J. Mackenzie Graham

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patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors

What if the Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer had a joke or a moment of cleverness instead of just… gameplay footage?

Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things that you like!

1. Calvin & Hobbes
2. Zombie movies
3. JRPGs
4. My Corgi
5. Skateboarding
6. Street Art
7. Vinyl Records
8. Ramen Noodles
9. A well-knit sweater
10. That electric feeling in the air every autumn.

HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy

(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

Maxwell wanted a pardon.

Trump declined.

Maxwell released the birthday card to the WSJ as a shot across the bow.

Trump sent his lawyer to negotiate. She told the lawyer about the dirt she had.

She was moved to Club Fed, given a puppy and told to stand by for the pardon.

This day — shortly after the various world festivals of churning seasons and death — is an opportunity to remember that we too will die.

And to ask ourselves:

What are we fighting for?

The poppy poem’s less rehearsed verse goes:

“Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep…”

This doesn’t mean ‘Join the navy!’ it means ‘don’t let our deaths be in vain.’

The allies were right to step in during during the world wars. They were fighting nationalism, expansionism, manifest destiny, and ethnic cleansing.

But there is no “just war”, and now militaries and governments have invented all kinds of justifications for the military industrial complex.

The holiday was created after WWI, which at the time was called “The Great War” because no one thought there would ever be another war so devastating.

They were wrong.

And they’ve been wrong ever since.

Just a picture of a skull piggy bank in my hand with pink lighting.

Don’t forget!

Remembrance Day is for honouring fallen soldiers and the sacrifices made in order to fight facism.

It’s not a blanket “support our troops” day.

It is a day — no matter what conservatives or military tell you — to reflect on war as a part of global politics.

6 panel comic P1: An impossibly buff Garfield knockoff (with distressingly visible nipples) towers over Jon, who is cat-sized, and lying on all fours on a table surface. P2: Same, only now Buffield points at Jon with their right hand, and reaches for him with their left. They boom: "HUMAN" P3: Brofield lays their left hand on Jon's back with such force, the latter begins to deform. Masculinifield demands: "I PET YOU. INITIATE THAT SOUND WHICH PLEASES ME SO" P4: Crushing Jon even further, The Garf lowers their head menacingly to stare at their quarry. P5: Closeup on a panicked looking and sweating Jon, as he starts shakily singing the chorus from "Hero" by Chad Kroeger. P6: As Jon continues belting out that absolute tune from off-panel, we go to a closeup of Garry Field, their face dramatically underlit. They let out a satisfied "bueno"

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. QT of @avidreader1000 Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Really not into this new trend of using super wide lenses in film. Superman and Frankenstein are great, but they look fish-eyed.

Try our AI assistant to help with this workflow! It’s like magic!

(But also, about a tenth of its output is what we’re calling ‘oopsie doodles’ so instead of writing something you know is true, you’ll have to comb back through pages of bespoke lorem ipsum to double check every detail.)

It makes me really angry how Remembrance Day has been turned into a Support Troops Day.

It’s supposed to be a Never Again Day.

photo of vince gilligan with a quote from variety: "AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit." - Vince Gilligan on why he hates AI

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I get that it’s convenient to not leave your house, and I get that COVID only worsened that…

…but it is actually wild that Amazon has succeeded off the idea of “buy today, get it tomorrow”, when I can just go down the street and have it in fifteen minutes.

Back in ‘03 I was moots with an artist who was doing an entire long-form story webcomic in the style of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Accurate poses and everything.

The creativity you could find in the pre-algorithm internet was truly amazing.

Losing that culture is a modern library of Alexandria.

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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Loved it. Had a great spooky time and the film was just gorgeous.

I loved the heros makeup and all the costuming, and that super16 was 👌

More movie monsters should be puppets. The Vourdalak was more unsettling than Nosferatu. Gave big téléfrancais Anana vibes.

Poster for The Vourdalak. A French noble from the 1800s with a wig and powdered face looks at the camera while a ghoul bites his neck.

Our 31 for 31 was delayed a week due to a wedding so we’re carrying on the Halloween vibes until further notice.

Tonight’s film, Le Vourdalak (2023)

Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?” Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”

Would love to see Canadian leadership inspire for once.

Certainly at least a charming human being, which is what the user would statistically most want to speak with?

“Sure, but—“

So instead of guessing the end of a sentence, isn’t this LLM just guessing the end of the conversation?

“…Singularity.”

And aren’t there billions of jokes within the LLM, such that you could never reasonably attribute them to their original writers?

“Yes.” (Proudly smiling)

So wouldn’t the predictive algorithm just take a joke and input it there because statistically, a human being probably would?

“Yea—“

“What we’ve created is a language model that predicts and displays the most likely expected result.”

So it’s fancy autocorrect.

“No! Look! It made a joke!”

But isn’t a joke an appropriate thing to put into a conversation?

“…Yes”

Thanks for the help.

Currently looking for childcare options and it’s not great.

What does this mean? Are they cutting the affordable childcare thing Trudeau instated?

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim