It's deranged that the Palantir team believes a company - ANY company - gets to set this kind of agenda or decide something significant about the soul of America. That's up to the American people, Alex! This is the product of a kind of delusional megalomania.
Kept thinking about this. Here's the rest of my Top 5 Most '90s Songs
#2: Gin & Juice, Snoop Dogg
#3: In the Meantime, Spacehog
#4: This is How We Do It, Montell Jordan
#5: Linger, The Cranberries
Possum Kingdom by The Toadies gets my vote
I heard Nicole Kidman trained to be a death doula, and became a death doula, and Chloe Zhao is also a death doula
We come to this place for tragic...
Yeah, I'm speaking in generalities here. I didn't really have a ranking in mind. But I do think being an academic or writing code or producing stuff for other people makes your own personal work stronger.
I do know some writers who have made a professional go of it, and many are quite talented... but they are not actually the BEST writers I know. I think sharpening your skills on a mixture of personal work and also stuff that you do for cash helps. It gives you perspective.
I have passed this wisdom down to at least two generations of screenwriters so far and they always reject it, cause it's not what anyone wants to hear. Writing is supposed to be the thing that SAVES YOU from wage slavery, and I get that. But it just 99.99% of the time doesn't work out.
NONE of the best writers I know make a good comfortable living from writing. Not one. They all have regular jobs and then write amazing things in the morning or on weekends. That's just how it goes, especially ESPECIALLY in 2026.
I personally believe the best way to make good art is to get a regular non-art job that locks in the essentials (a place to stay, food, etc.) but still leaves you a least a bit of time for creativity. Doing art professionally is so hard, you end up fixating on income and/or burning yourself out.
the fact that he’s using it for propaganda makes me regret ever painting this
The Art of Not Understanding How Deals Are Reached
I mean, Bowie's Nazi phase was less than a year...
The action is global. Moscow. Copenhagen. Washington.
In New York's Harlem, a man risks his life to take pictures... OF WHAT?
At the video store where I worked in the mid '00s, we had VHS tapes of old trailers that just played all day, the whole shift. This one for Hitchcock's TOPAZ was in there. I still randomly hear this weird VO in my head all the time.
Oh absolutely if you're truly going for it, TV-style, you start with The Hobbit for sure. One leads naturally into the other (and it'd be fun to do like a transitional season based on what we know about the in-between time!)
Obviously those PJ movies are all time classics but I'm not super against this. They're great novels, you could 100% do a different take on 'em. I'd watch.
The further away we get from ANNETTE, the funnier this bit becomes to me, I'm very sorry.
I felt this way a few years ago but the tools have advanced considerably. You still can't just "take their word for it," but you CAN get Claude to cite its sources, and then just double check important things. I find it's much faster at getting you directly to the nugget you need than Google.
I also gotta be honest... Other than using up a lot of juice, I really don't get the moral objection to using AI for basic research tasks. You were already asking Google to look up stuff. That's just a different kind of computer. You weren't scanning the archives for an ancient scroll of wisdom.
Exactly. Who cares if I crunch by YouTube analytics numbers in Excel or Claude? I feel like we need to give up this existential terror about it and get real about actually guiding its development in a sane way.
Exactly. If you never ever touch it like it's POISON, you don't figure out how it works or what it can and can't do. It's just technology, it's not a MONSTER.
The anti-AI sentiment on here is SO INTENSE, the OP already blocked me before I even finished writing my very thoughtful and balanced thread that was ultimately agreeing with them. I don't think hiding from this stuff is going to make it go away, gang. I'm sorry.
The anti-AI sentiment here is so strong that the OP ALREADY BLOCKED ME before I even finished my thread. Hiding your head in the sand from this stuff isn't going to make it go away, I'm sorry.
AI can write a post for X because the algorithm is now AI, so it's computers writing content for other computers. But a short story or novel or screenplay written by AI would be dull incomprehensible slop. I don't know if the technology is even capable of being, like, funny.
I use AI every day at work. It's better than Google at this point for research (so long as you verify everything)! It's amazing for stuff like spreadsheets and analytics; you just load in a doc and ask it questions. But it really is functionally useless for creative writing. It's not imaginative.
(Obviously I would not trust the toilet on Crew Dragon. I don't want my guts sucked out into orbit through my butthole like some sort of perverse JASON X remake.)
I wonder if the astronauts have a strong preference between pooping in Soyuz vs. Shenzhou. Like, obviously, if Soyuz is occupied, you'd go with Shenzhou, but if they're both open... would everyone default to one? Like, it's just a little nicer or more private?
