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[George Alexopoulos @GPrime85]

"How did animators do this?"

Well you see, there's this thing called money. You give it to a bunch of talented artists for a couple years so they can afford stuff like food, and in return, they will produce something called a "movie"

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Now 52% of young adults live with their parents, the highest rate ever, surpassing even the Great Depression. The most-educated and most in debt generation in history did everything they were supposed to and got this.

The system. Does. Not. Work

[Variety @Variety]

Guillermo del Toro says AI is a form of "natural stupidity"

“We are on the verge of image illiteracy. We are on the verge of cinema illiteracy... The pact between man and image is sacred, but we are in a time when that is in danger... We are told images can be generated by artificial means. The existence of an image is not just to be there. It is to connect us, to make us feel beauty,” he said.

https://t.co/h1bAYmAQKa

[Alex Jay Brady 🥶 @AlexJayBrady]

OK bet

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

Nostalgia is a tool of fascism, a warm, idealized version of a past that never truly existed. Do not catch yourself longing for The Corporate Wire Mother. There was no Golden Age; only advertisements for products that you were too young to defend yourself against.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

they've built concentration camps and i'm expected to act like it's a mere difference of political opinion

[Jeff Zhang 张佶润 @strangeharbors]

“That’s not how it works.” Yeah, no fucking shit. That’s why we need to have a conversation about it? You’re all Marxists until it comes to a horror movie you love that just grossed $200 million.

[Andy Young @AndyYoungFilm]

Sure is a lot of “Obsession’s Art director should keep her trap shut about long hours/poor conditions and be grateful for the low rate she got” talk today from WGA/SAG members I marched on a picket line for 🤔

[nina lee @NinaSerafina]

People telling the art director from Obsession “too bad, that’s what you signed up for” instead of collectively encouraging that once small budget films reach a certain number all cast and crew receive a bonus, is why we’ll never be free.

[ZealousChoice @ZealousChoice]

He died defending his partner after his house was burned down and his dog was murdered.

His partner is a trans man.

Jonathan should still be here, at home, with his family.

But im told that we dont need pride.

[courtney⁷ saw silver spoon @MRST3ACH]

y’all are Not gonna jump him cause i’d say the same thing about my best friend

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[John Squires 🎃 @FreddyInSpace]

Make really good low budget horror movies.

Market them well.

Put them in theaters.

Take chances. New ideas. New filmmakers.

It has always been the way.

[homoyuri @crosshairlvr]

finding out the artemis ii astronauts talked with poets and studied poetry so they knew how to properly convey what they were seeing in words and saying that the arts played a huge role in their time in space. oh my god

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Bong Joon-ho says he tried to make Parasite (2019) deeply specific to Korean culture, but audiences around the world all reacted the same way:

“Essentially, we all live in the same country, called Capitalism.”

[Miles @mtvsthewrld_]

The fact that he is so good at this really puts into perspective how cartoonishly evil the average politician is

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for LAIKA's new film ‘WILDWOOD’ has been released.

The film follows a girl who enters a magical forbidden forest to rescue her kidnapped baby brother.

In theaters on October 23.

[MP10 @MusicPills10]

"Somebody's Watching Me" features guest vocals by brothers Michael Jackson (in the chorus) and Jermaine Jackson (additional backing vocals) #Rockwell

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I will never understand how so many of y’all were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money you pay in taxes to create a social safety net that benefits you, fund public healthcare, lower housing costs, and make daily life more affordable.