Mad Scholar Frights

É um ótimo dia para o Brasil!

[Tony Soprano voice]

Congratulations, Watergate, awesome, but what else is there? I am mainly seeing endless stenography of power purchased by a certain amount of, shall we say, knob polishing. Decades of coasting on fumes in ways Nixon would've approved of.

Imagine if they had food trucks selling these near polling places

Kind of funny, in an Ancient Greek Hell kind of way, that this guy handed Trump the presidency in 2016, and as a reward Trump is kicking him in the teeth forever. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Say it ain't so, Joe, Vol. 2375

It's me

Can anybody recommend a good article about how Monument Valley came to symbolize "The American West" in the general sense? Yes, I know John Ford shot a lot of movies there, and other people did as well, mainly because Ford did. But I'm wondering if there's more to it?

just to get ahead of future advancements, i also don't want to watch robots shoot basketballs perfectly from 75 feet every time. the frailty of our human endeavors is the point.

i don't want art from a machine the same way i don't want a love note from my toaster or a passionate, fiery sermon from the air purifier

talked about exactly this question with my students today. Art is something people made, that's the whole point!

Just saw Wildwood and it’s the most “anti-AI” animated film I’ve seen. You’ll love it for that.

The question "why would I care about something that no human had anything to do with" hasn't been answered by the people pushing this technology

“I don’t want any of us to be or feel un-housed in our bodies our towns our movements ever again. This book is my prayer; if you need to use it as shelter, it’s yours.” My memoir HOME OUT THERE is available for preorder now! bookshop.org/p/books/home...

Wild chain of events: An artist on FB asked who the subject of a painting was--she'd painted from a photo. A friend alerted me. I was able to tell Shannon Burch that her painting of a woman protesting at Broadview ICE... was me. Honored, to say the least. Abolish ICE www.instagram.com/p/De48EQUGYSF/

Great stuff

Takes like this or why I prefer the adjective "non-fiction" to "documentary" – there's less chance for people to go in half cocked and tell us what the movie doing wrong

Uhhhhhhh

RIP

Columbo-level

Even if they're not all for me, this is good. And hopefully, we can be spared future rounds of terminally online people declaring the movies are dead. Also, these movies are all made by human hands, minds and hearts.

The first and hopefully only time I will type this

I always told my clients real talent will leap out & someone will see it and recognize it. I am sure Spielberg is especially attuned. He talks about Joan Crawford seeing his talent and championing him after he did the Night Gallery ep with her & others were dismissive and doubted him.

Best night I've had in years. And I'm glad the feeling is worldwide, at least for the democratically conscious. I cast this vote not for me, but for every generation after mine that will inherit this beautiful home of ours.

please say it’s twizzlers please say it’s twizzlers please say it’s t

Kaminski goes far harder than he has any right to with it; peak “had to do it to ‘em” cinema

Even cooler is: Spielberg watched the godawful dreck, filtered out everything but the visuals, and concluded "this cinematographer is brilliant, I wanna work with him" I remember seeing this in a theater as a young critic and thinking "that's one of the best looking terrible movies I've ever seen"

Father and son prison terms!

I love accounts like this, which not only post beautiful old pictures, but care enough to credit the photographer

Anybody else getting invasion of the body snatchers vibes from this never-ending parade of old masters saying "I'm lazy now, I don't feel like working that hard, where's the AI?"

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

Upside: Out of the 36 US cities with populations >500k, Dallas, Fort Worth, OKC, Fresno and Mesa are the only 4 cities with Republican mayors.

Metaphors are dead

interestingly this interest in black voters doesn’t extend to the republican effort to deprive them of federal representation, nor do they seem interested in asking whether republican candidates are burdened by the fact that trump talks like a klansman

Why do people keep getting into quickdraw contests with Shane

Seems like something that could happen here pretty easily

I love accounts like this, which not only post beautiful old pictures, but care enough to credit the photographer