- 8 days
He’s the one who could get away with it, if he did it right.
- chewypoops@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Weird Al is a creative. Embracing AI at all is the wrong way. There is no right way to offload your humanity to an algorithm.
- 7 days
But also his name looks the same in sans serif fonts and he is a parody guy. So there are ways he could get away with it.
I’m saying he could either get away with selling his soul and not damage his rep too much, or go down to that crossroads, pull out his accordian, and potentially be the last man standing (on another pile of money)
- dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
I am all for the proliferation of (Weird) Al in everything, particularly when using sans-serif fonts.
- WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todayEnglish8 days
Since everybody wants AI cancelled nowadays, that’ll just be… Weird.
- 8 days
I think they’re saying people want to cancel ai, not AL - and playing on how in most fonts capital i and lowercase L look the same.
- kboy101222@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 days
I think that was the commenter’s intent, so don’t feel too bad
- 8 days
I’m sorry you feel dumb, and you don’t need to - we all have our “whoosh” moments. I only intended to clear the air regarding my long time hero Weird Al.
8 daysThat’s why I call it ‘a.i.’ because fuck giving that shit the honour of capitalising it, and also as someone that sometimes goes by Al (lowercase L).
- Acid_Burn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish8 days
I saw him perform two years in a row at the local fairgrounds. The second show he says “For those of you that were here last year… this show is exactly the same!” and it was still great! He’s one of the real ones.
- variaatio@nord.pubEnglish8 days
Well it wasn’t exactly same. I bet the previous year he didn’t say that part about it being the same show. 🙃
- notsosure@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 days
Yeah, but he’s been using that same line for six years now, twice is ok, but hearing the same joke about Bogart and Bacall six times in a row is totally fucked up.
- Hozerkiller@lemmy.caEnglish8 days
Did we just find the weird Al fan equivalent of the guy who plays an MMO to the point they run out of content?
Drives me nuts that the capital “I” looks the same as lower case “L”. What happened to the top and bottom line on the “I”?
- Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish8 days
This is why I force OpenDyslexic on every website. I can’t stand I’s looking like l’s, 0’s looking like O’s, etc. Also because I’m dyslexic.
- 8 days
Oh wow. That font has a lot of personality. Looks too much like everything is a 1960s concert poster to me. Braille institute Atkinson font is a less extreme alternative. I like Source Sans 3.
- Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish8 days
Yeah at first it looks hideous, but also every letter is extremely distinct from each other, so reading actually becomes easy for me. Of all things, comic sans is also a very good font for dyslexics. I’d rather have something ugly that is legible.
- hikaru755@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
So I’ve been wondering about this, does this kind of font make reading easier immediately for you, or does it take a bit until you’ve gotten used to and, idk, learned the shapes of the individual letters, after which it’s then faster?
- Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish8 days
It was pretty immediate. I was like man this is ugly, but when I actually tried it, straight away I noticed it was extremely easier and faster to read and I made much less mistakes. Like normally I misread words and letters and numbers a lot and reread the same line over and over and words just look like identical blocky shapes. A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context, which kind of works but not really. But with that font I can read normally.
I only even realised I might have it and got it investigated when I accidentally changed the font to OpenDyslexic in Kindle because it was just there, and then I’m like, ok wow I didn’t even notice how hard it was before 😂
- hikaru755@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
That’s super interesting, and a funny personal story, thanks for sharing!
A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context
I mean, as far as I know that, plus the rough shape/outline of each word, is how fast non-dyslexic readers read in general, at least for common words, haha. Actually reading letter-by-letter is relatively rare
- burt@programming.devEnglish8 days
of my collection of neurodivergencies, dyslexia is not one of them, but I will use opendyslexic when reading ebooks.
- ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish8 days
0’s looking like O’s
Funny, I’ve never mistook “look” for “l00k” or “book” for “b00k”
- lyralycan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 days
But to get to the point, some dudes created Helvetica, which was adapted later, like Judaism to Christianity, to create Arial.
Explanation
The reason being, Helvetica was made in the 1950s as exclusive for IBM and Microsoft didn’t want to pay for it, so they had their own exclusive made in the 1980s, a legally distinct but practically identical version.
This is the category called Sans-Serif
Explanation
The name means ‘without serifs’, which are ‘extra’ identifiable pieces on the characters on the bottom like flicks on a and l or the feet on the i, I and 1
Popular serif styles from multiple sources exist
such as:
From Apple:
- New York
From Google:
- Roboto
- Merriweather
- Lora
From Microsoft:
- Georgia
- Aptos Serif
- Cambria
Open source:
- EB Garamond
- Instrument Serif
- Libre Baskerville
- lyralycan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 days
Alright please forgive me for this one transgression of using Gemini, but this is one statistical likelihood that feels creepy
- Albbi@piefed.caEnglish8 days
AI has evolved to the point where the first task is to manage the emotions of the human. And then hallucinate a proper sounding response.
- Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish8 days
I hate the way A.I. condescendingly talks down to me like I’m on the verge of hysterics, and then butters me up to try and make me feel good. It’s so manipulative and gross and practically negging + love bombing. I try to avoid interacting with them if possible.
- Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish8 days
In my experience that just changes the “flavour of badness” rather than making it actually good. For example, if I made it “direct”, it would incessantly nitpick everything I say and tell me I’m wrong and stupid constantly, even when I’m absolutely correct. It would just make up fake facts to prove me wrong. So basically Reddit argument confidently incorrect mode. I’m not surprised people get psychosis from those things, it’s probably about as good for your mental health as interacting with narcissists.
im not downvoting you
but this is just stupid, there’s literally a billion people who use it daily
claude has none of this nonsense you speak of
- lyralycan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 days
I got to learn why the font style has those flaws, a few fonts that do and don’t have the same flaws and, ultimately, I got to use the information I learned to submit an informational comment beside the one we’re under
- k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish7 days
The dumbass AI CEOs probably thought it would have been soooo clever to use Al for AI.
- ScruffyDucky@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
Of course he can’t be the poster boy for AI, he’s already the poster boy for awesome :)
- 8 days
Al Yankovic has always been an awesome dude. I was a big fan in the 90s but have since outgrew him. I listened to his Greatest Hits Vol. 2 CD recently on streaming, and it’s cool, but it just doesn’t hit the same. I still appreciate him as an artist, though, and for how respectful he is of the original work he’s lampooning.
I do fear AI will replace him for later generations. Parodies not done by Al were often credited to Al, even when they were dirty or profane (Al would never).
I feel like he should parody You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon. I mean, it’s right there. “You Can Call Me Paul.” If Paul says you can call him Al (the song title is from a misunderstanding that actually happened), Al can call himself Paul, at least for a joke. I’m sure somebody has done this, but it would make more sense if their name was Al.
- 8 days
I saw Weird Al when his tour hit my city last summer (finally! I’ve been a fan since I was a kid). Yeah I don’t actively follow his stuff anymore but he and the band are still great. Fun show even as an adult.
He actually closed the set with a cover of You Can Call Me Al. From what I understand that’s a regular thing 🙂
