Lee Zachariah
@leezachariah.bsky.social
"Better-looking than Peter Jackson." - Bobcat Goldthwait
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This is terrible, that kind of information should only come from your refrigerator
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is terrible, that kind of information should only come from your refrigerator
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
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Five years ago you could search: "when did the saxophone become an indication of sexy times in film" and you'd get somebody's well-researched article.
Now it's like "sex was invented by the ancient Sumerians as a way to fight ghosts, which they used to brew beer." (search instead for "saxophone?")
Now it's like "sex was invented by the ancient Sumerians as a way to fight ghosts, which they used to brew beer." (search instead for "saxophone?")
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Five years ago you could search: "when did the saxophone become an indication of sexy times in film" and you'd get somebody's well-researched article.
Now it's like "sex was invented by the ancient Sumerians as a way to fight ghosts, which they used to brew beer." (search instead for "saxophone?")
Now it's like "sex was invented by the ancient Sumerians as a way to fight ghosts, which they used to brew beer." (search instead for "saxophone?")
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Diane Ladd, RIP
Here she is on the set of Inland Empire with her daughter, Laura Dern, talking about how many great directors she's worked with in her career. Lynch's return volley is of course wonderful as well. We lost them both this year. Legends!
Here she is on the set of Inland Empire with her daughter, Laura Dern, talking about how many great directors she's worked with in her career. Lynch's return volley is of course wonderful as well. We lost them both this year. Legends!
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Diane Ladd, RIP
Here she is on the set of Inland Empire with her daughter, Laura Dern, talking about how many great directors she's worked with in her career. Lynch's return volley is of course wonderful as well. We lost them both this year. Legends!
Here she is on the set of Inland Empire with her daughter, Laura Dern, talking about how many great directors she's worked with in her career. Lynch's return volley is of course wonderful as well. We lost them both this year. Legends!
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The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.
Personally, I think this kind of allowance is very irresponsible on the part of the police.
Cambridgeshire sex offender priest may have more victims - police
Cambridgeshire sex offender priest may have more victims - police
Officers believe other people who suffered at the hands of Dennis Finbow are yet to come forward.
www.bbc.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Personally, I think this kind of allowance is very irresponsible on the part of the police.
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Welp guess who got told today their job is being made redundant because AI
October 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Welp guess who got told today their job is being made redundant because AI
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The thing is, the people who want AI art want their own AI art and not others. They want the allure of being an ‘artist’, but if it came to paying money to see somebody else’s they wouldn’t waste their money. They better learn this quick.
Greatest parallel I can think of for the AI vs Art situation: there was barely anyone at the AI festival while a screening of DR. STRANGELOVE was completely sold out. People want real art made by real people.
Having to walk past an AI International Film And Music Video Awards Festival is giving me psychic damage.
September 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The thing is, the people who want AI art want their own AI art and not others. They want the allure of being an ‘artist’, but if it came to paying money to see somebody else’s they wouldn’t waste their money. They better learn this quick.
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In the latest episode of THE DECADE PROJECT at @ohmpods.bsky.social Patreon, author/screenwriter @leezachariah.bsky.social and I discuss movies as living memories in #YOUTH and the work of Paolo Sorrentino www.patreon.com/posts/135991...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
In the latest episode of THE DECADE PROJECT at @ohmpods.bsky.social Patreon, author/screenwriter @leezachariah.bsky.social and I discuss movies as living memories in #YOUTH and the work of Paolo Sorrentino www.patreon.com/posts/135991...
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Had the pleasure of briefly meeting David Stratton a couple times. He was kind and charming. RIP.
(image from his hilarious appearance on The Bazura Project)
(image from his hilarious appearance on The Bazura Project)
August 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Had the pleasure of briefly meeting David Stratton a couple times. He was kind and charming. RIP.
(image from his hilarious appearance on The Bazura Project)
(image from his hilarious appearance on The Bazura Project)
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Cool cool cool
Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database
An AI agent doing the heavy lifting is great—until it deletes everything you worked on and admits to a 'catastrophic error in judgment.' Replit's CEO calls the blunder 'unacceptable.'
www.pcmag.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Cool cool cool
Well, this explains the $16m they paid to settle that Trump lawsuit.
July 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Well, this explains the $16m they paid to settle that Trump lawsuit.
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An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
July 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
Australian ISPs: “Due to federal law, we are required to keep a record of every single website you have ever visited, forever.”
Me: “Great, do you have that fish batter recipe I found three months ago?”
Australian ISPs: “Except that one.”
Me: “Great, do you have that fish batter recipe I found three months ago?”
Australian ISPs: “Except that one.”
July 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Australian ISPs: “Due to federal law, we are required to keep a record of every single website you have ever visited, forever.”
Me: “Great, do you have that fish batter recipe I found three months ago?”
Australian ISPs: “Except that one.”
Me: “Great, do you have that fish batter recipe I found three months ago?”
Australian ISPs: “Except that one.”
This is for, like, five of you.
July 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is for, like, five of you.
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Interaction with "lifelike" AI is the last step. We are fully severed from community. All communication is virtual, be it AI or real, it doesn't matter. It's all the same. And nothing exists outside of our own minds. This is what a society of the self looks like. And it is an evolutionary dead end.
July 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Interaction with "lifelike" AI is the last step. We are fully severed from community. All communication is virtual, be it AI or real, it doesn't matter. It's all the same. And nothing exists outside of our own minds. This is what a society of the self looks like. And it is an evolutionary dead end.
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The slow drift into disembodied communication over the past century has brought with it an increasing defecit of empathy. Our inner worlds become so expansive, so solipsistic, that we simply don't (or can't) care when heinous things happen in the world around us.
July 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The slow drift into disembodied communication over the past century has brought with it an increasing defecit of empathy. Our inner worlds become so expansive, so solipsistic, that we simply don't (or can't) care when heinous things happen in the world around us.
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Grok is a full blown nazi now.
July 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Grok is a full blown nazi now.
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re: generative AI
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
re: generative AI
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
“The Social Network… part two.”
June 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
“The Social Network… part two.”
I didn’t specifically intend for this account to become a 100% anti-AI screed, but here we are. I know it’s pushing against the tide, but that’s also kind of appropriate given it makes me want to walk into the ocean.
June 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I didn’t specifically intend for this account to become a 100% anti-AI screed, but here we are. I know it’s pushing against the tide, but that’s also kind of appropriate given it makes me want to walk into the ocean.
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This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩
June 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
June 22, 2024 at 9:58 PM
It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits