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Darkest Timeline JDP

@jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social

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Writer of fictions and things / slayer of small literary journals and music mags / host of the Cinema Shame podcast / @007hertzrumble on the Twitter / creator of #Bond_age_ / collector of physical media / imbiber of coffee and bourbon

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · Feb 20

#civildisobedience

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Ferguson was the best to ever do late night. I will not be taking arguments.

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · Mar 21

I can’t manage to get to sleep, so here’s Craig Ferguson, some Late Late Show staff, a few puppets, and @asavage.bsky.social & Jamie Hyneman dancing to “I’ll Stop The World & Melt With You”…

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Never a better time for Bond than the present. Unless it’s Bond 24 or 25 and then there could be some less than good times.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 1d

This week’s JAMBOROO topper is about Slow Horses, which is a perfect TV show. defector.com/how-slow-hor...

How 'Slow Horses' Explains The World | Defector

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE,...

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

The older I get, the fewer opinions I have, the more I recognize I know very little, the more I crave simple reflection instead of reaction.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit. A real slim shady stood up.

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this, share a pic from your device with no explanation...

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

The 11%.

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Is it the return of the #Bond_age_Pod? Only in spirit.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Time for some comfort viewing and @cinemashame.bsky.social prep.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 1d

Every time a director says AI is here to stay I simply decide then and there that I won't watch their movies anymore. It's really that simple.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 2d

Just an amazing article about one guy's AI slop empire. I can't help wondering if, like AI itself, this kind of AI-driven snake oil entrepreneurship is a bubble that will burn itself out eventually, but in the meantime it's destroying human content creators' livelihoods.

Sheesh’s Pieces @last-pict.bsky.social · 2d

might as well drop this here too. not totally related but he does go into the process and motivations. futurism.com/slop-farmer-...

Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women

Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 2d

A lot of """"creatives"""" have seemingly accepted generative AI as part of art and filmmaking and I'm hear to say you're all big stinky phonies and I hate you

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 2d

"Um you use spellcheck" yeah I do and it fucking sucks and I wish it was the old way where it was just a digital dictionary because currently I end up fighting with a useless piece of AI that's trying to tell me things that are WRONG because it learned from TEXT THAT IS WRONG

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve long meant to give this a watch.

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 2d

I think you have to attribute it to the press’ vulture-like need to pick the corpses of “troubled” productions before they’re even released to audiences.

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Willful ignorance and malicious racism all in one soundbite.

Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 2d

I’m pretty lukewarm on the film as a whole, but I admit to consistently finding it pretty hilarious. Skinning the old guy with eye lasers — but then fighting back against the mom by just biting her.

Okay, movie. 😂

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