lol someone musta told him -- hi mutuals

i was literally telling people he wanted to do the patton thing

Hundreds of generals and admirals had to fly in from all over the world so Pete Kegseth can live out his Patton fantasies.

seems legit

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw:

If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

I keep telling youngins that Indie Animation stretches further back beyond the last 10 years.

Sesame Street, PBS were so impactful to culture. We need government funded outlets to make up for all the ways corporations fail us by stealing, commodifying and cheapening art.

Dude thinks he can nudge our mutuals towards Schmitt but, for his own sake, keep em shy of Evola.
There's a slur for that, but it's not mine to use.

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The internet has long had this problem where people who badly need help for paranoid schizophrenia etc can instead find a group that's like "we believe you, you ARE being gang-stalked, there IS a radio in your walls, that voice IS a real ghost"
But instead of fixing that, now we've *automated* it

I dunno man I've heard some say that our civilisation should forget any lessons we might have learned since the Kaiserreich, wonder what that's all about

11/ You're sure you're fighting against Big IP by not working with a human visual artist, and having some technocrat's pattern-copying engine spit out your drop-shipped tat.

10/ They're doing it on each other's projects every day. But you chose the Content Faucet instead. You helped cut the humans out of the bottom part -- the creative labour -- while strengthening the market presence of the top part -- the ownership. But ...

9/ And yeah, all the platforms are evil. But you're working them. You're monetised. You're selling merch! And no artist is gonna begrudge you that, in this day and age. Fuck it, get paid. But like ... someone could draw you up a shirt. Compose a tune. Animate some visuals ...

8/ There couldn't be anything less democratised or less subversive than having Sam Altman's GPU arcology spit out for you "Something recognisably like that song I want to use, but not legally actionable" ...

7/ You're not breaking down Big IP. Your AI image generator is a *platform*, it's owned by a zillionaire oligarch, it burns countless megawatts and was trained on a billion billion hours of uncompensated imagination ...

6/ So amid this mess of artists you see working on each other's content, it's disappointing when one you otherwise respect opts to have Skynet do a chunk of their visuals instead of working with a human being ...

5/ Because artists like to see each other get paid. You might do some free work for a friend, if you REALLY like their project, but ... nobody who makes shit with their hands and mind ever *asks* for a "friend price", much less for work on spec ...

4/ And you'll notice that independent artists, even pretty broke ones, continue to collaborate even when there's not a ton of money at stake. The small youtube channel hiring a musician, an animator, a voice actor ...

3/ You notice they shut uo about it pretty quick? They don't care. They stand to make more than they lose, by owning a Content Faucet that does not require the cost of human labour ...

2/ It's true there were about five seconds where it looked like the owners of major media franchises might try and weaponise IP law against AI harvesting, but ...

1/ I'm still sure about what I called the two dumbest takes on AI, but now I figure there's a solid third: the idea that using generative AI means you're striking some kind of proletarian blow against Big IP ...

trying to imagine telling the alex jones listeners a decade ago "the president will demand everyone carries a microchip called a "REAL ID" and will make databases of your bio-data and every one of you would gladly kill your family for him if he asked"

4/ "No there won't be any The Camps, you're being alarmist, the adults in the room don't believe such things."
...
"Well actually The Camps are totally reasonable, you're being alarmist, the adults in the room etc"

3/ Instead, the people I've had that kind of conversation with tend to agree in the moment, but then retcon their personal Rubicon out of significance later on:

2/ And I've said for a few months that a big sign will be when the phrase The Camps goes from an abstract concept to a specific real thing and we all know exactly which ones that refers to.

1/ I used to have hope in the idea (see Innuendo Studios) that you could mark a kind of Rubicon and take note, through all the chaos, when we've crossed it. Then you'd have an objective measure of whether you were crazy or if things were really going where you thought.

internally: "i've read more 1000-pagers than you've had hot meals, boss ..."

I wanna know how this lands with people who don't animate because you could look at this and think the action's fairly simple.
But it's technically *bonkers* -- animating in this perspective and keeping the model insanely tight in three dimensions. This would break me.