Sounds like you live in dangerous parts.

Well, it’s good to know they’re doing something with their life. Providing a service, and so on. Quite an admirable goat, really.

But then, who knows…

And I bet that goat had never been in a single nu-metal band. Sad, really.

You meet such interesting goats.

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

Yeah and the whole film is like that, really. It’s all the standard blockbuster tricks repeated, devoid of content, in a way that makes them very hard to miss. It feels like a kind of ’emperor has no clothes’ moment for the genre, in a way.

And then there’s the pandemic, which acts as a pretty major cutoff point for that entire era…

I also have an unsubstantiated and probably entirely wrong pet theory that Rise of Skywalker coming out the same year and very obviously doing all the standard blockbuster beats as part of a very poorly constructed story took the wind out of the sales of that entire mode of storytelling.

I think a large part of that is downstream of the more iconic parts of the franchise ending in 2019. It’s a bit past-its-time, at this point.