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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…can we force the ceo of that podcast startup to listen to all infinity of them for the rest of their days?…

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Steve Grody's avatar

Glad to be involved in body/sense activities (graffiti, swing dance, martial arts, Daoist practice) that can't be AI-ed into oblivion. Glad to have grown up in a primarily analog world.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Start liking it. "Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you." Habbakuk 1:5

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Muriel Palmer-Rhea's avatar

Thanks, Feral Finster! Habbakuk was the kitchen boy in the Bible who was bringing some lunch to the farmhands, met an Angel on the way to the fields, who transported him by the hair of his head to give the lunch to Daniel in the lion’s den in Babylon. He has the skinniest book in the Bible, but I have faith that once you’ve met up with an Angel, you don’t waste words.

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Jane Baker's avatar

I thought the whole point about Luddites was that they objected to having their WORK taken away from them. So to be a Luddite is the opposite of being lazy. But I expect this female creature,being of our contemporary world has had all or any brain power she ever had shagged out of her by the liberal sexual freedom to whore themselves her sort demand the right to impose on everyone else.

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Treekllr's avatar

Damn jane... tell us how you really feel

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Treekllr's avatar

Im not sure i see the absurdity and paradox about the wizard of oz. Theyre selling an experience(not just an old movie), something people are becoming desperate to have. For older generations, its their childhood merged with "the future". And it is a pretty classic movie, so i can see why younger audiences may enjoy it. It was fun then, why wouldnt it be now? And the sphere itself is a draw, a pretty unique theatre experience. If hollywood was making something worth paying good money to see, im sure itd do well at the sphere too. So idk, makes perfect sense to me

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Muriel Palmer-Rhea's avatar

Thought I’d take another look at Habbakuk: 1:3 “Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife and conflict abounds. Therefor the Law is paralyzed and Justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that Justice is perverted.” Habbakuk 2:4 “See, he is puffed up; his desires are not upright..:5:” Indeed, wine betrays him, he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the Grave…” Greedy is the pivot here. A signature of our art forms and Time.

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Christine Paquette's avatar

Very sad to hear Miles' family sold out. I imagine it was more $ than they can resist.

I hope the Cannes audience stands up and loudly protests and AI movie! What#!% That this is even allowed as an entry?

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Robert C. Gilbert's avatar

The Sphere bowlderizing of 'The Wizard of Oz' is an atrocity for multiple reasons, including this one: https://gizmodo.com/the-wizard-of-oz-at-the-sphere-has-a-shocking-2-second-cameo-david-zaslav-2000650163

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adrienneep's avatar

The 1939 film is still under copyright by WB/Turner conglomerate. Therefore, changing the original in that manner is not allowed.

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Alter Kacker's avatar

I think the last thriving art form will be tattoos.

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Treekllr's avatar

Really? I thought that was already getting tired:/ Like everything else, its glutted, and so its become rare for me to see a tattoo that makes me take notice.

Prison tats on the other hand.. what they can do with primitive tattooing tools is impressive

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Larry P. Gross's avatar

Um, you write about GWTW: "a pre-WWII film based on a 1900 novel." The novel was published in 1936 and it's very unlikely Margaret Mitchell, who was born in 1900, wrote the book in the womb. Just saying.

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Dan Collison's avatar

Re: Wizard of Oz

I’m glad to see the Las Vegas Sphere sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind.

Next up, maybe they’ll try The Book of Job - intellectual property with 2,400-years on Oz. I’d love to hear the voice from THAT whirlwind.

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Bobby Lime's avatar

The one recent projected use of AI which I was cheered by is the plan of some ghastly conglomerate to AI the lost forty - five minutes of The Magnificent Ambersons. Welles' daughter, Beatrice, seems to be the hangup, for what appears to be a financial reason.

If it happens they will be working from Welles' shooting script. It could be a marvel.

Other than that, AI is of the Devil, and we all know it.

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Treekllr's avatar

Bobby, thats how it always goes.. "this thing is horrible, *but*.. if they did *this* with it, thatd be ok". After that its just moving that line until everything is on the "right"(wrong) side of it.

Ill admit im guilty of it too. Js, that is how it goes down.

Stalking wolf used to say he never met an ugly witch

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JB Minton 📺's avatar

Miles Davis didn’t sell out. His family did. But it doesn’t matter because one can still find transcendence through his art, regardless of who owns and markets its current distribution.

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james's avatar

money trumps morality and integrity in the world today... and forget about nuance..

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Broo's avatar

Plus Bill & Ted remake "Waiting for Godot" on Broadway....(?!)

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