How much did the police make?

On Taking Ownership And a tribute to the great Michael Silverblatt

"But I think it’s good, now and then, to remind ourselves that art isn’t a job we do well - it’s a job we do uniquely, as only we could do it."

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Photo of soldiers sitting and wearing camo clothing that features a Canadian flag patch accompanied by the following headline from The Globe and Mail: “Canadian military signs 7 310 recruits, beating target”

Recession indicator:

Sam Wang, Politician-in-Training The neuroscientist went from analyzing elections to running for Congress. But can this rookie win over New Jersey locals—and Trump voters?

"When people were discovering radiation—‘Oh, radiation’s really good. We should put radium in everything! We should put radium in beverages!’ We’re in this weird, unregulated moment in AI where we just think it’s wonderful and put it everywhere: ‘Let’s put AI in TVs! Let’s put AI in our furniture!’”

Snapchat bets on smart glasses as the future LOS ANGELES – Snap is getting ready to launch new smart glasses later this year, and the company is positioning them as a major step beyond the smartphone. I recently spoke with Snap co-found…

They finally invented 100% reliable male birth control…

ktla.com/morning-news...

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

Pope has dropped ANOTHER absolute banger.

This is a dance off! If you see this, repost a dance or you're eliminated 🕺

(This person was obviously NOT in our class!)

a man wearing a shirt that says schitts creek on the bottom Alt: David from Schitt’s Creek takes a loooong exhale and squirms, biting his tongue without ever actually biting his tongue.

OH today: “[Insert famous actress name here] is so good because she’s never just herself playing a character. She always actually becomes her characters.”

So if someone opts in, and has taken photos of friends, relatives, kids, even strangers, they’re “giving permission” on behalf of all those people. So lots of people have no say in this.

The whole “opt in” thing was always a charade but it’s approaching terminal nonsense at this point.

We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.

😊

We need more reasons to dress up!

Photo of the reflection of a woman with shoulder length brown hair wearing a white suit in a mirror, hanging on a red-orange wall.

Photo of the same woman with longer hair wearing a dorky bucket hat with sunnies resting on them, wearing hiking clothes, a big orange backpack, and a cross-body bum bag. The rear wheel of a bicycle peeks into the frame on the left.

Turning the page on the multitudes that was 38 👋

Nods. But I do remember it being terribly important for women to learn about NFTs too, especially right before the bubble burst...

This is a bit different inasmuch as it's probably more like the dotcom bubble - there'll be some stuff to salvage amid the rubble but that'll keep.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

I love this city, I hate this city.

BEAUTIFUL WORK — Mélanie Daigle I consider my Letterboxd Top 4 to be something of a living organism, always free to change and evolve, but I suspect that Beau Travail will always have a home there (along with an entry by Abbas ...

Back on my Beau Travail bullshit.

Yesterday’s was a good one!

Hands of Bresson created for the Criterion Collection

Timeline cleanse 🧹

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

The host really can't wrap his head around the concept of not doing whatever big energy companies want.

Incredible how Avi just runs circles around his corporate talking points

Steven Spielberg Warns Hollywood Must Invest in Original Stories or Movies Will ‘Run Out of Gas,’ Debuts Eerie New ‘Disclosure Day’ Trailer at CinemaCon Steven Spielberg was joined on stage by Colman Domingo to present a trailer for 'Disclosure Day' at CinemaCon.

“If all we make is known-branded IP, we’re going to run out of gas. There is nothing more important than giving the audience visual stories, and they can be in any form, but we need to tell more original stories.”

"People have started to believe that having an idea is the same thing as making art... You didn't even make that by typing in the prompt. The computer did, by stealing. If you didn't make the thing, you don't get to take credit for saying what if this thing was a thing?"

But I've noticed a lot of "it's the children who are wrong" mentality when executives react to why particular shows didn't land. They always blame the content on failing to find an audience. It's never their fault for not giving the show the push it needed.