The Ella McCay digital screener has a 32-digit watermark on screen for the duration of the runtime

fyi @thedeadlands.com will be open to fiction submissions from Dec 1 to Dec 31, so maybe you want to put that on your calendar and study the guidelines and ring out this horrible year making something beautiful. psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

Too many high-profile filmmakers mistaking ambiguity for profundity lately, imho

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Also holy shit the Mariners Pride Month video is SO good

Honestly amazed at how many errors an AI overview can pack into two sentences. Mitchum and Stanwyck didn’t appear in any movies together. Out of the Past is from 1947. This feature is TWO YEARS OLD and still 100% bullshit.

Still thinking about Newsom. For a Democratic leader to consent to a framework that portrays trans people as a group that is trying to take something away from other people is flatly unforgivable. It is what the right does. And a Democrat who will do it to one group will do it to any group.

Every day it seems like another person I know casually admits to using ChatGPT for something and I feel like I’m losing my grip. Was it really that hard to Google things?

A @moviessilently.bsky.social thread always sums things up nicely 👇🏼

Literally nobody from back home believes me when I say that I walk all around downtown Los Angeles and can count the number of times I've felt genuinely unsafe on two fingers and that the far bigger threat to my safety when I'm walking is all the cars.

Just incredible the number of educators and librarians going all in on a technology specifically designed to degrade the learning process, spread misinformation, violate privacy, and directly and explicitly violate the library bill of rights and code of ethics. These should be fireable offenses!

You should be able to hit empty Waymos if you’re ok with damaging your own car.

Everything is an AI generated image now. Popsockets, YT ads, local and national commercials, the big ugly header image for that local restaurant. Fuck everyone who uses generative ai at this point, even if it's "just for fun" because it's poison and you're normalizing it.

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

@shaununyabiz.bsky.social welcome!

As I frequently tell people, please be my co-conspirator, not my ally.

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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

genuinely, like Dems with asshole GOP senators who never take your calls, there’s never been a better time to dust off your high school acting class chops and pretend to be a concerned Republican who has totally legit Republican reasons why they should reject these nominees

When we think about why victims of sexual violence don’t come forward or report, it’s worth thinking about how Donald Trump was accused by at least 26 women, and that a majority of voters—including a majority of white women—don’t view sexual violence as a barrier to leadership

this is an extremely important reminder - remember that he kicked off his last administration with the Muslim Ban this time will be far worse, immediately, to send the message that resistance is futile it isn’t

Every moment on SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE is perfect. What a gift of a show.

Those of you frustrated by newspaper paywalls, your library probably has a free service for that. Most libraries offer digital access to databases with most major newspapers and magazines. Some even offer free accounts to specific individual newspapers.

Deleting my Twitter account meant deleting over a decade’s worth of documented hatred of this character, who just pissed me off again on this last ep. Making sure it’s still in the digital record that I think Owen Hunt sucks and I’ll never understand why the show treats him like he’s a Great Guy!!

I will meet all kinds of people where they're at. I believe there are things we can do that would benefit everyone, even people who don't like me based on who I am. but when you tell me I have to tiptoe around their feelings, lol no. that's not how mutual respect is built in the first place

Shutterfly accidentally doing a great job of capturing the vibe

the point of disinformation is to create "too much" - and to create false equivalencies between actual reporting and vibes based chatter so no one knows the difference

This is great — I always love Natalie’s writing, and the playlist is perfect for the moment

Check out @ac_wise’s @thedeadlands recs: ““Totality” by @ouibrandi.bsky.social and “Your Sword, Your Trumpet” by @anjapatel.bsky.social locusmag.com/2024/06...

big thank you to Vanessa Fogg for these lovely reviews! we're so glad you enjoyed Totality by @ouibrandi.bsky.social and Threnody in a Dark Wood by @avramargariti.bsky.social 🖤💀 itsajumble.blogspot.com/2024/04/shor...

oooooh, skeleton flail! we LOVE this @ouibrandi.bsky.social story and so great to see it get a shout-out in Alex Brown's Must Read Short Speculative Fiction List! ("Totality" is in your hands now if your a patron, and free to read on our site March 4!) reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

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So thrilled to be included in this forthcoming issue! 🤩

New episode of my podcast Piece of Work is out today — a great deep dive on documentary making with filmmaker Therese Shechter: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...