Make sure your scripts are organized into .json datasets. Maybe throw a showrunnerInstruction.md file in, too. We’re cooked. (Not cooked.) Idk. I look forward to watching the show with my executives to “pressure test” the pre-viz. Friends: Your voice is what’s valuable. Not your hustle.

Am I going crazy? The other day I saw a hip-hop deep fake video with Zuck and Musk and Trump all working in a factory at night and I cannot find it anywhere.

Adverbs are like heroin for AI. We can’t just keep having interventions, man. You can do this.

Is this the part where consumer goods just go up by 10 or 15% across the board because of the tariffs, and when the tariffs are gone, they don’t go back down?

What are the best tv scenes of all time?

You know you built some good shit when you have to ask copilot if he’s hallucinating and he is like, no.

Feige trolling MAGA and courting the 2029 Box Office is my return to normalcy.

Feels pretty “I just thought of this in the bathtub” to go with 25% exactly as your tariff.

I wrote this a few days before DeepSeek showed up, and it feels like reality shifted a little. But still. Daddy’s coming. Whichever one it is.

But any AI that’s bad at the truth will be bad at math and science, and AI bad at math and science is worth zilch. It would be nice if that tension ripped apart the computer systems that are currently being built to preserve the billionaire class. But I’m not assuming it’ll be that easy.

If you’ve been amused imagining a radically right troll struggling to circumnavigate Claude’s insistence on universal human rights, it may suddenly be not funny, at all, when we realize Elon Musk is in the game in order to create an LLM with an authoritarian right wing ideology cooked into it.

I’m doing my very best to hold that in one hand, and a sober acknowledgment on global inequality in the other. You don’t have to be evangelical about AI to know that it’s about to do something. The cost of goods and services going down precipitously could mean a fascist world or a free world.

Though the world is unrecognizable compared to what it was 100 years ago, or 200 years ago, or 1000 years ago, there’s never been a subjective perspective where a person could watch that happen. I really think it’s going to be unrecognizable in one year. These things have never happened.

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These are my grandparents.

Post this behind a secret panel in your home for the next ten years.

Never forget.

Funny you should ask I can tell you exactly what the first 120 minutes are like. 🙃.

Can’t wait for Station Eleven to premiere in a couple of weeks!

Also without them, the world would be a barren wasteland of ash and rusty golf clubs.

Should have gone with the kleroterion.

We shot this the third day of Maniac, and between takes Emma told me the “co” in my “co-showrunner” meant that I was Mom.

It seems we are already losing sight of the fact that a handful of billionaires effectively turned our information ecosystem into a Superfund site, no one knows how to clean up the mess, and simply telling the truth and hoping people find it is woefully insufficient

I had so much media I loved dappled on twitter/x over the years. I don’t why it feels good to me for those things to exist not just on my phone, but as my kid plays soccer I’m gonna just make a museum of digital things I love. For example, this boomerang that captures the souls of my son and father.

I spent some time looking back through this hauntingly beautiful light test photos of the Station Eleven apartment, where, in Toronto, you could look out and see the skyscrapers of Chicago, and time travel to before.

The Justin Townes Earle version of Graceland is the definitive Graceland.

It’s so easy to crash your boat on the rocks.

New episodes don’t come often, but I love making this collage-y storytelling podcast from voice memos I get from fascinating people. This one is full of love from author Nikesh Shukla: open.spotify.com/episode/0snL...

New episodes don’t come often, but I love making this collage-y storytelling podcast from voice memos I get from fascinating people. This one is full of love from author Nikesh Shukla: open.spotify.com/episode/0snL...

One last question: I read an article recently that suggested Milo Yiannopoulos lives down the street from me, in a distressed Dov Charney house. I keep waiting to encounter him at Gelson’s, or the sidewalk. What is the funniest thing you can say to this person on a sidewalk?

I am feeling one year away from madness, with the election. Coincidentally, I’ve been reading about this thing called a kleroterian, the bingo/plinko machine ancient Athenians built in order to randomly select the political offices of the city every year.

The idea of blue checkmarks were a real mindfuck.

My dad at 27. Always funny.

I feel like everyone who got so fired up about giving up on double spacing should have to stop using the letter c.

I deleted my twitter/x account and felt nothing whatsoever.

I have shingles and it makes your face into a shingle.

I’m very proud of this. spotify.link/NP0NGba07Cb

I know you shouldn’t reply to spam texts but I couldn’t resist the Station Eleven of this one

2/3 of my children just left for summer camp for two weeks… hoping to write one novel per day

I wrote a long thing about Punch Drunk Love and the feeling of Hollywood rn. 🙏❤️ https://open.substack.com/pub/patricksomerville/p/that-scene-works-the-are-you-threatening?r=29w34&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

I’m curious if anyone here who grew up in a house with an addict has the experience of having the code cracked early, but then needing to rebuild whole parts of yourself only after that parent died?

Usually when I make something I have no idea what the form is going to be. This episode felt like the last piece I needed to understand what I was even doing: https://open.substack.com/pub/patricksomerville/p/voice-memo-episode-3-supercobbler?r=29w34&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Just before I heard of thread, and just after I got on here, about two weeks ago, I made the decision to reverse completely how I was using social media. I have never felt like how I was or what I said actually sounded or felt like me, quite, on any platform, all the way back to Facebook in 2004.

Lighthearted thing! https://open.substack.com/pub/patricksomerville/p/voice-memo?r=29w34&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

As an energy reset here’s my son being thrown off the front of a raft in Idaho two years ago.

okay better