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This then may be the end of a regular check in habit at QBN. A check-in which has been very regular part of my life since ... what 2002? I don't know. I'm wary of suggesting a year because I don't actually know when QBN appeared, and I'm not sure when Newstoday became QBN.
I do quietly believe I used to look at NT/QBN back when I worked at a company called Overland, but I left Overland in 1999 so maybe that is a false memory.
Anyway, now it's just a column of nauseating purple rectangles, and any sense of anything that might be going on here is already lost.
It feels a little bit like losing one's hearing, I imagine. You can still be there in the room; still see the people interacting animatedly, but there's nothing but muffle reaching you.
And I do realise this is just a UK thing and it could be resolved with some agreements being struck about terms, conditions, definitions and rules... but that isn't going to happen. So it feels like a backwards step into a partitioned world - the opposite of the original www dream.
Like Concorde, we had supersonic flight, and we've never been that advanced since, but due to complications we had to go backwards.
Funny to think that those hairy deodorant dodging nylon slacks wearing peope of the past could travse 8000miles in less than half the time it takes us today.
Funny, also, that for a while the whole world could reach out and say hello, share ideas, debate, collaborate, form communities, societies, in pursuit of dreams...
Yet now we are red or blue, afraid or brave, capable of about 10 seconds of focus, condemned to misunderstand each other and programmed to react aggressively when we do.
The wall of purple tiles is nothing really. Just a hosting site at odds with a government, or something of that sort.
But it's another smallish porous hole opened up as the once flexible bones of global connection continue to go brittle with osteoporosis, and we all retreat from each other in fear.
Goodbye QBN.
I was
Spookytim
Spooky
Spyook
Koopsy
Horp
OrbitI had a lot of fun, I upset a lot of people for a while I think, and I was frequently a pain in the arse (ass) but I was here, for a long time. I've enjoyed it silently for even longer, but now it's just purple tiles, and there is no point even lurking now.
*Drifts away into the space-time continuum, aging slowly but steadily, farting silently but deadily.
- vpn an option? Surf like you live in Bangladesh!futurefood
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- https://tenor.com/vi…bezoar
- See you tomorrowKrassy
- Use a VPNNBQ00
- Doing nothing?
https://www.nedmarti…grafician - Is it just imgur or everything you can't see?
(I like your writingstyle btw, so please stay.)Longcopylover - hugs. i bang my fists against the nauseating purple rectangles of our oppressors.mantrakid
- Agree on the nice writing. Don't go. There's always a way.mort_
- that's a shame - the leaving and the accurate summary of the state of things. Take care, Horp.Fax_Benson
- it's not all purple triangles.dasohr
- If you have an ad blocker you can set it to block the purple triangles and then its like going back to twitter before it had photos.webazoot
- i barely visit too. I used to have fun in here, then it turned into a bullying roomHAL9001
- c'mon man!renderedred
- I love Spookytim!stoplying
- palimpsest2
State of QBN 2025
Notes for the latest podcast:
https://www.qbn.com/reply/415252…Animation of the Day
- https://www.qbn.com/reply/415246…America is Fucked
https://www.qbn.com/topics/76411…
- sted: https://www.qbn.com/reply/395499…
- utopian: https://www.qbn.com/reply/395499…
- PhanLo tallies: https://www.qbn.com/reply/395502…
- SteveJobs: https://www.qbn.com/reply/395499…deathboy
- https://www.qbn.com/reply/395499…
- https://www.qbn.com/reply/395499…Grafician hate why?
- Schadenfreude: https://www.qbn.com/reply/415241…
- Balkan conflict: https://www.qbn.com/reply/415236…
- NBQ00: https://www.qbn.com/reply/415237…Conspiracy of the day
https://www.qbn.com/topics/67623…
- Strange sky sounds: https://www.qbn.com/reply/347645…
- Phone malware: https://www.qbn.com/reply/347967…
- Hand drawing: https://www.qbn.com/reply/346530…blog
Horp: https://www.qbn.com/reply/415240…
kingsteven: https://www.qbn.com/reply/415235…
PhanLo & kaikal: https://www.qbn.com/reply/415243…Pic of the Day
https://www.qbn.com/reply/415238…Illustration of the Day
https://www.qbn.com/reply/415244…RIP of the Day
https://www.qbn.com/reply/415244…The Nope Thread
https://www.qbn.com/reply/415235…religion
https://www.qbn.com/reply/415236…blog
root beer: https://www.qbn.com/reply/285773…
paulrand:
https://www.qbn.com/reply/285825…
https://www.qbn.com/reply/285826…
https://www.qbn.com/reply/285827…
canuck:
https://www.qbn.com/reply/285820…
& Jnr_Madison: https://www.qbn.com/reply/285771…
- Office turd: https://www.qbn.com/reply/285789…- I don't know how you find these all so quickly... are YOU AI ;)webazoot
- AI is for the people.palimpsest
- fantastic, made the AI say Arse :)kingsteven
- Wot no Recent Vinyl Finds?Gardener
- yuekit2
Artificial Intelligence
The "AI actress" story looks suspiciously to me like someone just rendered a generic-looking picture of a woman, made a few AI video clips from it and set up an Instagram page.
https://www.instagram.com/tillyn…
The images and video are not even that great as far as AI goes. And based on that the media starts writing about the world's first AI actress... talent agencies want to sign the AI actress... people in Hollywood are outraged by it. I guess it's a nice publicity stunt but it's just mind-boggling how dumb people are.
- OFApeRobot
- Why not any real person can do this themselves? Becoming a "virtual" actor starring in AI slop?grafician
- That is what is going to happen.ApeRobot
- She does have five fingers.utopian
- "she" will get cloned to shitYakuZoku
- open source actorsGabriel
- its just viral marketing for the company but ffs the videos are generic GPT scripted cringe and the photoshop cleanup in this image is bloody awfulkingsteven
- In order to generate good quality AI footage it seems like the advantage would be with established IP and actors, not some random character a woman at ayuekit
- production company came up with. It's all about the volume of content after all.yuekit
- sted8
- mort_11
- NBQ000
blog
Do you advertising people now just prompt chatgpt for ideas?
- Do you think it matters or is the result going to be different?OBBTKN
- Ad is deadOBBTKN
- I’ve tried but its ideas suck shit.monospaced
- You tried because you're ideas suck shit.grafician
- Does your prompt suck?dasohr
- *yourmonospaced
- LOL at the troll who can't spell...canoe
- mort_12
- chirst these posts are good, keep it up Mort!sted
- Now do one with the little triangle window that would tilt open.monospaced
- What if he needs to pee?YakuZoku
- he has 5 other holes to make that worksted
- Is the position of the arm a bit off? Only noticing now.mort_
- ^ It's the arm of a kid sitting on his lap.Longcopylover
- Human Slop not AI Sloputopian
- Soon after takeoff he’s going to find another use for that ice-cold left handMrT
- utopian5
- Posterize frames = profitYakuZoku
- Why would anyone want to learn animation in the coming years.NBQ00
- Why would anyone want to learn anything about anything? Let's go fat on a chair while looking to the sky.Gabriel
- *AI-generated video of the sky, on a consumption rectangle.Nairn
- Digging the control here, takes away the frustrating randomness. I can’t believe this is from freepik_niko
- But yeah, what’s the point of anything any more?_niko
- Pushing a technology no artist as ever asked for.
The 10.000 hours of practice is a dead concept.ApeRobot - its still fun to make stuff, just cos it doesnt require 10,000 hours of learning doesnt mean its not enjoyable!lemoucheron
- utopian14
- :(bezoar
- She was the greatest of apes.monospaced
- calling women apes is not sexy monospacedgrafician
- She and her work is amazing!
She just loved those apes so much.
That, I cannot abide.futurefood - We are all apesmonospaced
- The beauty of the tribute was lost on him, which only makes it better.palimpsest
- Was I supposed to say something sexy? LOLmonospaced
- FLOLpalimpsest
- zaq3
- YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!sted - They went to the dentist?YakuZoku
- babybird feedingKrassy
- innovation never sleepsneverscared
- This seems unnecessarily complicated.skinny_puppy
- Only if it’s hot coffeebezoar
- YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE
- utopian3
- Tacky as fuck. And the gold in that room is pretty bad too_niko
- That gold is gross... anything by trump is gaudy / gold / columned and gross... hideous old shit.
BUT... not 'DIS' either... less gross but still gross. *vomitPonyBoy - im surprised Trump hasn't got a massive painting of himself on that wallIanbolton
