Today a notes call with a studio exec started with them describing the first draft of my in-development script as “a breath of fresh air” and followed with a bunch of lovely compliments - and with Everything How It Is Right Now that’s going to get me through the week

people think nonsense like 'i can't be racist, I eat samosas'. Racism is treating people differently because of what they look like. There no human you can marry, no spice you can use, no footballer you can buy etc hat can magically prevent you from being capable of that at any point in your life

Why tech likes AI and doesn't understand why artists don't

I am a big “take my money, Nintendo” guy and yet can’t quite bring myself to splash out on the NSO Virtual Boy. It’s great for the sake of game preservation that it exists, and I’d be curious to play it, but not quite to the extent that I’d pay what they’re asking for cumbersome peripherals.

ALSO, I am available to hire as a script / story consultant! I've worked with clients on novels, pilots, feature films, animated shorts and pitch bibles. My rates are good, I give constructive and helpful notes, and I will help you tell the best version of your story! DM or email me for more!

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

THAT'S the part they see as unfair they think you should only have to work at the Business Stuff. and it's unfair anyone expects them to be good at the art part of it it's why they don't mind stealing the art. they don't believe there is any value in it that makes it worth paying for

everyone, regardless of economic circumstances, has the ability to create and learn art what these people are referring to is the ability to produce profitable or popular content at scale, with minimal effort and gAI doesn't give that to the working class, it takes it away from them

This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

This is I think basically correct. The TikTokers who go 'hey, I have done some research' and go viral, and actually they are just attractive people who have read an FT article or a New Yorker piece do not *genuinely* believe they have discovered the thing they have ripped off, nine times out of ten.

ALSO, I am available to hire as a script / story consultant! I've worked with clients on novels, pilots, feature films, animated shorts and pitch bibles. My rates are good, I give constructive and helpful notes, and I will help you tell the best version of your story! DM or email me for more!

...And now, with their knees creaking and the skateboard on their shoulder, they are determined to be first to dismiss the movie theaters and independent film at risk of seeming, heaven forbid, old. Forever sweatily suggesting we put iPads in every theater seat and repitching "Quibi, but successful"

Just got an Emergency Alert about flash floods in my area because Los Angeles literally cannot cope with rain. Please feel free to quote-tweet this when I'm papped floating down Sunset Boulevard clinging to my laptop like it's a door from the Titanic

This is bang on

Reposting this because although I have a nice couple of development projects ticking along I have capacity for more US or UK/Europe based work and living in LA is expensive

We’re fully in the “fuck it, get the copper wiring out of the walls and set fire to the place for insurance money” territory. People are still living in a reality where the powerful want to make things work. No, they don’t. They want to break things and profit

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

imagine getting owned like this by your AI boyfriend

2/ What has helped me mature as a creator is knowing that my ideas aren't necessarily fully original, but what I bring to them and the specificity in what I bring can be really unique. Honing that, convincing others of that is what also becomes an asset. An thats where expertise helps.

1/ This is a humbling lesson as a creator of any sort. I'll admit a lot of people love to pitch me ideas they've had that can sound a lot like 'you have no idea how many millions of pitches sound like this' = and I've been humbled and learned from execs that thats what their jobs truly feel like.

Defeat feels like it has soaked through to the bone of every screenwriter I know and it’s hard not to give in to that, but also I spent a lot of this week writing up new ideas for Things To Make and I’m feeling - maybe foolishly - motivated by it

SUPPORT THIS YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKNUGGETS (non-derogatory)

"OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them

Defeat feels like it has soaked through to the bone of every screenwriter I know and it’s hard not to give in to that, but also I spent a lot of this week writing up new ideas for Things To Make and I’m feeling - maybe foolishly - motivated by it

Agreed! The new Mario Tennis is genuinely great. The single player “Adventure” mode is bad, but there’s tons of modes you can have a delightful time with solo, and it’s terrific in multiplayer. The balance between accessibility, tactics and chaos is perfect. HIGHLY recommend!

I am so freaking excited to watch this

This interview @lewisgoodall.com did with MP Natalie Fleet moved me to tears.

If you use AI for writing anything, or “making” anything creative, you know what that says about you? That you have fuck all to offer the world, and the sad thing is: you don’t even want to change that. It’s just so fucking pathetic.

Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

i think it’s entirely reasonable that discussion on the new toy that has a limited use compared to its promises and is force fed into damn near everything by corrupt tech companies and governments is going to have inherent animosity lamenting on the lack of “reasonable” discourse is a skill issue

they will never understand that the fact that you can "make" it in a day is why no one is ever gonna want it

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Warns Its Unprecedented 'Archive of Human Candor' Is Dangerous

Oh do you mean like this? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Oh look it’s yet another example of AI being shit and potentially dangerous at the thing it’s meant to be best at www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Every documentary I've seen about AI features some sweaty tech guy saying this exact thing www.pastemagazine.com/movies/sunda...

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

A lovely little thread about Jentry, which is: ✅ Still on Netflix ✅ Up for THREE Emmy Awards next month, including for Directing and Writing 😎 ✅ A really very good series if I do say so myself, so go and watch it plz

Netflix’s Jentry Chau vs The Underworld is such a stellar show. It should be WAY more popular

begging everyone that liked kpdh to watch jentry chau

Those last days I've been getting notifications here from people liking/reposting this post My opinion didn't changed. I still love Jentry Chau vs The Underworld. But it is funny that this is happening on this post specifically considering it's from an entire thread

A lovely little thread about Jentry, which is: ✅ Still on Netflix ✅ Up for THREE Emmy Awards next month, including for Directing and Writing 😎 ✅ A really very good series if I do say so myself, so go and watch it plz

I think I said this a while ago while arguing with people who said that bots can do law / medicine. The difficulty in practice is not simply knowing the symptoms of a clinical presentation. It is understanding that you have to ask people questions to make sure you understand what is happening.

Yesterday we kicked off NYC’s Free Tax Prep season. That means filing your taxes at zero cost, keeping every dollar of your refund, and not getting ripped off by for-profit companies.    Nearly half of all New Yorkers qualify. Get help—virtually or in person—at nyc.gov/TaxPrep

just remembered that this exists and is exceedingly pleasant. if you want to see some high quality indie comedy-horror, you need to check this out. really a breath of fresh air

You should trust Bezos on this about as much as you should trust him to support the journalism of the major newspaper he bought.

Everyone who actually makes TV and films: “we can reduce production costs if you commission original, lower budget projects, are willing to back actors who aren’t household names, and dial back on bland VFX spectacle in favour of artistry” Amazon: “haha no”