Tyler Olsen
@tyolsen.bsky.social
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Senior Editor at The Tyee. Reporter. Chainsaw + dekes aficionado. 'Ain't you had enough of this stuff?'
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tyolsen.bsky.social
The grammar isn't good enough for it to be AI, I'm pretty sure.
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Even if it is "good enough" it will never be good enough. There is a reason people don't line up to see perfect copies of the Mona Lisa. Music tribute bands can make a living. Lip syncing is fine if you can get away with it. But there's limited economic value in processed shit.
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I think pretty soon, we'll get to a point where photography will market itself as real and maybe label photos as such. That will seem icky at first, but the marketing will work.

People like it when performers actually sing at a concert and don't lip sync. There's real value there.
tyolsen.bsky.social
I get it. The other thing, though, is you're not only selling photos as a wedding photographer. It's also the memory of being there, having your photo taken, and the experience. AI just cannot recreate that. People will think it can. And they'll lose out.
tyolsen.bsky.social
maybe. But even lowbrow art are works of invention. It's easy to think "I'll use AI to create ads!" But when all ads start to be created by AI, they become pretty much worthless, since the idea is to standout, and the AI process is anathema to that. That's my thinking at least
tyolsen.bsky.social
I guess. But still. David Simon is not someone who I would ever imagine to be a keen embracer of brand new technology.
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The other part is these folks don't really understand jobs that require creating something completely new. A piece of good art is an invention, not a product.

AI is a helicopter today.

Art is a helicopter in the time of Leonardo da Vinci.
elucidating.extradimensional.space
I see this a lot and I think a lot of folks don't understand the idea of, you know, liking what you do or enjoying your job.

I don't use AI for work because I love it. I use it for parts where I feel like I'm forced to in order to keep up.
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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elucidating.extradimensional.space
I see this a lot and I think a lot of folks don't understand the idea of, you know, liking what you do or enjoying your job.

I don't use AI for work because I love it. I use it for parts where I feel like I'm forced to in order to keep up.
junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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.
tyolsen.bsky.social
Look, I'm sympathetic to interviewers but man, you've got to have never watched The Wire or read any David Simon interaction to imagine a more AI-positive response than this.
junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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.
tyolsen.bsky.social
this is like deciding whether to buckle your seatbelt for a 30-second drive just to shut up the annoying beeping.
tyolsen.bsky.social
for instance, the circumstance you describe - the police cost squabbles, are already pretty well covered. See 90(k)
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yeah, I'd worry more if the door wasn't already wide freaking open. It's already the wide in camera west out there.
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(I agree that this, like every other excuse for a closed meeting, is probably ripe for abuse.)
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And, sorry, we probably aren't talking about between municipalities, but between municipalities and regional districts.

So maybe something like when archeological data is related to who pays certain costs related to, say, flood management?
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I agree, but my reading here is that they are saying closed meetings should be required when culturally sensitive info from a FN could be discosed as part of negotiations between municipalities. So not policing. I think it's about archaeological sites.
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Just incredibly frustrating for rich people and organizations to complain about media problems when basically 90% of media problems stem from a total lack of money.
tyolsen.bsky.social
1. Sure, whatever.
2. The Catholic Church is one of the wealthiest institutions in the world. I personally don't necessarily think we'd be better off if it controlled or financed more media. But if the pope thinks media needs to be better, he has the resources to make that happen.
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I'm reading East of Eden and most of it is generally fine but there's one chapter that is..... yiiiiikes
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so many factors, all pointing in the same direction.
(Another would be time - in a world where parents spend more time with kids, a parent reaches maximum kid capacity *a lot* quicker than when we were kids.)
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The data may not back it, but my take is not that kids are particularly unpopular but that the financial disincentives for having more than two kids (bigger car / house) are reducing the number of non-religious three-kid+ families we need to balance out the inevitable non-kid-havers.
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alexcosh.bsky.social
I've always hated that the phrase "FOI nerd" exists. The whole principle of freedom of information is that the information belongs to everyone, the public. You should not require specialist knowledge the navigate the process. But the reality is you do, and it's so clearly that way by design.
alexcosh.bsky.social
If I had filed a complaint within the 60-day limit, I probably would have gotten this (junk) sooner. The fact is the formal complaint process is literally the only way you got documents from most federal institutions.
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