Judith Allen

This one’s for anyone who’s ever worked with a brand before.

(Or seen a technical drawing at any point in their lives)

Rosalind Franklin
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore

It’s by no means a universal thing - depending on the role, a lot of/ the majority of the people you’ll encounter and work most directly with are in it for the love of the form/ storytelling. And collaborating with them is immensely fulfilling.

I’ve seen the same in animation - people who simply cannot read a storyboard animatic (normal 2D boards timed to dialogue, SFX, music) and later want huge story changes. Or refuse to consider story changes before they’ve seen rendered animation.

It’s… hugely dispiriting.

I hate living in the future.

Image of a section of screen saying “Updates are underway. Please keep your computer on.”

Just asked my Windows computer to shut down.

It’s apparently got some stuff it wants to do.

No option to postpone. No notification it was going to do any updates when I shutdown. No indication of how long it’s going to take. It’s just happening.

I had the same thought while reading it in August.

At least the name was changed. In another few years Twitter will (hopefully) be the retro thing that no longer exists but was an entirely different entity from what people (maybe) finally started to call X.

Oh god, I’ve just been reading about what happened in May when they announced they were leaning even MORE heavily into AI.

I was last on the app a year ago and it was already unrecognisable from the experience I’d previously had in around 2016.

eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/n...

Thanks for the 3 month Duolingo pass, Twitch.

I will never use it because they replaced all of the useful community information that used to come up when I got an answer wrong with… nothing.

And the terrible AI phrasing in the English language parts led me to assume the translations were also bad.

People are saying that “no one there had the authority” means that it couldn’t have happened?

In 2025?

So few people seem to account for boobs when doing shirts, and it really limits my options in a lot of cases.

Your attention in this matter is rare and good.

I’d wager that a great deal of the “problem” is not so much a case of people not knowing how to get a job, but the present existence of jobs that are willing to accommodate the needs of prospective workers.

Unfortunately, the previous government insisted that everyone return to their offices post-lockdown, and people with additional requirements (some of whom have requirements CAUSED by COVID) found they no longer had a job they’d been perfectly capable of performing at home.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

“I’m participating, it’s just… really subtle.” - Me, a lot.

Considered doing a Halloween name as Judith AI-len.

Decided it could potentially be interpreted as being supportive of AI rather than a seasonal scary name.

Still, better than my usual “change the second lower-case l to an upper-case I”. Which has obviously never even been noticed.

I hadn’t been previously aware of that list. I am now (and have signed up).

Really hoping the Streisand Effect kicks in on this and other bans they’re reflexively issuing.

Screenshot from The Simpsons- closeup of Sideshow Bob’s face meeting a rake handle. He is grimacing.

UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜

Gonna put this on a sandwich board and wear it on the street while ringing a bell like a town crier:

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations,” he continued.”

The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.

It asks for the first part of your postcode (as well as if you’ve used the ponds), so I think there may be some ranking of importance of response.

I don’t understand how this even started. Aren’t LLMs designed to output the most likely response based on existing data?

How was that ever going to generate new data?

It surely doesn’t even do a useful statistical analysis of the existing data, because its methods are obscured and non-repeatable.

Sure, if you actually read them. And understand them.

Public perception of a thing can be very different to an aficionado’s knowledge of that thing.

I suspect it was used as a marketing term because they had decades of “marketing” already done for them by science fiction.

They threw in their own lies about what the algorithms were capable of, and let that mingle with pre-existing concepts.

They’re in the process. Slowly.

They’ve sort of connected Oxford to Milton Keynes, but not for passengers yet.

eastwestrail.co.uk

Tech bros: our AI can seamlessly replace your actors/ translators/ journalists/ artists.

Actual actors/ translators/ journalists/ artists: you deeply misunderstand the nature of what we do.

Even if I believed that this thing was capable of giving a believable human performance over an entire project (I do not), I can’t see it also being a performance that has responded to director notes. Or blends with other performances. Which makes the whole thing pointless.

(It’s new to me)