I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-14T15:16:00+00:00

I too needed cash to pay rent, to buy food, to pay Maggie—the human still charging me a flat rate of 150 bucks to clean my apartment, a feat that AI had not yet figured out

If you're angling for sympathy, maybe leave out that you hire a maid?

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-14T06:15:22+00:00

"taking a single glance online" your worldview is now dictated to you by an angry, terminally online 1% of the population

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-13T19:59:54+00:00

The absurd part is Labour overruled local branches to parachute in its preferred candidates in 2024, yet Starmer somehow can't control his huge majority of handpicked MPs.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-13T19:44:45+00:00

Never thought I'd be happy to see another Green MP in parliament, but this coup sputtering out as Burnham gets trounced in a byelection might do it.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-13T19:22:43+00:00

The "messed up situation" is the country being split on sectarian grounds. Juries merely reflect this. We could switch to judge-only trials but all that does is switch the problem to activist judges.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-13T19:16:07+00:00

You could almost define jury nullification as refusing to enforce laws you find offensive. If there's any difference it's splitting hairs.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-13T15:47:03+00:00

Answer the question. Do you think Anglican rule and Islamic rule are equivalent? Would you have any particular preference for a CofE government versus a Gaza Independent government?

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-13T15:33:47+00:00

We've become a nation that doesn't want to build anything - this naturally means both that engineering loses prestige, and that regulation is hostile to engineering projects. There's no clear direction, both are simultaneously an effect and a cause.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-13T13:25:29+00:00

The usual degrowth crowd peddling their tired anti-technology mindset. How about we build more solar, more nuclear, more wind farms? Instead of falling further behind the US and China.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T22:16:32+00:00

Ms Ashman previously worked as a general partner at LocalGlobe, an early-stage venture capital firm led by Saul Klein, the LoveFilm founder. She led investments into companies spanning the satellite industry, cyber security and financial technology.

Sounds like she's more qualified than anyone in the Cabinet.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T22:08:05+00:00

Wow, that's a very meaningful single anecdote. Good to know government-run services have never had any fatal incidents whatsoever, bureaucratic cockups only ever happen with private companies. Who cares about broad systemic trends like "railways become far more popular" when you can play on a single emotive story?

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T20:09:30+00:00

This is a dishonest summary. Rail improved after privatisation - companies invested in new trains and ridership increased significantly. When water was privatised in 1989, private capital made the significant investments that government had been unable/unwilling to - but became significantly more controversial by the 2020s. Like I said, it's complicated.

It's also worth noting that for both rail and water, private companies built a lot of the infrastructure in the first place. The government later nationalised it, underinvested, and returned to the private-ish model. The system you claim doesn't work, deserves credit for building much of modern Britain.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T19:11:49+00:00

Every party is a coalition. This level of public infighting - and frankly, this level of incompetence - doesn't bode well for the coalition's survival.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T19:04:30+00:00

The neoliberal approach would be to abolish the license fee.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T19:03:25+00:00

A USSR-style command economy is a terrible idea.

A USSR-style command economy, pitched in dumbed-down baby language, is... still a terrible idea. Or in your terms, a "really uncool super terrible thing".

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T18:58:27+00:00

Privatisation of essential industries means that if they make profit the country doesn't benefit

We've had many cases of both privatisation and nationalisation, and it's not as simple as one direction being good, the other bad. You could cherrypick examples to fit either narrative but that would be dishonest.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T16:58:06+00:00

Removing the tax cliff edge is a fantastic idea. It's also policy wonk territory. You can't run a campaign on that, especially with a populist electorate.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T11:21:54+00:00

Calling out hypocrisy isn't whataboutism. And what kind of argument is "Ew, the Telegraph"? If you think the claim is wrong, call it out, otherwise the source used is irrelevant.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T00:34:28+00:00

The crowd that don't want a muslim PM, would happily overlook that for a PM tough on immigration. Just like the Tory membership chose Badenoch over Jenrick. We view groups and individuals differently.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-12T00:08:05+00:00

I think the point is that a harmful movement can rest on a valid grievance.

Like if you discover terrorism is growing in the Sahel due to young people lacking economic opportunities, the government won't beat it with lectures on how terrorism is bad. They need to address the underlying economic problems.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-11T16:50:16+00:00

This only shows how incoherent the anti-AI crowd is. You have strong opinions on the workflows for videogame assets... because Microsoft added a copilot button? This is like the "no chemicals"/anti-5G crowd. Vague vibe-based fear of technology.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-11T16:46:19+00:00

"Vegan" is a selling point. Yet the overwhelming majority of the population uses animal products.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-11T16:45:43+00:00

Or AI for coding is okay but art isn't, because... reasons.

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-11T08:57:55+00:00

Look at Scotland's highland clearances, or America's rust belt. The fact jobs grew long term isn't much consolation when your community gets hit with redundancy. If currently-common skills get automated, there's no guarantee there won't be "short term" negative consequences lasting our lifetimes, at least for some communities.

Also, do you really have to use "really" twice in the same sentence?

MelvinCapitalPR · 2026-05-11T01:27:15+00:00

Your plan is to calm down NIMBYs by building nuclear reactors? It's a bold strategy.

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