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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 3h

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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Asian Cajun Socialist @dissidentelizabeth.bsky.social · 4h

Many years ago, my typewriter crapped out in the middle of a medieval lit paper due at 8 am, so I pulled out my art supplies and did it on parchment in calligraphy with a couple of illustrations. Got an A. Try that with ChatGPT

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly, the sleep-deprived state sometimes produces novel information synthesis. Not saying it's a good strategy, but I've seen it happen.

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Flabberghaster @flabberghaster.bsky.social · 5h

Teachers are generally not assigning homework because they care about an 8th grader's thoughts on the Pelopenisian war. They want you to think about the material. Using AI to write your homework is like calling an uber in a bike riding class: You get from point a to b but missed the point entirely.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 5h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 7h

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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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 5d

"AI is sentient because it mimics our behavior" bro you are a bronze age peasant who thinks your shadow is a demon

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Victor Balestrin @victorbalestrin.bsky.social · 4h

And this classic

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Victor Balestrin @victorbalestrin.bsky.social · 4h

But doctor... I am the editor.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 11h

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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Victor Balestrin @victorbalestrin.bsky.social · 4h

Isn't that the same thing the movie does?

Because he starts "With a Vengeance" just being back in NY, even though he starts 2 saying he had transferred to LA because of Holly.

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Mary Kobayashi @marykoco.bsky.social · 6h

I shouldn't have to press shift to get the colon. Shift should be for the semicolon. Bitch, you are no one's first choice

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 1d

They sell us individualism because we can't defeat them alone.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 17h

Sigourney Weaver - BOTD in 1949

Color photo of Sigourney Weaver kneeling on the floor in a cat-like pose with a huge, somewhat sinister grin on her face.

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ghostavo 👻 @gustabo.bsky.social · 9h

Se a Ana Maria subir no palco também todos os sayajins vivos estarão reunidos de novo

Canal do Rock🤘 @canaldorock.bsky.social · 16h

Supla é convidado para abrir o show de Billy Idol em São Paulo. #Rock🤘 www.wikimetal.com.br/supla-convid...

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Lula @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

A decisão da Câmara de derrubar a medida provisória que corrigia injustiças no sistema tributário não é uma derrota imposta ao governo, mas ao povo brasileiro.

Essa medida reduzia distorções ao cobrar a parte justa de quem ganha e lucra mais. Dos mais ricos.

Impedir essa correção é votar contra o equilíbrio das contas públicas e contra a justiça tributária.

O que está por trás dessa decisão é a aposta de que o país vai arrecadar menos para limitar as políticas públicas e os programas sociais que beneficiam milhões de brasileiros. É jogar contra o Brasil.

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François True-Faux @noonechomsky.bsky.social · 10h

Neto dos buchas que não conseguiram botar no canhão

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 11h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
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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Victor Balestrin @victorbalestrin.bsky.social · 10h

On top of that, the last few sequels paved the way for the last "Exorcist" movie.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10h

I'm going with Hallowe'en, because the later films do every bad thing that a franchise can do: Reiterate the original, add unnecessary backstory, undercut the first film with new mythology, go backwards, leap forwards, retcon, cut all ties to the original, re-establish those ties...Burn 'em all.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 17h

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.