The real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders

The studios fought like hell for the right to fire their writers and replace them with chatbots, but that doesn’t mean that the chatbots could do the writers’ jobs.

Think of the bosses who fired their human switchboard operators and replaced them with automated systems that didn’t solve callers’ problems, but rather, merely satisficed them: rather than satisfying callers, they merely suffice.

Studio bosses didn’t think that AI scriptwriters would produce the next Citizen Kane. Instead, they were betting that once an AI could produce a screenplay that wasn’t completely unwatchable, the financial markets would put pressure on every studio to switch to a slurry of satisficing crap, and that we, the obedient “consumers,” would shrug and accept it.

Despite their mustache-twirling and patrician chiding, the real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders.

-How the Writers Guild sunk AI's ship: No one's gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can't fire their workers

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M*tatron better watch his back I say

crying screaming in s1 ep 1 we are introduced to just how much Guillermo wants to be made into a vampire and we see him opening his shirt and exposing his neck to Nandor- an open invitation, a question left hanging

then in the s5 finale NANDOR is the one to do the EXACT OPPOSITE: he gently ties the cape around his best friend (the love of his life) and it took him 5 seasons but he finally answered. It was all a ritual and it had to end the same way it began.

Not to get too Lit class on y'all but...the circularity...the closure...the SYMBOLISM

It hurts to remember

Ask him properly.

🥺 she’s so silly

ADULT IRIS ADULT IRIS ADULT IRIS

*banging pots and pans* HE MAKES HER A DOLLHOUSE !!! HE PAINSTAKINGLY PAINTS LITTLE CHAIRS AND TABLES PINK !!!! HE LOVES THIS CHILD SO SO MUCH

(while our shadows keep watching us)

Thinking about 7 Year Gap Phoenix and how he could've absolutely started teaching Law if he wanted to like

my good sir

two of my law school professors are CONDEMNED CRIMINALS I'm sure they'd let you teach :))

Special thanks to middle school me who took one look at Miles Edgeworth and decided she wanted to become a lawyer I am currently trying to cram 500 pages of civil law in one night my final is tomorrow help me HeLp me

The ONLY WAY to combat the lack of funding in arts education is for professionals to take a few hours a week to share their skills for FREE, to empower and encourage the next generation of artists. THIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR. Here’s 200 tutorials:

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Help me attend my father’s funeral and finance my leave of absence from work

My father died and I found out yesterday through email.

Long story short, yesterday, via email, I found out my father died. The funeral is in NOLA (his hometown) next week and I need help getting there, paying for lodging as well as financing my leave of absence from work bc i will not be paid for 1 month. ‬

A round trip flight is $155 (my aunt only bought tickets for my brothers so I need to pay for this myself)

And lodging is $80 a night and Ill be there for 4 days so that will be $320

I also would like to have a couple hundred dollars available for transportation as well (to and from both airports, to and from the funeral, etc.)

I will not be returning to work for a month when I get back and on average I make about $1900 a month. Me not working means I cannot pay rent, bills, and/or buy groceries.

The total I need is $2575

Rather than just have people donate in good faith, I would like to offer for every donation of at least $10 will serve as a raffle ticket for a free commissioned art piece from me as I was planning on opening up commissions for my art this week until I was told this news. For example, $10 would be one entry, and $100 would be 10 entries. I want to let you guys know you are appreciated and I wanna give back something I am passionate about to show my appreciation for your continued support. Attached are pics of some of my recent pieces.

Donation methods:

PayPal.me/Amirahaa

Venmo: @Amira-Hasib

Cash App: $AmiraArima

I would use GFM but again, I need to book my flight and Airbnb ASAP and GFM takes forever to send $ and takes out hella fees.

I know this is a lot of money to raise in a short period of time but I really need help.

For the trip alone I need $675 for my month off I need $1900.

Please donate, if you cant—please boost this.

One time I was cooking with a girl and we were both bilingual but we didn’t have a language in common so we were just sitting by the fire doing prep work quietly and I was peeling little garlic cloves to mince and she put her hand on my arm to stop me and demonstrated how you’re supposed to press on the clove with the flat side of your knife to break the shell off all at once to peel it and I was like oh! And I imitated her and she nodded in approval and we went back to quietly peeling and mincing the garlic and I don’t want to be hyperbolic but in that moment I was like wow I truly understand the universal thread of human love and connection inherent in our souls or whatever

decided to go ahead + say this ✌️