"slop" has quickly gone from meaning "ai-generated content marked by lowest possibly quality" to "I don't like this thing" and I hate it tbh!

get fucked Vegas!!!

so are any of those plague conditions actually happening in DC right now or did we all wishful think it again

Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

if I seem militant about AI it's because a lot of my friends are writers, concept artists, QA people, etc, and they are the ones who are currently having their careers obliterated by that shit. not speculatively. happening right now. I don't see a need to be soft towards ppl who shrug at that

people who are cool with and make allowances for genAI mediocrity while holding unreasonable standards for other humans should be tarred and feathered, wtf is wrong with you

The Amazing Digital Circus and The Backrooms are beating big brands at the box office what it means: despite the power of nostalgia and familiarity, audiences actually do want to see more original stories what executives will see: "YOUTUBE IS HOT! QUICK MAKE A MR BEAST MOVIE"

I encourage anyone interested in film/film history to look up the New Hollywood movement and why there was such a huge shift in how things were done and what kind of films were made and how it created filmmaking as we know it. I think history is repeating!

Seeing the way people have been talking about TADC and Backrooms has convinced me that “lore” is the enemy in storytelling right now, people demand you focus on needless worldbuilding and not just tell a meaningful story with themes and symbols you can apply to life itself.

With Martin Scorsese's 'Absolute Cinema' dead in the water. I propose the superior Willem Defoe alternative.

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

lrp i’ve been watching a ton of movies over the past year and change, old and new Hollywood, foreign films, animated, a bit of everything, and I think the “they don’t make movies for me anymore” is bullshit and always has been

Genuinely don't understand the question. If none of the THOUSANDS of movies made each year, from every different country, do nothing for you, then the movies aren't the problem. They are making movies for you. You just can't be bothered to find them.

live your life in such a way that you would not disappoint Guillermo Del Toro

Half Man is, spiritually, the Wuthering Heights adaptation we deserve that none of the actual adaptations have ever delivered on, imo!

Gee I wonder why women and girls are less inclined to use tools that were popularized via their ability to create fake nude photos of women and girls

Californians, if you haven’t already voted, you should vote Steyer for the primary. Even if you plan on voting for Becerra in the general, vote Steyer now to box out Steve Hilton. Let’s get a Dem/Dem race that’s actually competitive instead of having to deal with Hilton for the next five months.

"Faster, more efficient" = cutting artists and animators "3rd party video models w/ a proprietary model portfolio" = we won't tell you what data we trained off of (likely stolen) A bill in Cali would force AI transparency, but it needs YOUR help! Please sign this petition tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

I started some personal work today and I didn't hurt my arm doing it!!!💪

“Creative breakthroughs happen when visionary storytellers are given access to transformative tools”-- Actually, creative breakthroughs happen when people don't have to drink brown water from data center waste. This is not cool or accessible, this is disingenuous & disappointing.

the Avs had ONE JOB

"Fandom treat creators as an obstacle to the purity of the experience." Man, I have never heard it put better.

The message shouldn't be "taxes are bad," it should be that you should get something for them, it's your money, it shouldn't be going to some rich dipshit's Dr. Claw-ass ballroom or into the pockets of J6 child molesters

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WE OUT HERE IN THE BAY 🌊​ ​ The PWHL is officially headed to San Jose!​ ➡️ pwhlsanjose.com

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

This one took a while to write. Put out an essay about the links between fandom and consumerism, and its effect on how we interpret fiction. Hope y'all enjoy!

I need the San Jose PWHL team to have good colors

retraining myself to draw WITHOUT holding my pen like I’m trying to break in half

Fork found in kitchen!! FORK FOUND IN MOTHERFUCKING KITCHEN!!!

yes. correct.

“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet

turns out the key to not making my elbow explode in pain is to not clench my shoulder up by my goddamn ears when I draw, whoda guessed

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

A Knight’s Tale was released on this day 25 years ago ⚔️

one of my favorite coworkers is leaving my work and I’m really sad about it. she’s my friend outside of work so I’ll still see her now and then but man 🥺

CALIFORNIANS fill this out and let Newsom know AI is garbage! Be respectful and measured and honest about how much this stuff fucking sucks <3

3 rounds on OT on this PWHL game 🫩

Share this so everyone knows.

happy may the 4th rebleb somewhere in the galaxy these two are causing problems on purpose and there's nothing anyone can do about it 💜

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I’m a newbie to caring about sports and the thing i didn’t realize is that there’s so much of them happening constantly (I’m deep in PWHL playoffs )

EVERYTHING WENT REALLY WELL, IM GONNA SLEEP FOR A WEEK

I'm exhausted from work so Too Wong Foo was a 'in case of emergency break glass' watch because sometimes you just want to feel like things can be good!!!

"I only use AI for the concept art and prototyping" OH, so only the most basic and fundamental parts, the parts that will literally determine the direction of everything else, just THOSE parts, cool, gotcha

Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and he’s the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag

Eliza McLamb had an apt analogy abt modern fandoms: Fans no longer treat creators as creators. Fans treat creators like stock options they’ve invested in; like they’re part owners of a creator’s work just by *being fans*, and therefore get a say in what creators make/how they act. And it sucks.