The creativity was done already by the people who made what the AI is using to “create” its derivative garbage.

Just got a call from another real estate scammer looking to buy our house. I told them $3 million. They hung up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Leo Laporte should probably throw in the towel at this point. I’ve never seen someone fall so far from becoming a champion of tech to an out-of-touch curmudgeon. “CES is pointless.” “Wicked was a terrible movie.” “I’m on a show about Apple, but don’t think anything Apple does is worthwhile.”

Is there a tool, AI or otherwise, that would allow me to upload a diagram of a room in my house with all the furniture placements and measurements and then tell it: “Rearrange this room in a way to maximize space/efficiency?”

How do we have 800 of these articles and none contend with the fundamental issue which is rich liberals don’t want to fund left media, they want to fund liberal media which is bloodless and partisan, by definition. GOP courts its extremes, liberals discipline theirs. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/u...

impressive Bill Gates was the subject of a brutal NYT report about how he met multiple times with post-conviction Jeffrey Epstein, his wife of 27yrs divorced him over it, then he produced some Netflix hagiographies of himself, gave $50 million to the Harris campaign and everyone just forgot about it

My review of WICKED (2024) www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYMxEkGY/

Lovely time had at @moviehistories.bsky.social film club with a POV noir caper. Was not expecting the gimmick to sustain itself Montgomery as director nails it fairly well! Another fab outing with fine film pals!

I've decided to hawk the book and the game once and precisely once this entire holiday season, so I figured I'd get in a head start before you're all inundated, and today's the day. Dog not included.

500 words down this morning in the WIP. Haven't written fiction in so long. Felt good. #amwriting

The fact that we're boiling the oceans faster than ever expressly for the purpose of making this is probably the most fitting end to humanity.

it begins www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...

My thing is, if they’re not even willing to speak up to defend their own, what could we possibly expect them to do for anyone else?

it disgusts me the national democratic party barely pushes back at this attempt from the right to wind back LGBTQ rights decades after claiming to be the party of LGBTQ rights

Just signed copies of CABINET OF CURIOSITIES at The Strand in NYC! Another dream fulfilled! 🥰✍️📖 #author #writer #booksky #writersky

Headed to @barnesandnoble.bsky.social in Union Square NYC to sign some books. If you’re local, come say hi!

Four social media platforms from now we’ll realize the problem was inside us the whole time

Hi, I'm Erik. I'm a literary agent and one of the founders of @headwaterlit.bsky.social. I also host @printrunpodcast.bsky.social, a show about the publishing industry that, if you followed me because of that publishing starter pack, you will love. I do both these things with @lzats.bsky.social.

While it’s exciting to see this place grow, let’s temper expectations. Because until this place becomes a hub for live/breaking news, it won’t be the “town square” we’re all hoping for.

I’m giving away a 4K UHD / Blu-ray edition of Criterion’s stunning I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE / THE SEVENTH VICTIM All you have to do it LIKE this, REPOST, and FOLLOW The winner will be chosen at random on 5th Dec! To enter twice, sign up at at Patreon via the link in the bio! Good luck!

James Cagney didn’t just do Yankee Doodle Dandy because he wanted to. It was because he HAD to, in an increasingly hostile, anti-Communist Hollywood www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYNvJWSq/ #hollywood #blacklist

So aside from writing books, I also run a successful TikTok channel called “Let’s All Go to the Lobby @lobbyintros.bsky.social,” where I talk classic film. It’s helped me land a side job as a classic film host - like the kind you might see on TCM. Mometu.com #booksky #filmsky #classicfilm

Signed a bunch of copies of #cabinetofcuriositiesbook at the @barnesandnoble.bsky.social in Bridgewater, NJ today. Snag a copy today! Makes a great gift!

US police will never be anything different than this. Ever.

I’ve learned a lot about life from writing about history for a living. Here are 5 of my biggest lessons (you can read or listen): nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/tru...

I hadn’t touched my WIP in about a year, so I fed it to Notebook LM & I’ve been asking it questions about plot points & characters ever since. It’s been a 🛟 in getting me back up to speed. This is what AI was meant to do — make my life easier while I handle the creative stuff #writer #writing

MY BOOK IS OUT TODAY!!! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... Pick up your copy of Cabinet of Curiosities wherever fine books are sold! #author #writer #books

Hope folks enjoy my new book Through a Noir Lens Adapting Film Noir Visual Style cup.columbia.edu/book/through... www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0231... #Film #Cinema #media #filmstudies #cinemastudies #FilmNoir #filmhistory #mediastudies #cinemahistory #mediahistory #mediaindustry #noir #books #Noirvember

I'm back - figured I needed a place to chat that wasn't in video form. If ur interested in following my exploits: I'm on the new streaming app Mometu (mometu.com) as their resident classic film host! Also on TikTok at www.tiktok.com/@lobbyintros chatting about classic film & Old Hollywood history

Forgot to post this here (I’m mostly on TikTok these days): check out the cover to the new CABINET OF CURIOSITIES book coming this November, co-authored by yours truly! PRE-ORDER TODAY! static.macmillan.com/static/smp/c...

Forgot to post this here (I’m mostly on TikTok these days): check out the cover to the new CABINET OF CURIOSITIES book coming this November, co-authored by yours truly! PRE-ORDER TODAY! static.macmillan.com/static/smp/c...

Sooooo…I’m gonna be published in November!

I dunno if "war" is the right term for a first-world military systematically murdering civilians on an industrial scale

TIL they make headphones for dogs and I’m wondering why didn’t they call them “AirBuds?”

TIL they make headphones for dogs and I’m wondering why didn’t they call them “AirBuds?”

I was so delighted to see my new book, Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style, in the Columbia University Press catalog. Hope folks enjoy it! cup.columbia.edu/book/through... issuu.com/columbiaup/d...

Just posted my intro for White Christmas (1954) - watch it before you watch the movie! www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8msMCpV/

we literally had white supremacists chanting "jews will not replace us" on a campus and nothing *close* to this was suggested

Check your Amazon accounts. A recent hack allowed people to add drop addresses to re-route deliveries. I had one for a locker about 25 minutes away in my address list.

"Hello, we have a reservation for the night." "No you don't."

This is the intellectual equivalent of seeing someone wearing a camouflage T-shirt and pretending their torso is invisible. Woooaaah man where'd it go, hahaha

The cybertruck really looks dumber than I could have ever imagined.

lol shut up dork

Shut it down, immediately. This is such a dangerous practice; it could easily be used to incite violence or to spur population movement. It's disgusting the lengths to which some media corporations will go to avoid paying for on-the-ground written & photo journalism. petapixel.com/2023/11/07/a...

The anti-TikTok/social media rhetoric being echoed across mainstream media and govt today reeks of the post-Crash anti-Communist sentiment that got its foothold in the ‘20s as labor realized capitalism wasn’t going to save them and embracing communist/socialist ideology was the way out of poverty.

Israel now admits that IDF helicopters killed civilians and says Hamas didn't even know about the rave. What a world we live in. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Ever since quitting Twitter, I funneled my energy into building a platform on TikTok. I host a channel dedicated to Old Hollywood & classic film history where I host classic film intros like what you’d find on TCM. I’m over 5k followers now & would ❤️ for u to join me: www.tiktok.com/@lobbyintros...

Joe Biden went to Jeff Bezos' paper to tell the American people he will continue to spend OUR money making sure Bibi is allowed to kill every Palestinian child in Gaza. BUT, he's also gonna do them the favor of keeping them away from visiting our garbage country. What a guy! Vote Blue! 🌊

Holy shit elon is actually facing consequences