The duality of mustelids. The power to create or destroy a particle collider.

Happy Traveler is Live! Thank you to everyone who supported us while we made this little crime short about two friends navigating the gig economy during the rise of AI.

Come on, Hideo. If you take the AI money, you compromise any opinion that follows.

Following Cape Fear up with Creep

Cape Fear, a film about the worst decisions you could possibly make and how to make them

It'll never not be funny that Aliens has a character called Spunkmeyer

#Anxiety #AnxietyDisorder #RandomChestPains

“My training as a film and TV writer consists of one online class I took with Scott as my teacher. The lessons I learned from him have lasted me to this day. Scott’s book is an indispensable tool for any screenwriter." - Lisa Joy (Westworld, Reminiscence) bit.ly/44qjPFO #screenwriting #scriptsky

It's fucking theft, Marty. It "works" only because it's scraped a massive amount of data from others without license, attribution, or compensation. It's theft. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

People justify AI by choosing a random job that isn’t widely understood outside the profession, downplaying the creativity while exaggerating the tedium involved, then proclaiming that using AI for it frees up ppl’s time for “important” stuff

Fuck Martin Scorsese, I guess. Whatever he got from Black Forest Labs wasn't worth it.

Watching The Last Boy Scout for the first time and I nothing could have prepared me for that opening scene 🏈🔫

And it would be particularly interesting to ask Edwards this, seeing as he started his career as an animator and visual effects artist. Would he have been okay not getting his first opportunities if the directors chose AI over hiring him?

Dante's Peak is over-hated

A traveler waiting outside Porta Nuova station in Turin during the latest heatwave. Shot on Ilford HP5. #Photography

Children playing next to the Italian military who protect the Turin synagogue and school #photography

Good for him. I think he thought because his union hasn’t established A.I. guardrails yet that no one would take him to task. He thought wrong

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... I can't say I'm surprised. He started in vis. effects/CGI, and I see more of those folks jumping in on AI. Still, disappointing.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

A stellar endorsement from Patrick Mills! The lore and franchise lead of Cyberpunk at CD Projekt RED.

i regret to inform my fellow traumatized millennials but belly chains are back 😅

Hi, genuine Jew here. I know a thing or two about keeping cool in hot weather. Thought I’d share my ancestral wisdom with you.🧵!

At least, Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda was visually coherent.

This study was sponsored by these guys of you want some context.

Writer friends! A Narrative Designer role is open on the video games side of Rebellion. If this is for you let me know. apply.workable.com/rebellion/j/...

My friend’s short film hit 80% on Seed&Spark, triggering the green light! Let’s get it to 100% seedandspark.com/fund/20-shor...

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

Happy blog birthday @gointothestory.bsky.social! 18 years and still posting every day!

some of you

All other white van males can stop trying, the pinnacle has been reached

To think that I actually *enjoyed* looking things up on the internet just a couple of years ago, it was fun and felt productive instead of being an exercise in avoiding a dozen streams of ultra-processed shit from the slop hose

I'm so fatigued by all of this. None of it feels good. None of it feels useful. Our politics has been completely subsumed by the post-Zuckerberg digital disinfo-commentariat sphere that it's tantamount to a spectator sport, designed for maximum clicks, not governance.

Don't worry I shaved the beard.

We need to have the courage to have the hard conversations. To go further in our boldness. And to then embolden our conversations with the voters. That is the change I was elected to deliver.

Finally got round to developing some color Fujifilm negatives. It has such a lovely warmth #photography

Can jurists fucking *not* use the hallucinator 3000?

Latest read (audio), The Man in the High Castle (1962) by PK Dick. "Even if books remain the same, we certainly have changed, and this later encounter is therefore completely new." -- Italo Calvino So true. The ghost of mixed feeling I had in the early 80s has been replaced by admiration. #BookSky

Something good

Parker Finn’s Possession remake has found its two leads in Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner. More details below. filmstories.co.uk/news/margare...

“The stately pleasure-dome is essential for the safety and security of the Kubla Khan and his family. When the stately pleasure-dome is complete, Kubla Khan and his successors will no longer need to venture beyond the safety of pleasure-dome perimeter," commented a person on business from Porlock.

I'm rewatching the Chernobyl series on HBO, and the opening voiceover from Legasov resonates: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

This arrived. Thanks, @bsfa.bsky.social and @clarkesworldmagazine.com

And when a woman would never be in the convo for a show about a story deeply personal to us, you get a snapshot of what’s going on in TV at a much grander scale. Look at the greenlights from 2024-2026 in the UK and a picture emerges. Some of us jokingly (kinda) refer to the phenomena as the 6Js.