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@SolinceTheWolf @Kyle36482968 @vr_mama @mexopolis This is NOT, by the way, an endorsement of AI. It's, an endorsement of arguing from the truth, not from whatever unsourced made-up numbers support what we want to hear. You know who makes up sources and doesn't care whether they're true if they confirm user bias? ChatGPT does.

@SolinceTheWolf @Kyle36482968 @vr_mama @mexopolis I'm ready to believe this IF the number doesn't trace back to Kaen Hao's "Empire of AI," which mistook L/sec. instead of m³/hr., overestimating the water use of AI data centers by about 100,000%. Source: westernjournal.com/stories-ai-gob… But given how few alarmists care, it likely does.

I have decided to drop out of the AI program at Amazon. I will not be making a Punky Duck series. Actions speak louder than words. My intent was to showcase artists, both new and seasoned, both inside and outside the studios, driving this new tech. My sincerest apology to those I upset. I promise to do better moving forward. Thank you for your patience with me. I will try harder.

@Ddyritz @emkenobi A sentiment shared wholeheartedly by one of Lucas's most iconic film co-creations!

@emkenobi Personally I have nothing against the museum like that. This stuff is part of history and should be in a museum.

I already know people are gonna call the new Lucas museum woke because there’s a ton of art work portraying civil rights and black history. The right wing Star Wars fans love to forget he’s been married to black women for over a decade and is very progressive. In today’s political climate it’s nice to see George hasn’t changed his views and is not going to shy away from showcasing diversity in his museum.

@Pathfin27511244 @tryin2bgreenman @sawyeurism I'll just leave this here. I'm not a big fan of the narration, but it has some fantastic gems from the cutting room floor and a few glimpses of what the film would have looked like, and DID look like. youtube.com/watch?v=GFMyMx…

@tryin2bgreenman @sawyeurism Not to diss her or anything, and may she rest in peace, but you're acting like Star Wars was a disaster waiting to happen before Marcia came in. Like all good editors, she made cuts and patched in effects work, the latter of which was already waiting for her in the editing bay.

May her memory be a blessing. Star Wars would not exist without her. Yes, you heard that right. Star Wars would not exist without a woman.

@Mr_Zilla1 @JoshPhillipsPhD Not to throw a monkey wrench into your plans, but... 😅

@JoshPhillipsPhD This is chronological, BTW.

I’ve never seen Star Wars. My goals is to watch all 9 Episode movies this summer. How do I watch?:

@KevinLamb74 @cineburk 3/3 …Chancellor, to fund clone research on a huge scale. I've always understood the Empire as a means to an end, not the end itself. Palpatine's true enemy is mortality. But he had to funnel the galaxy's wealth into clonetech to achieve "somehow return" capacity in his lifetime.

@KevinLamb74 @cineburk 2/3? …to reclaim his ancestral wealth as the ruler of Serenno. People forget that he bankrolled the battle droids because he didn't want the large-scale loss of life of civilian militias defending their homes. That army gave Palpatine the justification, once he became Supreme…

The Phantom Menace presents the vision of a man with absolutely no restraints, whether they be creative, technical, or financial. I know many consider that to be one of the film's greatest faults, and George Lucas himself even toned some things down like Jar Jar and midichlorians in Episodes II and III in response to fan backlash. But I actually really appreciate that Phantom Menace is arguably the one Star Wars film that just projects George's brain directly onto the screen with zero filters. Everclear Lucas if you will. Such a fascinating, imaginative, and colorful movie that has weathered the criticisms and stood the test of time. There will never be another film like it.

@AisonWalker The real question is, were you caught BY it when the dump followed the pump after hours?

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@deveshcodes_ @EscanorReloaded I find it fascinating how many of the problems identified with AI (and I'm not saying they AREN'T problems; in fact they're among the biggest) are directly related to the human motivations behind their development in the metastastic end-stage capitalism of the billionaire West.

@EscanorReloaded the token usage cost is a real issue especially for American proprietary models. If the data wasn't a concern for enterprises, they would've shifted to chinese model labs.

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually. One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired. Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be. You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner. The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage. And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about. To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game. You didn’t hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own. Enjoy.

@JustinPM @daveburnett1980 @TatooineSons 2/2 …do the best he can with what he was given. Some say they should've just made Timothy Zahn's "Heir to the Empire" trilogy Eps. 7-9. OK cool! But if Leia dies before she lights the diplomatic fuse with the Noghri, the whole adaptation of THAT fine story turns to ash too.

@JustinPM @daveburnett1980 @TatooineSons 1/2 His job was to make it make sense, and also to set up Episode IX which was to be Leia's feature vehicle and farewell, the same way that VII was Han's and VIII was supposed to be Luke's. Then Carrie died before the VIII that he wanted to make was finished, and so he had to…

This is 100% why I love The Last Jedi. At the time it came out I was 41 years old. Had been going through some of the hardest years of my life. And Rian Johnson's version of Luke Skywalker spoke to what I was experiencing. The Hero's Journey isn't just a coming of age mythological framework. It continues on into later phases of the human experience. The Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi speaks to that.

@ClickingSeason This is the first time in a long time I've heard "esoteric" used with its full literal meaning, and not its ironically exoteric meaning as "obscure" or "niche" in a more general sense.

Something people have difficulty understanding: 1. Art isn’t *simple*. 2. Good art has exoteric and esoteric emanations 3. These are layered, such that the exoteric meaning can be trumped by the esoteric meaning which is trumped by the exoteric again

@CrungoCyle @taskmasterfan Meanwhile, #StarWars-loving women everywhere:

@taskmasterfan No woman will ever understand how it feels to watch an IP that was made for guys, be turned into girl-boss dogshit, all in the name of “inclusion” & to cater to people that were never interested in the IP to begin with.

no man will ever take away how it felt to see rey leading the franchise

@sw_holocron Everyone hates a different aspect of Star Wars, and never stops crying over it. YOUR dealbreaker might be: -Lucas's dialogue -CGI changes -Rian's plot choices -Anything Kathleen Kennedy touches -Personal bigotry But we all agree, ONE #StarWars creator has never made ANY mistake:

Everyone seemingly has their own opinion about what Star Wars should be or shouldn’t be. What’s great and what’s not great. So we have to ask: What is 1 thing every Star Wars fan can agree on?

@IMAO_ @TheFrankOzJam 3/2 When animators catch this & ensure Roger's eyes are in the right spot, the connection is far more "real." Likewise, I don't know if Yoda's species has strokes. But we do, so to us, the strabismus he develops from ESB to Jedi cues us he's unwell. That's Oscar-worthy subtlety.

@IMAO_ @TheFrankOzJam 2/2 …they drew in Roger. He imagined a FULL SIZE invisible bunny, like Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey," which is why Roger has to bounce around to match his eyeline. When Bob's eyes are off-line, Frank makes Stuart Freeborn's puppet look more alive & engaged than this real live human.

One thing I've always wondered is why was the puppet Yoda in The Phantom Menace (since replaced with CGI) so terrible? It didn't look like Yoda at all. When they used a puppet again for The Last Jedi, that one looked right.

@terryrus99 @Microinteracti1 Man, social media is killing my attention span. I was about to reply to your 1st sentence with, basically, your 2nd (it HAS quietly preserved Kissinger's Petrodollar for 70 years while pretending to depose disobedient oil regimes for "other reasons.") But you beat me to it.😅

@Microinteracti1 Yes we've seen 30 years of the most expensive military force failing to achieve its stated objectives. But it has consistently achieved non-stated objectives. Primarily to direct government funding to the war industry, to discourage trade in non-USD and to access oil.

At some point, we have to stop calling it the world’s most powerful military. That label has survived entirely on budget figures and hardware counts, not outcomes. By that logic you could call a football club the world’s best based on shirt sales and stadium size. At some point someone has to ask when they last won a match. The U.S. hasn’t won a war in more than thirty years. Not a close call. Not bad luck. Thirty years of the most expensive military force ever assembled failing to achieve its stated objectives, repeatedly, across different theaters, different enemies, different administrations. A military that cannot win is not the most powerful military. It is the most expensive one. Those are not the same thing, and the conflation has been extraordinarily useful to everyone except the taxpayer. Power, in the end, is the ability to impose your will. A force that cannot decide outcomes is not powerful.

@Microinteracti1 And to this day, they may fall behind Sweden on all-weather aircraft; Canada & Ukraine on snipers; Ukraine again and Iran on drones. But if you need to secure a muddy field with diesel mortar, or drop 90,000 bombs on a city & don't much care where they land, you know who to call.

@Microinteracti1 I'm a big fan of the "World's Most Powerful Legacy Military." It reminds us (especially on a #MemorialDay that is supposed to *honour* US servicemen & women) of the hellish primitive warfare conditions they endured to protect their families (and incidentally, us too at times).