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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 2h

if you hear a creative or a creative-adjacent person say something along the lines of “whatever you think about AI, it’s here to stay” they probably just got pAId

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 2h

I'm a guy answering support emails on my phone in the bleachers at my kid's swimming lesson. Surely they can have a bleacher guy, too.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 2h

The lengths to which multi-trillion-dollar companies go to prevent you from getting any actual direct support help is staggering.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 3h

There is a new mobile app coming; it just isn't released yet. The existing Android app still "works", if you have it. It just isn't available for new downloads/purchases. The new mobile app will be fully compatible with Fade In Access, as well.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 3h

Yeah, it's being retired, so not available for new downloads. Compared to what's coming it's not very good, and both Dropbox and Google Drive have forced technical changes that make ongoing maintenance, etc. untenable. Existing users should? still be able to get it from their existing store list.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 3h

That also means Fade In Access is available to the public at www.fadeinpro.com/access.

Fade In @fadeinpro.com · Jun 10

u up?

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 3h

You can Help > Check For Updates or download the latest from your personalized download link. The Mac App Store version should be available in fairly short order.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 3h

Note: This is a major release. It is expected to be entirely stable, but for best practice it is recommended to be cautious about updating if you are at a critical point, such as in production or close to it.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 3h

Fade In version 5 is available (finally). www.fadeinpro.com/page.pl?cont...

This release:

- Integration of Fade In Access for cloud file storage
- Added notes and bookmarks to the Navigator
- Large icons option in User Interface preferences
- Better interface for managing dictionaries and templates
- Improved dark mode support
- Double-click to edit header/footer
- Right-click on element style in Format panel to modify
- Editing of unlocked scene/element numbers
- Added word count target to This Session
- Better revision set management
- Improved pasting from HTML sources
- Much faster document importing
- Make it possible to print only the title page, if desired
- Smarter font substitution algorithm
- Improved "normal" font spacing
- Improved importing of arbitrarily numbered scenes/elements (from FDX, etc.)
- Fixed a couple of dragging issues in the Navigator
- Addressed a couple of Table Read bugs
- Find panel shortcut populates the current selection
- Added Text Report to production reports
- Fixed an issue with Avid Script-Based Editing .txt export and centered headers
- Fixed a potential crash when extracting pages
- Break on sentences wasn't properly breaking on soft returns
- Double quotes were not being encoded properly in CSV output
- Fixed a potential resource-loading issue for .fadein files
- Lots of other fixes, tweaks, and improvements
- Mac - Three-finger tap lookup, long-press accents, and better international keyboard handling
- Linux - Renamed packages from amd64 to x86_64

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 4h

PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW: What are you talking about? I ask ChatGPT all the time, and it's not wrong!

PEOPLE WHO KNOW: ...

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 5h

Listen to me very carefully: I will never, *never*, "ask Gemini."

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 7h

If you accidentally post AI slop and are told “hey that’s AI” the correct answer is to go “aw shit I didn’t know” and delete it. Not “oh oops oh well, watcha gonna do” and keep it up because it’s giving you engagement. Stop it.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 1d

It's like 20 degrees out and I've seen two separate people in parkas with the hood up and, you poor souls, you're not going to make it

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 1d

There is no secure place on the internet. None. Everything gets hacked eventually. The fact that sensitive user data is required and stored makes this sort of thing inevitable. The fact that more and more of it is being required and stored will make this sort of thing more frequent in the future.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 1d

I'd like to say that's the most nostalgic a crime scene's ever made me but

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 1d

Computers never saved anybody any time.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

I have to use my brain for dumb shit every single day, when I get a chance to use it creatively it literally feels like slipping into a warm bath

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 1d

A little popup in the form of a Bluesky button that asks "Now are you sure you reeeally want to post that?" is all the "AI" I need.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 2d

Of course the actual story does not come anywhere close to living up to the headline, and I have to admit I'm a little disappointed

Creatures buried in soil for life in Toronto waterfront

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 2d

If you're using "AI" to help you write "your novel" then it's not "your novel" anymore is it

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 2d

When I see someone who Should Know Better talking about how we must embrace "AI" as it is "inevitable" or "here to stay" and that its use must be "ethical" it is as clear a sign as any that they are ignorant of how the technology works (and also presumably the legal and creative implications).

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

screenshot from The Insider - Russell Crowe's Jeffrey Wigand seen from behind in a white collared shirt and gray wig, standing slightly off-center (on the right side of the frame) in his dark hotel room. caption for Pacino's Lowell Bergman (in voiceover) reads, "I'm running out of heroes, man"

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 3d

Imagine the pies you could put on that windowsill.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 3d

In case you were wondering why Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are out there ceaselessly promoting how "AI" is the fuuuture

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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