(he/they) Queer, Autistic artist/actor/etc. creative type (also water type)
Joined February 2010
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Michael Eliot retweeted
[any weather app]
today it will be 71 degrees
later: oops it was 89 degrees but don’t worry tomorrow it will be 71 degrees
Michael Eliot retweeted
Been feeling bleak for the past week after I read an essay saying the market for middle-grade books has collapsed because kids can no longer read them. Two long-time publishers of middle-grades have shuttered, with more to come. We don’t appreciate what a crisis this is. +
Michael Eliot retweeted
You can’t even say “get a job” to people anymore because the market is so rough they’ll respond like, “I’ve applied to 200 jobs in the past six months, the posting was fake, the recruiter was AI, I never even got a rejection email, and my data? Probably sold.”
Michael Eliot retweeted
Underrated benefit of reading a great number & variety of books is that it will make you a more interesting person. As C. S. Lewis said, the person who doesn't read lives in a tiny world; reading lends us the perspective of a thousand lives.
Michael Eliot retweeted
Shut them all down, we can live without AI data centers we can’t live without clean water.
AI data centers will use up enough clean water for 1.3 billion people by 2030 according to a United Nations report.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
A UNU report projects AI data center *energy* consumption will be equivalent to 2.2 years of energy use by 1.3 billion sub-saharans. Data Centers are projected to use 3.7tril liters of water by 2030, or the anual water needs of 500mil sub-saharans.
Ref. Page 33:
collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:1064…
Michael Eliot retweeted
Not only can you 100% communicate your vision in stick figures (I have!!) but, since AI is *definitionally* plagiaristic, even if you “only” use AI to storyboard you’ll be establishing/guiding your film’s visual language with stolen/unoriginal ideas. VISUALIZE YOUR OWN MOVIE FFS
Michael Eliot retweeted
Homophobic and transphobic. Please don’t leave out that he died protecting his trans husband, Tristan.
Michael Eliot retweeted
Just so you know, it may look like "Rainbow Flag" T-shirts that I'm wearing today, but I am not a gay.
Michael Eliot retweeted
Happy Pride Month! Obligatory yearly repost of the Alex Hirsch classic tweet lol
Michael Eliot retweeted
So funny that critiques of rupaul’s generative AI use are met with what boils down to “it’s so hard for queer art to be greenlit in the mainstream so stop nitpicking and support it.”
It’s not art and queer people didn’t make it, no people made it. That’s the point
Michael Eliot retweeted
The Pope is a great example of the idea that cruelty is actually dumb and that kindness and openness come from intelligence. A great juxtaposition to the (techno)fascists of our time. It takes a mind to create a better world, it takes zero to destroy it.
