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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

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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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13h

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 23h

I still think all the time about when Kane PUNCHED HIS FIST upward through the center of the mat, and climbed out of a hole leading to literal hell and then John Cena went under the mat (where hell is) to grab a folding chair.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

I find it baffling how little impact the existence of the Undertaker, a literal walking corpse, has had on science and religion

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

There’s an interview going around about AI, so before there are any questions, let me state unequivocally that BLACK PHONE 2 is 100% organic. AI was not used at any stage of the filmmaking from idea generation, research, look books, writing, onscreen images - anything. We’re old school and love it.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I could teach a class like this but I can’t without a PhD. So first, I wish I could afford that.

Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring at USC Cinematic Arts!

Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req

This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig

Be my colleague!

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

usccareers.usc.edu

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 1d

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jaime? (Rebanal) 🇵🇸 @firewalkwjaime.bsky.social · 1d

Cowards.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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Sam Inglis @24fpsuk.bsky.social · 1d

For the record. This consumer absolutely cares if what he's looking at is AI. If I see a film I'm interested in seeing is using GENERATIVE AI, I'm not interested anymore. Also, for the record, I think disclosure in the credits should be mandatory.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly, a few good (and a couple great) movies/shows aside, given all that it’s wrought I’m inclined to say STAR WARS.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 2d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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Robert King @robertking.bsky.social · 1d

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 2d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

Die, industry, die

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 2d

You don’t need AI; AI is not “inevitable.” That’s a lie being fed to you by companies who are going to lose a fuckton of money if they don’t convince you that AI is something you can’t live without.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning.
No, this isn't Aces. He wants to be a fierce demon, but he'd rather take a nap.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

This guy looks like one of those youth pastors who drives an unmarked white van

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 3d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 2d

“Either way, there was never a fourth Smokey movie, which was the right call.”

This is BANDIT: BANDIT BANDIT erasure and it will not stand.

(Not to mention BANDIT: BANDIT GOES COUNTRY, BANDIT: BEAUTY AND THE BANDIT, and BANDIT: BANDIT’S SILVER ANGEL - all directed by Hal Needham!)

A poster for Hal
Needham’s Smokey and the Bandit sequel, inexplicably titled Bandit: Bandit Bandit

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 2d

Without downloading anything, where are you mentally right now?

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 2d

And let me just say, as someone who thought Tron: Ares was bland and terrible, I wish I saw the same movie you saw! It sounds like a banger. You came out the winner in this situation.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 2d

I admire any critic who’s willing to take a big stand for a movie nobody else likes, and vice-versa. It’s one of the most important parts of our job: to show people that there’s no “right” or “wrong” way to feel about art, so long as that feeling is genuine.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely fuck this man.

News article with the headline: Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, hasn’t signed other trans protections

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 2d

James Stewart probably watched The X-Files and heard at least a couple Spice Girls songs.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 3d

CALIFORNIANS!

you can help make our state better and safer for trans people RIGHT NOW by telling Newsom he needs to sign these bills!

We need you!

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court legalizing the torture of teenagers just because some Christians want it. Why do I keep writing queer books? This is why. To keep kids like I was alive.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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