I heard the comparison to Melanias 40 million dollar doc that the 8 ep Oscar winner OJ: Made in America cost 5 million. Honestly, I think even if you splurge on everything, they could not spend that kind if money. And only pundits will watch

I like to think of AI as a really powerful calculator. It does really on maths, but when you need it to deal with the complexity of human thought and feelings, it spits out hallucination and bogus.

#GVerse SNL completely DESTROYED #Shit4Brains for hiding the Epstein files. This is amazing. Check it out!

🧑‍🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…

It's been almost two days since the Epstein files were supposed to be released. Has President Clinton been arrested yet? Wasn't his name supposed to be all over the files? Isn't that what they said? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEpsteinFiles

I was just at the gym watching a The Wire s2 episode, and came back to this awful news. Ransone was incredible in that season — so believable as the screw-up determined to live down to everyone's low opinion of him. And great in almost everything else I saw him do. RIP.

To clear the air here, because I am getting a lot of questions and feedback on this, we are cooked. Here is why:

The thing with the Epstein files is: they're not even charging Dems. They want to implicate Clinton. Fine. Why don't they charge him? They bring nothing-cases all the time, so it's not even like they need evidence.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Jack Nicholson - The Shining (1980) Behind the scenes 📸🎬🖤

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

What is really funny is that nobody seems to have pressed charges against Bill Clinton. I get the political relevance of the Epstein files, but we're still talking criminal offences here.

Legal people, does "politically exposed" have a specific meaning in legalese? Or is it just being used colloquially here?

There are studies on how conspiracy prevails. Not getting the information out there in a timely manner is one of them. I get that they wouldn't read them, but how is Dan Bongino the only one who went 'I don't think this is going to work'?

Some of the Epstein files are out. But most of what was released Friday was already public, heavily redacted or offered few new revelations about the case.

I remember the days when I didn't have to know every American secretary of whatever. Because knowing those of the country I live in was enough. Or when it really didn’t matter how X is polling in Ohio. I really want to get back to that.

I'm not going to read the book and reviews seem to be too confused by it all to figure out what it's actually about. Still, I appreciate the story of how awful everyone is.

The more I think about it, the more I reckon the 2003 Iraq War began the process that let Trump win. The blatant lies we were told by our governments, the disregard for public opinion and mockery of international law created a rupture that never healed. Trust, consent and cohesion were smashed.🧵 1/3

AI's founding myth is how they stole all my work, I really hate how unavoidable on all my devices it has become.

I updated my tablet and now, when you press the button to switch it on, Gemini comes on. Enshittification by #Samsung.

New authors, please, PLEASE, you don't need AI to "improve" your writing. Rough edges, weird word choices, these are the quirks that make human prose interesting. I'd read someone's fever-dream of a 1st novel any day over an AI book that reads like the hideous amalgam of peppy corporate PR. #booksky

"The students are facing potential discipline that could range from a private reprimand to being required to withdraw from the school" Instead of removing the guy who was buddies with a sex trafficker, they're investigating and going to discipline students who drew attention to it? Insanity.

Spoke with Times Radio about the AI bubble, and how I think it might be bigger and uglier than the dotcom bubble (though the after-effects will be...different) youtu.be/C35bMFVDrlo

Is this how Disney plans to reach out to MAGA? What’s next, a Captain Hook biopic?

But that one guy said white men his age can’t get work in Hollywood.

💖😭💖 OMG, WAKE UP DEAD MAN IS SO GOOOOD!!!!! No spoilers. 🤐 But it's fucking fantastic!!! 😍 I love how respectfully it showed Mind & Heart, Reason & Faith, as necessary human experiences. Literally cried. And it's a fucking great mystery! You can solve it, but man it kept me guessing! Go👏🏻watch👏🏻now!👏🏻

Read this. Then read it again.

Granted, I'm watching the Netflix doc on Puff Daddy with Josh Johnson's standup in my head how much 50 Cent hates Puff Ðaddy. But wow! 50 Cent really hates Puff Daddy.

"This wasn’t a show that ever took risks or played with the form." Oh- just fuck off. Name a previous sitcom that isn't about a workplace or a family, but unmarried people who were, well, friends. How many lesbian weddings were there on prime time shows?

Except that When Harry met Sally is better than The American President. By a lot.

Please take 7 and a half minutes and watch this.

For a minute there, I thought Disclosure Day was some kind of countdown to the release of the Epstein files (Friday)

The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible. I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.

We should venerate Reiner for managing to be a genius, but not an asshole. I'm reading Burn it Down by Maureen Ryan, so that seems like something to highlight. You can be a creative genius and not be an asshole.

Omg we got our third 🤯

Can we please not make the tragic death of one of the greatest creative minds of his generation about Trump being a shithead? He shits on everything Reiner stood for every day, why would he stop now?

Every one of these pieces comes down to “what if ai was useful”

13 years ago today.

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

Statement from the Lear Family on the death of Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner. Rob Reiner described Norman Lear as his second father.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

What the bloody fuck!

aje.io/4zqov7 That is what we call a 'Trump truce'

Doing some cute calligraphy

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

So, Netflix' merger with Warner will essentially rebuild cable, right? They will essentially introduce an 'HBO tier'. Tbf, Amazon is already doing that with the channel subscriptions.

Can we please rebrand self-censorship as 'just not saying it out loud'.

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.

Five countries are now boycotting Eurovision over Israel's participation. Back in May, we reported that the musical competition censored boos and "Free Palestine!" during Israeli singer Eden Golan's 2024 performance.

TIME magazine is owned by Marc Benioff, owner of Salesforce, who literally ran an AI agents puff piece about his ow company in the magazine. I’m unsurprised he thinks a bunch of grifters are person of the year, he thinks they’re cool