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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 24m

Likening generative AI to oil paint during the Renaissance. Absolutely disgraceful.
A24, Jason Blum, now George Miller. Who's next, Sam Raimi?

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 15h

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 57m

There's a village in central Nebraska whose name is spelled C-A-I-R-O. Pronounce it like the Egyptian city? Tourist. Locals pronounce it KAY-roh.
(We don't talk about Norfolk. Even Nebraskans can't agree on how it's pronounced.)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

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

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 1h

Post management is all in on supporting the Olympic bid. Wouldn't want to pass up on the chance to host all those panels and roundtable discussions, I suppose.

TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 2h

I regret to inform you there are more of these on the way.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 13h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 15h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 3h

Between this and A24 launching an AI division, it's been a bad few months for indie horror darlings.

TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 3h

"The consumer does not care if what they're looking at is AI." Tell me you spend more time around venture capitalists and Silicon Valley tech bros than real people without, etc. and so forth. Another mind lost to the fiction of flooding the zone at minimal cost to create maximum profit.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 12h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 4h

"As legalized gambling has spread in the United States, particularly on college campuses, it has outstripped the ability to enforce applicable NCAA rules in some areas."
Ensuring integrity and athlete safety is hard, so we might as well give up and help DraftKings make a few more bucks. Cool.

Pat Forde @bypatforde.bsky.social · 13h

News story on the NCAA allowing athletes to gamble on pro sports. Wagering on college sports still prohibited. bit.ly/4q1MD2o

NCAA to Allow Athletes to Bet on Pro Sports in Major Rule Change

Athletes, coaches and staff will still be prohibited from wagering on college sports as the association polices wagering that directly threatens its product.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

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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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 23h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 1d

Movies with Mikey on Filmjoy. It celebrates the joy in movies and what makes them great, a welcome tonic to the oceans of negativity on YouTube and beyond. Mikey also does some outstanding deep dives that have made me reconsider my stance on some movies. www.youtube.com/@filmjoy

FilmJoy

Love movies again. Movies with Mikey | Deep Dive | You Should See It | Portscenter

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 1d

I was required to return a T-shirt that a marathon organizer insisted on giving me while I covered the race. Meanwhile, the likes of Olivia Nuzzi, Bari Weiss, and David Frum are tapdancing all over journalistic ethics and making out like bandits at the highest levels of the industry. Cool.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 1d

I long for the simpler days of credit default swaps and slurp juices.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh

Anyway, back to toiling

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is a wholesale rejection of the Enlightenment including stuff so basic that we don't even think of it being part of the Enlightenment project--like being polite to people and making social interactions smooth and pleasant.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

Texas GOP candidate
Shelley Luther complains that students can't make fun of transgender children
By Jay Root, Staff Writer
Updated Feb 9, 2022 6:02 a.m.

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 1d

A big stroopwafel (I might be rather snackish just now)

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 1d

I would prefer Congress -- still a coequal branch of government, last I checked -- act like such and use its authority under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution to end said "unfair tax", fixing the issue at its source. But maybe unchecked executive power isn't enough of a "kitchen table" issue.

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 4d

What do people think about giving working class Americans a $2000 tariff relief check for the unfair tax that has driven their grocery and housing prices up?

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, is proposing $2,000 payments to Americans making under $100,000

TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoy the break! And not that you aren't already awash in games, but you'll be back just in time for Bye Sweet Carole.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 2d

right. if you look at the study this is “share of people who read for pleasure *every day*. I love reading and I still don’t fit this study’s qualification because I’m often too tired for sustained attention after work.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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TrooperBari @trooperbari.bsky.social · 2d

"OK, so you think I'm an abomination in the sight of god, but I'm an abomination in the sight of god who thinks your taxes should be lower! Surely we can work together on this noble cause in a spirit of mutual tolerance!"
Not just gleefully selling out but lampshading that very fact. Good job, CBS.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

Built in a lab to appease billionaires

"I know that there are some people in this room who don't believe that my marriage should have been legal," Ms. Weiss told the Federalist Society, an influential
conservative legal group, in 2023. "And that's OK. Because we're all Americans who want lower taxes."

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

my fundamental problem with this time is: im as cynical as the next guy but i really do not want to live in a world where nothing matters and nothing is real. i like to stand on the earth sometimes and feel it solidly beneath me. call me old fashioned. when im sick i want a doctor not joe rogan

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