Emma Coats

We're about to face one of the most important challenges of our generation. We will coexist with millions of synthetic beings whether we like it or not. Hundreds of millions of people already talk to AI companions daily. Robots are advancing faster than anyone predicted. Billions of dollars are being spent making these beings smarter, faster, more useful. But almost nobody is asking the most important question: who should these beings be? We believe AI needs what our favorite characters already have — personality, warmth, emotional range, and a soul. Only then will they inspire us, just like stories have done for thousands of years. We made some incredible progress last year. Check it out below 🧵

馬を拡大するゲーム。 インディーゲームは本当に自由で良い。 『Horse Magnifier』

Post-pandemic, I only take jobs working for people who respect Dwarf Fortress as much as I do. Case in point, @tobi

So this is what I've been doing for the past year - companypicnic.com , on our first call @pedro_computer referenced Dwarf Fortress and the rest is history

One of the most fun things I get to do is work on things like this 😁

@AlisonMcMahan This sounds awesome.

M BENEDICT x TIKTIKBOOM. Paris1896. Art schools only want men, so Alice works @ Gaumont's filmCo & proves movies are art & women artists. She fights off men who want her job. But Gaumont won’t admit she makes films for him, so she strikes out on her own. #PitMad #A #HF #WF

@iamjustjez @graemetcook @IanJSmall @AlexandraBarke1 @BeMorePirate @DanielPink @mattbellringer I can't take credit for the formula, it's actually called The Story Spine, created by playwright Kenn Adams, I learned it in improv class and didn't realize...

@graemetcook @IanJSmall @AlexandraBarke1 @BeMorePirate Indeed and thank you @AlexandraBarke1 and @graemetcook though of course pirates invariably pass it forward. The #pixarpitch, devised by @lawnrocket and passed to me by @DanielPink in To Sell Is Human (thank you @mattbellringer) is a very powerfully simple storytelling technique

Some great suggestions in this top 5 #innovation inside an organisation

@MLHarris_Writes @NMCannon I mean, what could possibly go wrong? 😀

@lawnrocket @NMCannon I lol'd at "Why stop crimes when you can commit them?" Truly a conundrum for the ages!

19-year-old Jamie is *obsessed* with goth/punk icon Azazel. Sure he’s like 43 and she’s dead, but now she can possess him! Maybe she can even find life after trauma. The Sandman/Almost Famous/punk rock - A posthumous coming of age story. #PitMad #NA #H #UF #GN #POC #OWN #LGBT

Soft SONG OF ACHILLES x young GENTLEMAN JACK 🏳️‍🌈 Renaissance Spain: 16-year-old Lina becomes Antonio, hoping to convince his secret girlfriend that escaping their convent is worth sacrificing a comfortable life if they can live freely in love. #pitmad #YA #HF #OWN for #LGBT

@elpeanote I think it is! Thanks for the RT 👋

@lawnrocket This sounds awesome

Gender-questioning teen Jamie has died, but the party’s just starting: she’s haunting her rockstar crush. Possessing him, she learns she’s not alone in her trauma—he’s already got bigger ghosts. The Sandman X Almost Famous X punk rock #PitMad #NA #PR #GN #H #UF #POC #OWN #LGBT

@jamesshedden I love this, reminds me of old Lane Smith illustrated books. The Stinky Cheese Man's more pleasant cousin, Sleepy Pip

Good night apple 💤

"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child...when he loves to recall it and dwells upon its recollection with entire delight, fiction is called romance." - Robert Louis Stevenson: A Gossip on Romance google.com/books/edition/…

Thin silver lining of the pandemic: You can take UCLA Extension courses from anywhere in the world (NYC for example)... I took this one last quarter and it was excellent. The current instructors are probably almost as good as @froonium was. Check it out! uclaextension.edu/writing-journa…

A classic gem... I try to reread it every couple of years. Preserved and available online forever thanks to Google Books google.com/books/edition/…

vimeo.com/336117214 So good! Reference footage from animator Pei-Hsuan (Emma) Shih for her shots on Into the Spiderverse.

"I ain't out here for me. I'm out here for my kids, I'm out here for your kids, I'm out here for your grandkids."