Spider-Man: No Way Haim

Can't wait for FRONTOUTDOORS

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

I'm so happy to finally announce that a new real, honest-to-God, human-led content platform launched today, and it's called BZZR. It's entirely for sports. That's it. bzzr.com/home Right now, anyone can watch and interact on it, but the only people that are allowed to post content are approved creators that are REAL people. No AI slop. No low effort bait. Just straight up sports content made by actual creators that make stuff on their own. If you're tired of wading through trash just to get your daily sports commentary and analysis, I think you're going to want to check BZZR out. I myself will be posting my own content over there, as well as some exclusive pieces as well. Go support them. They believe in humans.

New home. @bzzrofficial just launched. Come find me there. Download the app or visit BZZR.com

For those headed away from here: bsky.app/profile/jasonhalfto…

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Feb 29 is Clark Kent’s birthday. The first theatrical appearance of Superman was by Fleischer Studios, in 1941. The Mechanical Monsters is the 2nd animated film. A restored 35mm print by @fleischertoons will be shown at the @MuseumModernArt next week! #supermanbirthday

#CoyoteVsAcme is about a giant corporation choosing stock over empathy, doing nothing "illegal" but morally shady stuff for profit. It's a David vs Goliath story. It's about the cynical and casual cruelness of capitalism and corporate greed. No wonder Warner doesn't want to #releasecoyoteVsACME

"Until somebody builds a younger Sheldon"

God damn Fiffe doing the real work

In a surprising about-face, Warner Bros. executives will allow the filmmakers of Coyote vs. Acme—a $70 million live action/CGI hybrid Looney Tunes film—to shop the movie to other potential distributors. New, from @MattBelloni. puck.news/warners-reverses-c…

"I here reiterate what I have said before, that no system can ever be a perfect system, and free from incentive for crime, until money and all representative value of material is swept from the face of the earth." -King Champ Gillette

Had a lot of fun scoring Coyote Vs Acme. As no-one will be able to hear it now, due to bizarre anti-art studio financial shenanigans I will never understand, here is a bit of behind the scenes footage of our “Meep Meep” Roadrunner choir, with apologies to Tchaikovsky…

Wile E. Coyote

Here's another artist tip I wish I knew: ⏳ Time block your process Here's an example of a day focused on one design task, like a small prop. This helps you do 2 things: 1. Know what you're doing and when 2. See how good of a guesser you are Use it as a baseline first and adjust from there. The goal is to give yourself the space to create and the limitations to get it done in a reasonable amount of time, that YOU decide on. Speed will come with experience. And that speed will give you breathing room from the dreaded..."schedule".

Hey all the Copyright Office is looking for comments once again copyright.gov/policy/artific…