I was already sick of hearing about "AI" in 2023 when the person who cut my hair was so sure that within 6 months "AI" would take her job and it would be cutting my hair.

If you're working 16hrs/6 days a week for years to create software and systems to build a company of which you own nothing all for somebody else, you are quite possibly underpaid and undervalued as a human-being.

Not all business bros are con-men, but perhaps a large portion of con-men are business bros.

We should all be creating and handing off paying work to our creative friends. There's so much talk about asking for and doing favors for friends with hopes that it will all balance out, but if we're not creating and referring paying work we are ALL missing out on opportunities. Fundraise and pay.

Don't tell me your business is "like a family". Mine actually WAS family and I got royally fucked.

Just cut down a remaining 7 days of production on my feature-length film to 4! Cutting the budget, keeping the story in-tact, and optimizing the scheduling. In a perfect world, I'd be able to keep everything as originally written, but making creatives decisions along the way is how this gets done!<3

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Production on our feature, "When We Sleep" is going great! Here's a selection of rushes from our dailies thus far. We love how this is coming together! A small, skilled crew and beyond talented performers are bringing this story to life! #whenwesleep #independentfilm #filmmaking #kcfilm #filmkc

I really need to update both my websites, put together a sizzle reel for my cinematography, and update my acting demo reel. So much to do alongside producing my first feature-film. The checklist compounds!

When I hear ai-boosters talking about and defending llm outputs, it sounds identical to me as xian apologetics. Like the religion switch of "how do you not see the Truth" goes off in that person's brain and they must defend their religious identity membership.

I enjoy finding old branded "company" swag. If i can remove the label I'll donate it, otherwise it just goes right in the trash.

At this point, I'd find it plausible if the New Glenn explosion were sabotage to facilitate SpaceX's IPO next month as "the only reliable rocket company". It's a conspiracy theory because I am basing it off no data, but plausible to me because we know the type of ppl running these corpos and govt.

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

Make the web server-side rendered pages again.

There is nothing quite like the incredible smell of fresh laser printed paper!

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

I'm in this!!!

All these CEO-bros out there firing real people to waste money on chatbots are highlighting their inability to connect with the real world and prefer a half-baked illusion and performance of intelligence over the real thing to create their "boss fantasy" surrounded by unthinking "compliment-bots"

I'm in my late-40s, w.t.f. do I need a bachelor's degree for anymore? I'm not in legal, medical or other industry where specific training of that type is unique and required for life-affecting reasons. Anything I would have learned decades ago at a school is out. of. date.

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being honest about what Republicans actually are upsets Republican sources, readers, event sponsors, and ownership, costing corporate media money so you get this bizarre kayfabe where Republicans are given bottomless credibility they never had to earn

Do not work for free, especially if you think you own part of the business. At minimum, get a contract in place to defer compensation until investment comes in. Do. Not. Work. For. Free. A person with mal-intent will extract your value never pay for your effort. An expensive #lessonlearned

I am so tired of macOS's Finder just constantly screwing up with displaying the wrong folder icon or sometimes no icon at all. It's madness, this cannot be tolerated.

The legacy of Mueller is that if you do diligent methodical careful work on a damning report, trusting to our institutions to do the right thing, damned liars will just tell damned lies about your work and the lies will stand, because institutions won't confront power and nobody does the reading.

A fun challenge. This set had 4 screens across 15 shots AND refraction of the green card in his glasses. Oh my! youtu.be/Wvb6MRJagHI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ne... "YOUR PROMPTS ARE GOD MODE, BRO!" (paraphrase)

The next chapter in the Wicked Deeds saga is set to unfold, this Friday the 13th at noon!!! Do. Not. Miss. This. !!! youtu.be/UMjt5gHpXSA

Are we humans ever going to get beyond this waging war shit? Are we evolving?

This is what they’re up to..We must stop them!

At the end, when the true scope of a con becomes clear, all the events leading up to that moment slot into place like the final piece of a jigsaw puzzle. That's when one can really see the exploitation and theft that has occurred at every step.

Only now is the true scope of the con becoming clear. Manipulated out of equity and ownership of contributed IP. Manipulated out of competitive salary. Encouraged to stay drunk and exploitable for maximum amount of time and extraction.

A person who considers others around you as nothing more than generic tools to get a job done may very plausibly consider you to be on that list as well. Watch how people speak about others and you might see how they talk about you. Speak up, you're not part of the club.

There is not one thing that has been extruded from generative AI system that has made me say, "I WANT TO DO THAT TOO!!!" I have seen no creativity or insight from any word-guessed or pixel-guessed output. Just more examples of the exact opposite of what impresses me.

As an alcoholic, hearing "you do your best work when you're drunk!" from a position of power and believed trust had me feeling like i was doing a great job while I stayed small, quiet, and exploitable.

Liars and exploiters will promise you a full loaf of bread, only to give you crumbs. They will think they did you a favor because you didn't even have crumbs before, so you should be grateful and praise them.

"It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club." ~ George Carlin

If someone feels attacked by your subtext, that actually says more about them than it does about you.

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“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

America is a melting pot 🌍🌎🌏🇺🇲

No amount of ruminating and feeling the injustice will change a thing. Move forward, choose different, build a better world around you and take those lessons of trust and honesty into the future.

Lonely.

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Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

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