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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)


Just seen a clip of aronofskyās genai revolutionary war thing and it is incredibly bad. Just⦠every detail is shit. Ways in which I hadnāt previously imagined that the uncanny valley would intrude. Even if it werenāt for the simulated flesh golems, one of whom seems to be wearing anthony hopkinsā skin as a clumsy disguise, the framing and pacing just feels like the model was trained on endless adverts and corporate speaking head videos, and either it was impossible to edit, or none the crew have any idea what even mediocre films look like.
I also hadnāt appreciated before that genai lip sync/dubbing was just embarrassing. I think Iāve only seen a couple of very short genai video clips before, and the most recent at least 6 months ago, but this just seems straight up broken. Have the people funding this stuff ever looked at what is being generated?
https://bsky.app/profile/ethangach.bsky.social/post/3mdljt2wdcs2v
Mateusz Fafinski (āŖ@calthalas.bsky.socialā¬):
aronofsky shouldāve stuck with the true future of entertainment while he was ahead
it somehow isnāt shocking that the aronofsky movies I liked seem to have been substantially plagiarized from Satoshi Konās work
@BlueMonday1984 @rook
I thought Cuomoās campaign ads would do a better job of killing the GenAI video industry
https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-mpreg-schoolhouse-rock-ad-attacking-mamdani-is-the-sad-poliaesthetic-of-our-time/