Sorry, I'm a bit behind today. I got caught up reading an oral history of BlackWulf, the 90s Marvel Series about a subterranean kingdom that lasted ten issues and no one really liked.
You know, typical stuff.
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I was there for the rise of the internet and smart phones, and they absolutely sold themselves. People took one look and got excited. There was no point, years into the smart phone, where companies were having to be like "you may not like the iPhone but it's here to stay so get used to it"
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Yesterday, I got an email congratulating me for reaching a second round of interviews
30 minutes later, I received a retraction; "they weren't finished reviewing all the candidates yet"
This morning, I received the standard "you're not the one" email from them.
It's a real rollercoaster today.
This whole thread is great and begs the question:
If I built a huge audience on my own, why would I ever sell to a big streamer with a smaller one?
If you ask me, the way out is it stop and reconsider the old ways; like weekly, non-event shows that come out on a consistent basis.
Ironically it’s what most successful YouTube channels do that has helped them gain the audience.
between this and the whole AI tech bro peter thiel stuff there is just a lot more antichrist discourse than i could ever have imagined tbh
I had to take a corporate personality assessment test to be considered to be an editor for a pet cleaning company. And nothing on the test was about the process, addressing notes, or anything related to editing.
What are we even doing anymore?
no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend
Right there with you buddy. It SUCKS
I’m a big fan of those (essentially) Sony Blu-ray players. I had a PS3 for 15 years that did a great job making 95% of my DVDs look great.
I really don't understand all the hate for the new Mario movie. it ain't Shakespeare, but I've definitely seen way way worse.
Also, dare I say, I think it's a bit better than the first one.
They can pry the Oxford comma from my cold dead hands
I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
In a November conversation at the Urban Consulate in Detroit, the great writer and thinker Tressie McMillan Cottom was asked by host Orlando P. Bailey, “Do you have a daring idea for us to ponder and sit with for our collective future?” McMillan Cottom replied with this: “When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled. I think that this promise of an artificial intelligent future is really just a collective anxiety that very wealthy, powerful people have about how well they’re gonna be able to control us in the future. If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled—AI is already here, the end is already here—then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” Today, I refuse.
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Aliens! Cartoons! Psychic dogs! Devil cults! What’s not to like this week?
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
At the dentist with the kid getting her first more-than-a-cleaning procedure. It’s pretty rough out here for everyone
I know everyone hates April Fools on the internet now, but I still miss Think Geek and their fake products.
They want to police our genitalia and run tests on our bodies to “prove” we are women, at which point they will still deny it. This is why the only feminism is trans-inclusive and why transphobia and anti-trans discrimination should be a top political priority.
Mostly bangers this week, as it should be.
An explosively exceptional sequel, a supremely satisfying spiritual sequel, a future cult classic, and Over the Moon which sucked.
I recommend all the good ones!
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
My youtube has been bombarded by Afeela ads for a solid year and you're telling me they're shutting down before even going into production!?! All this time these dumb fucking cars didn't even exist!?!
What is going on!
Kinda like The Avengers.
It’s wild, in our modern context, to think about how revolutionary the idea of putting all the heavy hitters on the Justice League was.
It's weird being older.
The obvious solution to the TSA lines is to abolish it. We did without that security theater for ages. It's been demonstrated OVER AND OVER to do nothing. It just funnels more money to bullshit.
ICE and TSA were created wholecloth in 2003 and 2001 respectively.
The first comic I ever bought was by Sam Kieth (and Peter David). It was weird, exciting, and hooked me for life. Also, it made me think that Cyber was a way bigger deal than he was.
RIP to a true original.
You laugh, but they made a movie out of this very phenomenon.
If she fits, she sits. #caturday
That’s some real ‘The Stars my Destination’ shit. Hopefully he ends up on a deep space asteroid.