What worries me is that eleven problematic Mitchell and Web sketches is actualy enough material to make a whole episode. I'm terrified that a rightwing terrorist might edit them together, and create one uber offensive episode which could kill any diverse person that watches it.

This video might clear some things up for the slow ones in the back. They have been feeding us hateful slop for far too long.

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Today in 'Orwell was right'. BBC removes 11 Mitchell and Webb comedy sketches from iPlayer. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jd…

The problem with conservatives blaming “teachers unions” is that the same unions represent teachers at the “successful” schools. This is just a conservative version of the liberal myth of underfunded schools. It’s not the unions, guys.

It’s actually criminal how many of these are gone. Amazon and private equity killed so much of American life.

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Modern Monetary Theory is a permission slip governments write for themselves. The core claim MMT makes is that a sovereign currency issuer cannot go broke and therefore faces no real budget constraint, only an inflation constraint. Stephanie Kelton and Warren Mosler built careers on this. Zimbabwe, Argentina, Venezuela, and Weimar Germany ran the same experiment before they published a word. Prices coordinate billions of decisions simultaneously. When governments print money to fund spending, they corrupt that signal. Every dollar the Federal Reserve creates without a corresponding increase in real output transfers purchasing power away from you to whoever spends the new money first, which is always the government and its contractors. MMT advocates admit inflation is the constraint, then propose that Congress simply tax the excess money back. They trust the same institution that runs $1.8 trillion+ deficits in a fiscal year to accurately diagnose inflation and surgically remove purchasing power before it destroys your savings. The calculation problem identified in 1920 is this: central planners lack the price information needed to allocate resources efficiently. MMT does not solve this, it hands a sledgehammer to the institution destroying price signals. Capital formation requires real saving. You cannot print your way to a higher standard of living, and no journal article changes that constraint. Taking wealth away from productive people and handing it to bureaucrats always ends in more poverty, not less.

TALES OF GRIMWICKE — Chapter I is 22 minutes of AI fantasy animation inspired by the many anthropomorphic animal stories I read as a kid, with a dark twist: The model: Seedance 2.5 (@ByteDanceSeed_ ) via @Segmind_ai. 847 takes generated, mostly 30-second multi-shot prompts, over 5 hours of footage. 127 clips made the cut. About $4.5k in generation, four weeks from first take to publish. Characters and locations came out of @midjourney. Using MJ for the location plates was a revelation: the cinematography and art direction are a level above, and it renders far better as a plate than Nano Banana or GPT Image. Nano Banana (@GoogleDeepMind run on @fal) did the heavy lifting editing those plates, building anchor frames and turning MJ characters into turnaround sheets. Then I let Seedance do as much of the framing and camera operating as possible. That gave the best results. A lot of what I do in my Unreal Engine films came with me: a handheld, imperfect camera operator instead of smooth moves, focus hunting, and above all weather and atmospherics. The model does water, snow, smoke and rain really well, and leaning into that is what keeps it from looking like a Temu Pixar film. The tools I built: a portal (Node on @flydotio) that holds the bible, the refs, every prompt and every take, with a Claude agent (@claudeai) that writes the prompts to the house rules. A Premiere Pro (@AdobeVideo) panel that browses the archive, drops selects on the timeline, versions the project, strips music, and sends fixes back to Seedance. Everything is done in 720p with no upscaling, because it looks terrible. Narration is my own voice through @ElevenLabs speech-to-speech. Music from @Artlist_io. None of this would exist without @PJaccetturo and @Kavanthekid. Their narrative work, Nexus and Chronicles of Bone, proved long-form AI film was possible, and their podcasts, newsletters and X posts, updated constantly as the workflow changes under everyone's feet, showed how to actually do it. Chapter II is currently in the works and I will release it initially on my YouTube channel, The Darkest Age (@CharlieDriscollAI). Consider subscribing there to see it as soon as it drops!