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@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).

@AuthorKenKirk 20/20 (end) …who love language as a thing to be joyously played with, not to be either rigidly calcified in old forms forever, nor spat out in whatever sloppy way is easiest because it just doesn't matter. All that's to say these folks likely don't share a big audience with me.

@AuthorKenKirk 19/x …code groups. I sometimes feel (egotistically) that my language kinship with Tolkien extends beyond our sharing of two middle initials. I'm not in that league, but I do feel that the people with whom my books rizzonate (that is, resonate with the most #rizz) are the ones…

A question for readers 40 years old & over: How do you cope with young writers who don't have a grasp of grammar & sentence construction? #Author #IndieAuthor #Writer #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #BookTok #Books #SelfPublishing