Hegseth pulling this sketch from The State except with the entire military.

SAG-AFTRA has released a statement on Tilly Norwood, the AI "performer," saying: “To be clear, 'Tilly Norwood' is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation."

After publishing my Genre Grapevine report yesterday about book club scams targeting authors, I've received even more emails from scammers. I would say I'm surprised but with AI enabling this BS the scammers have no incentive to ever stop. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

really something to listen to dave chappelle snivel about being canceled for years and then watch him go play a saudi comedy festival

If there's anything that the fans loved about the late Stan Lee, it was his ability to give absolutely juiceless, copy-pasted from Wikipedia answers when asked about his own characters.

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

*taps sign*

I feel like we can also draw a line between the rise of capitalism and the Italian Futurists, who were obsessed with speed, youth, and technology. Who does that sound like to you? That's right, a *hedgehog*

if it's GOOSE with two Os, those are jam band bros if it's GEESE with two Es, have some indie psych please

it’s a question beyond the ability of the writers of that piece but “what happens to ‘anti-government extremists’ when people at the highest levels of government share their politics” is a question we urgently need to deal with

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

They've lost the 9yos

I initially read the phrase here as "Charlie McCarthyism", which seems appropriate to the admin's increasingly obvious attempts at puppeting the mass media.

{if liam neeson's mom took tylenol while pregnant} I have a very special set of interests. Interests that make me a nightmare for people like you

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Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer looks like a TV show, which is a loaded compliment about the state of TV and a massive indictment of the state of movies

"We live in a time when intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended."

Are they state actors or just a mercenary group in that one?

I think they should have a parallel show called Stupid Andor that's about all the stuff going on at the same time that would have been too stupid to put in Andor and would have ruined the vibe (Jar Jar stuff, Palpatine meetings) but also a smart person could come up with something interesting about

Dear CEOs, I don't know if these boycotts for bending the knee ultimately have a material impact or not, but they certainly don't make you look great. Wanna guess what will happen to the business of the first guy who tells the President to pound sand?

It is kind of staggering how many times we've allowed Zuck and his fellow techbros to absolutely eat shit onstage for these new product demos and Wall Street is still like "sign us up, surely this is the future, have $500 billion on us." The money is absolutely untethered from viable reality now.

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Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

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.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

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fascism is here and you can no longer find your favorite shows and movies on Poob. it’s not on Poob anymore.

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

I like to imagine this iteration Democratic politics like showing everyone "Aliens" and the audience says they think Ripley, or Hicks, or Vasquez, or whoever seem cool and then a bunch of multimillionaires pay consultants to be like the people have spoken and they want Paul Reiser.

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One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

just used the new ai self checkout in the cafeteria. It only recognized one of the items. The clerk came up to help and his technique was to hide the items behind his back to try and make the ai forget what it had seen, at which point it wouldn’t even allow manual scanning

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we can talk about this or that strategy, sure. but nothing will be as impactful as never fucking forgiving these fascist freaks. live that and don't forget it. that's how you win

The whole 'this foundation didn't actually fund the organization Vance is vilifying' defense reminds me of "but is crime really up [in this city Trump wants to run a military invasion of]"—it zeroes in on something that just can't be the bottom line if we're going to wage a real fight.