Jack Gwilym Roberts
@jackgwilym.bsky.social
Full spectrum story maven. Future Human, Bad Idea magazine, Kurdistan Museum and more to come.
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
'Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever'
Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence
YouTube video by Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
'Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever'
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Reading this in the voice of Kevin Spacey's character from Seven.
March 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Reading this in the voice of Kevin Spacey's character from Seven.
'Meta employees faced a simple ethical question. The AI program, Llama 3, would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with ChatGPT. Acquiring all that text legally could take time. Should they just pirate it instead?'
Their answer: AUT ZUCK AUT NIHIL.
Their answer: AUT ZUCK AUT NIHIL.
Search the LibGen database here, and peer inside a pirated library of millions of books and research papers used by Meta and others:
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
'Meta employees faced a simple ethical question. The AI program, Llama 3, would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with ChatGPT. Acquiring all that text legally could take time. Should they just pirate it instead?'
Their answer: AUT ZUCK AUT NIHIL.
Their answer: AUT ZUCK AUT NIHIL.
This story is nuts.
"I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky." Canadian entrepreneur and actor Jasmine Mooney, who was detained in the US for two weeks, writes for the Guardian about her experience.
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This story is nuts.
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Concept art by Maurice Noble for the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare-Way to the Stars (1958), dir. Chuck Jones, Warner Bros. Cartoons
February 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Concept art by Maurice Noble for the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare-Way to the Stars (1958), dir. Chuck Jones, Warner Bros. Cartoons
This remains one of the most innovative, creative attempts to bridge the worlds of film storytelling and video games. Chapeau @jmechner.bsky.social.
For anyone interested in my 1997 game "The Last Express," @eurogamer.bsky.social has a great, in-depth retrospective article and interview. www.eurogamer.net/the-making-o...
The making of The Last Express: How Prince of Persia's Jordan Mechner created one of the last great classic adventure games
Eurogamer speaks to Jordan Mechner about the creation of The Last Express and how its development draw from films, comics, art and games.
www.eurogamer.net
February 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This remains one of the most innovative, creative attempts to bridge the worlds of film storytelling and video games. Chapeau @jmechner.bsky.social.
Insightful thread about the emotional gratification of victimhood and reality distortion, and how these dopa hits can addict the psyche.
Kat is making a very crucial observation, here. This is the politics of psychological gratification. It's not just about making people feel good—it's about creating a self-reinforcing system where emotional ratification becomes more important than objective reality. 🧵
The lure of Elon’s alternate reality for his followers is so powerful that he will tell them that pulling books off shelves, deleting words from government websites, and banning programs for their kids based on words they used is all part of fighting back against censorship. And they just let him
February 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Insightful thread about the emotional gratification of victimhood and reality distortion, and how these dopa hits can addict the psyche.
Is there a decent word/phrase for someone who presents as a smart person but is actually a socially incontinent idiot?
February 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Is there a decent word/phrase for someone who presents as a smart person but is actually a socially incontinent idiot?
Do androids dream of electric HR meetings?
This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. Not sure how I’m supposed to feel about it.
February 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Do androids dream of electric HR meetings?
Excellent, revelatory journalism from McKay Coppins. Wild that Murdoch’s children were convinced Wendi Deng had links to Chinese intelligence.
I've spent the past year talking to James Murdoch about his father's "twisted" behavior, the mind games at the family-counseling retreat, how Fox News really works, and the war over his family's media empire. My cover story for The Atlantic's April edition: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Growing Up Murdoch
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
theatlantic.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Excellent, revelatory journalism from McKay Coppins. Wild that Murdoch’s children were convinced Wendi Deng had links to Chinese intelligence.
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Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago
February 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago
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Maybe by 2028 the alien intervention in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will also seem a judicious choice.
GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
ME IN 2025: ah, okay
January 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Maybe by 2028 the alien intervention in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will also seem a judicious choice.
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You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.
January 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.
Started a Severance S1 rewatch. Love the scene where Mark S sleeps in the racing car bed at his sister's place and asks why there are three beds in their son's room. 'If you provide said child with all of its beds upon birth,' says his BiL, 'You allow it to progress across the room at its own rate'.
January 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Started a Severance S1 rewatch. Love the scene where Mark S sleeps in the racing car bed at his sister's place and asks why there are three beds in their son's room. 'If you provide said child with all of its beds upon birth,' says his BiL, 'You allow it to progress across the room at its own rate'.
Rolling into 2025 like…
January 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Rolling into 2025 like…
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The Dylan movie would have been 100X better if they'd written it as a quest film where they have to reassemble the Fellowship of the Traveling Wilburys in order to defeat Spotify
December 26, 2024 at 8:25 PM
The Dylan movie would have been 100X better if they'd written it as a quest film where they have to reassemble the Fellowship of the Traveling Wilburys in order to defeat Spotify
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Every acquisitions meeting ever...
"Find us the next big thing, but only by copying what's already successful!"
December 17, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Every acquisitions meeting ever...
'Won't someone please think of the shareholders?'
Imagine being the person who cancels Sesame Street and just living your life after that
December 16, 2024 at 12:22 PM
'Won't someone please think of the shareholders?'
Seasonal shout-out to pronatalists on the Xmas card list.
Tony Ferrino - Bigamy At Christmas
YouTube video by Lee Matthew
youtu.be
December 16, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Seasonal shout-out to pronatalists on the Xmas card list.
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Maybe the Grinch would be nicer if every five minutes a dude wasn’t singing songs about what a piece of shit he is
December 2, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Maybe the Grinch would be nicer if every five minutes a dude wasn’t singing songs about what a piece of shit he is
‘Smoke’ and ‘Go’ are underrated Christmas movies.
December 16, 2024 at 7:48 AM
‘Smoke’ and ‘Go’ are underrated Christmas movies.
