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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.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I'm Not a Robot Prove your humanity once and for all

neal.fun/not-a-robot/ excellent time to share the Most Normal Captcha …

Turns out building a 1/400 scale model of an airport to make an in depth reproduction of an airplane incident is even MORE complicated than you’d assume…. I’ll talk about planes on this channel one day!!!!!

If things seem very delayed rn - this is why! I am very very late in the production of this video (it’s like 50 minutes long!) and now instead of it coming out this month… it might come out next year?

I’ll start working on something new, but I’ve gotta start all over :/

A part of the next video (which I have been planning since a year ago and working on this whole past month) has proven to be more than I can manage right now. I’m gonna have to shelve the whole video, maybe until next summer :(

My funniest memory of Switzerland was finally finding a restaurant selling pasta for under 40 francs only to find out it was a small plates place

Yeah, from what I heard the rules around specifically trans pilots have changed in the last few months under the new admin. Don't know if they've touched anything else (and hopefully they won't!). Thanks for sharing the articles :)

Yup. Because I’m on hormones they said I needed to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, then I waited 14 months for them to tell me that they changed the rules and now because I have dysphoria I also need to be screened for anxiety 😔

Just got my medical denied AGAIN for being trans :P

Handheld fan is a must-have for parisian trains. Those things get STUFFY

The amount of stuff on here is absolutely wild. 500 magazines, page after page after page of archived pdf articles, posters and timetables and news incidents... I could spend days here

Milwaukee Road Archives 1952 08 28 Three Forks, MT Al Chione Photo Credit must be given

Just discovered an amazing and beautiful archive milwaukeeroadarchives.com/IndexPage.htm

Aw man this Godzilla shirt rocks!!!

Difficulty settings aren’t necessarily to make a game “easier” or “harder” - they’re to make the game the same difficulty for everyone !!

A photo of two 1/400 scale planes; an American Airlines 777-300ER and a Delta Air Lines 737-900ER

Next video is coming along…

I’ve got a fun piece in here about the How to Train Your Dragon BOOKS, which no one ever knows about but are fantastic <3

Professors delay class to avoid competing with silksong

Releasing silksong two days after classes start is gonna tank everyone’s fall grades

New DaVinci update added ten million new things… god bless this software being free <3

Awesome! <3

huge congrats, this is something to be very proud of ! <3

I think it’s similar to animation/live action in movies - some people don’t get that animation is important and adds smth, and remaking the movie in live action isn’t necessarily better (and is often worse)! There’s a lot of disdain for stuff that’s not cutting-edge tech.

This cover art rocks! Is there a version without the logos anywhere ?

really should be no other questions for microsoft published games this week

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

For context the machinery one was only 7100.

A picture of the word count of my next essay, 8845 words.

Uh oh! UH OH! OH NO!

A dark blue bike with a sticker on it. The sticker has an orange corn snake surrounded by orange flowers.

A picture of the same dark blue bike. There is an orange water bottle holder, an orange snake sticker, an orange/pink sticker with Woodstock from Snoopy on it, and an orange sticker that says "read" in bubble letters

A bike bell. It has little drawings of bikes on it and says "Ride You Bicycle, Attract A Female!" "Bicycle" is written in Chinese in the middle.

Stickers on my bike!! Plus a fascinating bell I found.

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France. So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness. There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time. Good luck, and love as always K

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

This is one of my favorite short stories ever. It’s terrible what people did to her