To my mind, Hal is the most terrifying character from a non-horror film. The lip-reading scene is blood-curdling!

Keep an eye out for AI lackeys using the phrase “freedom to learn” in an attempt to normalize plagiarism, copyright violation, and theft of labor

I am sick of seeing people who say they're on the left use the plagiarism machine. No, you're not fighting fascism by making memes online with the slop maker. In fact, it's a betrayal of every progressive value.

If we seem to be getting along really well and all of a sudden I’ve blocked you, it’s because you’re sharing Gen AI slop, which is an insult to every creative person and destructive to the environment

GenAI has rendered Pinterest unusable. The last fun thing on the internet has also died.

you know, just once i'd like someone to go on Joe Rogan's podcast, listen to him jovially spew some asinine, semi-evil bullshit, and respond, in that cutting way a friend does, "Are you a fucking idiot?"

It's been one month since the world forever changed.

We miss you, David Lynch.

Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com

WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

What could possibly go wrong ?

It breaks my heart to see the little children of Gaza forced to live this way. If you can donate to help, please do, if not, you can always share.

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺

Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

By and large i have a live and let live approach to cinema but i can't understand why people love a simple favour, a film i found so shit, or why it has a forthcoming sequel

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off?
ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off.

They do not log off.

It just took me ten minutes to finish something that I had been putting off since September.

the hostility towards the creative arts from the tech world lmao...imagine being umable to conceive of people for whom WRITING IS THEIR JOB AND SOMETHING THEY ENJOY

So here's what's cool about my job:

Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

Starting 2025 by committing clinical levels of insanity and burning a hole in my wallet because a local bookshop was offering a flat 30% discount.
Here's hoping I read more and scroll less this year.