rkignazio.bsky.social
U.S. writer & artist based in Toronto. My ancient adventure comic ENOCH: THE FIRST CITY is free on Webtoon, Tapas and Global Comix: https://linktr.ee/rkignazio
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It's amazing what we've forgotten in just a few short generations.
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AI stories will just be advertising. As Don Draper says, “It's a billboard on the side of the road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing, it's okay. … You are okay.”
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So what happens when our stories stop making us wonder? What happens when they stop challenging our preconceptions? What happens when our age-old method of making us moral gets reduced to, “What do YOU want to hear?”
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It's happening already with streaming algorithms and the self-selection of social media feeds. But even the hackiest filmmakers will usually try to imbue a tiny shred of truth and wisdom in their latest Netflix slop.
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Art doesn't happen when an artist asks, “What do people want to hear?” That's called entertainment. Art happens when an artist says, “This is what people NEED to hear.” And LLMs only feed people what they WANT.
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Even the great stories that aren't meant to impart a particular moral or idea are almost always asking difficult questions meant to challenge our morals or ideas.
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What Jack Nicholson said is true: “We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies, all the things that you can’t really teach in social studies or history, we all learn them at the movies.” And what happens when we turn that power and responsibility over to an algorithm?
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Societies are formed by shared storytelling. What makes a hero? What makes a villain? How do we care for one another? Be it through religion or movies or literature, most of our values are shaped by the stories we tell.
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And remind me: How many times more likely are you to be killed in a car accident than on the subway?
Oh, right. 17.
www.vox.com/2015/5/14/86...
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Every outlet did one of these, but this is the only 100% correct one.
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This video was trapped in a book in Myst.
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It's like when Professor X and Magneto have to team up to fight the bigger bad.
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Early BSG is incredible, but Lee's speech on forgiveness and justice at Baltar's trial in the season 3 finale is transcendent -- my all-time favorite TV moment.
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Republicans are unleashing masked stormtroopers to kidnap peaceful members of the community in broad daylight. But some worry they will turn off the centrist voters needed to win competitive races.
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Thank you so much! The scale is 1000% what I'm trying to capture, so I'm glad it's working.
Your comic is absolutely one of my new favorites! Your characters are so expressive, and this action scene with the goblin is exhilarating.
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Thank you so much!
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Can't wait to be part of the underclass of factory workers with atrophied muscles because they have to spend all their time in zero-G!
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Amazon announces next James Bond to be shot entirely in The Volume
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That's what's so awful about Rikers -- the terrible shit there happens to people who haven't even been found *guilty* yet.
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He doesn't know what he's talking about. Rikers is a jail, not a prison. It's where people are sent before they're tried. There are some small-time prisoners there for short sentences, but "notorious criminals" go to actual maximum security prisons upstate, not fucking Rikers.
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Can't wait for the next James Bond to be filmed entirely in the Volume!
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Because we are swiftly losing all the people who can remember the last time the U.S. decisively won a war.
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Reese Witherspoon would kill it in a serious espionage thriller.
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"I'd rather my children were decapitated in a car accident than have to see a homeless person."
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"Universal" is probably pushing it a little.
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Some of these loglines sound awesome.
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Oh boy, wouldn't it be great if there was some treatment you could take in advance to keep you from getting sick in the first place? Maybe something you could even inject, directly into the body?