“I’m more interested in describing actions because that’s what your actors are going to do. I don’t like pre-assigning an actor’s emotions in a script.” #chloezhao #hamnet

The fact that so many players in the Canadian animation industry are still blaming the slowdown on WGA and SAG strikes while also warning and panicking about falling behind on AI adoption is just… You do know you’re falling for the excuse AND the scam, right?

I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

"If you try to explain it all within the film, the scale of the film shrinks." Hayao Miyazaki

Illustration by Moomins author, Finnish artist Tove Jansson. #December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍

How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their embroidered circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented). Season's greetings to you all!

I remember being a kid and finding it so weird watching Christmas stuff set in the states and them not having snow, or having to wish for a white Christmas… and now I live in Vancouver, and my sister is in Australia, and the ocean and then the rivers stopped freezing over 🙃

The un-christmassy-christmas card is back! 😘

sorry I've been baking did The Atlantic really call Canada "treasonous?" omg

“As always art is the pulse of a nation. I was just thinking of a good title for an art book. From Bismark to Hitler, any one can see that since 1870 and to 1939 Germany has had no art. When a country is in such a state that people who like to buy things can find nothing to buy…

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Camino post number 2 (out of ???) is up!

Maisie’s prize task! Mathew’s shorts! John’s jumpscare! The world’s bleak, you deserve a laugh!

feel old yet? this is the Teletubbies sun baby now

Can’t help thinking about the reports on Abu Ghraib while watching that segment…

They're playing catch up; it's still streaming on other Canadian SVOD apps:

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

I know they say not to attribute to malice what could be straight up ignorance... but, honey, no. Not at the tail end of 2025. We both know better.

Literally having trouble thinking of an institutional sector — journalism, education, government, health care — that ISNT being run by people who actively hate the work it does

a required skill for being able to use an LLM in any professional capacity is discernment, essentially already being an expert in the field so you know when (and why) its outputs are incorrect. now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts

Capitalism is the best system in the world because it keeps all industries honest by getting people who fundamentally don’t understand and hate these industries to run them. Mankind’s progress will complete when private equity saddles every living human with debt and sells off their limbs.

That’s suspicious. That’s weird.

Happy Longest Night to all who observe

It’s helpful here to understand how both of the systems involved are programmed. LLMs are programmed to fake the answers to our questions, and we are programmed to be more accepting and less critical of information that’s in tune with our existing beliefs.

The whole thread is worth your time, but I wanna highlight this one a little bit. Especially for all my dear friends who are out there telling us we need to take a more nuanced view with our AI critique. Let me say this with my chest: AI is a tool for fascists.

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

A hot bev, a book, and all this rain…

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Big fat walk! Even when she’s cloudy she’s still pretty.

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

We can do even more.

Living like it's 2005 or something and started a blog. On my website. Decentralize the internet and all that stuff. Wanted a place to start planting some words about my Camino (very much still processing) and to share stuff that isn't Zuckerburged or backing n*zis...

this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt

the moment when a painting or drawing i'm making goes from "this is dogshit and i'm a fraud" to "actually we're back" can be so transcendently beautiful, it's a shame that it's one of the many things people who use AI are denying themselves

TFW you have the unbearable urge to walk the entirety of the seawall's 22KM, but...

The Girl Who Cried Pearls is now available to stream on the NFB's site/platforms (and has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards)!

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal. Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Granted, there’s been a lot happening in the news, but I’m surprised this hasn’t been making the rounds more.

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

Stonington Lobster Trap Tree!

God I’m happy I got rid of my subscription this year.

This week’s newsletter is heavy, and in hindsight probably should’ve come with a content warning? I dunno. I'm on a flight to bury my father. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.

“Lethargic. Uninspired. Terrified.” Been thinking about this interview again a LOT lately! (Also, Jesus, how is this thing SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD??!) youtu.be/WApcUBcVMos?...

This morning, Disney announced a deal with OpenAI. Read more about the WGAW’s advocacy against the theft and exploitation of writers’ works by AI models: www.wga.org/contracts/kn...