved-publication-leading-social-media-platforms/

This is old Forbes 4/6/18 https://www.forbes.com/sites/meganhills1/2018/06/04/youtube-anti-lgbt-ads/ Doubt they could run in the UK - unless they like prison food

no comment…

gays gossiping

just finished connecting up to the mains …all ready for tonight

cute little duster or maybe use it as a moppet

Music is tuneless Most hit records ever released are out of tune (and so is a bunch of “classical” music) Modern standard tuning is based on A440 (frequency A above “middle C”). Musicians will deviate from standard tuning if they want (eg Radiohead, No Surprises) but, that aside, keyboards (like acoustic pianos) are tuned to “equal temperament” where every chord sounds in tune but in fact every note (apart from A440) is actually out of tune Other instruments like strings and brass are generally tuned to “natural” harmonic intervals or (“just temperament”) because then they resonate better to produce their best sound, and chord intervals sound cleaner (fretted guitars are generally tuned like pianos) Problem is when keyboards are combined with other instruments it could sound like screaming cats accompanied by fingernails dragged down a blackboard… So the other instrument must be retuned to match the piano / keyboards And then there’s organs, saxophones, horns, trumpets…

still stealing food I see

good point - just checked the index and book+movie threads are well dead I’ve just asked a mod if the thread name can be updated

surely this is the value of prompts, to help overcome “writer’s block”? the reason that visual artists have a ‘muse’, that Hemingway stopped each day mid-sentence, that composers “steal” a few notes (think what JS Bach could do with just 4 notes). An external prompt can provide motivation (inspiration?) and result in something new + unexpected that otherwise probably would never have existed

good point - human ‘controls’ imposed on ‘AI’ to enforce a particular value set It’s the same with ChatGPT where, playing around with it some months back, I provided information + asked it questions (knowing the answer) and it denied the statement (the facts are in the public domain) as if a human instruction set / censor algorithm (its ‘Content Policy’) had overridden / prevented it from giving a correct response. I then gave it specific + much more detailed facts and it then retracted its initial denial and provided the answer it should have given in the first place… That’s a real worry, when increasingly people are going to be relying on AI for unbiased and accurate information in order to assist decision-making. Not so much with images, though, where at worst the results may just be disappointing / unusable

Yeah, I did (finished it last night) I’m not the target demographic, but there’s not exactly a surfeit of gay comedy dramas out there.. It’s not ground breaking or exceptional but it is entertaining, a ‘teen’ (supposedly ) comedy drama with some decent comedy lines and some ‘darker’ trope elements thrown in the mix Sure it was a tad flakey in parts (padding to deliver the required runtime?) but the whole series hung on the character of Victor - and Michael Cimino, with his dazzlingly cute looks flawless skin heart-melting smile and fine acting, pulled it off In fact he was pitch perfect.

Interesting also that the AI algorithm seems to ‘understand’ stereotypical gay male pairings in @Myr’s 4 images, providing a decent choice of pairings to match various story narratives Personally I find (clockwise from top left) #1 (top+bottom) and #3 (versatile)🔥, followed by #4. But it’s horses for courses Maybe in its spare time the AI’s busy reading up on blog posts like this… https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/top-scientists-get-to-the-bottom-of-gay-male-sex-role-preferences/

well that’s interesting I tried this using your search criteria “gay young adult men gothic horror“ and got prohibited So I tried again using the same words but swapping around the word order for “gay” and it worked! (but the images are much less hot🔥than yours ) Seems that the AI algorithm really does not like upfront “gay”

so I need a time-travelling DeLorean… to watch a movie about a time-travelling DeLorean

red?!?! looks like the Penguin’s had a makeover

Another retread of the Brideshead Revisited trope but with more explicit gay sex +gore Interestingly, Fennell signed a contract with the family that’s owned Drayton House (since the 1300s) to make the whole movie there on condition that no one was allowed to reveal the location of the house or the identity of its owners - but then blurted it out (after Tatler had done some digging) https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/saltburn-shooting-location-drayton-house-estate-1234907538/

interesting discussion how ‘bout one of you open up a thread on this in the ‘other place’ then people can say what they like without fear of a spanking + the Admins are kept happy

from what I’ve read Smiley is a Spanish production bought by Netflix while Uncoupled is a Netflix factory product - chalk + cheese

Great job Geron!

Astronomy mysteries it took until 1930 to discover Pluto, even tho’ there’s a massive great arrow next to it!

Can’t Help Falling In Love With You Written in 1961, this song was an enduring hit for Elvis Presley. It has never got ‘old’, being covered countless times over the last 60 odd years. The original song lyrics were about falling in love with a guy (‘ Can’t Help Falling In Love With Him’) which might explain its use in the soundtrack of a recent gay movie, but doesn’t explain why the filmmakers didn’t re-record the song with the original lyrics, choosing instead to recycle on old cover by Perfume Genius (which is OK) with the Elvis lyrics (where the rhyming doesn’t really work). The song has been used in several movies over the years. That aside, there are some great versions out there but I really like this cover by Elliott James Reay He has a beautiful voice and the simple guitar accompaniment is perfect