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Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives.
COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
"We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit. But what we should all be afraid of is silence. There is a fine line between being a team player and being an accomplice."
https://www.avclub.com/60-minutes-sharyn-alfonsi-bari-weiss-journalism-award
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Rolling around in my head today: the theme from the 1993 #miniseries Wild Palms.
These things just happen, and I don't question them.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
"Dutch-ovening America's airwaves..." AMEN.
I hope this goes so VERY wide.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Coworker asked an #AI engine to write ALT text for a banner advertising a webinar. I'm a speaker for that event, so my photo is in the banner.
Instead of writing the ALT text, the AI engine re-created the banner and made a NEW VERSION OF ME.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Always follow the money:
"One of the top priorities of new #NC House Speaker Destin Hall in 2025 was to add cryptocurrency to the state pension.
"#Crypto billionaires and companies have given massive amounts of money to help elect Republicans, and a few Democrats, up and down the ballot in many states."
https://www.wral.com/news/nccapitol/nc-pension-crypto-loss-30m-feb-2026/
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
There isn't a pit of hell deep enough to hold all the moral rot in the US government.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
"For instance, #engineers, in turn, spent more time reviewing, correcting, and guiding #AI-generated or AI-assisted work produced by colleagues. These demands extended beyond formal #code review. Engineers increasingly found themselves coaching colleagues who were 'vibe-coding' and finishing partially complete pull requests."
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
There are no easy answers to address the MANY problems in the Tunnel Road area of #Asheville.
As the article mentions, the abandoned/almost abandoned properties along that stretch are NOT making things better. Driving by the Mountaineer Inn, in particular, makes me angry.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
The Washington Post was already dead to me.
Sounds like it's gonna be dead PERIOD soon enough.
A sad day for #journalism ...
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Fair. They got their hand slapped and corrected course. FOR NOW.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
I appreciate that #Mozilla will now give people the chance to turn off #AI features in #Firefox. Some of those features may be helpful to me; others not.
I REALLY dislike (hate?) how some #software providers force AI features onto their users with little regard for what they need—or want.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/mozilla-firefox-ai-generative-block-user-feedback-browser
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
"But pushback against killing #EnergyStar came from a broad swath of stakeholders, including industries like real estate and construction, to which President Trump has longstanding ties."
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5684126/energy-star-trump-climate-change
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
"What makes On This Day notable is that it was made by Darren Aronofsky’s studio Primordial Soup. What also makes it interesting is that it was created with #AI. The third thing that makes it interesting is that it is terrible."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/02/darren-aronofsky-ai-revolutionary-war-series-revie
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
I saw Secret Mall Apartment in the theater a few months ago, and LOVED it. Now streaming on Netflix.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Paid millions to collect other people's work for #AI "training."
Well, AI companies certainly know a thing or two about collecting other people's work, so...
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
Eater of pastries and chocolate. Watcher of movies. Hater of mushrooms and real housewives. COO, https://scriptorium.com. Content strategy. Content operations.
FINALLY saw #Frankenstein, and it's stunning. This is a case where we DID need another telling of a well-known story.