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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 15h

Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 20h

If you're wondering why these big companies would knowingly fund a doomed economic bubble like this, it's because capitalism is a zero-sum game: whoever survives the inevitable crash gets to consolidate the remnants of the old economy. This has happened at least 3 times in just my lifetime.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 20h

casablanca ending but "Louis, I think this is our smartest, fastest, most useful model yet."

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 22h

Hellraiser is another one I need to binge someday. If only for cultural literacy.

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 22h

The truth is I'd rather have the TIME to watch 12 films than the money to buy them. I still haven't watched the Terminator series, the Fly series, or the Star Trek series since I bought the box sets over the last 3 years.

Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 22h

I have only seen one Friday the 13th movie (the very first one), didn't like it, and yet I came SO CLOSE to buying this box-set yesterday. It's going out of print so even if I didn't wind up liking the series I could still make my money back by re-selling it.

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 1d

One more BA-thesis-masquerading-as-a-YouTube-video should fix things, though.

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 1d

For sure. What really pierced the veil for me was when my own alma mater—which gave me a graduate degree with honors—rejected my grad school application. What in the world did they think they were preparing me for???

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 1d

Still thinking about that professor at my college graduation party who raised a glass of champagne and shouted "Good luck getting jobs!"

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 1d

"Grade school" isn't an insult, either. My public education (grades 1-12) was WAY cooler than my college education—which feels, in hindsight, more like a rent-seeking scheme than anything else. I was actually taught by more PhDs in high school than in college.

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 1d

Getting real contemplative in the run-up to the 13th anniversary of my joining the workforce, in a field that has nothing to do with my formal education. I'll have spent one year longer in an unchosen field than I spent in all of grade-school.

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 1d

I'm the guy who was surprised to find it in the @movieoubliette.bsky.social, because even though it was considered a box-office disappointment, it DID earn 3x what it cost to make at the box office, and almost everyone these days has at least HEARD of it.

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 1d

Tron is really hard on first watch. Hard to tell what the stakes are or the goal is from scene to scene. But on *SECOND* watch, most of it is pretty clear. Despite a wildly anticlimactic ending, I think it's a fun little adventure film, on top of a game-changing effects reel.

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 2d

I recorded a 15-page script this weekend—my first recording session in about 8 months. I felt super-rusty (had to record in two sessions across multiple days because my voice started to go after just 20 mins), but it feels good to be recording *anything* these days.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 3d

the nazis won't stop doing this until they're afraid to keep doing this

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 4d

The one level of film production that could be gutted and replaced by automation without anyone noticing is the executive suite

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“.. a Hollywood studio chief was crowing about how great A.I. is because he wouldn’t have to pay ‘all these idiot producers and actors and lighting people and composers and writers and agents.’”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 6d

NOT SO LOUD

Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 6d

Can we just, like... speedrun thru every permutation of this bullshit publicity-stunt and just skip to the part where everyone shuns these things on sight? AI news anchors. AI sports-matchups. AI presidential candidates. AI reality TV shows. AI zoos. Ok? We done?
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First An AI Actor, Now The AI Director: Italian Producer Andrea Iervolino Unveils Feature Helmed By Virtual Auteur

In the week in which an AI actor got the industry talking, Italian producer Andrea Iervolino has announced a film helmed by a virtual director.

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 7d

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

www.theguardian.com

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 8d

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 8d

Golden Age of grifting

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 8d

My alma mater is increasingly just an investment firm with a collegiate side-hustle: share.google/L3hZiLRmT3Zh...

UChicago sells prized institute amid high debt and low returns

Endowment of famed finance school posted weak investment gains as it borrowed heavily to invest in research capacity

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 8d

You should be able to call off if you've had "Deepest Bluest (Shark's Fin)" stuck in your head for days.

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Cold Crash Pictures @coldcrashpics.bsky.social · 9d

Well this backfired I've had "Deepest Bluest (Shark's Fin)" stuck in my head for days.

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RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 @rj-palmer.com · Nov 26

Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.

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