Amy Guth
@amyguth.bsky.social
Producer: film, events and broadcast 📍Los Angeles https://www.amyguth.com/about
They claim this robber brought a kitten along, how do we know the kitten didn't bring him? www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
Alleged Maryland bank robber brings stolen kitten along for attempted heist
Police confirmed officers responded to the 10400 block of Baltimore Avenue late Monday morning for a reported bank robbery.
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Hills I will die on: 1. Skipping whole lines between every sentence in newsletters doesn’t make it easy to skim or give the message gravitas or whatever. It just feels like having a kid’s book read to me very slowly. 2. There is no brand I need in my inbox every day. Not one.
Earlier this month I was in a room with several VCs and other finance people talking about how I believe creatives struggling to launch their projects can borrow a lot (though not all of it to be sure) from the way tech startups approach the funding ecosystem.
it’s insane that Stephen Root doesn’t have an emmy yet. he should be given a lifetime achievement award for Bill Dauterive alone
"Need Someone," Gavin Brivik and Andrew Bird's song from The Pitt, has an Emmy nomination!!! Here's my latest interview with Gavin from @thepitch.bsky.social where we talk about his work on the show's music:
Still blowing up: The Pitt composer Gavin Brivik on scoring for TV, collabs with Andrew Bird, and Faces of Death
If you’ve been watching HBO Max’s medical drama The Pitt (and given that the show averages 12 million viewers per episode, those chances are pretty good), you may have noticed a new Andrew Bird song p...
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If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting
Behind the scenes, I also produce a podcast about getting fired called Canned. It’s hosted by the inimitable @nerdseyeview.bsky.social and once in a while I join her on the mic. Like when job-related ai news is bonkers, for example. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-5jxrf-...
S2 Interlude: Some Bullshit in the News
Pam and Amy talk about, well, some bullshit in the news. How to think about AI before it's too late Nvidia's Jensen Huang says CEOs who blame AI for layoffs are giving a 'lazy' excuse Microsoft AI...
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I try to be conscious of not sending people email way outside of biz hours but I’m in project conversations w folks in two EU time zones and in all North Amer time zones but one so at this point I’m just changing my email sig to “answer whenever the fuck you work” in like six languages
“Not what I intended” always reads like such a self-centered, bullshit, non-apology of a response. (*raspberry sound*)
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoFrom @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Former Netherlands player Rafael van der Vaart has insisted there “was no racist or discriminatory intent” behind his remarks, after he said Japan’s players “look alike” live on air.
Fr, calendar math is an underrated skill and so help me if World Time Buddy ever goes out of business, I will rend my garments and sit shiva for it.
Gahhd, search is so awful now. Was trying to locate a specific essay about trauma and resilience and forgot to add the “-ai” modifier at the end of the search query and the results began: “As an ai, I don’t have feelings but perhaps you are looking for [crap unrelated to what I was looking for].
This “comment WORD for recipe so a bot can send it and you can be on my not-terribly substantive sales mailing list” is exhausting. I cook by feel/taste more than recipe but I cook daily and GLADLY share or swap recipes w anyone at any time bc it’s fun to share delicious things with nice people.
Yes the world is on fire and there are many things to discuss but pausing to mention this is still a great album
Here’s my thing: I do not give a fuck how famous/powerful/connected anyone is if they can’t manage to be a decently kind person. Like, great, dude, you have so-and-so’s name in your phone, you’re still condescending. Man, I have no patience for that game.
You know, not every class needs to be (or frankly qualifies as) a masterclass. It can just be a class or a webinar or whatever. Just like not every speech is a keynote bc by definition a keynote sets the theme a conference or event and there’s only one of them, usually right at the start. It’s okay.
Regular reminder this website exists and the music will always get a yes-vote from me (cc @nerdseyeview.bsky.social) : www.cameronsworld.net
Cameron's World
🌍 A web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of GeoCities.
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I’m noticing some folks are starting to *talk* like AI (“It’s not THIS. It’s not THIS. It’s THIS.”) and makes me fear they’ve outsourced some of the best parts of their minds. Just say the thing. The “not this” throat-clearing bullshit preamble sucks and dilutes your fucking point.
Root canal ✅ Woof. Heavy painkillers are not for me so I’m riding it out with ibuprofen. Please shower me with photos of your beautiful pets and visiting bird friends. Thank you in advance.
Humans are like “we needed this” and it’s just watching smart and kind humans in space and on the ground at their best, doing awe-inspiring, history-making work and showing humanity and care to each other and making us all ugly-cry and not think about the horrors here on earth for a moment, nbd.
FFS, I saw a video in which an influencer shared the “amazing smoothie hack” of storing peeled bananas in Tupperware to save yourself the time of peeling a goddamned banana.
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This is very cool and while I’m no cartographer, I am glad to pass this info along
Anne Trubek@atrubek.bsky.social · 4mo agoIs it time for me to put out another call for cartographers for our 50 Maps series? As our forthcoming title makes clear, we’re going nationwide with this one