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JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 47m

I know at least one literary agent (later dashed spectacularly on the rocks and deservingly so) who rode the slush pile from assistant-to-the-assistants to a brief and prominent career. Worst case it'd be a good deal funnier than *this whole thing* lol.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1h

Basically identical to the back wall at a shop I worked at on 8th street tho I would have been standing behind a cabinet full of cheap jewelry. Late 80s were boom times for skull rings.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1h

Tadashi Yanai my friend! I think I have figured this out for you.

Make the clothes bigger! Whatever else they are, Americans are extremely well fed and at least a little soft.

Go measure a pair of 34s at any American retailer. I bet it's a 38!

Govern yourself thusly. I'll help you count the $

NYT: For Uniqlo's Founder, Conquering America Is Personal
Tadashi Yanai champions the U.S. as vital for the Japanese clothing retailer's growth, but remains deeply concerned about rising American protectionism.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1h

If what you really want to do is recreate pulphouses, the books are the easy part! There are so many humans capable of and willing to write adequate books. You'll never run out of books. "Make the computer do it" is just laziness and stupidity.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1h

Which I mean if you really want to turn publishing upside down, figure out a way to mine the slush piles at every agency in Manhattan... you'd have 8k human-made manuscripts of equal or greater quality to ai by lunchtime.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1h

But I guarantee better chances of success by taking all the money they're spending on "compute" and just paying humans to write 8000 books. If thirteen of them are good at all they'd just have to market and print. That's worse results than signed authors but probably right in line with slush pile.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1h

Also it's astonishing there's only one tight-beard-spherical-manbun mf in this photograph. An idea this depraved and useless feels like it would have taken six to eight Dorsey-curious dipshits to launch a few years ago.

Perhaps AI is more efficient!

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1h

Like I'm not arguing anything about quality, but books becoming lightning in a bottle is almost always because one extremely devoted weirdo builds an entire exoskeleton of letters to scratch an itch and that itch turns out to exist in a lot of other backs. And the entire armature is human choices.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1h

On the one hand, I can understand looking at extremely derivative works, maybe even jumped-up fan-fic, turning into billion dollar ip empires and thinking this is worth it.

On the other hand, one of the things about the 50 Shadeses of the world is they are intensely human contraptions.

Marco Rinaldi @marcorinaldi.bsky.social · Nov 25

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 2h

V neck tshirts undefeated at douche identification

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 16h

In practice this meant any requested change gave him an opening either to do something extremely annoying like making logos 30% smaller across the board, or to relitigate every choice he'd lost the battle on. It's good he was great at his job because it was more hilarious every time he did it.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 16h

Worked for a creative director who was clear with clients every part of the work he presented had been considered and made as part of a whole and that asking to change one thing meant he'd revisit the entire design holistically.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 17h

Often I have decried the lamentable lack of actual victims of bad soup among those who opine about too many cooks spoiling the broth. Truly a crime against soupmanity.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 18h

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

How Genocide Happened

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1d

"Why prosecute the attorney general when prices are too high at the Dollar General?"

Amazing how threats to his professional class motivate him in a way the mere citizenry cannot.

It's all just yappin til he actually risks something. He never will.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1d

He hadn't killed the crow at all and it had some pretty strenuous objections to being picked up by its soused would-be murderer but Cash was larger and did prevail and tucking the crow into the crook of his arm he intoned "I'll charm you yet, crow." Most perfect TV show I ever saw.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1d

Back when flipping around was a thing, I joined a movie about him in progress one night when I was smoking and thinking things over. Within ten minutes he'd wandered around the woods with a pistol absolutely shithoused, intoning nonsense, got distracted by and shot a crow who he then picked up.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1d

I don't get mad at Krugman per se but this makes me wonder rather forcefully if there's much point in tying AI (which to my mind hasn't got & may never have an acceptable professional use case) to the 1840s railway boom in England (which had trains).

Technology Bubbles:
Causes and
Consequences
What history can teach us about Al frenzy
PAUL KRUGMAN
OCT 12

Some commentators are careful to say "generative Al," where in practice the extra word serves the same purpose as calling some supermarket items
"cheese food" or "juice beverage," indicating that they aren't quite what they look like.
Whatever it is, few are denying that the technology is impressive. But warnings that there may be a huge Al bubble are getting louder. Worries about the financial underpinnings of all that capital spending are growing. And many people have noted that the Al boom is driving most, possibly all, of the economy's recent growth. So what will happen if the boom goes bust?

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Sam @sammyzorba.bsky.social · 1d

The audacity
of men, to believe you or
I can own a tree.

#haiku

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1d

If these are the objections you're nailing to the cathedral door you better not show your ass on topics the average American has studied monastically. Except Christianity-most Americans, who truly would benefit from a pope are pure vibes there. But they have STRONG beliefs about it.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 1d

Obfuscating pseudo-technical language works when nobody has any idea what you're talking about, like with finance and VC autofellatio.

But Christianity, Harry Potter and comic books?
My brother in Christ you have stepped directly into the cultural wheelhouse of all America. Just add football.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes the famously uncool Johnny Cash.

Johnny Cash smoking and being slutty in some never mind thigh high, some nearly ass high leather boots. Probably on his estate which he bought with his dumb uncool nerd money that idiots gave him.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 2d

Somewhere there's a fella in an office park in like Hartford who wrote the white paper proving pre-portioned cream cheese claws back sufficient value to justify it. He's got the cover sheet framed with his boss' post-it reading "do they need knives?" still stuck to it. Teamwork makes the dream work.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, it's just the one generation?
Anybody check the math on that?

A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
Israel's advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.

JaimeL @jaimel.bsky.social · 2d

every accusation a confession