I'm super into it.

But what did she find in the freezer...???

:)

Also I wouldn't eat the Turkey. It wasn't cooked long enough.

Yes: Super Puzzle Fighter 2: Turbo!

The piece contains the hilarious term 'Rote-GPT' - making an image using someone else's protocol? Utterly without meaning or interest.

Nice.

This, I find, is the best clarifying thought through all this, and the avant-garde, AI-enthusiast futurists agree with the good luddite anti-AI souls - control is the only path forwards.

I would argue all the other anti-AI arguments are just post-hoc justifications.

'Information wants to be free' used to be a rallying cry for the individual.

Now 'free information' means 'the corporations will own it, and you will not profit, benefit, or even be identified with your own'.

Their conclusions - that shaping the protocols, or 'context', or 'training set' is where the genuine artistic decisions will be made - essentially boil down to 'individual control'.

I agree.

The rage against AI is class-based. It is corporations/billionaires taking control away from individuals.

Would Ming The Merciless call it The Flicker?

Would Luke Skywalker call it The Button?

Important questions! And probably the basis of a perfectly decent quiz show you could snooze through on Boxing Day.

Anyway, Star Wars is fun, but it is HARD if you are not willing to just do 'Here's a new secret order of Mercenary Jedi with cool eyepatches' or 'Star Destroyer Tri-maran!'

My other idea was to just do Indiana Jones but Star Wars - and very clever I felt about it too - but, of course, Doctor Aphra is already an archeologist!

Dammit!

Gillen, it must always be concluded, is a bast.

The problem, of course, is what kind of a pitch is 'everything is moving and it's all really exciting! Y'know?'

That's not gonna win anyone over, or even help me write a story.

But that's all the Jedis and Darths are for - the epiphenomena of adventure!

So any Star Wars thing that explains itself using these things - any re-arrangement of the surface specifics - immediately outs itself as missing the point.

'In this we learn more about the ....' HONK NO STOP

The problem is that I set myself a mini-task of 'well, what would *I* do with Star Wars'? And, like, how do you aim for THAT? Sheesh!

A useful task in quickly revealing that all the surface specifics - jedis, droids, death stars, forces and all that - do not mean a toot!

Maybe, beyond questions of if it is a well-written song or not, it is just that it is very written. It feels rich and full. Too much vibes-only these days, perhaps.

I hope to go back to not thinking about them soon, but I really liked them at the time, and for this last week.

The only thing worse than UK/US food is US/UK food.

Anyway: movies are great.

And, while i'm on the letterboxd, I too kinda get annoyed at the jokey one-line reviews clogging up all the 'popular reviews' spaces on film pages.

But the reason I write longer reviews is coz I just can't write the short pithy ones! I try!

I'm jealous!

Yet on the other hand it is a path to madness reading every like or not-like as a passive aggressive judgement on your film taste. The system simply can't support that level of intentionality.

And don't get me started on comments!