There is a very real argument being made in Hollywood that AI democratizes filmmaking, making it available to outsiders. In truth, the cost of effective generative AI is cost prohibitive to all but corporations, leading to no improvement in quality at the cost of jobs both above and below the line.

As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII

So much of the comics advice I've found most useful is not big-picture meaning-of-life storytelling stuff, but "every page should end on a mini-cliffhanger" and "make sure each issue includes at least one splash page the artist can sell at a convention"

idk man cashing in on the reputation of authors by selling that a machine is correcting craft in their voice seems pretty off to me!

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Anyways.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Greg Ketter, founder/owner of DreamHaven Books & Comics, Winner of the Will Eisner Spirit of Retail Award, 1999. As Greg has said here, the store's site has crashed from the traffic/flood of orders. But a GofundMe is still live to help with the store's renovation. www.gofundme.com/f/dreamhaven...

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

Any agent would be very fortunate to add Jeremy to their list. One of the most talented, professional, and hard-working writers out there.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I further put forward that we be allowed to be a little bit rude about it. look what the obsession with civility has gotten us. if a person is being hateful or saying something untrue, you should be allowed to get a little bitchy if you need to!

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

I don’t think there was a single dry eye in my mostly full theater. It was transcendent, it feels like Jessie Buckley made herself a conduit for something so powerful and human that it completely leapt off the screen

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

Chicago area folks: @icirr.bsky.social is holding Know Your Rights trainings all the time. I'm signed up for the virtual Nov 3 session (look for the Google doc in the middle of this page). Lots more resources & info on their site. app.smartsheet.com/b/form/a05b4...

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

the practice of giving books a star rating out of five has degraded literary culture profoundly and ought to be wiped from the face of the Earth

dems rly need to be building websites/tools that let people plug in details like zip code, income, type of insurance, etc. so that they can see how much money republicans have cost them/will cost them next cycle. hardly a better message than “these fucks are costing you $x.xx, vote for us”

i’m so pissed some of you were so rude to jack antonoff

Collective action is the way. Good for everyone that’s a “name” talent pledging to torpedo the creative credibility of any org that capitulates to unconstitutional censorship. Now, where can the unions use their leverage beyond the immediate condemnation statements?

this is my home district, and includes that rat bastard Steve king’s old house dist. It’s red as hell, but the idiot trumpers probably can’t tell you what a special election is, let alone when it is or how to vote. special elections are a big part of the playbook in shifting tides at the state level

hahaha this is insane. Netflix only has ~300M global subscribers! hell, there are only about 1.5B iPhone users globally!

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

Hate is built on fear. The cure to fear is knowledge, experience, and empathy. So the backbone of any censorship movement is their ability to convince people that those three things are actually bad. We have a very easy argument to make if you think about it... We just need to be louder about it.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

“The need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. Authority is brittle…Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction.”

Here is a great blog from @jscros.bsky.social about one of the worst media companies that has ever existed. Private equity really is the devil. www.discourseblog.com/p/rest-in-pi...

the alternative reading of this, "We're guessing people will get used to bad writing by 2030 and will no longer have any discernment in how they spend their time"

Newsletter: It's time for a radical new approach to tech CEOs: mocking them, because they talk like idiots and provide little value to society outside of their dedication to shareholder value. They sound stupid, they do nothing, and it's time to fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...

I think much of the tech right’s turn to eugenics can be explained by their psychic refusal to accept that their massive wealth is the product of historical luck (being in SV at a time when investment money was cheap & abundant) and an insistence that it was instead a product of inherent supremacy.

All I can really think about when people start arguing against lifetime copyright for artists for their work are all the older comics artists who made the mega franchises you love...who have to beg for healthcare & financial support.

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

and Miss Bates was correct far more frequently

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

AT LONG LAST! Book One (HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD AND DIE TRYING) is *easily* the book I recommend to friends the most. If you haven’t read it, go buy it *and* book two—you will love them (unless you have rotted orc entrails for brains.)

Using AI is risking plagiarism, and nothing will kill a writer's career quicker or deader than that. AI lacks flavor, and the special sauce of any writer is the flavor they put there themselves. Writers and Editors FUCKING HATE AI. Who becomes a writer to become disrespected? AI: not even once.

Project 2025 explicitly makes that specious connection. Call your reps and tell them to shut this down. reps.fyi

gotta find someone for iowa. i think ernst is probably more vulnerable than she looks

It’s so funny when people try to make sense of his ramblings. “It’s hard to figure out how he would implement such a plan” lol he’s an impulsive moron who doesn’t understand shit, it’s like ascribing complex motives to a dog eating another dog’s poop

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.