Jeremy Saunders

Jeremy Saunders

@jeremysaunders.com

22 yrs making movie posters & titles for none of your favourite films & TV. Typical fucking leftie, Byron Bay / Bundjalung, Australia. Folio is here: https://jeremysaunders.com

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Elon Musk, gesturing to taxidermied monkey with a trout tail sewn on: So ez yoo kin see, huh huh, uh, wiv made rill mehmaids. Uh. Huh. End yull be able t’hug end kiss thum soon. The press: Elon Musk, who has always had hair, makes every boy’s wish come true

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'Basketball Australia has struck a deal with Pixellot, an Israeli company whose co-founders came from weapons maker Elbit Systems and an IDF intelligence unit.' Oh dear.

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Work 11 hours a day. Pay a fortune in rent. Get gouged at the supermarket. Hand over more of your wages to privatised corporations. And somehow, you're told that migrants and trans people are the problem.

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Today is World Migratory Bird Day. Please say hello to the Pfeilstorch (‘arrow stork’). In 1822 this bird was shot in the German village of Klütz. It already had a 30-inch arrow in its neck. The arrow was made of African wood, and this bird played a pivotal role in our understanding of migration.

So many people I've met in marketing are like that. I want to shake them. That's why all your work is derivative and has no connection with the subject, I want to reply. And probably give off the same vibe without saying it. I don't work with clients like that again.

Like, reading the script or watching the show is surely the Bare Fucking Minimum Level of Application required? Plus: it's reading a play. It's watching a film. It's not 'hard work'. I mean obviously it's not all good stuff, but neither is it putting in 12 hours down t' pit.

The 'not reading the plays' thing is actually disturbingly common. Even in films and tv the number of people that work in agencies creating work with absolutely no knowledge of the artwork in question would make your hair curl.

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Replying to @anatolitis.bsky.social

Let’s be clear. AI is not an intelligence; it’s not being trained, it doesn’t think, it doesn’t have agency, it's not gone rogue and it’s not alive. Humanising it helps Big Tech bypass laws they’ve already broken and weaken laws they’re keen to flout. Read on: thepoint.com.au/opinions/261...

thepoint.com.auWhen it comes to AI, it's not "training". It's assimilationWe’re hearing a great many troubling claims at this week’s public hearings of the parliamentary inquiry into AI, and no doubt there are plenty more to come. As we follow the proceedings, it’s vital th...