Lot of people being real defeatist about LLM news today and acting like you lost when you can just put that energy to mocking companies and organisations that use any kind of genAI and shame the fuck out of them. They hate that and it’s easy to do. Try inventing more words for them to ban!!

Actual good news!!

Finished ’King Lear’. Lots of great stuff in there, of course, but this bit hit me especially hard:

“Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks.
Arm it in rags, a pygmy’s straw does pierce it."

No, it’d be too much work for me, but I’m fine with others reuploading them where they please, especially to Internet Archive.

There’s always Internet Archive.

I’ll be privating the videos on that account too.

I have a couple for different purposes but the one anyone cares about is WalrusGuy.

I'm proud of a lot of what I've made over the years, I'm neutral toward much of it, and I'm ashamed of some of it. I hope I've never hurt anyone. My intention isn't to memoryhole anything, though, even the parts I regret. Any future uploads I make will be on here, Newgrounds, Internet Archive, etc.

After much thought, sorrowfully, I will soon be privating all my YouTube uploads. This heads-up is in case anyone wants to back any or all of them up. I want no further involvement with YouTube unless they cease shoving AI "features" on creators and users. Thank you to everyone who's enjoyed my work

The play is full of delicious surrealist dialogue and banter. The play evolved over and over again, eventually becoming the meh Bat Out of Hell: The Musical. it's The Dream Engine I consider the most complete version. So much was gutted for Bat, including most of the "mirrors" monologue, my favorite

I don't Steinmanpost much though I'm a big fan of Jim's work, but I'm gonna run a bit with The Dream Engine, a musical he did for college in the 1960s. He said shortly before his death that the opening song was more relevant now than ever. Full lyrics at jimsteinman.fandom.com/wiki/Come_in...

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.

We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

In fact, I worry that I came off as rude during the encounter. I asked what he thought of the Kimba the White Lion connection and he groaned, obviously having gotten that question too many times.

When Tony Bancroft asked me years ago what my favorite Disney movie was, I said "I think Snow White is still the most impressive taken in its historical context," and that's probably true, but I'd rather watch Pinocchio or The Lion King. I wish I had complimented more of the stuff that he worked on.

And here's a list just of anime guaranteed to make me CRY

Catnapped!
Crayon Shin-chan: The Adult Empire Strikes Back
Crayon Shin-chan: The Battle of the Warring States
Junkers Come Here
[TITLE WITHHELD]
Minky Momo S2 final arc
Only Yesterday
Ringing Bell
Space Warrior Baldios (movie)
Windaria

He had a near ass assperience. His whole ass assed before his ass.

Ninja slice so quick and clean that the victim continues living a full life and just before dying of old age, he slides apart

The xenophobic perversion of history is SO bad in The King and I that I considered leaving it off and including maybe The Threepenny Opera or The Music Man instead, but King Mongkut is such an especially compelling character to me.

’Cause I feel like it, have 10 stage musicals too

The Dream Engine
Jesus Christ Superstar
The King and I*
The Last Sweet Days of Isaac
Little Shop of Horrors
The Mikado*
The Pirates of Penzance
Starmania
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
Whistle Down the Wind

*Xenophobic by modern standards though

Good grief, please annoy the absolute hell out of your congresscritters and do not let them have a moment's rest until they nuke this bill from orbit.

Gender dysphoria and trans folks' existence are not sexually explicit in the slightest, and nothing good will happen if that gets written into law.

Like honestly it has never ever in the history of anything been easier to make things, easier to distro things, and easier to consume things outside of the corporate giants with one huge exception: We've been trained that it should all be free.

The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, but the boot doesn't even have an actual person's foot in it.

AI won't ever help bring about egalitarian paradise, it'll just usher in more and more authoritarianism. Amazon doesn't let delivery drivers sing and uses AI to make sure their mouths don't move while they're driving. The Panda Express near my house uses AI to take orders. No excuse for any of this.

only way to describe what this is as intentional and targeted evil. they want to make it impossible for trans people to live. this is genocidal

And Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's review of 'Mufasa' contains this paragraph calling the plot of the original 'Lion King' rudimentary. I consider it Disney's most literate "original" movie! Did Vishnevetsky miss all the stuff about learning from and owning up to past mistakes? The theme was clear as day!

I don't think something needs to be an all-time-masterpiece to be worthwhile. Self-expression is its own reward. But nice aesthetic and literate dialogue (when dialogue is present) are part of what I want to express. I'm OK with stylish minimalism, though, as it's in service of something substantial

It's unfair to weigh myself against Shakespeare but I'm reading 'King Lear' & now I feel like so many of my concepts that I'd considered cool are trifles.

It'd be one thing to churn toons out to make money, which I need, but animation takes time & effort to have anything stimulating about it at all