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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 5h

Give me pointy $2-3M games showcasing a strong creator's POV over yet another super sanitized $100M FPS any day of the week.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 8h

if you're not where you want to be as an artist or entertainer and didn't come from money or an industry family try to remember that it was never an even playing field to begin with and you're probably doing great considering

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

This is probably a cold take, but the Akira Slide is in the Wilhelm Scream territory of References So Overdone They Don't Mean Shit Anymore

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

Up there with the Brass Eye special for sure - but goofing on a new era of hyperdramatic documentary. Weirdly it kinda picks up where AMERICAN VANDAL left off too, stylistically at least. I laughed!

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.

Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

Today, we go into tech on Hansol Jung's WOLF PLAY. What a delight it's been rehearsing this beautiful, hilarious, moving little play, and what a nightmare* it's about to be coordinating hundreds of lighting and sound cues, prop choreography, running water, and more. Theatre!

* affectionate

Three actors and a puppet rehearsing a theatre show (specifically, WOLF PLAY by Hansol Jung)

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Jones tried to warn us about this

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

You know what they really look for in Nobel Peace Prize laureates, being a sore loser

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

How many cities will Trump attempt to raze in his I Didn't Win The Nobel Peace Prize tantrum

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

It is so very very easy to forget that most people are, essentially, basic bitches (gender neutral though still pejorative)

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

[they reply "lmao" and do not riff]

Okay, I guess we done here

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

That was my take as well. If you can't keep up you don't get to run with me

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 1d

I once found myself doing a rough calculation of the volume (by weight) of flies that could fit in a standard city council organics bin within a few minutes of starting a dating app conversation.

They found it very funny but the conversation ended pretty quickly

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 2d

Todd has always been a terrific VFX communicator (as well as artist), and boy it's nice to see him get a big Vanity Fair feature to talk about his work with characteristic enthusiasm, authority, and humour.

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 4d

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
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ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

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SUEDE DIED TEN YEARS AGO @suede.bsky.social · 2d

The plagiarism is bad.

The job-taking is bad.

But what surprises me is so many filmmakers & actors - who've always been at the forefront of environmental efforts INCLUDING George "Do not, my friends, become addicted to water" Miller - just seem to have missed that AI IS BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 3d

Pretty much any Māori word, which also identifies locals who are racists

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, but I was able to make this sic video of Tupac rapping with Michael Jackson, so really it's worth it.

US electricity price by year showing stead rate and then exploding in 2022.

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 3d

God, the scathing-ass articles I would write about AI if Birth.Movies.Death was still around

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 3d

Even more miserable than those on the poster: Chloë Sevigny

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 4d

Playing through LIES OF P and have reached the inevitable point at which I start wearying of any Soulslike: the point at which the word "swamp" appears onscreen

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 4d

You don’t need AI; AI is not “inevitable.” That’s a lie being fed to you by companies who are going to lose a fuckton of money if they don’t convince you that AI is something you can’t live without.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 4d

Very excited to see how this compares to the Brass Eye special

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

Folks, it's happening.

We're releasing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile this Thursday at 7 p.m.

Mark your calendars. Get excited to know even less about Jeffrey Epstein.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 5d

"Truthiness" was fucking satire guys

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Andrew Todd @andrewtodd.co.nz · 5d

Guys, one of these is obviously Photoshopped, using source material *from one of the other images*. You can't denounce misinformation when your opponents use it and credulously share it when it matches your views (and, not for nothing, gets you social engagement). I mean, you CAN, but not credibly.

The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 5d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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