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highplainsdem

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1. Curious about why someone whose avatar is pro-union would want to use a technology that unions

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Sat Jul 19, 2025, 03:17 PM

Jul 19

for creatives hate and fight against.

Scriptbot engaged ...

Two new seasons of TOS alternating the styles of Frederic Brown and James Blish with a fifth season finale two-parter in the style of Leigh Brackett.

Translation: "Who cares about writers?"

With the right technology, we can dispense with actors have the original cast as they looked in 1970.

Translation: "Who cares about actors?"

Where were you during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes a couple of years ago, with opposition to creatives being replaced by AI a central issue?

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Curious about why someone whose avatar is pro-union would want to use a technology that unions highplainsdem Jul 19 #1

Curious about why someone whose avatar is pro-union would want to use a technology that unions ??? 4th Jul 19 #2

It isn't amusing in a forum where people often post and defend AI slop. I've seen so many posts highplainsdem Jul 19 #3

All humor -- even if it has the right political tendency -- is objectively counterrevolutionary. 4th Jul 19 #4

The Star Trek AI fantasy is that you can talk an evil AI computer or robot into shutting itself down. Intractable Jul 19 #5

Not just shut down, but ... 4th Jul 20 #6