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🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

Screenshot of David Simon interview 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.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

If you're cancelling Game Pass today, grab a cheap indie game or two, and then put the rest of the money toward supporting indie games media by subscribing to your favourite podcasts/websites/etc.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

Cartoon: two people at a table with paper, rulers, pens, knives, a jam jar with tools in. Third person entering the scene. Person at the table says "Welcome to Book Binding Club. Please make yourself a tome". I don't know how well puns work with readers. It's two separate words, "a" and "tome". Would welcome any feedback on this.

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Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"

Bruh

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

two stills of a man in a suit,wearing glasses and smoking a cigarette When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary.

Goodnight.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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Actual footage of the howling black void where his soul should be.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

You can clip any 30 seconds from MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, and it's certfiably the most sensational, breathtaking 30 seconds of any movie made in the last 2 decades.

As primal as cinema gets.

The 5-Cut Square Edit at the button of this particular sequence of shots is a GOD-TIER piece of editing

A horse struggles to exist

#art #animation #indieanimationday #horse

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Only just now thinking of the “Lion King” as a horrid tangle of lions knotted by the tail.

Screen grab from Rogue One. They've landed miles from their destination and are having to walk.

Screen grab from Foundation. They've landed miles from their destination and are having to walk.

One of main bugbears in sci fi is that they always park their spaceship SO FAR from where they're going. Just park closer!

Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

Something to maybe bookmark for the future, US folks.

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screenshot of a bluesky post, unposted. A round icon then the text "Ozzy on his way to the underworld: "Charon!!!" "

didn't post this incredible joke (that only sort of works) yesterday as despite it being innoffensive it felt 'too soon'. But now it feels slightly too late and I missed whatever the sweet spot was.

South Park holy sh*t

Luigi Mangione

The OceanGate submarine

Orcas

Chris Martin

The four horsemen of CEO fear:

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