If you use AI to write your speeches, you clearly have not bothered to study the issue at hand and are therefore not qualified to be representing your constituents on said issue.

Gotta look out for those telescreens, Winston.

I’m far from a specialist. Not only is my knowledge about 25 years or so out of date, I ended up leaving with half a year left on my degree because not only did a divorce make me unable to afford to continue, but some guys from the middle east crashed into the World Trade Center and ignited a war that shut down any actual archaeological work in the most of that part of the world for a decade or so.

So rather than specialist, I’m a guy that has 3.5 years of a 4 year Bachelor’s degree, and then went off to take a bunch of computer certificates instead. lol.

Still regret never going back to finish it once the middle east settled down again.

Schliemann dug straight through the actual Troy that he was looking for, destroying a huge chunk of it to get to an even earlier settlement in the strata beneath that he decided to call Troy. His “method” was essentially do dig a trench all the way to the bottom, assuming that the oldest level would be Troy. (Yes…he was that stupid).

It was only afterwards that other, actual archaeologists placed the proper stratum that the homeric Troy would have existed in. And by then, much of it was already obliterated.

I majored in Near Eastern Classical Archaeology with a focus on the Bronze age (Hittites, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Babylonians, etc…), and lesson one may as as well have been titled “Why Heinrich Schliemenn was an asshole.”

There’s a 100% chance that this guy is a pedo.

Of course I can’t stay too long because of the radon.

I’ll let you know when it happens… /s

Just kidding. I’m not THAT big of an asshole.

Tsukomogami and Patina: In Praise of Old Things

It’s the concept that old mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses (for example) all age individually. They develop their own quirks and foibles as they are used. They almost (as in Tsukomogami) develop a soul.

We are fundamentally losing that to a society that is about consumable mass-produced trash, and on a long enough timeline, it’s going to mean losing a fundamental piece of who we are as a society.

What a fucking loser. I can’t even describe how pathetic he is when he tries to put on his tough face. Fucking cosplaying motherfucker probably got tea-bagged too often in CoD and now has to take it out on actual soldiers.

That’s the soundtrack for the game. Not the game itself.

There is nothing in this world at this moment that would make me happier than digging through that box, reading old ACTUAL paper game manuals, and falling back into my early 20s when gaming still felt magical.

I’m 50 years old and I’ve always wanted to get my PPL, and it’s always been out of reach.

There has never been a point where private piloting wasn’t limited to the wealthy (or at least the extremelly well off).

Destroy it’s value and then sell it at a firesale to his billionaire buddies.

It’s funny that if you look at the picture above, it has zero “real” context clues. No signs, no name tages, no MAGA hats. But you can still instantly tell who the MAGA asshole in it is.

I tend to think that the pro AI people are of a younger generation, because if they were closer to Gen X, they’d be feeling betrayed rather than excited.

Gen X and Millenials built the internet. We populated it with our forums, our blogs, our facbook profiles. We were the first ones sharing our photos, our very lives, with all of our friends and family. We created what it would become and we trusted that it was a community resource. Then along comes a couple of billionaires, they suck up everything that you have built and then have the balls to charge you an entry fee!

It’s like if you and your neighbourhood all got together and decided to build a playground for your kids, and when it’s done, some asshole asks the city for the right to the land and puts a toll booth up.

More than any other concern, THAT betrayal is what pisses me off the most. How fucking dare they say that I have to pay to access a system that was built on community content. They can fuck themselves sideways with a rusty sledge hammer.

Using AI to double check your code is very different from using AI to replace your skilled creative talent on a motion picture. It’s not even an accurate comparison… GL isn’t talking about coding, he’s talking about visual effects, writers, even actors…all of whom who’s careers are at risk.

You want to use AI to make sure you didn’t miss a semicolon at the end of a line, great…knock yourself out. But that has literally nothing in common with what Lucas is blathering about here.

Of course he did. He loves updating his classics every time some “new technology” comes along to let his freak-flag fly.

We’ll be seeing a re-re-re-re-release of A New Hope shortly where he uses an AI generated Boba Fett and Solo giving them a scene or two to develop a backstory.

Final report recommendation: Keep your phone at home when your blitzed, Kegsbreath…

Depends on which end got damaged the most from the truck.

I’m saying that moralilty is just another word for Empathy.