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danwagstaff

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Book and design stuff at The Casual Optimist. Dad. Dog person. Slow runner. Field hockey player. Coffee drinker. Working in the book trade. Occasional soccer chat. He / him.

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“It’s like a whole world of intellectuals and artists got a multibillion-dollar grant from the tech world... But we mistook that, and were frankly actively gaslit into thinking that that was because they cared about art."

A fascinating article on Hollywood, the writers' strike, and the state of film and television. There are so many incredible quotes...

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/05/the-life-and-death-of-hollywood-daniel-bessner/

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Wow, this is spot-on analysis, at least seen from my perspective inside the industry. I've been complaining about how insanely risk-averse and short-sighted executives are, and Apple treated the animated show I was on the same as in the article: no viewership numbers, no release schedule, strung along for months about season two without saying 'no' (despite evidence we were a top-viewed show).

What I didn't expect was the same private equity firms that @pluralistic has been writing so incisively about to have been at the root of it once again.

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Interesting that what those with resources and power in that system are effectively doing is the same as what AI would accomplish: to present the most common cliches that (they think) will be the most attractive to the greatest number of people. That system has become human AI: a greatest-probability machine. Funny that for an industry whose bread and butter is the unexpected in creativity, it is fully focused on working for its opposite.

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I'm not sure these are exactly the self-help books my dog needs, but still...

Tom Gauld for Saturday's Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2024/mar/02/tom-gauld-on-the-latest-self-help-books-for-dogs-cartoon

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