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Edited to only include the correction.

They’ve been torching research and database access left and left. I assume they’ve already started burning books.

Uh huh

~25 years ago, in film school, we learned to cut physical film around the same time we learned to cut digitally with an NLE. The debates after class centered around whether digital would ever catch up with film, and what that would mean if/when it did. I interned, then worked for the only local tv station. It took 10 people behind the scenes to run a live newscast. A decade after I graduated, live newscasts in markets 4x the size were being run by 3 people and a ton of automation. Reporters used to have photogs with them; now they often have to set up and record themselves. And it was very strange to watch YouTube turn my career into something the general public kinda does.

That switch, though, did mean that a lot more small-mid companies started hiring videographers to regularly produce and upload videos. These are often solitary jobs, where the videographer is a department of 1 (maybe 2). So we ended up with a job landscape where there are far fewer ensemble and journalist positions, and more isolated, corporate positions. And now that “everyone can make videos with their phone,” the value propositions have changed. I’m not a fan, but I’ve made it work. I don’t know how much of this will be directly applicable to what’s coming with AI, but I figure it might be of some use to someone.

E: Oh, and that tv station I worked for in college no longer exists. The closest big city took over reporting (poorly) about it. This is becoming more common, as the companies that own stations have gotten larger. So that’s one less avenue for new film grads to break into the market.

Bastian had shown the lion [Grograman, the Many-Colored Death] the inscription on the reverse side of the Gem [Auryn]. ‘What do you suppose it means?’ he asked. '“DO WHAT YOU WISH.” That must mean I can do anything I feel like. Don’t you think so?

All at once Grogramann’s face looked alarmingly grave , and his eyes glowed. ‘No,’ he said in his deep, rumbling voice. ‘It means that you must do what you really and truly want. And nothing is more difficult.’

‘What I really and truly want? What do you mean by that?’

It’s your own deepest secret and you yourself don’t know it.’

‘How can I find out?’

‘By going the way of your wishes, from one to another, from first to last. It will take you to what you really and truly want.’

‘That doesn’t sound so hard,’ said Bastian.

‘It is the most dangerous of all journeys.’

‘Why?’ Bastian asked. ‘I’m not afraid.’

‘That isn’t it,’ Grograman rumbled. ‘It requires the greatest honesty and vigilance, because there’s no other journey on which it’s so easy to lose yourself forever.’

‘Do you mean because our wishes aren’t always good?’ Bastian asked.

The lion lashed the sand he was lying on with his tail. His ears lay flat, he screwed up his nose, and his eyes flashed fire. Involuntarily Bastian ducked when Grograman’s voice once again made the earth tremble: ‘What do you know about wishes? How would you know what’s good and what isn’t?’ -The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Nah, that Listers documentary was a lot of fun, though.

You could have done both.

Just a reminder: HBO’s about to be owned by Netflix.

The billionaires will teleoperate robots for the march.

There were 4 authors on the disempowerment paper.

Narp

Fae werewolves

Also, undead dragons, unicorns, and wizards are definitely things.

Intentional nod to Un Chien Andalou?

Here’s the paper.

They published Disempowerment patterns in real-world AI usage the prior day.

I’m told we’re stuck in here with him rather than the other way around.

It’s been 30 years since I read Madame Bovary. I don’t remember much about it, other than it made me uncomfortable in a way that bothered me. I’ll add it to my list of books to re-read.

Thank you. I’ve only ever seen “mi.” for miles.

Probably a persuasive definition.

I like this one as a metaphor for applied memetics. But I also like it for the potential TCG tie-in.