Unexpected and unfortunate outcomes of COVID

As part of a thorough screening, everyone must undergo a cavity search, followed by a root canal. To be conducted simultaneously for anyone with an already upset stomach. Immune compromised shall additionally be poked in the eye.

Going forward, everyone shall be referred to by their middle AND last name, no exceptions.

Anyone who struggled with high school math must repeat algebra before they are allowed to end sheltering in place. Just in case, you never know when someone might need it.

Vegetarians must eat their pets, and Democrats must eat vegetarians.

Republicans must donate all Dockers to Goodwill, and Celestine Prophecy is required reading.

To create jobs and save the planet, toilet paper must be replaced by energy drinks which shall be shaken and administered from behind by out-of-work personal trainers who will also then apply sanitizer.

All women are required to listen to 2112 with headphones until they can sing or air drum by heart.

Everyone with a yard is required to grow a garden, and anyone without a yard who has a job is required to buy a house from those who lost their jobs and feed them with the garden they are required to grow in the newly obtained yard.

To save energy, upon request, porn must be performed in pantomime for neighbors.

this is a working list...

temporary tattoos

https://inkbox.com/

Magnopus - virtual theater

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/a-portal-between-digital-physical-worlds-close-reality-1293374

https://www.magnopus.com/

about the guy who filmed in Brunswick

Boy, howdy. If ever there was an innocent man, it would clearly be Roddie Bryan. 

And a bullet-proof defense, so to speak. Case closed:

“Contrary to irresponsible media reports, Mr. Bryan was unarmed at the time of the shooting. Roddie is a family man, NASCAR fan, and enjoys rock and roll. He is not now, and never has been, a ‘vigilante,’” Gough said.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/09/man-who-recorded-ahmaud-arbery-shooting-receiving-threats-lawyer/

He didn't mean nothin'. 

Kernel - brain interface

https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/technology/a-neuroscience-startup-uses-helmets-to-measure-brain-activity/ar-BB13C8az

https://www.kernel.co/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(neurotechnology_company)

Marketoonist: COVID-19 ads are all the same

https://marketoonist.com/2020/05/genericadvertising.html?utm_source=Marketoon+of+the+Week&utm_campaign=812277ff99-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_0429_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4ae9870613-812277ff99-200413989

here's the video he mentions in his article:

ML AI music

OpenAI's Jukebox AI Produces Music in Any Style From Scratch -- Complete With Lyrics (venturebeat.com)22

Posted by msmash on Friday May 01, 2020 @05:10PM from the pushing-the-limits dept.

OpenAI this week released Jukebox, a machine learning framework that generates music -- including rudimentary songs -- as raw audio in a range of genres and musical styles. From a report:Provided with a genre, artist, and lyrics as input, Jukebox outputs a new music sample produced from scratch. The code and model are available on GitHub, along with a tool to explore the generated samples. Jukebox might not be the most practical application of AI and machine learning, but as OpenAI notes, music generation pushes the boundaries of generative models. Synthesizing songs at the audio level is challenging because the sequences are quite long -- a typical 4-minute song at CD quality (44 kHz, 16-bit) has over 10 million timesteps. As a result, learning the high-level semantics of music requires models to deal with very long-range dependencies.