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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1d

Maura Dooley visited Chris Wood's Grimm show at Scarborough Art Gallery for which I have written a series of Mortuary Rhymes, as opposed to nursery rhymes, in keeping with the Grimms' tone. She posted this catalogue last page, a suggestion why Yorkshire people are natural matches for such a project.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 1d

"Politically correct sirens", with their pronouns nee/naw

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "You hear those sirens going off? That's good. A good sound. That means they either got the bad guy or they're gonna stop the bad guy. You didn't hear that sound bc nobody wanted to do anything. Listen to the beauty of that sound. That's the real deal sirens, not politically correct sirens"

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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 1d

A million times this!

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, exactly. Just being able to do it is meaningless. Meaning is derived *from* the process. The “why” for a human artist is working through problems (philosophical and literal) and sometimes seeing something transcendent come out of all that effort.

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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 1d

This. Also, because so much AI-generated “art” is prompted solely by “Wouldn’t it be cool if…?!” there’s no “why” to it. No meaning. It’s entirely outcome-driven. So you had a thought, boom, there it is… then what? (Which gives me vague hope that, like a kid with a toy, people will tire of it.)

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Every one of these "If only it were possible to..." plugs for AI is animated by an incredibly deep resentment of either talent or authorship.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 1d

A local north london charity called Akwaaba is raising money for a creative art space for refugees, unhoused ppl, and the wider community. Even small donations will make a big difference! www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... #UKKidlit

Help raise £7000 to support a creative art space – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to support a creative art space . Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social · 1d

NOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MITIGATE THE SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

i am going to lose my entire fucking mind

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 3d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 3d

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 3d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 3d

Very good news from the east of Germany, where the far-right (AfD) has its strongest base - the AfD got soundly defeated in two mayoral elections, in places where they were trying to use the presence of people seeking asylum as a decisive issue. Many voters rejected that outlook. That's hopeful.

Christian Bangel @christianbangel.bsky.social · 3d

Wieder ein schlechter Tag für die AfD im Osten.
Deklassiert in der OB-Stichwahl in Frankfurt (Oder) und sogar in Eisenhüttenstadt - wo sie sich echte Hoffnung machte - deutlich verloren.

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus. Diane Keaton. RIP to a legend who managed to carve out a lifelong career in an industry that frequently robs women like her of dignity and status once they hit 40.

Diane just threw on a turtleneck and said "fuck you, I'm still going."

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Courtney Howard @lulamaybelle.bsky.social · 4d

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 4d

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 4d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 6d

The person who wrote this is chief culture editor for the Economist, and I have so many questions about what he does in that job and how he got it.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 6d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 6d

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

A Pitchfork review for One Battle After Another that call it a “nerve-wracking masterpiece”, written by one Paul A. Thompson

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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 6d

The next bit is great too: www.npr.org/transcripts/...

SHAPIRO: You would rather put a gun in your mouth.

SIMON: I mean, what you're saying to me effectively is there's no original way to do anything, and...

SHAPIRO: No.

SIMON: Yes, you are.

SHAPIRO: That seems like a kind of absolutist take.

SIMON: Not only, I think, is it a fundamental violation of the integrity of writers and also of copyright - you know, when I sold all the scripts I sold - you know, 150 to HBO and, you know, maybe another 50 to NBC - I didn't sell them so that they could be thrown into a computer with other people's and be used again by a corporation.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 9d

As someone who travels around the uk a lot, I want Jenrick to know there are so many places that are ONLY white faces, he needs to go and tell them to integrate.

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Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social · 9d

Really looking forward to interviewing @johnharris1969.bsky.social @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social. #MaybeImAmazed is my personal choice for book of the year; a tender, deeply moving memoir about music and autism — and essential reading!

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James Moules @jamesmoules.bsky.social · 9d

I’m old enough to remember when a comment like this would have been a resigning matter…

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 9d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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