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Nicholas Moore Lives In a Failed State

@nicktheponderer.bsky.social

YouTuber, Teacher, Existentially terrified.

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob")@bobchipman.bsky.social · 7h ago

"PRESIDENT CURTIS" feels less like "RICK & MORTY" than it does like an early-2000s MTV project (laudatory) or an 'adult humor' cousin to "BILLY & MANDY" - straightforward "Saturday morning but Rated-M" comedy stuff. Notable and cool that a genre series centers an older Black male protagonist 👍

Wolf System | Impy Vtuber 🏳️‍⚧️@lupinecalibrator.bsky.social · 10h ago

There was a time, early on in the days when generative AI was less widely known and more of an 'intriguing new prospect' that I would feel tempted. I didn't act on that temptation, and I am glad I dodged what would've been the worst mistake of my life. I'll gladly struggle for something real.

Ant@agramuglia.bsky.social · 11h ago

Yes. Easily. I don't use AI today. Or yesterday. Because I actually enjoy writing and researching stuff.

Eve Harms, Orph Understander@eveharms.com · 10h ago

This is so disgusting. A new low for the organization. The HWA’s members deserve better. Indigenous horror writers deserve better.

Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · 24h ago

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

“Sure. Sure. Yes, we know AI is using up resources. So does driving a car or a planes so does building a new home. So do a lot of things. Humans have always used up Earth’s resources and usually not nicely. There are reservations and other Indigenous communities in Canada that have never had clean water and have been ravaged by pipeline construction. But somehow that’s been okay for the past fifty or a hundred years, and very few people scream about that. But suddenly, AI is the enemy, not everything else we’ve been doing all along. Suddenly YOUR water might not be clean, so it’s a Big Deal”.
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · yesterday

So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterday

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

Nicholas Moore Lives In a Failed State@nicktheponderer.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s crazy how Brand New Day manages to NOT feel like an overstuffed mess the way SM3/TASM2 do, despite those movies being stuffed with more “pure Spider-Man” characters and trappings. BND just laser focused everything so hard on Peter’s character that it all clicks cohesively.

Brandon Santiago@4brandonjs4.bsky.social · 2d ago

‪This movie has A LOT. So many characters/plot points that would usually make this a jumbled mess that’d take the movie away from Spider-Man. But it doesn’t.‬ (1/2)

Adam B. Vary@adambvary.bsky.social · 2d ago

Also, having a real-life movie star couple headline your movie has been a time-honored Hollywood tradition for nearly a century. It doesn't always work, but Zendaya & Tom Holland have had a chokehold on their generation since their Lip-Sync Battle in 2017.

Elfie@elfgrove.bsky.social · 3d ago

Oh no no no. Fuck this con. They WANT to host the most famous sex pest in the anime dubbing scene and only shunted him to a side event because vendors were cancelling when they tried to have him as a major guest.

Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGurl@marzgurl.com · 3d ago

The convention has now deleted the post they originally made when they cancelled him. They have set up a Facebook event page for the store signing, and while I do see angry comments, I'm also hearing the store has blocked people.

Jacob (The Coaster Composer)@rct3isepic.bsky.social · 4d ago

I had a realization yesterday that The Sorcerer's Apprentice is a great allegory for Generative AI. Mickey pawns off work to an autonomous force only to have that force mindlessly use keep doing that very thing and destroy everything while using up plenty of perfectly good water in the process