AI filmmaking is completely unserious. You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding? Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The opening credits music sounds like it's from a JRPG so you're damn right I'm already in

I've been using the Oxford comma since before AI existed and I'll still be using the Oxford comma long after AI has died. I regret nothing.

This is totally non-standard for any publication. Every pub everywhere pretty much cleans up uhms, uhm, and vocal tics like that, which EVERYONE DOES. This is extremely intentional. If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”

He can't speak without being disingenuous. Next time you see this 400 vs 10k citation, understand: The EU figure refers to its approved food additives. The US figure refers to all substances that can legally contact food, including packaging materials and processing aids. /1

One thing you see in both the smug dope from the Plain Dealer and the Cruise/Pitt clip is profound resentment at the idea that creative work is a skill with human variables--experience, instinct, practice, imagination. There is real anger at the very idea that non-technological human talent matters.

BlueAnon (the putatively liberal version of QAnon) is 100% a thing and it’s important for us to acknowledge that and try to root it out.

Ironically, I was raised in a cult in Oregon. I got better. People do deprogram themselves. I did. I might never have if I hadn't encountered hostility. There is a line to be towed where you want to give people space, but if someone is demanding that their former actions never be brought up, run.

Feb 16th 1988 - Agent Dale Cooper tells FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole he's worried, because of a dream he had. Agent Chester Desmond goes missing. 📽️📅 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Gf and I are again watching X-Files and man, I want to visit the rainy and gray Vancouver where this was filmed.

Status Quo Troopers (1997)

I don't usually see a ton of commercials that register on me but tuning in post-Super Bowl has me feeling like I'm losing my goddamn mind. So much is nonsense, bright colors and celebrities popping up at random. There's no hook or appeal, just noise- followed by the brand logo or themes.

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders. Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

i hope this serves as a nail in the coffin for those stupid “trust the audience score, tomameter is useless” arguments

This fundamentally misunderstands what sports are and why they're appealing - 3 million people watch an NBA game to experience the same game, not to have an experience nobody else shares

So worth reading this thread!

This is not inspired by any particular movie but FUCK movies are so good. Like watching an old good movie you love or watching an old good movie you’ve never seen before is just the best. And when a new one is good? Get the fuck out of here that is the best too.

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if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

the account which posted this appears to be an AI agent farming karma before it turns into an advertising bot

"we must secure a future for our white children" my white children are fine!!! what's wrong with your kids, aside from measles??

slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur

My neice and nephew are over and watching a 2013 Nickelodeon show and the fact that they were still doing "I guess it's illegal to beat kids now" jokes at that point. It's painful.

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

they're very sorry they got caught

"This opening line sucks, I need to rework it. There's a quote that could work maybe? Actually, that does kinda work. Hang on, I can use this to tie in later. Shit, that makes for a good closer, too. Oh fuck now I'm over the word limit." The past ten minutes of writing summed up in <50 words.

Watched this week's episode of The Pitt while the gf took a nap. We're headed out to V-Day dinner soon. I've made mistakes because I am very much emotionally compromised after that- and now I have to be around people? At least my date is the cutest ever.

When we talk about the ~ozempic discourse~ it's easy to think about that as a kind of broad social or marketing pressure that's applied equally to everyone with a body. It's worth noting that it shows up in more acute & targeted ways, too. I'm getting more emails like this one than I have in years.

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hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

american’s are too polarized these days. it used to be that everyone believed some people deserved some rights. now one side believes everyone should die painfully and the other thinks most people should get to live. i am paid $500000 a year for my insights

Eric Garner died behind the accusation he was selling loose cigarettes. Michael Brown was accused of stealing cigars. Sandra Bland was accused of driving erratically. They are all dead, behind those accusations. But if we prosecute all the crimes in the Epstein files, the system will collapse.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

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Happy Valentine's Day [from Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)]

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

This is why it's so bizarre when people are like "How am I supposed to explain all this trans stuff to my children" because Enid fuckin' Blyton managed to do it in one page in NINETEEN FORTY TWO. Get a grip, for gods sake.

great thread. sometimes the good prevails

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This is blackout poetry to me