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🎙 Voice Actor | Games/Audiobooks/Movies/ Radio 📚 Author | The Chrome Carriage & Beneath A Domed Sky Podcast . cakeniron.com | IG: @cakeniron

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Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Jan 13

How's it going? Find me here:
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- Podcast: Beneath A Domed Sky
- Comic: The Chrome Carriage
- Website: cakeniron.com
- Soundcloud: Sharon Apple
- Patreon: Cake N Iron
- IMDB: JC Brazil
- Youtube: cakeniron
- Fivver: Camille Lewis
- Only Fans: @cakeniron [I read güd stuff]
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#actor #voiceactor #voiceovertalent
#voiceover #comics #indiecomics #writer #seattle #podcast #asmr #onlyfans

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · 18h

#videogames #society #patriarchy #life

How Video Game Design Taught Me About Patriarchy. | JC Brazil

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Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t give up. Love you.
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#writing #blogging #writer #quora #medium #articles #voiceover #voiceacting #voiceactor #seattle

Today I checked my very dusty, cobweb laden business checking account and realized…there was money in there.
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Money from a VERY long time ago of articles I’ve penned on sites like Medium and Quora. When I started writing, it was truly to advertise my podcast, comic and voice acting work. This nugget of wisdom came from my corporate experience on, believe it or not, honest advertisement through maintaining a blog; even in the world of IG and the Tik Toks.
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Little did I know that my readership would hit 721k. Yeah. Thousand. Without nurturing the reader base.
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I didn’t even notice, nor did I check until writing this today. I just wrote what I felt, made sure I had clean edits and went about my day.
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It was a pleasant surprise and encouraging to know that I wasn’t just howling in the digital wind.
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So why should you care about this? I could make all the typical bullet points and explanations, but that is boring. Just write, My Guy/Gurl/Gentlethey.
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Get an account on Quora or Medium or where ever and write what you know, monetize if you can and hammer at your craft elsewhere.
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Someone will read it. Hell, all I write about is strange ass fan fiction, cats, anime, rollerskating and horror video games. Somebody(ies) paid for it so someone will pay for yours, too.
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Don’t give up. Love you.
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#writing #blogging #writer #quora #medium #articles #voiceover #voiceacting #voiceactor #seattle

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · 9d

Sorry. I used AI...but I didn't really know how to get this across.
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I'm not nervous or anything...just....surprised.
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Surprised that someone waited 20 years to express their feelings...even after a divorce.
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Weird.

#romance #missedconnections #voiceactor #voiceover #confessions #love #smut

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · 9d

I was in bed and did this rough take on my phone. This is by no means a final, but I was just tossing it around to get a feeling about the characters and such. Mistakes and a fan.
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#storyofo #erotica #audiobooks #booktok #voiceacting #voicover #voiceactor #narrator

The Story of O: Rough | JC Brazil

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Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · 14d

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · 17d

It's been months...
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But could there be a possibility of a NATIONAL TV AD in the works?
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FROM A KNOWN NAME BRAND?
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Negotiations are on. Let's see what happens. I'm just as shocked as you are.
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#voiceover #voiceactor #voiceacting #television #actor #seattle #bigthings

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · 26d

I'll be 45 in a few weeks.
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And I am glad I've learned two lessons early aka: 'Not in my 60s'.
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1. The only way to be a success in America is to either: Sell Something or Invest Something. Though I did not invest as early as I would have liked, I did it enough, with selling on the side, to not have to worry about where I will be when I am old (Though, I pray, I am still acting and writing for life).
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2. Do not confuse Fascination with Friendship. This was a hard lesson for me to grasp, but now I got it. I have truly experienced what real friendship is like; the rare friendship....the 'hardtimes friendship' . Some folks get fascinated with a person, but they don't really want them....they want their energy, labor, association, clout. They want the drama because it gives temporary purpose. But it fizzles. The Real Ones are stalwart.
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When I quit my gig, I actually had a friend drop off a chromebook (since my laptop bricked) and told me to chill and watch anime in bed. Another came by with gifts and offered plans of revenge. Not because I asked, but to seek honest justice.
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I think of the people who helped me move, who fed me through my divorce, who was there during lockdown and such. We don't talk much, but we know we are there if need be.
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Nothing crazy, I'm just happy that I didn't close my ears to my inner voice and my eyes to life's lessons. Hopefully, you can learn from my mistakes and celebrate this knowledge.
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#lifelessons

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Sep 23

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Sep 16

Where energy goes, energy flows.

When I was a teenager, I watched this anime. It impacted me profusely to the point where I rarely go to concerts with the exception of the symphony.
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Strange ass topic, but bare with me. If you are curious about energy exchange, you should watch this anime. It went WAY over my head as a teenager, but I watched it, and Macross Plus, again with some very, very profound thoughts.
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No matter your religion or creed, a person has to confide in themselves that we are all fleshy batteries searching for energy exchange with friends, lovers, etc. It doesn't matter if it is in person or through a distant medium; we are looking for that exchange to verify our existence. One way or the other.
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So what does this have to do with concerts, live performances, etc. ? If you watch Key: The Metal Idol, it is very obvious. Just a note; I am not saying all performers are purely narcissistic (because I am one), but all performers crave an energy exchange that is above average versus the average person. This is why social media is on the rise: there are a lot of people who want the energy without perfecting their craft.
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So what does this have to do with you? Well, nothing really, if you want to keep it logical. But, if you want to delve into the spiritual: do you yearn for another person's energy, or do you wish to willing give it so you have artificial purpose. Are you a siphon or a donated?
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Watch the anime. Unless I find the artist with pure intent, I refuse to be a tributary for their energy grab. Remember, A List performers take your energy from you twice: through currency (which is energy) and through attention (which is energy).
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Spend your energy well. Invest in yourself before you gush into others.
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#esoteric #energy #spirituality

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Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Sep 8

I ate late ight BBQ with strippers on a Sunday and I'm not even mad about it.
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This is 2025. And I'm gonna live.

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Aug 27

Kouldelka (PS1: 1991)
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One of those rare games where all of the cast had theatrical training and the voice acting was as fulfilling as a movie.
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But, because of the drama between the EP and the game team, no one played it. He wanted the battle system one way; the team wanted it another way. Thus, the battle system was a mess, despite the rich and satisfying esoteric lore.
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Koudelka was the first in the Vagrant Story series. Unsung. A Cult Classic, yet never forgotten. One of the first games on PS1 I destroyed with both endings.
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#koudelka #ps1 #Playstation #vagrantstory #videogames #seattle

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Aug 26

9½ Weeks is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama. The screenplay is adapted from the 1978 memoir name by author Ingeborg Day, under the pseudonym "Elizabeth McNeill".
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#relationships #seattle #voiceover #voiceactor #actor #voiceacting #voiceoverartist #books #narrator #smut

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Aug 21

You can not learn voice acting for two McDonald's meals. That's just silly.

The above pisses me off. It's a grift. Pure and simple.
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I will be honest with you: you CAN NOT TEACH VOICE ACTING.
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Now, you can teach audio engineering, which you will need. You can teach acting, WHICH YOU WILL NEED.
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Let me say this again: YOU CAN NOT VOICE ACT IF YOU CAN NOT ACT.
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Note: I am a Method AND a Shakespearean trained actor. I did YEARS of theatrical work, television, and MOVIES before I transitioned to voice. I can rock a black box, fam. I don't need a mic to be a performer.
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That dude will not teach you anything you could not Google yourself. He is right....VO is changing, but if you do your research and get your portfolio up, it's not changing much.
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Save your money. Do the work.
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Here is what I will give you for free: AI is taking over INITIALLY, but it can not give human warmth, inflection, and cadence. Quality is human. Read books, post them online, and keep your skills high. They always come back.
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#grift #vo #voiceover #voiceactor #voiceacting #Seattle #audiobooks #narrator #actor

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you are an actor starting out, please don't do this.
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NEVER accept any project with a flat price. NEVER.
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Please understand that you will probably be recording on your own equipment, and the director will have a perfectionist hair up their ass and make you do MULTIPLE TAKES over MULTIPLE DAYS. In their mind, they are paying you, and you, the artist, are just meat for their vision.
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ALWAYS, unless you are Union and/or have an Agent, go by WORD COUNT. I make that piddlly 250 in 5 minutes, 2 takes, and 10 minutes of editing time. If someone wants to direct, I DEMAND 500 USD per hour with a minimum 1 hour minimum, on top of word count.
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Do not sell your talent short, and do not waste your time, especially for audiobooks. The average audiobook that is over 30k words (for 1 actor/producer) is a minimum 10k and 2 months' time.
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No hate to Backstage, but the company placing the ad is looking for suckers. Do not take the bait.
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Remember: Word Count is King. Negotiation is Queen.
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#VO #voiceover #voiceactor #voiceacting #narrator #audiobooks #actor #seattle

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Aug 11

You are so right.
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AI is cheaper.
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Please use it for your audiobook.
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Here is a sample of what AI offers:
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https://youtu.be/zFcIe7XWqPY?si=iz-k6w66XRF6zl1X
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Also, read the comments. People will know, sooner or later, from the cadence, tone, pronunciation, and tension. They will know a dry, boring read, and they will not continue to listen to your book.
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Audiobooks are expensive for a reason. It contains theater. The producer not only reads, but has to edit it themselves, run it by you, and submit to the portal of your choice. If there is an error, the producer will have to fix it.
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Of course, of course. Please read it yourself. I welcome it. If you would like another example, please check out the narration between Tim Curry and Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events. That is a great contrast of an author reading their work versus a thespian reading their work.
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I wish you luck with your autobiography. I truly thank you for stopping by and talking with me. Good luck again.
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#ai #artificialintelligence #audiobooks #voiceover #voiceactor #narrator #actor #Seattle

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Aug 2

It started with a commercial for a @nytimes podcast. That was my very first professional gig, where I had a producer and learned the ropes to be a professional news announcer. I was rough around the edges, being self-taught, but I was easy to work with and inexpensive. I heard my voice on a professional platform for the very first time.
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No weird Nigerian church commercials or twisted fetish work. It was THE NY Times.
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A few months later, @gusky.art hired me, through @fiverr , to do various sports for @cptvnews_ , a subsidiary of PBS in Connecticut. We worked together for years before he retired. I fulfilled a dream:
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"....and for Viewers Like You..."
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I got to say that. As a child of Sesame Street, Square One, Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego and Bill Nye: The Science Guy...I finally, as an adult, had the chance to thank the very station that educated, enlightened and delighted me.
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After Bill retired, I was picked up by various NPR stations across the country to read their headers, intros, and the like. But my professional work let me go to gigs on the radio the world over. Movies. Television. Concerts. Audiobooks. Video games.
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All without an agent.
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I was nourished by PBS all over again. The weird stubborn Midwestern Girl who left Texas in shambles, left the tech industry in Los Angeles / Seattle only to be placed on the path I desired: to be a voice that told a story. @PBS and @npr did that for me. That establishment allowed me to follow my dreams in voice acting.
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And now...they are gone.
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My former employer...is gone.

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#npr #PBS #voiceover #voiceacting #actor #radio #seattle #voiceactor #radioannouncer

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Jul 30

We must remember in a world of AI, that the tech can not replicate the echoes of the soul a d the human experience.
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Please ask our AI MASTERS if they can replicate a sutra or a hymn.
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They can't.
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#voiceover #voiceoverartist #voiceactor #sutra #chant #buddha #buddhism #seattle #actor #voice

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Jul 27

#actor #voiceover #voiceactor #voiceacting #voiceoverartist #theatre #seattle

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Jul 27

Omg.
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Look. This is a big deal; WAITING FOR GODOT is one of the hardest plays to perform. Also, no women are allowed to perform this due to Beckett's estate, as it deals with the male psyche and experience.
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Why am I excited about this?
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Because,simply, this is a chance to see if Keanu Reeves can TRULY act. I'm not tripping about Alex Winter, because I know he has chops, but for Black Box Rats like myself, Wait for Gadot is a testament of any actor's skill, because Beckett's script pulls NO PUNCHES.
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I was in London when I saw Bradley Cooper's version of the Elephant Man and a small company 2 hours outside of London's version of the same performance. Cooper's was terrible in comparison, BUT, that is another difficult play that will show you how good an actor really is; A-List or not.
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I do not thank my Biological Mother for much, but I will give her this: she was a fanatical theatre patron and she had EXCELLENT taste when it came to Theatre, Broadway On or Off.
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If you are in New York and get to see this play, tell me how it is. Waiting for Godot is one of my Top 5, and if Bill and Ted can do it justice, Reeves earned my theatrical respect. To be clear, I never downed his drive for action movies and training, but Beckett is a WHOLE different animal, and of you don't get the prose, it WILL eat you alive.
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#theatre #Broadway #beckett #billandted #keanureeves #alexwinter

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Jul 21

Any project, large or small, is a beautiful thing.
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Nicholls Nichols is my hero. A gentleman who adores Star Trek allowed me to honor her over a four year project. Said dude was amazing, as he included Black History in his project.
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So what does this mean? I'm holding out over AI. TRUE, it seems a solution now, but there are people who will want art, skill, and passion. I will wait for those folks and Gove them my best.
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Thank you, Nichelle, for kissing my tears and telling me I'm almost there. I am honored to honor you and give a client their dream to hear you again.
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May we meet in space as dust and glory.
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#ai #artificialintelligence #voiceover #voiceacting #actor #startrek #uhura #nichellenichols #Seattle #voiceactor

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Jul 6

Talk about Tech from personal experience to cranked up fledgling engineers riding high on their Ivy league degrees and watch them LOSE THEIR MINDS.
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Look, man. The answers are: Bubbles. Wall Street.
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Simple.
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Some new fad happened. Billionaires wanted to jump on that fad. They over- hired because F500 has never learned that throwing money at a problem will not fix it, produce results faster, nor will it make it better.
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The end results are like anything else leaders in tech produce: mediocre and flaccid. So instead of telling Wall Street that they really shouldn't have went public and the really overspent, they just fire a bunch of people and do something else.
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Old people: remember when Windows 95 came out and everyone was making apps for it, only to go bust when the internet /web development?
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Tech rides on Bubbles, man. I don't know why LinkedIn is pushing this narrative on their site so heavy.
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I thought we all knew this. The only companies that have survived this long is either some type of useful infrastructure, ad revenue or both.
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Ai has NO functional use. NO standard infrastructure that can be replicated in a major scale and NO way to bring in money.

It is a BUBBLE. Anyone over 40 in tech knows AI is a joke and useless. That's what search engines are for.
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#ai #artificialintelligence #bubble #90s #useless #fads #layoffs

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Jul 5

Hot Take: The reason why there are so many layoffs in tech is because major corporations over hired for the e-commerce boom during Lock Down, do not want to admit to Wall Street they made a mistake and are pivoting to AI just as they did in with Websites in the 90s.
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So what can I, a tech worker, do?
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Learn 'AI' platforms with full knowledge that AI (at the moment) is nothing more than a labor intensive, resource guzzling Google search engine. Learn ChatGPT, OpenAI l, etc. knowing full well that self cognitive AI does not exist and, thr moment it does, we as a society will have bigger problems.
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Either pivote your skill set to these platforms, or cybersecurity, and prepare yourself for the imminent failures most F500 companies will have trying to chase the AI bubble.
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Why is it a bubble? Because we do not, and have NOT figured our clean, long lasting energy consumption and storage protocol. The platforms used now cause to much waste to the environment and is too expensive to maintain. Keep that in mind if you are working on software. If you are leaning to the jardware side, you already know the writing on the wall.
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Just a thought.
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#Ai #openai #ChatGPT #layoffs #energy #Seattle #opinion

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Jun 27

I know y'all like porno and stuff, but I'm a big wormwood fan and I chase after the best herbal liquors while teaching others the joy of Malört and other wormwood brews. #herbs #Malört #wormwood #booze #seattle #gorki #absinthe

Cake And Iron @cakeniron.bsky.social · Jun 26

#Malört for life.

Day 2 of ABSOLUTE raunchy VO work.
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Some VO actors will tell you they don't do smut, adult, NSFW project, but I do. Not because of the money, but because of the intensity. True actors never choose safe projects; you never hone your craft being safe.
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I had a small quorum with a VO actor who specialized in accents and impersonations. Granted, he did get more work than I did, but when it came to serious prose...stuff that needed emotional intelligence and skill....he didn't have that. 'Work is work' , he said. Maybe, I replied, 'But would you rather be known pantamiming the original or being the original?'
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I rarely perform accents. I find it honorable not to mimic the original...if a client can't afford the original actor, then they should find a way or think of a better idea. I don't think it's elitist... I feel if you want Morgan Freeman, pay him... not me.
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But pay me for my skill, my work, and my talent. I'm the original. Thus, I perform naughty things on my downtime and drink Malört to recover.
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This is 2025. We no longer need to put on airs. Staying true to one's passion and self is what will keep you true and paid.
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Romance novel commercial tomorrow.
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I need more Malört.

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#voiceoverartist #voiceover #voiceactor #voiceacting #audiobooks #malort #actor #Seattle