Woot! Your donations to Animal Society got us to Breath of the Wild! We're super pumped to play this before Tears of the Kingdom comes out and you can join in with right now!
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Head Writer of Extra History. Author of INFINITE AND THE DIVINE and ASSASSINORUM: KINGMAKER. Born Hawaii, live HK. Views don’t represent EH or GW. He/Him
Hong KongJoined May 2009
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We came across these in Germany and Austria and they are hauntingly beautiful and sobering memorials.
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This tech needs regulating into the ground before it does serious damage.
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This is terrifying: a marketer pinged me for quote permission — common for a journalist. Only I didn’t recognize the text as something I’d ever said. Pumping it into Google returned nothing.
I asked where he got it: ChatGPT. AI fabricated a quote and attributed it to me.
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thought you'd like to know you've got your own section in the Warhammer Fest shop today! Just saw a guy telling his mate this was the best Black Library novel. #whfest2023 #WarhammerFest
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Transformers theme restaurant THE ARK is now open at Hong Kong Times Square.
Dinners and weekends are apparently jammed but I could just walk in for lunch on a Friday (I didn’t though, just checked out the shop).
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. on the unique power of strikes is some of my favorite messaging and I've been doing labor messaging for almost 20 years. #WGAStrong
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Why though?? Why? What is the point of the intermediate AI step? Why do you think writers can’t read a book and adapt it, but can read a badly written gibberish script by a robot and make it somehow close to the book you didn’t want them to read?
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Multiple studios are exploring using AI to generate scripts based on books and other public domain IP.
The studios reportedly plan to hire writers to rewrite those AI scripts when the writers’ strike ends.
(Source: abovetheline.com/2023/05/04/ai-)
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It would be awesome if our government could do something about the bribery of a Supreme Court justice, but my Senator had to go into the witness protection program because she got shingles.
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Exclusive: Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work nearly a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork. wapo.st/3LzCGpM
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Mmmmmm… lab-cultivated animal cells.
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Fog drifting over Victoria Harbour in spring makes the buildings look like they’re floating on a sea of clouds! The bright, colourful light adds a romantic touch to Hong Kong's unique urban scene.
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Good thing I, as the writer of this episode, do not benefit from this success because of the current streaming residuals model
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This is the cancer eating all of our stuff
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From the @nytimes today. THIS right here is the crux of the issue: We have a consistently profitable business, but that doesn't matter anymore because we've sacrificed everything at the alter of 'exponential growth.' It's a false idol. It's insanity. #wgastrong
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Seems like these two phenomena might have a common root: the belief that AI can produce writing that will obviate human writers, and the idea that movies and shows are merely collections of scenes that each serve a mechanical plot function
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Wanna know what that's for?
Gig workers pay their own employer taxes, insurance, benefits one and all. Double tax for them, zero tax for the studio. Frees up all kinds of money that gets funneled to management and shareholders.
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According to the WGA negotiating committee, the studios are pushing for a "day rate" for comedy/variety writers. Truly horrifying. We won't survive something like that. #WGAStrong #WGAStrike #WGAStressed
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Only way to prevent default - w/ a bipartisan majority and 60 in senate is a clean anti default bill. I am flabbergasted at media treating the Speakers bill, which is deeply unpopular and is coupled w the threat of the collapse of the economy - as anything other than extortion.
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…sooooo you’re saying an animated series is still on the table?
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Harrison Ford Believes ‘This Is Indiana Jones Last Ever Appearance In A Film’ deadline.com/2023/05/harris
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Y’know, if you’re vaping in a wheelchair accessible bathroom stall at Disneyland, maybe you need to examine your choices in life.
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The Lord Lyon in Westminster Abbey at the Service this evening to mark the arrival of The Stone of Destiny.
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10/10 no notes, will definitely daydream about turning it into a Nighthaunt.
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A sickly miasma surrounds the Harbinger of Decay and their mouldering mount. Get a closer look at this new miniature: bit.ly/44fd4qv
#WarhammerCommunity #WarhammerFest
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lmao Biden leaves the podium by putting on shades and making a Dark Brandon reference. amazing
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Well this is a definite buy.
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The new Warhammer Underworlds warband is judge, jury, and executioner!
Meet the Headsmen's Curse: bit.ly/3LwpoeH
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The Hive Mind has been hard at work evolving new creatures to devour the galaxy.
Get a good look at the new xenos miniatures from Warhammer 40,000: Leviathan: bit.ly/3NhoZOJ
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#New40K will be launched with a stunning boxed set. Get a look at what's inside Warhammer 40,000: Leviathan: bit.ly/3LATKNi
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Trazyn’s Hierotek Circle took on a Kommando kill team—as usual, Trazyn got caught up in his own motives and ignored the objectives until too late—but Huntmaster was very pleased to add a few ork skulls to his trophy wall (I mean, sample collection).
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Yes 200 years may have passed but I'm still feeling sorry for Mlle Rousseau's poor little pug, being rudely shielded from that delicious looking piece of bread
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Report to your commissar for punishment detail.
Charge 972/Beta: Class 3 unnecessary wastage of Munitorum-issued hydration liquid.
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Water coming out of a canteen… Astra Militarum detail.
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share if you love bunnies or are prepared to commit an act of unspeakable violence
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God I hate it when Frog and Toad put me on blast.
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“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad. “I am thinking about all of the many things that I will have to do.”
“Yes,” said Frog, “tomorrow will be a very hard day for you.”
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This looks incredibly rad and I look forward to it. There’s a lot of exciting storytelling going on in the Mortal Realms and is at the forefront of that.
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Was wondering when this would happen. It’s not like DeSantis was subtle about his intentions.
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News: Disney has filed a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis, alleging a "targeted campaign of government retaliation" over "protected speech" that "threatens Disney's business operations" and "violates its constitutional rights."
"Disney regrets that it has come to this."
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Hey just a PSA:
Make sure your older relatives are not just hitting DONATE every time one of these comes up, I knew someone whose relative was donating $20 like 4-5 times a day and forgetting about it.
And of course, if you respond they hit you up *more* often.
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Actually I wrote “The Garden of Mortal Delights” in a hospital café because the public hospital visiting hours were only three hours a day. Having finished all my work so I could take paternity leave, I was sitting around at the hospital with nothing to do between ward visits.
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Lot of this resonates.
I finished my first paid fiction story the night before my first kid was born (she came early so I wanted to put it to bed before paternity leave) and wrote I&D before she turned 9 months.
Was actually easier then, babies sleep a lot.
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By special request, here's a thread on:
How to Write While Parenting Mischievous Imps.
Because I wouldn't be a writer if not for my kids. Wrote my first book with a baby in my lap. He's 14 now, and that book is in the garbage, but it all worked out. 1/
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Steven Spielberg says directors should not revise their films to fit current standards and he regrets taking guns out of "E.T.": I should've never messed with the archives of my own work. I don’t recommend anyone do that"
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Here is a lovely story I heard at the weekend, about how to be a good literature teacher. Offered as a palate cleanser from the state of discourse on this site.
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Oh hey look my senator’s a traitor.
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NEW AUDIO: Ted Cruz caught outlining plot before Jan. 6.
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We are less than a week out from #AAPIHM so you still have time to get your preorder in for this book FULL of magical South Asian stories that comes out May 23!
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Just occurred to me that MAGIC HAS NO BORDERS comes out during AAPI heritage month and so I feel like it'd be great to preorder it now and then get a delightful South Asian filled surprise in May, just saying: harpercollins.com/products/magic
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A thing more people should know:
There's a Jan. 6 participant who was injured when he was shoved off a ledge after he tried to accost cops while armed with what looked like a giant ass knife.
He was wearing a "TUCKER IS MY HOMEBOY" t-shirt.
Photos sent by a sleuth source:
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