Binary System Podcast #358: WTNV #226 "Creditors"
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<p>Original broadcast date April 20, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/04/binary-system-podcast-358-wtnv-226-creditors/</p> <p>It's no fun being the new Station Management for Night Vale Radio, as Cecil's finding out in this week's episode. Apparently Station Management was relying on being an eldritch horror to avoid paying bills, and now the chickens have come home to roost. And by "chickens" we mean "creditors", and by "roost" we mean "repossess <em>and eat</em> everything in the building including two of the advertising personnel." </p> <p>Things get even more chaotic when you add in a bunch of Shawn's whining about their breakroom, and eighteen pallets of lukewarm scallops. (We'll give you this for free: nobody in the episode gets violently ill from eating un-refrigerated seafood. You're welcome.)</p> <p>Once things settle back down, Elizabeth talks about Ted Lasso Season 3 (verdict: it's good, but it's not <em>surprisingly</em> good yet). Kathryn hasn't managed to watch anything new, but she's been <em>thinking </em>about seeing Beau Is Afraid and the new Dungeons & Dragons, so that <em>kinda </em>counts?</p> <p>The episode wraps up with a detailed rundown of MidJourney, the Adobe Firefly beta, and how we're cautiously optimistic and kinda terrified about the upcoming arms race that is AI art generators.</p> <p>This week's outro is a clip from <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/cruxorium/alienation-anomaly/parasitic-satellite/">Parasitic Satellite</a>, by CRUXORIUM.</p> <p><em>Correction: Bill Lawrence, the creator of Scrubs, Ted Lasso, and Shrinking, isn't doing any of the writing in Ted Lasso season 3, which may explain the difference in tone.</em></p> <p>Ursula Vernon's twitter thread about Adobe's Firefly AI starts <a href="https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1648067757873717248">here</a>.</p> <p>The last outtake at the end of the episode may be a little h
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