Jeremy Bent

Close, intelligent, in some cases near lifelong friends are starting to talk casually about the use of ChatGPT in their lives or in some cases are clearly getting paid/perks to promote its use and it’s like watching your social circle slowly, and with a big smile on their face, all join Scientology.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Had a similar reaction at the Munchmuseet in Oslo! Incredible artist.

No one’s ever told on themselves harder

🎵YEEEEEAAAAHHHH🎵

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

The problem with ICE is they don't know their judo well, sir

If you can make it past season 3, color me impressed.

YouTube video by Reading D&D Aloud The Ring Knight Honors the Weeping Seer-with Jeremy Bent & Chris McDowall Ep. 71

Old pal @benriggs.bsky.social had me on his podcast to interview Chris McDowall of Mythic Bastionland, a new fave indie ttrpg! We talk about improv, Arthurian myth, and of course, the Higgins Armory Museum.

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Watch:

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It's true: I’m serious about pay what you can. If you're interested in the class, check the link, send me a message and we'll work something out. I want to see you in class!

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Gonna need this butter chicken recipe for research

YouTube video by Ten Two Mitchell & Webb - Lager Beer

Only if it’s the perfect lager beer

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Another brain dead NYT headline about Trump not aiming for unity

First I’m hearing of this?

YouTube video by Cheryl Lynn - Topic Got to Be Real

I'm pretty sure this interpolates the bassline from Cheryl Lynn's "Got To Be Real," but it's got a unique melody on top - pretty fun!

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Whoa, end of an era!

Alt Step 2. OVERRIDE

Similarly, there is zero chance Tesla wasn't on the spectrum

Happy to step down once Maron enters the podcasting teaching space

A reminder my online class that will teach you the fundamentals of home podcast recording and editing starts in just two weeks!

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source??!?!

@justinaclin.com - any ideas?

@popheist.com, if you’re looking to endear yourself to the greater podcast community, has Ed got a pitch for you…

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Olympus has fallen

You can’t even befriend British men these days because of blokes

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

a group of people standing next to each other with the words party on written in white Alt: The Coolest People In The Universe from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, with the main one being played by Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band, saying, “Party On”

Clarence Clemons in Bill & Ted