SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
David Simon, creator of โThe Wireโ, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! โค๏ธ๐พ๐ฅ๐
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01.10.2025 17:16 โ ๐ 40 ๐ 41 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 10
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, itโs declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earthโs highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
07.10.2025 00:25 โ ๐ 8806 ๐ 2863 ๐ฌ 145 ๐ 124
Agreed. This one rocks though.
08.10.2025 11:41 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Happy Birthday, Herzlichen Glรผckwunsch zum Geburtstag!
02.10.2025 00:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
@lussinka-k.bsky.social My wife, son and I are in Bratislava at the moment.
03.08.2025 21:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Hey, remember this? So we were able to avoid repossession, but she's still one payment behind, *and* the registration is expired. So I am once again asking for help/donations. If by some miracle we can raise $450 in the next few days, things should be golden.
02.08.2025 02:08 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2
Also in meinem Beispiel ist der Rumรคne sehr ambitioniert aber kann deutsch eben nicht perfekt. Das kann auch irgendeine andere Sprache sein. Der Kern der Frage ist, ist die Lektorierung bei einer ungรผnstigen รbersetzung immer noch leichter als eine mit DeepL? Mich interessiert einfach die Info.
16.07.2025 18:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Wenn jetzt zum Beispiel ein ambitionierter Rumรคne, der fleiรig deutsch gelernt hat, seine rumรคnischen Texte selber ins deutsche รผbersetzt und sie dir zur Lektorierung gibt, wรผrden da auch Kontextfehler erscheinen, die jede Menge Arbeit bedeuten? Oder ist das viel leichter als eine DeepL รbersetzung?
16.07.2025 18:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
"Everything in the Garden is Lovely" by Hannah Yang a World Fantasy Award finalist!
"Everything in the Garden is Lovely" by Hannah Yang from Apex Magazine Issue 143 is a World Fantasy Award finalist in the short...
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Iโm an artist, designer and illustrator. Iโve lost work to AI. I know dozens of others in my industry that have too. Some have lost their entire living. As far as Iโm concerned, anyone using genAI is a thief and a charlatan.
06.07.2025 08:11 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
a man says let 's see what you got in front of a microphone
ALT: a man says let 's see what you got in front of a microphone
Pistol Jim is now OPEN for the first submission call!
Theme is "ESCALATING CHAOS," word count is 500, no genre limit.
Send your work to PistolJimPress@Gmail.com along with a short author blurb!
04.07.2025 04:10 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
"Another Hungary is Possible" de Laika (artiste hongrois)
2025, dessin sur un mur de Budapest, Orban, habillรฉ en femme (jupe et blazer rose, hauts talons, rouge ร lรจvres) il porte une cravate aux couleurs trans et tient dans sa main droite un drapeau arc-en-ciel
#BudapestPride
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"Another Hungary is Possible" de Laika (artiste hongrois)
2025
28.06.2025 13:28 โ ๐ 406 ๐ 109 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1
Nem vagy egyedรผl ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
You are not alone
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28.06.2025 09:04 โ ๐ 39 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Noch nie habe ich das von Piketty beschriebene Problem r > g anschaulicher erklรคrt gesehen als in diesem Video von Gary Stevenson:
23.06.2025 07:38 โ ๐ 1132 ๐ 539 ๐ฌ 32 ๐ 37
Gary is very likable. Thus far, I have understood that he wants to reform capitalism by introducing redistribution. That won't work, because we aren't going to solve the question of power. Someone who owns a lot of money mustn't be able to buy influence with his money.
23.06.2025 14:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Gary ist mir sehr sympathisch. Soweit ich das verstanden habe, will er den Kapitalismus reformieren, in dem er eine Vermรถgensumverteilung einfรผhrt. Das wird aber nicht reichen, solange die Machtfrage des Kapitals nicht geklรคrt ist. Wer Geld hat, darf nicht in der Lage sein, Einfluss zu kaufen!
23.06.2025 14:03 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I have a bad conscience now. I should also go to such demonstrations with placards like "Tax The Rich".
15.06.2025 10:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Das Cover. Foto eines alten Telefons mit eingezeichnetem Drachen.
Meine besten und skurrilsten Geschichten aus den letzten 30 Jahren in einer Sammlung von ca 400 Seiten. Das eBook der Neuauflage von "Ausgewรคhlt!" ist nun in allen Digitallรคden verfรผgbar fรผr 5,99 Euro. Print on demand folgt.
15.06.2025 07:27 โ ๐ 49 ๐ 16 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1
Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:
10.06.2025 19:08 โ ๐ 13385 ๐ 5279 ๐ฌ 87 ๐ 218
Yes, I tend to this, too!
10.06.2025 18:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
@witchingmetal66.bsky.social You have struck me as a noir specialist. I want to read a David Goodis novel. Which is the best one?
10.06.2025 04:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I'm not convinced that I have perfect command of grammar, neither in German nor in English.
06.06.2025 14:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Your self-publishing action paid off for me very well. I had some exciting hours with your book. Nobody criticizes and describes the circumstances as clearly as you do. Maybe your numbers will rocket suddenly. You have made some readers happy. That's something.
05.06.2025 18:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
Schรถn wรคr's, wenn die Fanboys das lesen wรผrden
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
04.06.2025 06:48 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
Is it possible to make them stop publishing your book?
31.05.2025 09:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Achso, ganz einfach: Um uns รผber den Tisch zu ziehen!
30.05.2025 16:52 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Ja irgendwie, wenn die Gefahr besteht, dass รpfel verotten oder so. Bei engen Kundenterminen greifen wohl diese Vorrausetzungen nicht, was ich aber nachvollziehen kann, denn das ist ja absolut menschengemacht.
30.05.2025 16:42 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Mehrzahl der Arbeiter dem Interesse weniger Unternehmer gegenรผber. Warum sollen sich die Arbeitnehmer vรถllig kaputt machen, damit der Unternehmer sich noch ein grรถรeren Swimmingpool leisten kann?
30.05.2025 16:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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