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There are a few great ways to use AI for screenplays; this isn’t one. Gemini is being used to provide screenplay coverage. ProdCos will be uploading screenplays en masse, looking for a Gemini pass before they actually read one. Good luck ever getting read again. nofilmschool.com/google-gemin...

This is all one needs to know - the protests are over. Anything that happens from here out will have been instigated from the top.

Ignatius misses the point here. Putin said no to a ceasefire because the moment the “NATO crisis” and “US crisis” ends for Russia, Putin’s head will land at the end of a stick. wapo.st/3ZaCWmG

You can’t ship excuses

Absolutely out of nowhere, I have fallen in love with Bolis Pupul’s music and production. Spacious. Knowing. Sardonic, in a good way. It started with this mix from my Deewee bros, Soulwax. It’s the first track. Check it music.apple.com/gb/station/e...

Is it absolutely lost on the press that the two schools getting the most crap are Harvard and Columbia, Obama’s alma matres? apple.news/AJWsbdbVHSOi...

Do London PR agencies next apple.news/ADpbtNF2-RmS...

Hahahahahhahahhaha! wapo.st/4mxCyZy

Discussion on AI filmmaking on France 24 right now, featuring our own @⁨Katharina Gellein Viken⁩ www.france24.com/en/live

This is real: Amazon (or someone) has censored Robin Hood (2010). They’ve censored out the statement on standing up to tyranny.

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You have to understand: race is the foundation of everything this guy does, and not the way you’d hope for a Kennedy, despite his protestations www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It’s only been three months and we’ve sunk to this level of depravity gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Universal childcare, universal healthcare, mandatory maternity leave and high public education standards would make a good start.

This runs contrary to nearly every human principle of the EU. I understand that Europe without Hungary would put a literal hole in the southern heart of the union, but I fail to see how Hungary continues as a member of the EU or NATO under Orban (and Putin). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Unpacking an old game of mine to give to my daughter this morning, I found this wonderful piece from David Medalla. I’d tucked it away years ago during a house move, and now here it is to delight us again. Old friend, I miss you.

Nothing good makes it out of Wiltshire alive

Four and a half brutal paragraphs from @theguardian.com. Misogyny is radicalization & violence against women a form of ideologically driven terrorism a cabal of US leaders has embraced without embarrassment, when they should fear prosecution, much less their political survival. Such a brutal age.

If you’re an “entrepreneur” (hate that word) with a startup (hate that word too) and think you can just walk up to a #nocode environment and create a product from a prompt, I have some news for you….

Good thing they didn’t discover oil, or Mars would need it some Democracy! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Today’s workspace. I’m building an app to help people structure stories, across all formats and genres. And then to flip formats, say, from Feature to Microdrama. I’ve spent my life studying story: structure, character, conflict, plot, tension, resolution and ambiguity. It’s called Story Arkitect.

I remember doing the Time Warp… wapo.st/429bkA6

Not just foreign tourists. I’m an American, and there’s not a chance in hell I’d fly into the US right now, especially not with my foreign wife. So long USA. You won’t be the same next time I see you. wapo.st/4iJMM6w

www.perplexity.ai/page/univers... Someone help this poor art school graduate understand this please. Whether a galaxy spins clockwise or counter depends on the angle from which it’s observed, right? So how can that be an indicator of anything?

Read about the new New Order. It doesn’t look like this is going away without an “event” - what that will be no one knows. If we’re lucky there’ll be rebellious teens around in 50 years naming their cool bands Tesla, MAGA & The Republicans after today’s fascists. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

I'm tickled we’re nominated for 3 AIMI Awards - UK's biggest genAI awards. @katharinagellein.bsky.social - Best Indie AI Music Video. Me - Outstanding Indie AI Video Producer, & Best Indie AI Short Film. See you at Brighton Beach House tomorrow night for an impromptu after party!

And there it is. Me and a bunch of other journalists and thinkers and civil society activists have been banging this drum since at least 2014. I practically bankrupted my family making films about it. But we’re here now, and it’s not going back in 4yrs. America lost the asymmetric war with Russia.

Does what it says on the tin

Democrats, walking straight into a trap. Trusk crashes the economy ***as planned*** and gets to blame the Dems for it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Me, every gd day…

One of the most shameful chapters in American international diplomacy - leaving US professionals and their families to find their own way back to the US from hostile environments. It’s cruel bullying, and bad diplomacy. Who today would consider an assignment abroad for the US? wapo.st/4gFCZwD

Chinese AI is largely going open source. When I advise governments on AI, I suggest their best soft power move would be to train an LLM with their ideology and release it to the world free. (See DeepSeek.) Much cheaper than a bunch of nukes and drones. www.reuters.com/technology/a...

RIP Coyote “There’s a level on which life might be perceived as a joke, and this bothers a lot of people. The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.” wapo.st/418wVIp

RIP Coyote “There’s a level on which life might be perceived as a joke, and this bothers a lot of people. The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.” wapo.st/418wVIp

Kid Rock makes music for people who know how much Sudafed you can buy at one time www.tennessean.com/story/entert...

This is a #GangofFour with no intention of ever yielding control. They are here to rule, not to govern - Trump, Vance, Musk, Thiel. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Executive Order blaming Obama and Biden for the plane crash. Fuck me. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Had a brilliant time being a guest on @tellycast_tv this week discussing the AI revolution in the media industry. I try to stay balanced... Listen in from about 00:23 - youtu.be/VW6esVE6O5Q

@roywoodjr.bsky.social Lonely Flowers absolutely made our night in a cold, tough January. Thank your sir, from me and Alabama expat @charleskriel.bsky.social 🙏🏻

They’re coming. They know what we’ve done. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trash

Don’t get fooled by this. The MLK files will likely implicate and weaken the FBI. It’s a bold move with bipartisan support that will serve to undermine the security services, and help with their dismantling, and politicization. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

Never believe that anti-Semites are unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. Jean-Paul Fuckin’ Sartre

We have a lot of work to do. Gaining understanding of how and why voters were psychologically manipulated on all matters medicine to influence their votes is crucial. Watch this documentary by Dr @charleskriel.bsky.social & Katharina Gellein Viken. Here’s the trailer: vimeo.com/621556690?sh... /3

Putin will agree to a Trump-negotiated peace, Trump will insist on a deal where Ukraine gives up occupied territories and won’t join NATO or EU, Zelenskyy will quite rightly say no, Trump will say Ukraine is refusing, etc etc etc. It’s the etc’s I fear. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/t...

Why is the BBC doing access journalism? They don’t have to? What’s up?

“…declaring a national emergency at the border, proving that he’s a man of action, and that’s what the American people want…” Look. Live streaming TV is hard. I’ve done it. I know. But fuck you BBC for that. You’re better than that.