It bothers me endlessly that this show doesn’t get the buzz the far inferior “The Studio” got I’m so glad this piece goes there!!!

Yesterday: Paramount CEO David Ellison Can’t Attend Senate Hearing on Warner Bros. Merger Because of Death in the Family, Company Says Today: He was at CinemaCon

Remember when she was shilling NFTs as a necessary feminist advancement?

“the jobs women hold are 3x more likely to be automated by AI, yet women are using AI at a rate 25% lower than men on average. We don’t want to be left behind” Using the (ethically & environmentally 👎) technology that’s replacing your job won’t save your job. What is she even talking about?

You say reh-NAY-sawnce, I say rehnehsawnce, let’s call the whole thing off

BEEF's novelty wears off in S2, in part b/c it's now less about the soul-sucking effects of clinging to rage than it is about how capitalism corrupts -- a point Hollywood's been hammering for some time now, to mixed results. S2 still has its moments, though. My review: www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

This certainly sounds good in light of federal funding for public radio/TV being vyanked away (leading to the dissolution of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) but this cutback has hit regional stations the hardest, whereas only 1% of NPR's operating budget came from the fed govt

Who said anything about anyone getting let off the hook? (Not even sure what that means, actually.) The point is that ahistorical & hyperbolic journalism does nobody any good. Esp when the subject is ethically dodgy practices in the music business, my lord

No. It's precisely as camouflaged as promo practices that stretch back to the 19c. The "boomers" (aka song pluggers) planted by Tin Pan Alley publishers in vaudeville houses to goose (pun intended) audiences into demanding encores were the proto-bots/"fake fans." And was payola not camouflaged? Jeez

How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas

went long on how we should think about the recent mural of Iryna Zarutska that went up in Chicago, in light of the city's storied public art

Our paper (below) showed that AI auto-complete writing assistants can shift your attitude about the topics you write about. But @advaitmb.bsky.social was wondering: what in the writing process triggers this shift? He set out to investigate in our 🥁new #chi2026 paper🥁. Spoiler: mental hijacking. 1/

Asking the forbidden question

That first film is awful. The cartoon is awful. I try to imagine my dad at the age of 50 going to see a Davy Crockett movie wearing a coonskin cap because he liked it when he was ten. I can't. Not everything you saw as a child needs to be revisited for $100 million.

I'll be honest: I am straight-up baffled by anyone who is an adult who is "excited" about MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE. Is it seriously just "Hey, I remember that!" with you folks? I was there in the '80s. It was a toy commercial for babies. I was saying nostalgia is a cancer in the '90s. I had no idea.

Re: The Devil Wears Prada sequel, someone said they’re selling merch from Old Navy, which is exactly the type of store a the characters would refer to as “tragic,” but we’re supposed to think it’s not tragic because … it’s on purpose? Let’s hope as much effort was put into the script itself!

A lot (we had HBO) but the one that always comes to mind is “The Who’s Tommy.” That is one freaky-ass film. Ann-Margaret rolling around in baked beans was … something. But it was the Tina Turner/Acid Queen section that scared the hell out of me with the drug-injecting Iron Maiden. I was maybe 8?

you know your straight-to-streaming movie is a winner when it doesn't screen for critics, premieres on a Wednesday, and seems like it might be laundering money for the World Cup

doug liman couldn’t make this movie without AI because it would cost $300 million, meanwhile oppenheimer was made for $100 million and had fucking robert downey jr in the cast. this feels like a skill issue. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

I still occasionally write for a transpo industry trade magazine and a lot of people who work in trucking are talking about an impending apocalypse. It’s not just a massive driver shortage (which has been ongoing for a couple of years), it’s also an even bigger mechanic and parts shortage

jfc

Something the next season of “The Pitt” could (should) consider tackling is the very real experience/frustration patients have when telling doctors about their bodies and symptoms, perhaps based on previous knowledge, and having it dismissed or not believed because the patient is not a doctor

Stupid

Thank you Nina. Hopefully this will wake people up to the reality of how dangerous and unsettling the casual use of GenAI by the public and trolls is, and why it should NEVER be accepted as normal. This is why we should be alarmed at the lack of enforceable regulations and laws for AI.

Queen Camilla will not meet Jeffrey Epstein's victims during the U.S. state visit

Nobody's going to get to anything particularly insightful about Lorne Michaels until he's gone.

This is gigantic loss for Atlanta. Cynical, craven, and sadly, totally expected.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

I guess

I don’t post Twitter links here but this important and she asked that it be shared so people are aware this is happening: A stranger online didn’t like @carriecnh12.bsky.social expressing her viewpoint so they made a deep fake AI video of her and posted it This is scary x.com/carriecnh12/...

"What animates this show is a sense of excitement around artistic innovation; like the best of HBO's offerings [...] it is a project that rewards attention, debate, the investment of time and emotion. What David Ellison's cynical acquisitions represent is a flattening of the ambitions of media"

Josh D’Amaro, the new head of Disney, and the one who made these cuts, got nearly $10 million for taking the role and is paid $2.5 million a year.

This is such a good show, more people should be watching and talking about “The Comeback”!

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

AI executives can only promise to build a digital god that might destroy the world, declare that they're going to replace a vast swath of everyone's jobs, and work directly to subvert democracy for so long before people, some of whom *take their words at face value*, will decide to act.

Altman and the AI industry are trying to blame AI doomers, bad "messaging" and "incendiary" rhetoric for the wave of violence—all of which papers over the root of rage against AI. People are angry at what *the industry itself* has promised to do; at the broader AI project as currently constituted.

Could Dallas City Hall by I. M. Pei be demolished for a new Mavericks stadium? Who needs great architecture when you can have (squints) an “entertainment district” www.archpaper.com/2026/04/dall...

Celebrity on celebrity: are we losing the art of the big star interview? The biggest names in and out of Hollywood are choosing to be interviewed by their peers rather than journalists, leaving many more revealing questions on the table It’s pathetique!

I had no idea this movement had gotten so much traction with states. Here's hoping.

These food delivery robots have individual "names" and I'm curious about the decision-making that led to giving THIS robot — the one taking the blame for smashing through the glass walls of Chicago bus stops — an Arabic name, Nasir, as opposed to something more generically white guy like Bob or Pete

Well done to the Telegraph for making this look like a bad news story.

In fact I have written one of the articles you are referring to. It was quite widely read.

Oh wow A reminder: Workers went on strike for 3yrs over the paper’s decision to ignore a negotiated contract and impose new work rules/worse benefits. In Jan, SCOTUS denied to stay a lower court’s order that the co. reinstate the old contract, so the owners announced they were shuttering the co.

Art exhibit at Brooklyn Public Library asks visitors to imagine a world without prisons “The Warehouse,” a collaboration between artist Vic Liu & abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, builds an environment where visitors can see and feel through the possible answers prismreports.org/2026/04/13/w...

She's right and it's not even just young folks. There are grown folks who are uncomfortable with journalists asking follow-up questions. It's like people wanna feel like they have access not answers, and they're conflict averse.

Another morning of ICE sightings happening around Chicagoland and the northwest burbs as yes, they are still here, operating under the surface as they were before Bovino's spectacle.

Also, this is potentially being done without patients' awareness or informed consent. Next, what are institutions doing with this information? How will they act on it? What are institutions doing to support people experiencing IPV?

One reason is that it takes away autonomy from the patient/client to disclose their experience of IPV. People experiencing IPV often strategize what to share and when. AI "disclosing" this takes away their autonomy and could put people at greater risk.