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Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
something about books getting smaller to save the planet while endless AI swallows glaciers whole to "summarize" emails
Publishers try skinnier books to save money and emissions | @BBCNews buff.ly/4guNP9K
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
I would buy the screenplay of Rebel Ridge if it was made available. I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s so sharp.
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
Toni Morrison said, “Art does not cleanse you and make you morally superior to anything or anybody, even when it has a very strong political content. The artist himself is not made any better. I still have to try to be the best person I can be.” Thank you.
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
This is so fucked and morally reprehensible.
Marilyn Monroe, who died 62 years ago, has been reincarnated as a “hyper-real” AI-generated digital avatar that lets fans engage in a conversation with the late actor — who can answer questions “in Marilyn’s signature voice and style.” variety.com/2024/digital/new…
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
let us all rise for dragonball durag. we do in this remembrance of you, akira toriyama
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
Let’s say they reeaaalllyyy don’t give a fuck about public works. Disgusting, but the lived truth.
Where does the good sense and if not that, self preservation kick in? Because history has shown us…how this will go….
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
They’re not funding art, they’re not patrons, they’re building foundations to house their collections, the Loch brothers definitely have decimated the campaign system, they buy this site and crypto, like —
What do you think will happen when the ppl have no bread and no art?
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
I have come to realize that the rich of today are different from the robber barons of yesteryear for a few reasons, but mostly b/c they are deeply uneducated, uninterested in the arts and humanities for the public and do not have the good sense to at least pretend
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
He goes to a meeting for corporations/big business owners, that costs $10k for a plate of scrambled eggs, and tells them he plans to handicap the ability to organize labor unions in Georgia and the working class will still propel him to a GOP national ticket next cycle.
ICYMI: Republican Gov. Brian Kemp stated earlier this week that he hopes to slow down the labor movement in Georgia this legislative session, announcing plans to propose legislation that could make it more difficult for workers to form unions.wabe.org/governor-kemp-wants…
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
Either copyright exists, or it doesn't. Open AI is the test of this. Nothing they do should be legal under current copyright law. Nothing.
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
If Open AI is allowed to use copyrighted materials any way they want, that's the end of copyright law. Start making your Predator Vs Mickey Mouse or Star Wars vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films and if anyone says anything, ask why machines follow different laws than us.
Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
"It would be impossible to train today's leading AI models without using copyrighted materials."
So (A) pay the people whose materials you're using or (B) throw your stupid fucking plagiarism engines in the fucking river.
I don't give a shit if you can't train it to steal.
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Tokyo Toni Morrison retweeted
For those asking:
1. Here is a petition to keep Bluestockings open and accessible: change.org/p/keep-bluestocki…
2. They ask for donations (or to BUY A BOOK) via their website: bluestockings.com
Lower East Side residents are trying to close Bluestockings bookstore because they give out narcan, socks, and toothpaste and let unhoused people go to the bathroom.
Vile, disgusting behavior from LES gentrifiers.
curbed.com/2023/12/bluestock…
ALT headline: Bluestocking is facing eviction for handing out narcan with a picture of the front of the bookstore
