Hello someone I know is doing a survey on sentiments re AI in museums & archives - relevant whether you work in the field or just like going to museums forms.gle/MUcvs9oGStUU...

Last year, I mentored a student who was just offered his first TV producer contract and it was $40,000. Women and journalists of color are constantly being told they have to be twice as good to get and retain jobs. But Nick Bilton gets a $2.5M salary at 60 Minutes, $1M more than his predecessor.

among the biggest problems with television today, the lack of economic or logistical pressure to actually make shows is among the greatest. (1/14)

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

"J'avais survécu à une révolution et une guerre, et c'est une banale histoire d'amour qui a failli m'emporter." 💔

“Actors need actions. They cannot act moods.”

The Saul Steinberg Foundation has a new website, which is great because we love looking at his witty creations saulsteinbergfoundation.org

Just a few of the postcards made by NYC public school families last Saturday at the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social event in Marsha P. Johnson State Park — now on their way to @mayor.nyc.gov ! [thread]

WHOOHOO!! The Run N Gun film I helped out on is screening on Wednesday June 24th in the Nightmare Fuel block 😱

“Mid” animator is insane. Like, fuck you, too??!

“Wake up hon, a new puzzle game just dropped.”

A low-income transit pass is long overdue. Transit riders, let’s unite to make it a reality before the July 1 fare increases. Add your voice by signing the petition or connecting with your MLA. win.newmode.net/move...

It is worth noting that the takeover of 60 Minutes, and CBS News, is the culmination of the strategy that was baked into the launch of Substack. This is the thing we were trying to explain was bigger than just "there are nazis on there". www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

I learned the “don’t meet your heroes” thing a while ago now, but it’s really don’t have heroes at all sometimes, isn’t it?

1/ Palantir is deeply embedded in the scariest activities of the Trump regime – enabling everything from mass deportations and lawless assassinations in international waters to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes.

This motherfucking war has more endings than Return of the King

I'm once again here to tell you how heavenly it is to listen to Cillian Murphy playlists whilst drawing. Just absolutely lovely. (I know he says they're for listening after dark, but... you can't make me.)

Correct. 👇

While the zine trend is spearheaded by independent artists, newspaper printers and traditional bookstores have been embracing it too.

“Wow! These tomatoes actually taste like real tomatoes!” …I miss having a garden 😭

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Nothing says I love this city and will put it first like threatening to fuck off if you don’t get your way If Pratt could or wanted to help Los Angeles no election defeat could stop him from keeping up that fight You think Zohran would have LEFT NYC if he had lost www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...

OK, you know what? The whole “dating crisis”? The plummeting birth rates? Zoom out. Zoom WAY out. Things are so broken and priorities are completely out of whack on a global, planetary level… it’s no wonder it’s affecting interpersonal relationships!

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Ragebait.

Still being a nerd on the blog! On the menu today, a personal favourite: Acting 🎭

Same energy:

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

amazing this is not a skit

Women know a confidently wrong blowhard when they see one and are much less likely to fall for smarmy, insincere flattery

I can’t believe I have to live through a Bush/Harper sequel.

“vibecession”

Our new Heritage Minute: NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE just won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Song for … “The Alphabet Song.” This is not a joke.

I can’t say Spider-Man normally because of this bitch*. * “Bitch,” in this case, is absolutely a term of endearment.

i was such an avid reader of stuff i did not even get CLOSE to understanding as a kid and all it did was make me read more, and ask more questions about the world. there's a concerted effort from almost every consolidated power on this planet to make people less curious!!!!

Some heartbreaking animation news today from people who have been some of my animation heroes. It’s up to us to hold the line and build a better future for animation.

After Kumail’s prize task submission: Me: “Did you have those in your textbooks in school?” Adam: “Herpes?????”

Gee I wonder what material this AI “trained on”

Good reminders from this shitty situation: • Never forget to treat work for hire for what it is: work for hire. • Value IP like they value IP. • They need you more than you need them.

A Vancouver business owns this ⚡️ van, built in Ontario at a plant 🇨🇦 spent half a billion to retool for EVs. Canada Post was looking at buying 10k 🇺🇸 vans instead. Carney’s government didn’t step in. Now they want to convert the plant to military production. We paid for EVs. Carney picked war.

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

First time doing a scene off book since that one play in high school was A SUCCESS! (Not to put a judgement on it, tho, 'cause that's not the point.) But I didn't have to go "line?" to my script buddy. And/but/also, I had SO. MUCH. FUN!

Watch Jacquot de Nantes fully aware that Agnès Varda was making the film as her husband, the titular Jacquot (Jacques Demy), was dying of AIDS.

Boots Riley is resolute in his belief that AI proponents and studio heads who say that gen AI is the future of filmmaking are simply lying. Read the full interview from @charlespulliam.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

“It's making me dumber for sure.” www.404media.co/software-dev...

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

"Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But no pope has ever publicly acknowledged, much less apologized for, the role that past popes themselves played in giving European sovereigns explicit authority to subjugate and enslave 'infidels.'" /1