Today I will teach you how to bake easy chocolate chip cookies. Note, you should have softened your butter for at least a couple hours prior to starting to bake. You are going to start by mixing your wet ingredients together, which are the butter, vanilla, and eggs. Next, add in both the white and brown sugars to the mixer.

In this Ted Talk, the speaker discusses how he let algorithms randomly decide most aspects of his life. I think that algorithms cannot truly be random, and in some way they must have been slightly tailored to him because he wrote them. It is interesting how the algorithms were able to make both decisions and predictions about his lifestyle.

You can customize M&M’s with photos of people or logos. This screenshot is from the M&M’s personalizer’s instructions, saying that files should be uploaded as .jpgs and should not be larger than 5 mb.

In this commercial, Sliced Bread Inc. is falling apart financially because Little Caesars is overtaking it. This commercial uses a variety of photoshop and video effects in order to create a realistic-looking video for the viewer. For example, the woman riding the ostrich is edited-in because it is unlikely that Little Caesars actually has the budget for this.

Similarly, in this commercial, photoshop and video effects are used to create a realistic-looking crazy commercial. For example, the snickers bar and helicopter are added-in through editing because it is, again, unlikely that Snickers has the budget to rent a helicopter and create a giant Snickers prop.

There is growing concern, as shown in this video, that deepfakes may be used to harm an individual’s political campaign. They could show a presidential candidate saying something that they did not actually say, possibly damaging their campaign and platform.

In California, new legislation has been proposed to combat this possibility. This legislation would “prohibit the use of deepfakes to influence political campaigns” and, in addition, protect individuals from becoming victims of deep fake pornography.

“Primiti To Taa” is a song-like Dadaist poem that can be interpreted in many ways.

In this video, Greta Thunberg is mocked using visual and audio filters, and death metal music. The creator may have chosen death metal music because she is from Sweden.

How are these videos connected?

They are connected because we watched them together in class.

This is my first blog post for this semester.