#talent pipelines

[thychesters]

i keep picking this up and running my fingers across it and flipping through the pages. putting it down. picking it back up again and flipping through it. gyro your talents are immeasurable and know no bounds and i loved taking a peek behind the scenes and learning about your process; the amount of effort and care is tangible, and i cannot believe i get to hold this in my hands—this is my writing! i can flip through the pages! the art and the colors are incredible and i love how you worked them in, love this.

this is truly an incredible gift and i’m so honored and so grateful. @swordsmans you are so amazing and so talented and i adore the colors and i know you know it’s one of my favorite color schemes, haha. and @fluffyartbl0g’s art is there too! this is such a delight, thank you so much ✨

[theclassymike]

Marcus Scribner taken for Calvin Klein.

[i-write-shakespeare-not-disney]

No because like. I know, I know that the point of the whole show is that quirks don't define your value, I know the message here is that with or without a quirk, Izuku is a hero because that's who he is in his heart. He will hold the respect of the people, of his friends, his mentors, and his relationship with Kacchan has been repaired, so if he lets go of the quirk to save the world, it's full circle.

But he worked so fucking hard. He worked so so hard to harness it, to build OFA more than any previous user, he did everything to be worthy of it and now he just. Has to let it go???? He has to give it up???? He has to allow himself to give away something he put his whole heart and soul into?

I'm in tears. I'm in tears, I'm miserable, I'm in mourning for him.

I know he can still be a hero without the quirk, I know if anyone could manage being a full on hero without a quirk, it is Izuku. And I know several people have lost their quirks or have lost limbs that go along with their quirks, and support gear will likely be necessities, but fuck man. All the work he did to be able to harness these abilities, to be able to become the hero he wanted to be his whole life just led up to.... having to give it all up all over again?

Like. You work so hard at something you have it right there, all the validation, all the sense of purpose and then it just... has to go.

I'm a fucking wreck

[estiebestieban]

going from f1 rpf to wwe rpf sure feels like leaving a five michelin star restaurant to have a quick 6 piece of nuggets at the local mcdonald's.

[critterparty]

[brunetterightsactivist]

I still wanna be famous lowkey is this something in everyone like take my picture praise me worship me stalk me discuss me lol and I mean real actual fame not fucking TikTok/influencer fame which is fleeting and embarrassing for 99.9999999% of people that get it

[3416]

You’ve mentioned that you find the leafs specifically have a narrative. Could you expand on that?

sorry, this got kind of lonG BUT !!!! THERE IS SO MUCH TO THE LEAFS INDIVIDUALLY AND AS A TEAM.. can’t summarize it all but enjoy a small rant below...

they’re kind of a perpetual underdog in a lot of ways, at least in recent history. every non-fan likes to clown on them for being unable to make it out of the first round of playoffs the past SIX YEARS in a row…like they’re a shoo-in for the actual spot and then… just can’t win a series of games to make it out of the first round. but at this point, it feels like SUCH a mental barrier for them. they have all this star power on their team (savior of the franchise boy from the desert first round first overall 2016 draft pick auston matthews…. magician home grown toronto boy first round 4th overall 2015 pick mitch marner……. first round 8th overall 2014 pick WILLY ((need i say more after his recent performances)) …… veteran captain first round first overall 2009 pick returning to his hometown team and betraying what was supposed to be his career-long position on the islanders for a chance at a cup at home and to play with some promising players john tavares… actually so many members of this team coming to toronto bc it’s dear to them.. some taking huge pay cuts just to be in toronto.. play for a historic team like the leafs with all this talent and promise and belief and fanfare) and everyone thinks they should be able to do it and they just haven’t yet. but it feels inevitable that they will have some playoff success and i want to be on the side of rooting for them when they do bc they’re genuinely just……….. good. and they deserve it big time. like, hockey is such a team sport in so many ways, and your star players can’t just carry everything in order to succeed, so the leafs have dealt with some changes and some tweaking and some not-so-good goaltending but… luck will be on their side eventually (this year, i believe it) and they WILLLLLL get what they deserve and have worked hard for. it literally feels like one of those sports movies when the person or team has to overcome so much that they go on their little redemption and success arc…. like you could make a movie out of the leafs journey… they jsut gotta get the cup first to fully accomplish the storyline.

and like.. not only that and each player’s individual journey to the team.. and the player/player and player/coach dynamics.. but also just. sheldon keefe as the coach… kyle dubas as gm… two men who have a history of trust and working together and succeeding in hockey… elevating themselves to the highest league and having this shared vision for how to operate a team. and it literally WORKS. like the toronto marlies (aka the ahl affiliate team) won the calder cup with them as coach and gm in 2018…. proof that their methods work at the level right below the nhl… it does not get more tried and tested than THAT..… SUCCESS IS SO POSSIBLE and the leafs demonstrate it during regular season time and time again. and sheldon keefe as the coach… following the firing of the old-school-hard-ass mike babcock who was extra tough on his players and employed questionable methods of coaching (don’t get me started on him and mitch…) and wanted this element of like.. inter-team competition almost….. such a stark contrast to keefe’s methods of accountability and belief in each other…. it’s just. POETIC is what it is. the leafs are such a TEAM. like they have fun out there and they enjoy each other and they respect their coach and have great relationships with management… and they manage to do all that in one of the worst media markets in sports ive ever seen like truly lfkldjsfkld toronto media is such a circus about them, like all sports, but the leafs have such solidarity when they talk to the media like… they just seemingly don’t let things get to them and they protect each other and don’t take shit and i just love it.

anyway. LKFJSDKL I HOPE THIS MADE ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER BUT LIKE. success is coming for them as long as they keep plugging along and getting better and more well-rounded. let’s fucking GO leafs.

[ladyygrace]

having to dumb myself down to socialize as an adult is insane to me!!!!!

[river-taxbird]

AI hasn't improved in 18 months. It's likely that this is it. There is currently no evidence the capabilities of ChatGPT will ever improve. It's time for AI companies to put up or shut up.

I'm just re-iterating this excellent post from Ed Zitron, but it's not left my head since I read it and I want to share it. I'm also taking some talking points from Ed's other posts. So basically:

We keep hearing AI is going to get better and better, but these promises seem to be coming from a mix of companies engaging in wild speculation and lying.

Chatgpt, the industry leading large language model, has not materially improved in 18 months. For something that claims to be getting exponentially better, it sure is the same shit.

Hallucinations appear to be an inherent aspect of the technology. Since it's based on statistics and ai doesn't know anything, it can never know what is true. How could I possibly trust it to get any real work done if I can't rely on it's output? If I have to fact check everything it says I might as well do the work myself.

For "real" ai that does know what is true to exist, it would require us to discover new concepts in psychology, math, and computing, which open ai is not working on, and seemingly no other ai companies are either.

Open ai has already seemingly slurped up all the data from the open web already. Chatgpt 5 would take 5x more training data than chatgpt 4 to train. Where is this data coming from, exactly?

Since improvement appears to have ground to a halt, what if this is it? What if Chatgpt 4 is as good as LLMs can ever be? What use is it?

As Jim Covello, a leading semiconductor analyst at Goldman Sachs said (on page 10, and that's big finance so you know they only care about money): if tech companies are spending a trillion dollars to build up the infrastructure to support ai, what trillion dollar problem is it meant to solve? AI companies have a unique talent for burning venture capital and it's unclear if Open AI will be able to survive more than a few years unless everyone suddenly adopts it all at once. (Hey, didn't crypto and the metaverse also require spontaneous mass adoption to make sense?)

There is no problem that current ai is a solution to. Consumer tech is basically solved, normal people don't need more tech than a laptop and a smartphone. Big tech have run out of innovations, and they are desperately looking for the next thing to sell. It happened with the metaverse and it's happening again.

In summary:

Ai hasn't materially improved since the launch of Chatgpt4, which wasn't that big of an upgrade to 3.

There is currently no technological roadmap for ai to become better than it is. (As Jim Covello said on the Goldman Sachs report, the evolution of smartphones was openly planned years ahead of time.) The current problems are inherent to the current technology and nobody has indicated there is any way to solve them in the pipeline. We have likely reached the limits of what LLMs can do, and they still can't do much.

Don't believe AI companies when they say things are going to improve from where they are now before they provide evidence. It's time for the AI shills to put up, or shut up.

[big-a-ron]

everyone gets their artitsic talent from like drawing since they were a wee bapee making little stick figures and the way i got my talent was from drawing this bitchfucker once when i was 16 and waking up the next day and saying "you know... i wanna draw more..."

its thanks to a clicking queen finder that i now draw fat bitches, huge kabooses, and actually good character designs, god bless you ugandan knuckles...

[theclassymike]

Marcus Scribner for Calvin Klein.

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[jaechan01]

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[eddiebuckley-diaz]

“It’s a talent” (to turn off a woman so fast…)

“I’m a nester. I nest.”

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