It's both depressing and darkly fascinating the way some people just pick dumb shit to believe.

Actually let's be honest, nobody "works with" computers. The best you can do is work against them.

Computers are marvelous machines that do whatever you tell them to do and yet working with them mostly involves being mad at them for not doing the straightforward damned thing what you want.

Literally just ate the plums in the ice box.

Innovation and development are far too focused on "How can we get rich doing X?" instead of "How can we make X into a comfortable and sustainable enterprise?"

You know if people would get off Twitter then we wouldn't have to hear about fucking Twitter anymore.

This is...the thing. This has always been the thing. This is not a problem they will solve. This is not a problem anyone will solve. They are literally bounded by the laws of mathematics (and other things).

Hey how about this, Fade In will never charge you extra for "added AI value".

Also, LLMs *do not work that way*. You cannot feed them a very limited set of input and have them produce complex generalized responses. No one invented a magic thinking machine. The *only* reason they can even appear to do what they do is the massive amount of data fed into them.

this exists it is called thinking

*smug Larry Ellison face*

Gilroy is a political & cultural hero. Andor is a masterpiece. Major kudos to Dan for standing up to the oppressive censorship we're seeing from his distributor Disney. True courage is putting principles before profit.

*shocked Larry Ellison face*

Showed THE STING for family movie night tonight and bracketed it with a lecture that encompassed everything from Ward's original pitch for the ending to the Mike Nichols Redford anecdote to You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town again. I can't believe they're giving me Father of the Year *again*.

Truly, if you can’t give up your Disneyland trip to preserve the republic, we are fucked.

Media is changing. It — movies, television, everything else — will continue to change. It will continue to change even in ways we don't like. That's just the nature of things. But I think the one thing we can all agree on is that we want to continue *to have* media.

The Disney parodies… holy shit

A lot of people who deal regularly with those "higher up" in media are going to have to choose between directly calling out these decisions as cowardly and thoroughly damaging, and guarding their financial/career/brand position (until it's their turn).

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

I don't think a movie should have multiple aspect ratios depending on where and how you see the film.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Fuck yeah Letterman

If history teaches us anything, it's that there are always those who think if they just do as they're told they'll get to keep what's theirs.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

They are literally canceling culture

6 waking hours a day is almost 40% of one's conscious life. Unless he's going to live to 110, he's operating at a loss. He needs to be better at math.

ME: I like getting good at something new. ME (when it's SQL): I hate getting good at something new.

Just realized my Whole Deal is simply wanting stuff to work.

Realizing I could pick literally any Robert Redford film for tonight and feel totally inadequate.

When a programming bug disappears on its own it's the same as when you lose track of any other sort of bug: you kind of hope you just imagined it.

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

Sorry

"Hey guys? You know Covid? Yeah well we made something that might make another one of those. Anyways I need a trillion dollars and all the fresh water in the world."

BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015) for movie night tonight: a great and expertly made (obviously) Cold War spy thriller about two countries that no longer exist.

Oh. Also, Fade In v5 has no "AI". Zip, nada, none. No tools, no nothing. Fade In respects all writers and artists. It doesn't use your work or — just as importantly — the stolen work of others.

Actually I hadn't checked the pricing of Other Screenwriting Software in a while, and I notice that now the regular price for an *upgrade* there is $129.99 USD, and even on sale it's more than...the cost of a new copy of Fade In, for which updates are free.

Fade In version 5 is coming! And as we all wait patiently for a response from an unnamed trillion-dollar company in order to move ahead, I figured I might as well rattle off some of the coming features, for anyone who's missed them.

No one knows how caching on the internet works. It is arcane magic that is a mystery to all who encounter it.

Also if there's a better argument than this that "'AI' in education" is stupid, and will make you stupid if you use it, I can't imagine what it would be.

There is no ethical AI use.

The way things like "POV" and "lore" have been co-opted and misused by the TikTok generation results in fewer useful words being available in the language and probably, ultimately, fewer concepts and maybe I'm just old.

They really thought it was a trans woman. They wanted it to be a trans woman so bad. They made up details to leak to the press because they wanted it to be a trans woman. Turns out, it’s not.

I can think of a thousand professions that are immune to "AI" including every industry it's currently failing in and losing tons of money for the companies suckered into "using" it.

Look, this is all I ask from any of you

I'm not sure one rich kid owning all the movie studios is a good idea

A 5-minute break from doom scrolling…

In a former life I once wrote a whole adventure game programming language during film school so I wonder if I ever completely lost my mind and decided to add scriptability to Fade In would anyone find that useful?

I'd say there are days when no one should use, read, or post on social media but let's be honest that's all days.

I hope this ishmael finds you whale