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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Nick Piers @nickpiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If a company is losing money or needs to cut costs? It should be a goddamn law that the ones at the tippy top see those cuts, first. Nintendo CEOs gave themselves a paycut when the company hit a rough patch. That should not only be the norm, but enforced by law.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 02/10/2026

It is the backdoor to their hypervigilance firewall.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026

Technically this is a dinosaur

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 24/09/2026

I enjoyed it. Unfortunately my copies burned in a fire a few years ago.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 24/09/2026

We just had ours upgraded this week as well. Seamless.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 24/09/2026

You have to adjust the snippiness slider in the bitch settings.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 23/09/2026

Go on a journey with this poor person. Hopefully a pleasant denouement is in the near future. What a stalwart bunch!

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 20/09/2026

Zach, I turn 50 this year and your followers' comments make me the baby in this thread. How old does your audience skew?!

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 16/09/2026

Decision-making research points to people using heuristics, like eliminating deal breakers and future imagery. Utility models provide "better" decisions, but don't align with actual behavior, making them prescriptive, not descriptive. That means there is room for decision assistance apps, though!

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 31/08/2026

💯 with you on this. Let's throw "soccer", aka Association Football, in Great Britain's face next. We learned that from you, dad!

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 29/08/2026

A close family friend, who is only 13, is in his first paid production, an original musical called Kidz in Space. It is aimed at young kids but has been entertaining and the cast are very talented! If you live in #ashlandoregon, check it out this weekend at the Ashland Armory.

The playbill for Kidz in Space - A Musical Odyssey

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm in the pocket of big Sometimes People Just Disagree With You, Man

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 22/08/2026

Now to write your "Walden" and go down in high school English class history.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 20/08/2026

I envisioned this in the style Family Circus for an extra laugh.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

This isn't really a place to convince anyone of anything. And it is hard to say what the majority of artists are doing without formal research. Certainly the copyright laws have steered book publishers towards strong no-A.I. stances and musicians don't see much reason to give up their instruments.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

The reality in which artists push back against A.I. because the artist-consumer relationship has been fundamentally altered on an unprecedented scale? That reality? Yeah, I'm living it. We all are. The "tool" doesn't have to act human to be so fundamentally disruptive. Nor do we have to accept it.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

As I have stated, they do not engage at all. They compile. I can throw my novel in a trash heap and get the same level of engagement. And no, I don't see them as an individual. They are parasitic, as in the biological sense. They take from the host without providing any benefit to said host.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

Thus, the expectations of the artist and the consumer are both broken. This is something that no artist or consumer has ever had to worry about in the history of art. So the experience of an artist trying to communicate to other people has become muddied in a fundamental way.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

I notice that you did not deny being a clerk, though.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

You are welcome to give up trying too. As I said before. This medium sucks for this.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

They have expected, for 50,000+ years, that individuals will look at, read, watch, or hear their art and understand something. Art is communication. I don't write a novel to put it in a shredder unless I don't want someone to read it. LLMs have no such expectation nor do A.I. scrapers provide that.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

I was talking about what you have said in terms of having "explained yourself", which, again, appears to largely have centered on theft. You're welcome to take another crack at it if you had a broader point, though.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

I'm receptive to another word for "an instance of a one engaging with art to be affected by the ideas and/or emotions therein" if you have one. I certainly am not talking about laws or theft, though. It is a cultural problem, one that is very old and well-established between artist and consumer.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

I'm not arguing about theft, which you appear to be talking about. Perhaps you are poorly explaining yourself?

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

Could be. Social media sucks for this kind of long-form discussion. But I also think you are assuming I am making a stock standard argument that you've had before. I am not

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

That is absolutely the transaction I am referring to. That *is* a transaction. It is the very one that people have relied on by artists and consumers of art for tens of thousands of years. It is that same transaction that is undermined by industrial consumption and creation of art.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

Where are you getting consent from? You are having an argument totally different from what this topic is about.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

It isn't a debate about ethics. You've totally lost the thread. I said it is not part of the artist transaction. Art has developed over tens of thousands of years as a transactional (social and economic) interaction. Strip mining art on a mass scale breaks that relationship fundamentally.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

And I am not saying it is required. Art would still exist in a post -scarcity world. The social engagement is expected in art. Strip mining art for an LLM lacks any of that expected transaction.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

This is a false equivalence. It won't hold up even under the slightest scrutiny. A single human cannot match the scale of industrial consumption of art.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

But here is the quandary that comes from my viewpoint. Does a single person using A.I. to create a socially and politically relevant feature-length film qualify as art? If they labor over the course of months, it seems to intuitively. If it is a single prompt, it seems like the A.I. is the creator.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 19/08/2026

The economic grounds is my objection. My objection is mainly one of scale. It is not just about taking jobs (we would have a lot of human art in a Star Trek post-scarcity world). It is also about the social transaction of art. Data (sticking with Star Trek) making portraits on the boardwalk is art.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In these discussions about ai/consciousness, one thing I am admittedly a bit sensitive about for personal reasons is that often when people try to define-in what it is to be a person, they (no doubt accidentally) define out a lot of people with cognitive handicaps.

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 18/08/2026

The best place to meet someone for a discussion is on the grounds they have established!

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 18/08/2026

So it isn't about intelligence, really. It is a social contract that A.I. can be a part of, even as an LLM! If C3PO consumes & creates art within the social contract, then I think it would definitely be unethical to forbid him from participating. Lobot, though, can fuck right off. 4/4

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J. Powell Taylor (Read The Inevitable Dr. Entropy) @jpowelltaylor.com · 18/08/2026

As a counterpoint, if Lobot (Lando Calrissian's cyborg admin assistant) consumes art by downloading illegal copies en masse and calls them up to enjoy them in his cyborg brain whenever he wants, he has violated the artist economy in two fundamental ways, despite NOT strictly being an A.I. 3/?

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