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  On why a belief in a conspiracy theory is difficult to push back against .  Bumped up against CoPilot's PC rules when trying to generate these images. The original prompt was: "Create an image of a number of young women who are opposed to vaccines" and the reply was "I’m sorry, but I can’t assist with that request. " Initially annoyed with the response, I now realise that CoPilot's 'censoring' actually works both ways. The final image was modified in Designer.    
  More on subscriptions and how the Net advertising model companies are looking good.  With the new intro and better background, cutout editing. More or less happy with the look, although the intro, again done in Microsoft Designer, might need another 'take' of my actual intro pitch — it comes across as a bit lame. All images are now being done with Microsoft's CoPilot, which is getting better and better. Of course, it's powered by DALL-E 3

China Windows

  How long will it take for the Chinese to start selling a rival to the Windows operating system?  This video really shows up the cut-out issues due, I think, to the prominent blue background. Work in progress....

Data, Energy Consumption and The Greens.

  A look at Green Party activism and future AI generated power generation increases. Looking back at this one, I have forgotten the double image aspect from the previous video.  Also, I was just becoming aware of the CapCut cut out feature limitation: — my image can blend into the background image, producing weird distortions. G M T Y Detect language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assamese Aymara Azerbaijani Bambara Bashkir Basque Belarusian Bengali Bhojpuri Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese Simp Chinese Trad Chuvash Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dhivehi Dogri Dutch Emoji English Esperanto Estonian Ewe Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hill Mari Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Ilocano Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Kazakh (Latin) Khmer Kinyarwanda Konkani Korean Krio Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kurdish (Sorani) Kyrgyz Lao Latin Latvian Lingala Lith...

Data Protection and The Brokers

  Data protection finally comes to America. And what it will mean for Internet revenue models. Getting better at the backgrounds, even if I say so myself.

The Subscription Model: AI and Peak Subs

  More Green Screening. Copilot image generation getting better.

Gemini Google and Apple = Gapple?

  An Apple Car moment for Apple AI as Google, sorry, Alphabet continue to hold hands. Or was that another AI hallucination moment?  Very slowly, getting better at green screening editing in CapCut, which also involves playing around with the intro video file as well. G M T Y Detect language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assamese Aymara Azerbaijani Bambara Bashkir Basque Belarusian Bengali Bhojpuri Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese Simp Chinese Trad Chuvash Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dhivehi Dogri Dutch Emoji English Esperanto Estonian Ewe Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hill Mari Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Ilocano Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Kazakh (Latin) Khmer Kinyarwanda Konkani Korean Krio Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kurdish (Sorani) Kyrgyz Lao Latin Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Luxembourgish Macedonian Maithili Malagasy Malay Malayal...

Boeing and the Chinese

  737 Max certification and delivery delays are opening the door for the Chinese made C919 to fly through.  First attempt using CapCuts auto cutout / greenscreen/ background features. The basic intro video file is still done using Microsoft's Designer, then cut out with CapCut to superimpose the video. It was not that easy! Also, surprisingly hard to get a Boeing 737 Max image in AI. So started a switch to Microsoft's CoPilot for image generation as well.

TikTok Selling or Banning. Really?

  How a forced sale and /or ban will be hard to implement. Finally got fed-up with the screen picture overlays, which were mainly being used to cover up what was showing on my monitor during filming. Blank monitor!

EFT's BTC and Bubbles

  The catalyst of the bursting of the current bubble may turn out to be something unrelated to the current boom in AI stocks.  Still nothing new, except perhaps the AI image, which was generated using NightCafe Creator, rather than Leonardo.Ai It's a rather cool image, if I say so myself.

Lack of Succession

  How Old Men Cling to Power: a worldwide and ancient phenomenon.  More of the same from an editing perspective.

Bitcoin, Grain and Gains

  A discussion about Bitcoin's use in complex financial transactions.  Starting to realise there are limits of in-field backgrounds. G M T Y Detect language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assamese Aymara Azerbaijani Bambara Bashkir Basque Belarusian Bengali Bhojpuri Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese Simp Chinese Trad Chuvash Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dhivehi Dogri Dutch Emoji English Esperanto Estonian Ewe Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hill Mari Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Ilocano Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Kazakh (Latin) Khmer Kinyarwanda Konkani Korean Krio Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kurdish (Sorani) Kyrgyz Lao Latin Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Luxembourgish Macedonian Maithili Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mari Meiteilon (Manipuri) Mizo Mongolian Myanmar (Burmese) Nepali Norwegian Odia (Oriya) Oromo Papiamento Pasht...

The Swiss Pension Vote and Unexpected Outcomes.

  On yet another occasion, mainstream opinion gets it dead wrong.  Starting to move into proper video editing and starting to use images to create a very basic background.  

Super Tuesday: Superman or Superwoman?

  Another look at whether done deals are always a done deal . Another knuckleheaded look at whether there was even a slight chance Nikki Haley may get somewhere. Wrong!  But hey, I have finally got the intro size correct. G M T Y Detect language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assamese Aymara Azerbaijani Bambara Bashkir Basque Belarusian Bengali Bhojpuri Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese Simp Chinese Trad Chuvash Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dhivehi Dogri Dutch Emoji English Esperanto Estonian Ewe Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hill Mari Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Ilocano Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Kazakh (Latin) Khmer Kinyarwanda Konkani Korean Krio Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kurdish (Sorani) Kyrgyz Lao Latin Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Luxembourgish Macedonian Maithili Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mari Meiteilon (Manipu...

Swiss Banks: UBS and Then There were None

  Musings on the major bank left in Switzerland, the effects of KYC and how startup Fintech's will prevail. Besides the incorrect format size, I am still playing around with the video background. Unsuccessfully, I might add.   G M T Y Detect language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assamese Aymara Azerbaijani Bambara Bashkir Basque Belarusian Bengali Bhojpuri Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese Simp Chinese Trad Chuvash Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dhivehi Dogri Dutch Emoji English Esperanto Estonian Ewe Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hill Mari Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Ilocano Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kazakh Kazakh (Latin) Khmer Kinyarwanda Konkani Korean Krio Kurdish (Kurmanji) Kurdish (Sorani) Kyrgyz Lao Latin Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Luxembourgish Macedonian Maithili Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maltese Maori Marathi Mari Meiteilon (M...

Iran Uranium and Veils or No Veils

  Looking at a relaxation of the proverbial Uranian hard line.  This video was inspired by a report on the Italian State TV channel, TG Uno (TG1) It was also one of my first attempts to get creative with the CapCut video editing software.  The inclusion of the TG1 clip was made using Windows 11 facility that records online gaming, found under: Windows 11 Settings → Gaming → Record What Happened — or more easily Windows Key+Alt+G. Before discovering this option, recording the equivalent of 'catch-up' TV with other software usually resulted in no audio being recorded, and it was also hard to do. CapCut's AI language transcription system translated the original Italian — this is a lot harder than it looks, and takes forever to get right.  Without a good working knowledge of the translated channel language, I do not believe that it would have been possible to make sure that the subtitles were accurately translated.  As it is, here the subtitles move too quic...