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SHORT FILMS by Alex Billington September 25, 2023Source: Vimeo Who's up for some virtual reality fun?! This short film for a music video is hilarious and prescient, and it's absolutely worth a quick 4 minutes of your time to watch and laugh about. LA-based choreographer turned filmmaker Erin Murray created this music video for the track "Anyway U Want It" from Bambina - available online now. Bambina is a musician from California (check out more of her music here) and also stars in the video as one of the two, ahem, participants. "A couple navigates the glitches & complications of virtual reality intimacy." Yes, VR sex - coming soon to homes everywhere. Starring Bambina & Whitmer Thomas, and also guest starring Newman Wolf. This reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "Striking Vipers", similar in some ways, though amusing in many other unique ways. And it's similar to the short Vert with Nick Frost. A clever play on the VR era we're entering, where scenes like this might not be uncommon. Thanks to Vimeo Staff Picks for the tip on this one. Intro direct from Vimeo: "A couple navigates the glitches & complications of virtual reality intimacy." This "Anyway U

Posted by msmash on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:40PM from the cracking-down dept. Amazon has created a new rule limiting the number of books that authors can self-publish on its site to three a day, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale in recent months. The Guardian: The company announced the new limitations in a post on its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) forum on Monday. "While we have not seen a spike in our publishing numbers, in order to help protect against abuse, we are lowering the volume limits we have in place on new title creations," read the statement. KDP allows authors to self-publish their books and list them for sale on Amazon's site. Amazon told the Guardian that the limit is set at three titles, though this number may be adjusted "if needed." The company confirmed that there had already been a limit to the number of books authors could list a day, but declined to say what this previous limit was. The post stated that Amazon is "actively monitoring the rapid evolution of generative AI and the impact it is having on reading, writing, and publishing" and that "very few" publishers will be

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Can Philanthropy Save Local Newspapers? (washingtonpost.com) Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 24, 2023 @03:34AM from the democracy-dies-in-darkness dept. 70 million Americans live in a county without a newspaper, according to a 2022 report cited in this editorial by the Washington Post's editorial board"Who's to blame? The internet, mostly. Whereas deep-pocketed advertisers formerly relied on newspapers to reach their customers, they took to the audience-targeting capabilities of Facebook or Google. Web-based marketplaces also siphoned newspapers' once-robust revenue from classified ads. But the Post emphasizes one positive new development: "a large pile of cash." In an initiative announced this month, 22 donor organizations, including the Knight Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, are teaming up to provide more than $500 million to boost local news over five years — an undertaking called Press Forward... The injection of more than a half-billion dollars is sure to help the quest for a durable and replicable business model. The even bigger imperative, however, is to elevate local news on the philanthropic food chain so that national and hometown funders prioritize this pivotal American institution. Failure on this front places more pressure on public policy solutions, and government activism mixes poorly

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