When I was a kid growing up in Texas, a friend of mine lived across the street from, I was told, Chuck Norris. I never saw Chuck in the flesh, but I did see the ten-foot spiked iron fence he had erected around his home, the coward

I don’t care if Bluesky is an echo chamber. You know what else is like that? My friends at the pub, because we share common values and interests, a normal reason for wanting to spend time with people. You’re not gonna convince me a platform is bad because it resembles my friends at the pub

Things are bad right now, folks. Every day I ask myself "is this the last day I'll be able to afford to drink a cup of gasoline"

DOGTOOTH (2009, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

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That Val Kilmer AI movie just reeks of bad producing, sorry. The actor you want is too sick to perform, so you just…don’t shoot those scenes? Any reasonable production would’ve recast, because there’s only so much money and you’ve got to get the film done.

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

No genAI version of anyone will ever "give a performance." When VARIETY prints that, they are shitting on the entire idea of performance. Actors make choices. That's the main thing acting is. Choices. Those choices define a performer and a performance. No choice = no performance. Not a thing. Ever.

I'm here to disrupt the finance synthesizer scene.

It's digital necromancy and fundamentally anti human.

It’s hardly surprising that the tech industry loves Trump so much: they share a key trait, which is believing themselves to be inevitable and anyone who rejects them (as voters or consumers) to be objectively wrong

This article omits his crybaby qualification from the full quote, in which he explained very carefully why it looks like shit lmfao

I don't just have an artificial intelligence joke—I've reinvented the foundations of comedy itself.

ChatGPT: you’re so right, Leto Atreides II. Merging with a worm would give you unconscionable power that you, alone, could wield — you, alone, could be trusted with. You wouldn’t be committing a genocide. You would be saving humanity

I do not think we need to ascribe the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with more responsibility than to vote for some work that they think is good

this whole technique would not be so controversial had it not so obviously changed Grace's face, in a way we've all seen Yassify filters do for the past 5~ years this belies that the training data here is not strictly about light behaviour, its contaminated by all the other AI celebrity beauty slop

I can't believe how fucking stupid these DigitalFoundry guys are, going on about how the DLSS5 demo is "the same geometry and texture assets with a different form of lighting". It's not! It's an AI filter over what it's already rendering! You're supposed to be experts in this shit!

Yeah I’ve seen the groundbreaking movie where a leading man plays two different brothers

The fuck do these cunts think philosophy and religion came from

My favourite Paul Thomas Anderson movies are also the smallest in scale (Phantom Thread, The Master, Mattress Man Commercial)

I mean, movies are good.

Hats: signposting multi-roling actors' characters since centuries ago

Can someone also inform the film commissions of the world that genre films can be worthwhile artistic endeavours too

Did the Academy just send Mr Beast a death threat lmfao

Cinema's most terrifying villain

Michael B. Jordan mentioning WB's support of original projects and artists is super duper meaningful given...what's happening

The Oscars are basically the awards component of the film industry's office Xmas party. An expensive and public version of what any business does to celebrate its achievements, right down to Bob from accounts winning a trophy because folks just like him. Helps to put them in perspective.

That short-film tie is gonna fuck a lot of people's Oscar scorecards huh

Can't watch the Oscars today but it's because I'm doing screen industry guild business and I feel like that's a good reason

I will be happy for any movie to win Best Picture, but I will be happiest if it's a genre film of some description

Hopefully a trend of celebrities tearing down AI tonight: “animation is more than a prompt, it is an art form that deserves to be protected” — Will Arnett ahead of the animated short award

This is Amy Madigan and Ed Harris refusing to applaud Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar in 1999. During the Blacklist Era, Kazan named names. Good on Amy and Ed.

If anyone thinks that actors and filmmakers speaking out on issues doesn’t accomplish anything, just look at Adam Baldwin, whose bullying and laundering of Steve Bannon’s rhetoric to his audience genuinely did contribute to changing the world

Casting, like genre, is as much about sales and marketing (and even financing) as it is a creative element in the actual movie

I was absolutely this kid. I obsessed over computer shit. I watched those keynotes. I experimented with wildly out-of-my-league software as a teenager. And that gave me the creative and technical mind that I’ve used my whole career. That’s what I love about the computer at its best.

“WUTHERING HEIGHTS” is one of those movies that needed to be 50% better or 50% worse in order to be good

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Love being a client state of the US. Sure, grind us up for minerals and use us as Pearl Harbour Mk II, fuck, who cares

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

no one: Sam Altman: yeah we totally know AI is killing your brains, we have a whole plan to sell intelligence back to you like water

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Finally, Matt Berry is deployed doing the weirdly specific job he does best: reciting names of celebrities

Have begun watching STARGATE SG-1 at the behest of my partner. I’ve always been a Star Trek man, but it’s hard to deny this show has a pretty great story engine powering it

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

The 2023 time stamp on this canon post is incredible. This is a 2014 weird twitter post. It’s like discovering the living coelacanth

This utterly mystified me when I moved to New Zealand at prime thumb-war age

octavia butler, david cronenberg, and douglas adams are the three 20th century artists with the clearest read on the future we now begin to inhabit