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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 19h

I wrote an episode of television in 18 hours, taking into consideration actor availability, daylight shooting hours, standing sets, turnaround times, unit moves, weather cover, budget shortfalls, oh and block shooting with another episode which had already started prep. GenAI can gargle my balls.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 21h

And a cheap betrayal at that.

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 3d

If anyone in your life doesn’t get the big deal of AI in movies or art, ask them if they would watch an AI football game or AI tennis match and if not, why not?

It will get them using their thinking-meat.

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 3d

And Durham knows a thing or two about forcing a loser case

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

NEW: "No career prosecutor was willing to present the case to a grand jury on Halligan's behalf." lol WONDER WHY! abcnews.go.com/US/special-c...

Ex-special counsel John Durham undercut case against James Comey in interview with prosecutors: Sources

John Durham, who investigated the Russia probe, told prosecutors probing James Comey that had been unable to uncover evidence supporting charges against him, sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 4d

I bet these two geniuses didn’t need the college loan forgiveness when they were recruited.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 4d

The admiration, the bat flip, the zoom to Fried 🫡

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

“All of this feels ridiculous because that’s exactly what it is. But the larger goal is to inure you to the strangeness of it all so that when these products — be they movies, shows, or TikToks — finally come to market, your reaction is ‘Sure, why not?’”

Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop

The point is to normalize generative AI in your mind.

www.theverge.com

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 7d

The question I’m asking is when will she be put in charge of CBS News?

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 7d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

Tilly Norwood Is Expensive, Even for Hollywood

The “synthetic actress” may be cheaper to cast than Leonardo DiCaprio, but AI’s footprint carries major economic and environmental costs.

bloom.bg

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 7d

So another shitty condo with a room in the basement to house the books he didn’t finish coloring.

Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 7d

The property Donald Trump’s foundation got from the state for free is a developer’s dream, zoning experts said.

What’s next for Trump’s Miami high-rise presidential library?

The property Donald Trump’s foundation got from the state for free is a developer’s dream, zoning experts said.

bit.ly

Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve been using @fadeinpro.com for over a decade on seven different computers and it never crashed once. Screw FD

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 7d

When did flat mid-grey become the goto color for new cars? Slap some Helvetica on that shit and we are in 80s Berlin

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 7d

Burr should do Mandel’s baby routine from the 80s if he really wants to infantilize himself for money

Howie Manuel’s baby routine from the 80s

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 7d

The majority of Americans don’t give a shit enough to vote

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

Americans have less faith in the ability of the country’s political system to solve problems than they had five years ago, with a large majority now believing that the U.S. is incapable of overcoming its deep divisions, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena University. nyti.ms/476StrS

A line graph titled "Most Americans Think the Country's Divisions Cannot Be Overcome, Poll Says." It shows 64% of respondents saying that America's political system is too politically divided to solve the nation's problems, and 33% saying the system can still address the nation's problems.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 8d

Color Out of Space is a hidden gem

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 9d

I consider whoring a state of mind, not an occupation

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 9d

What's the word... that word describing this... what was that word again? Oh yeah...

Whores

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

www.theguardian.com

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 9d

That is the sound of soul searching.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals!

Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 9d

This entire opinion is a barn-burner and pulls no punches. It will be prominent in future legal and history texts, assuming those still exist. It is worth reading. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 9d

I guarantee the brass in that room hate his fucking guts.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 11d

Kiefer Sutherland is waiting by the red phone, hopping from foot to foot.

Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 11d

The president and our generals from all over the world being in one meeting seems like the cold open to an ABC show where something goes wrong.

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Wil Zmakula 🧛‍♂️ @wilzmak.bsky.social · 11d

Watching DeChambeau beshit himself on the golf course is fun. If the Jays take the AL, my sports day will be complete