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Lincoln Michel

@TheLincoln

8 months

So... if you've heard me ramble about my "Pale Fire meets Star Trek" novel, well, I finished it 👀

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Lincoln Michel

@TheLincoln

2 years

Fixed this for Shakespeare

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1 year

Tech bros have invented the concept of "movies"

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1 year

Imagine if every Book is converted into an Animated Book and made 10x more engaging. AI will do this. Huge opportunity here to disrupt Kindle and Audible.

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3 years

Me and the boys after our COVID vaccines.

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If you met someone who insisted they hated poetry, what poem would you read to them to change their mind?

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Lincoln Michel

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1 year

Craziest part about "sex scenes are unnecessary" discourse is... what sex scenes? America has the most sexless puritan film and TV out there! People are freaking out about 4 seconds of clothed actors breathing. If they watch like one French movie they're going to disintegrate

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4 years

For sale: baby shoes. Never worn. Nothing sinister! Wrong size. Should've measured. First baby. Very excited!!

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2 years

It's actually kind of strange how many high profile pundits have just never once thought about how the world works at all

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Has there ever been an instance of two real-life serial killers randomly running into each other, discovering their shared sickness, and teaming up? I've seen this sort of thing in fiction.

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3 years

Inside every person there are two frogs

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2 years

jesus

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Amazing how many people hate the menswear guy when his main advice is just "clothes should fit you."

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5 months

Every day a tech person logs on here and says "many people don't realize this, but life is easier when you're rich"

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2 years

No emoji version has even come close to matching the perfection of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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9 months

Remembering how Ursula K. Le Guin got bashed for this "snobby" take on Harry Potter that is now basically common wisdom. Le Guin especially pegged Rowling on being "ethically mean spirited"

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Lincoln Michel

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2 years

Really does feel like a defining feature of our era is the winners are all whiners. Billionaires, MCU films, pop stars, the SCOTUS, etc. They're not content to just get all the power and money, they insist they have to also be adored and never once receive any criticism.

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1 year

The three act play that will repeat non-stop from here on out:

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1 year

The problem with Taibbi agreeing to unnamed conditions from Musk isn't just that he let a source dictate reporting, but that he's enacting the *very thing* he's claiming to expose: the secret rules the rich and powerful use to shape narratives.

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Lincoln Michel

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4 months

Average book twitter discourse

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4 years

"Now's the perfect time to write your novel!" Ah yes, those ideal writing conditions of world-altering pandemic, economic collapse, general anxiety, and a daily barrage of horrifying news.

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2 years

Sending this to my students to explain why you put titles in quotes...

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@TheLincoln

2 years

One of the main features of American anti-intellectualism is a belief that no one *really* likes anything that isn't mass pop culture. That if you read poetry, watch foreign movies, listen to bands not on top 40 radio, whatever, you must be in some sense faking it.

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2 years

Like it really doesn't take any time to think "Oh wait, there are fire escapes on every building, fire hydrants you can't park in front of, levees, evacuation routes, hurricane warning systems, building codes for earthquake areas, smoke alarms, etc. etc. etc."

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Lincoln Michel

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5 months

The insistence on "likeable characters" has really messed up novels, which are obviously best when narrated by a weird little delusional freak

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2 years

Cast Matthew Berry as Tom Bombadil you cowards

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1 year

This "Jesus wasn't broke" discourse is Twitter at it's most pure. I love the people who are replying "He learned carpentry, so was a skilled laborer with good income" like Jesus had a union job in like 1950s Ohio.

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2 months

We gotta return "pretentious" to its original meaning of "pretending to have greater talent, smarts, or skill than one actually has" instead of the current meaning of "anyone who is smarter, more talented, or more skilled than me, which makes me feel inferior and sad :("

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2 years

A lot of people are (correctly) pointing out that natural disasters aren't contagious in the way of viruses. Very true. But also we do build our roads, buildings, cities, and everything around minimalizing the effects of natural disasters!

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2 years

I'm in my supervillain lab trying to invent the perfect insane literary twitter discourse. Here's what I've experimenting with: Booksellers are "story landlords" who gatekeep narrative.

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3 years

"It was the fuck around of times, it was the find out of times" - Charles Dickens

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4 years

writers, one of these has to go

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1 year

Forcing the blue tick on dead celebrities is a new level of pathetic

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2 years

The "I wish Lydia Tar was real" piece reminds me that when the New Yorker published "The Lottery" a bunch of people wrote letters asking for the location of the town so they could go visit and watch the stonings....

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1 year

Lots of heady theories about why Succession recalled early "prestige TV" but I will offer a dumber one: it was funny, and a little weird. The Sopranos, The Wire, etc. were also funny and a little weird. A lot of the prestige TV between has been pretty but dull and unfunny.

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1 year

Dealing with Chatbot student essay has been more depressing than I expected. The essays are nonsense. They say nothing, invent quotations, get facts wrong. The students have learned nothing, not even how to cheat well. Just a huge waste of time.

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3 months

I think we as a society can hold two thoughts at same time a) almost anyone can be scammed + b) a financial advice columnist falling for an "Amazon rep" connecting you to "the CIA" who tells you to put 50k in unmarked bills in a shoebox to toss in a car and tell no one in wild

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4 years

There are a lot of good animals in the world, but the best has gotta be the arctic fox in the middle of shedding its winter coat

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2 months

Lotta replies saying it's too old for any college student to have watched. But in the 90s it would have been bizarre to claim no college student would know Star Wars, Jaws, Godfather, or other big 70s films. Does seem like there's been a shift to an ever-present media culture

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I make a Matrix reference in one of my lectures and it's simply now a fact of life that not one single student in any of my classes will ever have seen the Matrix. Zero, every time, no exceptions. Obviously I'm old and washed but damn

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1 year

@cafreiman I know libertarianism is an unserious ideology for children, but even by that standard the idea JD Rockefeller would trade places with a poor American with no health care and no ability to ever retire in exchange for getting to play Candy Crush and eat a KFC Double Down... lmao

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@TheLincoln

5 months

Energy I'm trying to bring into 2024

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1 year

I don't think the question "If a story is good who cares if it's written by software instead of a human?!?!" is actually hard to answer. We come to art to see how another human views the world. Not how generic-text producing software describes the world.

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3 months

AI cheating has really gotten out of control. I'm having students turn in entire long ChatGPT essays in response to tiny assignments. Like they're asked to write one paragraph and I get a full essay filled with fake references.

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2 years

Props to Meghan McCain for making every small press literary author feel like a fucking champ today

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Meghan McCain’s New Memoir ‘Bad Republican’ Flops With Fewer Than 300 Copies Sold

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11 months

We really have to get past the idea that reading fiction is politics and morality. Reading horror doesn't make you an evil person. Reading a book set in historical Russia doesn't mean you support Putin's current war. Reading cozy fiction doesn't make your moral. Come on now.

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His other main advice is "develop your own personal sense of style" and then "fast fashion is exploitative, unethical, and makes poor quality clothes" and I guess the latter is the true source of the anger.

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2 months

At this point, Matt Taibbi is just a Gen X David Brooks but with even less insight. Pretending the GOP has no "institutional power nationally" when they control the SCOTUS, the House, etc. because you are obsessed with elite college campus politics is just embarrassing.

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Matt Taibbi was asked "why doesn't he pay much attention to the sins (or threats) from "the right"?" He gave a great answer: Why I don’t spend a lot of time on the Republicans: 1) There is a enormous army of MSM reporters already going after them from every angle, with most…

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1 year

Real footage of Dr. Katz after getting the vaccine !

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1 month

"A jacket shouldn't restrict your arm movement" "HOW DARE YOU YOU 🤬🤬🤬🤬"

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@TheLincoln

2 years

"Lolita wouldn't be published in the US today!" takes are funny because... it wasn't published in its day! Lolita was rejected by US publishers, published in France to no reviews, subsequently banned, became a international scandal, and only published in the US *years* later

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Lincoln Michel

@TheLincoln

4 years

*crumples up novel draft*

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2 years

"Whoa! Whoa! steady there! Now, my little fellows, where be you a-going to, puffing like a bellows? What’s the matter here then? Do you know who I am? I’m Tom Bombadil."

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1 year

@Jason @POTUS @SecYellen What changed?

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3 years

So uh any of the people who pretended to care about a broken CVS window this summer have thoughts on violent mobs attacking police and politicians to overthrow a democratic election?

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1 year

I'm truly curious what films these people are talking about. They keep claiming they go see "non-romantic" action movies that are "filled with sex scenes." What movies are these?

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@TheLincoln

3 months

Every time I see a tweet like this I search for the users tweets on NFTs and crypto etc and every time they were saying the same thing about those lol

Austin Rief ☕️

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3 months

I tried the Apple Vision Pro today. This device is going to change the world.

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2 months

I won't gloat over anyone having job struggles. But these stories are good reminders there is no automatically safe career or field. "LEARN TO CODE!" used to be a constant refrain on here from people mocking people in other fields who studied humanities. Now...

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Recently a Slack recruiter pinged me simply to “network” because they don’t have openings. I’ve assumed the tech job market must be tougher with all the laid off ex-FAANG people on the market competing for jobs and fewer openings but is it really this bad?

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1 year

They're rebranding opposing banning books as "identity politics for librarians"

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1 year

I've ranted enough about ChatGPT but the belief fiction is about "ideas" unrelated to execution is a common fallacy. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is all that matters. A "writer" who has an "idea" but no ability to make it a story has nothing.

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1 year

Everyone is sorry for the magazine, understandably, but what if any of the submissions were... good? Particularly apropos for SF which is known as the "literature of ideas". What if u have brilliant ideas but need help writing? Would early Asimov have been distinguishable (1/2)

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1 year

Today in conservatives trying to understand art: Shapiro is shocked that mysteries deceive and misdirect the audience instead of revealing everything in the first thirty seconds

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1 year

@ishapiro Weird how you didn't reveal Crow's wife is on the board of your employer. Almost like none of you are trustworthy in the slightest!

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@dancow @alexanderchee @DavidAFrench [Guy with no ethics]: "I vouch for the ethics of the Nazi guy who funds me!"

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1 year

I can't even count the number of times I've seen tech bros claim they'll "fix" books with technology to add pop ups / video / gaming / etc. People actually like reading and don't need reading to become video games or movies when movies and video games already exist...

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Lincoln Michel

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2 years

Conservatives have really succeeded at convincing Americans that the rest of the world kinda doesn't exist. Statements like "gun control doesn't work" and "it's impossible to provide healthcare" are treated like debatable points instead of obvious, provable falsehoods.

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Something extremely depressing about all these movies feature corporate "heroes" who brought a consumer product to market. Why do I care about the guy who acquired the rights to Tetris or convinced Jordan to put his name on sneakers?

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1 year

@Austin_Federa Maybe you should direct your ire toward the "libertarian" tech community who worked with Republicans to undo regulations that would have prevented this or the likes of Peter Theil who seem to have caused the bank run. I get that this would require some self reflection though...

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3 years

Writers: a cautionary tale from Ursula K. Le Guin. Don't make her mistake! Put that pickle barrel in your novel now! (via @falseroxy )

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3 months

"Kokomo" is such a tragic song for millennials because in 1988, when the song was released, you actually could get somewhere fast and then take it slow. That's no longer possible for our generation.

Martha Lincoln

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Fast Car” was always a sad song, but in 1988 when it released, you arguably *could* run away with your partner and make a life on the salary of a grocery-store checker. 35 years on it reads as much sadder

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3 years

Is this Wolf's first time meeting a child? lmao at thinking every single time a child cries their spirit is broken for life.

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1 year

Like what are we talking about here? I watch a lot of TV and there is almost no sex. This was kicked off by Badgly in You and his character has 2 blink and you miss sex scenes?

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@TheLincoln

2 years

sorry I'm absolutely dying at thinking George R. R. Martin invented the concept of morally complex characters in the year 1996

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@izakaminska

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The genius of George R R Martin was connected to him making us realise that there is no such thing as an archetypal baddie or goodie. Everyone is nuanced and complex. Worthy of moments of our contempt or our compassion. Currently this is Liz Truss:

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(Yes, in this case there is more going on--maids and cooks are your "community"??--and the example is perhaps more "being relatively rich in a country where many are in extreme poverty and servant wages are cheap.")

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2 years

Amazing how many YA controversies have statements like "It was very important to me to create a neurodiverse, queer, 420 friendly cast of royals for the all-powerful heredity monarchy in my fantasy novel Smashing the Slave Revolt: Golden Kingdom Book 4"

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@themikewest It has fans surely, but a lot of people talk about the general nastiness in the books towards various groups and I think fewer people talk about as original these days or stylistically great (a lot of that is the fans growing up and reading adult books of course)

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1 year

A lot going on here but... how rarely do these tweeters think couples have sex? You want them to rent a hotel room every night?

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4 years

all of you people coming after em dashes definitely did not get an MFA in the last 15 years!

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3 years

Reading a FB thread where MFA professors are saying they don't admit students whose work has genre elements because none of their faculty has any interest or ability to comment on the work. That, uh, seems likes like an indication you might want to hire new faculty!

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3 years

The best cure for imposter syndrome is reading what gets published.

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1 year

lol at this guy saying the only role models for boys are racist and sexist right wing idiots and then trying to define away every other possibility

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2 years

Damn RRR rips. Best action movie I've seen since Fury Road?

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1 year

A lot of people are responding to me by naming shows that have a grand total of under a minute of sex across whole seasons. I think that's personally proof of my initial tweet not a refutation. Even a few seconds of sex is notable and surprising these days

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3 years

If you want to compliment an author on their book, be like Jim and eat it

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1 year

Last week: "lmao sux 2 b a peasant but our AI start ups are going to replace every job ha ha learn to code worm 🤑" This week: "You have to bail out our Silicon Valley start ups how can you be so ungrateful for all we've done for you??? 😭"

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3 years

It's utterly insane we're all supposed to be worried about the optics of student loan forgiveness when we bailed out fucking banks. BANKS! No one likes banks.

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3 years

This is the most deranged Slate letter I've ever read. Wow.

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2 years

@Richard_Vixen The pied piper of the common man over here

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2 years

Number one quality I look for in a bank is the high likelihood I'll lose access to my account if I make a joke about the bank's owner.

Hannah Murphy

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Musk right now casually walking through his grand payments vision for Twitter: Users could link their online bank account to Twitter, he says. Then the company will offer "extremely compelling money market account to get extremely high yield on your balance". Add debit cards etc

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The pro-AI argument that "just because someone doesn't want to do the work doesn't mean they aren't an artist" is honestly very funny. It's like someone driving around a marathon and then being shocked people don't consider them a runner. "You're gatekeeping running!" ok, man

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1 year

dying at this person who thinks septuagenarian poet and classics scholar Anne Carson is writing poems about Michael Cera rom coms 💀

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I know nothing about the legalities here, but it does seem like a movie studio should be required to make the movie free for the public if they want a tax write off. Make that shit public domain.

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

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‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is now expected to be shelved and deleted forever. Warner Bros wanted $75M - $80M for the film and rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon & Paramount, refusing to let them counter-offer. (Source: )

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Personally, I DO think it's a problem journalists often act as mouthpieces for the government! Would be extra problematic if a journalist was claiming to expose CIA info from the CIA's press room while CIA director says "We're doing the CIA Files after we check a few things"

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@Austin_Federa And the last two decades have not seen a notable increase in wealth for most people. Again, maybe some self reflection from Silicon Valley is in order...

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1 year

Still think this story primarily shows what a failure AI writing has been. This guy "wrote" 100 "books" that are a mere 2-5,000 words. He's sold less than 6 copies per book on avg. and earned less than $2,000 Why is this getting any coverage at all?

Publishers Weekly

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Sci-fi author says he wrote 97 books in 9 months using AI tools, including ChatGPT and Midjourney | @BusinessInsider

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@noahgittell Most of those are fairly obscure and a few aren't American. I think it's a lot closer to being sexless than the claims it's impossible to turn on TV without seeing "graphic sex" on every show.

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A trap of non-fiction writing seems to be having a viral article on like "the joys of french fries" and then you write a book called "How French Fries Changed the World" and then "french fries guy" is your whole deal and you get FURIOUS when people talk about french fries w/o you

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Since people are asking how we know Musk was the source and is involved in orchestraing: Musk publicly claimed he was spurce and keeps saying "we" If Musk is lying and not involved at all, Taibbi should expose this...

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2 years

@LHSummers 🤡

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Also heard librarians are starting to have days wasted trying to track down articles they can't find before realizing they're nonsense Chatgpt invented.

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Paglia is the perfect example of a dumb person's idea of a smart person. Repackages banal, mainstream conservative views as "edgy" by cursing now and then and using Word's thesaurus function. Only interesting unintentionally, like her fawning over Palin.

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Paglia almost never missed

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4 years

I'll vote for Biden over Trump, no question. But listen to Sanders and tell me he isn't likely to debate circles around Trump while Biden mumbles about dog faced pony soldiers.

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Watch this man! Just now on Fox. Get this in front of your Michigan aunt or coach. Amazing.

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Honestly don't know how you could do X Files in a pizza gate, Q, chem trails, vaccine w nanopatticles America unless you completely invert the entire idea of the show

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A new ‘X-FILES’ series is confirmed to be happening, developed by Ryan Coogler. (Source: )

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