If the machinery the Luddites opposed had also been based entirely on stolen work that would've been pretty high up on the list, too, I suspect

Sure a lot of "vibe-coded" browser-based screenwriting apps popping up. As someone who's kinda done it, you know what the easiest part of developing screenwriting software is? Developing it. The hard part is all the rest.

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

And yet we continue to put these men on stages and herald them as geniuses, solely because they've managed to engineer massive paydays for themselves while laying waste to businesses and entire industries that took decades to be developed.

"...The Aristocrats!"

NASA's CAPCOM livefeed right now is basically a cookie-cam where you can keep track of the dwindling number left on the plate.

Time to move up my Polymarket bet for the first person to get shot on the Moon

Without the massive amounts of stolen creative work that allow them to actually do anything, "AI" models have no value. Without the "AI" models, all that creative work still has tremendous value.

What if all the richest people in the world were reading sweeping social novels of the late 19th/early 20th century instead of Tolkien

In Toronto, around the corner from where I used to live, and where the first scribbled notes about Fade In were written one night at a neighbourhood pub, clearly the geographical beating heart of cinema.

No matter how storied your career, how full your awards shelf, if you use "AI" to make something you are using the stolen creative work of other artists. Because technically that is exactly how it works.

And it may after all that be wrong. Remember that chatbots give you words that statistically resemble words that look like an answer to the words in your question. Certainly the commercial models special-case parsing of some arithmetic, but the ability to do that falls off quickly with complexity.

I read as far as "Kevin O'Leary" before realizing this will either never get built or go bankrupt.

anyway please remember that curtis yarvin and peter thiel and marc andreessen and elon musk and sam altman and mark zuckerberg told everyone who would listen donald trump was a brilliant statesman who was going to make the world safe for innovation after the stifling regulation of the biden years

There are 93 million people in Iran, 99+% of them just normal people with normal families wanting to live normal, peaceful lives like everybody else.

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Just, you know, reading my internet futurism.com/artificial-i...

"add protein to your Starbucks" what the fuck are we doing

Seeing the people at Mission Control get visibly excited over the reports from the crew is just the best.

This was beautiful.

DID YOU KNOW...you can distribute your screenplay to readers and never have to worry about making sure they have the latest, up-to-date version, when you use the Publish feature of Fade In Access?

Social media companies are selling cigarettes to kids.

Imagine there was an entire technological revolution in lip-sync technology and people who have never sung and can’t carry a tune kept asking Adele and Christina Aguilera why they don’t try lip-syncing everything and if it wouldn’t make their jobs easier?

“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

Truly a message For All Humankind Even Artemis II Astronauts Have Microsoft Outlook Problems | WIRED www.wired.com/story/artemi...

This is a great article to read today for both the creative and space-exploration aspects.

No, "you" did not. No, "they" do not. And I wouldn't be so confident about your use of "we" here if I were you.

The more I think about this the more ridiculous this is: "Use our product for everything! Fire everyone! Use this instead! Also this is for entertainment purposes only and you cannot blame us if it is wrong or does anything illegal."

This is what social media is meant to be about.

Ha ha ha ha ha

Dark mode is the devil's mode

Very little of writing involves actually putting words down, or hitting the keys, or (tragically) using Fade In. It involves thinking, wrestling with thoughts and ideas, self-loathing, and "Dad are you sleeping?" "No I'm resting my eyes, I'm working!"

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

The fact I had to retype this because of typos and I’ll discover more typos later and be mad at myself? That’s writing.

At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.

Human beings are about to leave this planet and go to the Moon for the first time in 50 years, yet news headlines are dominated by political/other stupidity. We should be better than this. We should have, by this point, learned something, anything.

We watched VERTIGO for family movie night recently. I hadn't seen it for a long time, and I don't think I ever fully appreciated just how genuinely fantastic Kim Novak is in it. Kim Novak is genuinely fantastic in it. (Scotty is also genuinely terrible, but I've thought that every time by the end.)

It's April already, but I'm still writing "HELP ME" on my cheques.

Every once in a while I get a Really Good Idea for a Fade In April 1 gag and I think "Next year!" despite such things being overdone and gauche and just kind of generally hated by everyone, but I never end up doing it mainly because I'm just too tired. Anyway, you're welcome. Happy April.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

AI sucks. Using it to write stuff sucks. Justifying using it to write stuff by saying it allows you to write more stuff sucks. Writing is the fundamental form of human expression and ceding jurisdiction over the written word to plagiarism machines is the death of the human mind.

A weird thing is that people think when they give very specific "prompts" like this they are thoughtfully guiding the algorithm's function — but all they're doing is providing additional seed words to weight the output. Their own brains do the rest of the work in imagining what "AI" has "done".

What are the best books on writing and being a writer? King's ON WRITING is probably on any list. I'd also recommend Richard Russo's THE DESTINY THIEF.

Plus everyone knows *from their own experience* that the goal of any company is to charge more, offer less, and pay the people running things as much as possible. These are not the things anyone should be looking for in a government.

At least they've finally found a place to put all that jargon

No one asked me to write this. baddestmamajama.medium.com/pilgrims-in-...