#no hollywood dystopia

[gothhabiba]

May 31, 2023 3:51 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Police on Wednesday arrested three key Atlanta organizers who have been aiding protesters against the city's proposed police and fire training center, striking at the structure that supports the fight against what opponents derisively call "Cop City."

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced its agents and Atlanta police had arrested three officers of the group that runs the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which has bailed out protesters and helped them find lawyers.

Charged with money laundering and charity fraud are Marlon Scott Kautz, 39, of Atlanta; Savannah D. Patterson, 30, of Savannah; and Adele MacLean, 42, of Atlanta.

State investigators said they found evidence linking all three to the alleged financial crimes after executing warrants Wednesday morning at a house owned by Kautz and MacLean that is emblazoned with anti-police graffiti in an otherwise gentrified neighborhood east of downtown Atlanta.

[magicalflowernerd00]

Dystopian fantasy- listen to the sirens 🔳🔲

[audryt]

Holy Fuck, Furiosa!

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I am so fuuuuuuuuuuuucking glad I saw FURIOSA in an empty theater in the best seat possible with a pack of overpriced Junior Mints and a soda on hand. That was everything I wanted it to be.

Thank you, film peers, for continuing to make films that revel in the big screen and still give us a full cinematic experience that's worth paying for.

Posta-pec-alyptic Thor was an absolute trash fire of an antagonist that you love to hate, and also thank you for dismembering a male hottie for once; feels cathartic for it to be a male who has to die to drive a lead to revenge rather than some arbitrarily helpless little girl.

Took the long, scenic route home through the hills and cranked up MAD MAX music in the car while cruising past harrowing cliff edges and enjoying the hot, ruthless sunshine that has finally bothered to show up for summer in L.A. Seemed like the perfect end to a perfect day.

[timetravelingtoamess]

Hollywood says that they're waiting for "writers to lose all their money" and "lose their apartments" so they can finally start to be reasoned with and that it's a "necessary evil"

Oh, to hold a mirror up to their own sins which make them decrepit

[christianbalefanatic]

Christian Bale as John Preston in Equilibrium (2002) dir. Kurt Wimmer

(christianbalefanatic edit)

[agentark]

I was certain the Uglies movie would be absolutely awful, but it was much better than I expected

[hauntsthenarrative]

some of y'all are so dumb "Hollywood is turning into the hunger games IRL 😱" its almost as if the hunger games was based off of REAL LIFE LMAO. the world isnt turning dystopian y'all, dystopia was based off the world

[nando161mando]

Bela Lugosi is not dead.

Long live Bela Lugosi!

#antifa #antifascism #hollywood #actor #BelaLugosi #hungary

[rollership]

Cops killed a protester and kill 200 people a month.

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[literaryvein-references]

Writing Notes & References

Alchemy ⚜ Antidote to Anxiety ⚜ Attachment ⚜ Autopsy

Art: Elements ⚜ Principles ⚜ Photographs ⚜ Watercolour

Bruises ⚜ Caffeine ⚜ Color Blindness ⚜ Cruise Ships

Children ⚜ Children's Dialogue ⚜ Childhood Bilingualism

Dangerousness ⚜ Drowning ⚜ Dystopia ⚜ Dystopian World

Culture ⚜ Culture Shock ⚜ Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism

Emotions: Anger ⚜ Fear ⚜ Happiness ⚜ Sadness

Emotional Intelligence ⚜ Genius (Giftedness) ⚜ Quirks

Facial Expressions ⚜ Laughter & Humour ⚜ Swearing & Taboo

Fantasy Creatures ⚜ Fantasy World Building

Generations ⚜ Literary & Character Tropes

Fight Scenes ⚜ Kill Adverbs

Food: Cooking Basics ⚜ Herbs & Spices ⚜ Sauces ⚜ Wine-tasting ⚜ Aphrodisiacs ⚜ List of Aphrodisiacs ⚜ Food History ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Literary & Hollywood Cocktails ⚜ Liqueurs

Genre: Crime ⚜ Horror ⚜ Fantasy ⚜ Speculative Biology

Hate ⚜ Love ⚜ Kinds of Love ⚜ The Physiology of Love

How to Write: Food ⚜ Colours ⚜ Drunkenness

Jargon ⚜ Logical Fallacies ⚜ Memory ⚜ Memoir

Magic: Magic System ⚜ 10 Uncommon ⚜ How to Choose

Moon: Part 1 2 ⚜ Related Words

Mystical Items & Objects ⚜ Talisman ⚜ Relics ⚜ Poison

Pain ⚜ Pain & Violence ⚜ Poison Ivy & Poison Oak

Realistic Injuries 1 2 ⚜ Rejection ⚜ Structural Issues ⚜ Villains

Symbolism: Colors ⚜ Food ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Storms

Thinking ⚜ Thinking Styles ⚜ Thought Distortions

Terms of Endearment ⚜ Ways of Saying "No" ⚜ Yoga

Compilations: Plot ⚜ Character ⚜ Worldbuilding ⚜ For Poets ⚜ Tips & Advice

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[alpaca-clouds]

Why the media CEOs will always learn the wrong lessons

Yesterday a friend and I talked about how the entire (AAA) game industrie looked at BG3 being as popular as it is and going: "Oh, we need to produce 100+ hour games, I guess! Those sell!" Which... obviously is not why it is popular. The game is not popular because it has 100+ hours of gameplay, but because it has engaging characters, that are well-acted and that work as good hooks for the players. Like, let's face it: The reason why I so far have sunken 160 hours into this game is, because I wanna spend time with these characters - and because I wanna give them their happy endings.

But the same has happened too, just a bit earlier this year, right? When Barbie broke the 1 billion and every Hollywood CEO went: "Oh, so the people want movies based on toy franchises! Got it!" To which the internet at large replied: "... How is that the lesson you learned from this?"

Well, let me explain to you, why this is the lesson they learn: It is because the CEOs and the boards of directors at large are not artists or even engaged with the medium they produce. They mostly are economists. And their dry little hearts do not understand stuff more complex than numbers and spread sheets.

That sounds evil, I know, but... It is sadly the truth. When they look at a successful movie/series/game/book/comic, they look at it as a product, not a piece of art or narrative. It is just a product that has very clear metrics.

To them Barbie is not a movie with interesting stylistic choices that stand out from the majority of high budget action blockbusters. It is a toy movie with mildly feminist themes.

Or Oppenheimer is not a movie to them with a strong visual language and good acting direction. No, it is a historical blockbuster.

And this is true for basically every form of media. I mean, books are actually a fairly good example. In my life I do remember the big book fads that happened. When Harry Potter was a success, there was at least a dozen other "magical school" book series being released. When Twilight was a big success there was suddenly an endless number of "teen girl falls in love with bad boy, who is [magical creature]" YA. When the Hunger Games was a success, there were hundreds of "YA dystopia" books. Meanwhile in adult reading, we had the big "next Game of Throne" fad.

Of course, the irony is, that within each of those fads there might have been one or two somewhat successful series - but never even one that came even close to whatever started the fad.

Or with movies, we have seen it, too. When Avengers broke the 1 billion (which up to this point only few movies did) the studios went: "Ooooooh, so we need shared universe film series" - and then all went to try and fail to create their own cinematic universe.

Because the people, who call the shots, are just immensely desinterested in the thing they are selling. They do not really care about the content. All they care about is having a supposedly easy avenue of selling it. Just as they do not care about the consumer. All they care about is that the consumer buys it. Why he buys it... Well, they do not care. They could not care less, in fact.

So, yeah, get ready for a 20 overproduced games with a bloated 100+ hours of empty gameplay, but without the engaging characters. And for like at least 15 more moves based on some toy franchise, that nobody actually cares about.

And then get ready for all the CEOs to do the surprised Pikachu face, when all of that ends up not financially successful.

Really, I read some interviews yesterday from some AAA-studio CEOs and their blatant shock and missing understanding on why BG3 works for so many people.

Because, yeah... capitalism does not appreciate art. Capitalism does not understand art. It only understands spread sheets.

[focusgroupentertainment]

Exploring the Future of Humanity in Hollywood Films: Utopia or Dystopia?

Discover the captivating narratives in Hollywood movies and TV shows that delve into the future of humanity. From the TV show “Outer Limits” to the film “Suicide Squad (2021)” and the recent release “Space Jam (2022),” we explore whether these depictions offer a utopian or dystopian vision for humanity. Additionally, we analyze the unveiling of emerging technologies like the Meta-verse and Apple…

[charliewrites99]

I personally think hollywood should start making more homoerotic sports movies. I hope this becomes the new "it" genre the same way ya dystopia did in 2014.

[owenthetokencishet]

"The unions of hollywood are on strike to prevent the corporations they work for from replacing all the artists with an algorithm that churns out procedurally-generated crap" sounds like an excellent setup for a cyberpunk dystopia novel. Unfortunately however, that is this week right now

[lordadmiralfarsight]

Yeah uh, I saw an article on AI in French (my birth language) from a local Management big name professor, and that issue is spilling out of art real fucking fast. The tone of the article was so very peppy and eager and happy, and ... and all I could see in my mind's eye while reading the article was the loss of jobs, the displaced people, the perspectives for abuse and totalitarian things, the sheer fucking dystopia springing on it's AI-generated own in my mind's eye.

"Oh, AI will allow to build an emotional profile of the candidate using everything they've posted on social media!"

Girl, it's not gonna be limited to social media, it's going to be the biggest automated violation of the right to privacy EVER conceived, and that emotional profile is going to be used for discrimination. You'll have preconceptions saying the people with the blue dot in that particular part of the graph are better in accounting or management, and everyone with a blue dot elsewhere is gonna be shit out of luck.

"AI will help locate who's going to get into a burnout and then they can be sent to rest!"

No, not in the real world. AI will help to keep these poor fuckers on the edge, just on the edge of a burnout, until the AI determines there's nothing else to squeeze out, and then they're gonna get kicked out. Or pushed to the brink until they do something drastic, and then the company can fire them without paying a cent or even demand compensation for any damage incurred during the nervous breakdown.

And of course, the drivel about "mindset" and "stay ahead of the curve", usual shit. Thing is, mindset can't do shit when you are so exhausted from doing your job, fending off proposals to replace you with AI and struggling to follow everything that's evolving, all at the same time.

What truly drove home just how dire this is going to be, was a small little line, listing some - just some - of the works AI will be able to take care of. Among them was website creation. I know website creation. I studied up to a Master's degree with the perspective of having that as part of my job. And now AI will do that. But I put this in perspective with where I live.

I live in a small-ish city in France. Around 20 000 inhabitants. You can easily find one or two dozen local companies that make websites and offer associated services. Count somewhere between 30 to 60 people in the business in that small city. Maybe slightly more.

They are all fucked.

Website creation? AI. SEO? AI. Content creation? Yup, AI. Website updates? Yeah, you can AI that too. In short, there is not a single one of their activities (of the activities I was planning to do) that can't get AI'd. They are all fucked. One SEO AI service can put a thousand local SEO teams out of a job. Easily. That's actually a conservative estimate there by the way. The reality will be much, much worse.

Now add translation. And accounting. And marketing soon enough. Secretaries, administrative personnel, graphists...

And so, there I sat, contemplating the horror crawling out of my imagination, wondering just how many people would be hit. Well, I wasn't the only one wondering.

Yup, you read the title right. 300 million jobs. That's the USA and Europe only, by the way. If you take the entire world ... it's gonna be worse.

So, artists are taking the brunt of the shock right now, but it's gonna get worse. Way, way, way worse. Oh, the economy will be great, truly amazing even. Economies of scale and productivity multipliers galore, fantastic! But ... what about humans?

Because yeah, if you care about the economy's numbers going up, AI will be amazing. But is that really the end game we want? In short, what is more important? Humans, or the Economy? Actual people, or spreadsheets?

I know what is more important right now to the people in power, but I feel that question will be asked in much clearer, starker and unescapably bleak terms very soon.

“AI generated art won’t hurt that many artists, see, photography didn’t kill painting!” Except it actually did greatly reduce demand for painters, and the thing is, AI generation can also replace a great deal of photographers.

“They’ll still have to pay artists to further develop the generated work”

MOST of the jobs available to illustrators are just static images. AI generation has already rendered them heavily obsolete. “It can’t replace the human imagination” Yeah it can, people are already mistaking AI images for creative original works. *I* am mistaking AI images for creative original works that would have blown me away at one time.

“A lot of what it generates can look fairly plain and derivative“

Literally what most employers want. Look at how many video games have the same classic dragon design or how much advertising has deliberately generic anime style characters.

“It draws from existing images, so it isn’t even really generating anything new” We’re talking about tens of thousands to millions of images for some requests. There will be some that you can trace back to a source but the vast majority are impenetrably distinct, at least as much as any human artist drawing from general inspiration.

“It looks bad though, it’s full of weird mistakes when you look at it closely” That was only true for a few months, tops; almost every generator can now produce character art indistinguishable from the quality of a professional and the nature of algorithmic learning will continue to improve the process forever.

“Employers will pay extra for a human touch” They already avoid doing that at every single possible turn that they possibly can and are already willing to sacrifice an enormous degree of quality just to avoid paying union wages alone.

Guys, please just accept that AI art generation IS going to ruin the market for the majority of illustrators and concept designers. A lot of industry professionals have switched to it or just given up.

Human artists absolutely do have valuable creativity that can’t be replicated but that has never ever been what the industry looks for. It looks for marketability alone, and marketability most often means broad, inoffensive, flexible appeal; exactly what this technology produces in an infinite, infinite volume to pick from.