Tweet by director Joseph Kahn: The solution to the theatrical problem is very simple. Extend the time before it goes to streaming. Make it 180 days. 6 months. If you don't watch it in theaters you won't get to see it for a long time. Studios have devalued their product by letting the consumer know there's no urgency. They're going to see it for "free" later. They've cheapened the business into a buffet and violated basic supply and demand.

plainly true

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

THE BURBS is such an odd film. It builds beautifully to some sort of horrifying revelation only to make a sharp, affecting point about the gross paranoia of Normal Americans…

…and then double back like “sike actually your immigrant neighbors are evil”

It's fine if you don't like parts of a game.
It's fine if you want to house rule the hell out of any game you bring home where you find something you don't like.

But don't make assumptions about the process or posit a "fix" to something that was intentionally designed a certain way.

Sheesh, people

good morning

The Drama's mishandling of Zendaya feels like it's One Battle After Another The twisty provocation of The Drama has similarly thorny racial politics as this year's big Oscar winner, One Battle After Another.

This is v good

www.avclub.com/the-drama-tw...

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you. It changes shape, tosses aside old husks like "divine right of kings" and "bloodlines" and slides right into slick new shells like "meritocracy".

Josie and the Pussycats was released on this day 25 years ago 🥁

I despise online April Fool's pranks because they break a fundamental rule of comedy: if you have to explain your joke and why you think it's funny to an audience, it's not a joke, and it's not funny

Outbursts Of Everett True By A.D.Condo P1- EVERETT IS WALKING DOWNTOWN WHEN HE SEES A HORSE HITCHED TO A POST IN FRONT OF A POOL HALL THE HORSE IS SHIVERING FROM THE COLD WIND BLOWING DOWN THE STREET P2- OUTSIDE THE POOL HALL WE SEE TWO BOYS LOOKING AT A MAN TIED TO THE HITCHING POST WHERE THE HORSE WAS, EVERETT HAS WENT INTO THE POOL HALL AND BROUGHT OUT THE OWNER OF THE HORSE AND TIED HIM TO THE HITCHING POST EVERETT UNDOUBTEDLY HAS TAKEN THE HORSE TO A LIVERY STABLE TO GET THE HORSE OUT OF THE COLD

The Chico Enterprise
Chico California march 29,1918

Holy shit, finally. Flight attendants will get paid during boarding

Oh my god, Soderbergh finally working with someone who's not David Koepp AND it's @edsolomon.bsky.social ? I am so damn excited!

You could argue this says more about the state of the industry now than in 2007, but if 3:10 TO YUMA came out today it would have gotten 10 Oscar nominations including a not unlikely win for Mangold, and an almost certain win for Bale (in one of his best performances)

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

it's that recurrent moment again where awful people are replaced by different awful people and yet I'm still sort of glad to see the original awful people gone

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

my tax dollars attacking with missiles more missiles that are somehow also my tax dollars

funding USAID (an agency which Trump and Musk illegally destroyed) cost each individual American taxpayer about $64 annually while saving millions of lives around the world.

instead, we've got:

A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish | Defector If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with “PHOTO” pai...

If you’re looking for something to read make it this excellent profile on Jason Lee which is also about how celebs really don’t like when you do actual journalism.

defector.com/a-compliment...

“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis “This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

Happy Robert Young's Birthday!
Charming and good-hearted, too
often under appreciated or underrated!
And as cute as a button at all ages!
So cute, inside and out, that when I start one of his movies or flip on TCM and he's there, I say so out loud with a big smile!
(Photo from Vagabond Lady, 1935.)

you're the man now dog!

Post old memes to confuse young people

Even Tony Kushner Warned Steven Spielberg About Making ‘Munich’ Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get ...

a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich

Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI Acknowledging that AI systems are advancing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts, says Eryk Salvaggio.

To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

I'm in favor of a new Evangelion series. I believe it's a human right that every generation grows up with at least one anime that makes them feel weird and bad and slightly confused.

I can’t think of an actor I love to see walk into the frame more than Delroy Lindo. I think the first movie I saw him in was “Heist,” and then every time after that, you can kind of feel a given movie get more interesting when he shows up. My favorite part of Sinners. Still need to see Da 5 Bloods

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life

billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

No, go after them because they're bad for society, like arsenic in the water.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

DO 👏 NOT 👏 TRIGGER 👏 ENDGAME 👏 WHILE 👏 I’M 👏 STILL 👏 BUILDING 👏 MY 👏 ENGINE

I’m so sick of the toxic players in this hobby. I only needed like eight more turns.

a comment from the r/boardgames post "AEG and Ryan Dancey part ways after comments about AI replacing designers yesterday." someone says: "Ai has replaced almost nothing effectively." to which some doofus replies, "Self driving cars, checkouts at super market, automated customer service on the phones, beating the best chess players but go on"

I laughed out loud seeing people doing the "Ryan Dancey said nothing wrong" shtick, especially when they started listing mechanical turks as AI successes.