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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 3h

i think the fundamental disconnect here, and i say this as an engineer without much creative talent, is that a lot of people who don't do creative things regularly (or ever) look at creative output (writing, music, whatever) as a product, and consume and experience it like a baby looking at a mobile

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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.

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah I should've put that "It can only print infinite money for a VERY LONG TIME" bit in the main post.

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 9h

You see, it's ridiculous to paint "only 25 movies" and "just 30 billion dollars" as a failure.

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 9h

The joke here is that these properties have been astronomically profitable and that anyone would want that level of success even if they're tapering off.

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 11h

You think you can just keep printing infinite money forever? FORGET IT! Mega-franchises don't work like that! People get bored! You can ONLY print infinite money for a VERY LONG TIME.

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 11h

Hopefully the diminishing returns of Marvel and Star Wars will teach movie studios that if you oversaturate every stratum of the media landscape, it will ONLY work flawlessly for maybe 10-15 years! You will only make about thirty billion dollars, and that's IT! 25 movies TOPS!!!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 5d

Just heard on the news, it’s happening. (returning thirty-five minutes later to a dozen panic attack replies) sorry I meant the Brazilian Woody Woodpecker movie is getting a U.S. theatrical run. The severely autistic guy I follow on deviantart posted an mspaint drawing of Miss Bianca announcing it.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's gambit is going to blow up in his face when everyone finds out he flew on Earhart's plane too

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 1d

Windows trying to prescribe a particular filing system is how our world got how it is now.

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 2d

I'm mostly fine with getting old, just not the dying sooner part.

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Frightening McQueen @lettuce.bsky.social · Feb 1

Using some of my limited time on this beautiful planet staying informed about some of the stupidest shitheads in history

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 2d

If I could do my life all over again, I would do everything the same, except that I would spend more time making fun of all those people who tried to get into polyphasic sleep.

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ceej @ceej.online · Apr 21

the Wisconsin supper club is about as close as you can get in modern America to experiencing a medieval tavern

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 3d

Part of this nightmare era is the complete, engineered collapse of belief in human creativity and an increasingly desperate belief that nightmarish computer routines will somehow produce new wonders

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 4d

To be clear, I don't even dislike it! I'm Christian myself, so I actually think it's very good when a magic lion is flying around and forgiving sins.

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 4d

They should have had Downton Abbey run for 34 more years so that it could end with the most painfully on-the-nose "The Times They Are A-changing" needle drop in history. Grand finale my ass.

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 4d

I like how they keep trying to make Narnia work for general audiences. This is a Christian fantasy story in which four kids get strongly gendered presents from Santa Claus. It's still in print because of homeschool kids who weren't allowed to read Lord of the Rings.

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 4d

As a Minnesotan, I miss him terribly.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 4d

The “racism against AI” people remind me of people who think there’s discrimination against introverts

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 5d

That makes quite a lot of sense but I can't imagine the distinction means that much when it's like 1/4 teaspoon in like a half-gallon of soup (or especially if it's "to taste")

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 5d

Top 3 salt pet peeves in online recipes:
-Specifying kosher salt when it's going to be dissolved anyway.
-"Salt to taste" at a stage when you can't taste it, like on raw meat.
-Specifying low-sodium soy sauce or broth, and then telling me to add a bunch of salt later.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

this is our cracker barrel moment

the FRIGHTENING marnix @dragom.bsky.social · 6d

WHY DID THEY GENTRIFY THE AUDACITY LOGO

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Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 6d

Unbelievably dorky

Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social · 6d

"the guy ran away, which made me fear for my life."

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