It is just TWO WEEKS until my animation writing class starts! If you wanna learn all about creating a pitch and pilot that will impress animation execs, come take part over Zoom! Five classes over five weeks, starting September 5th. animationscreenwriting.com has all the details!

Animation Writing Masterclass: From Pitch To Pilot | Enroll Now

Join our Animation Writing Masterclass to learn how to develop, pitch, and script animated television and movies, led by Emmy-nominated screenwriter and producer James Hamilton

animationscreenwriting.com

sorry but "not using LLM chatbots at all" *is* the pragmatic middle ground. you are not making a practical decision by engaging with an addictive system largely designed in ways meant to make you worse off by people who do not have your best interests in mind

Today I got to run a little writers’ room and tomorrow I get to do it again and it’s nice to be reminded how much I love it

AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not

Colin M. Henry@henryhenryhenry.com · 3d ago

recommend reading the paper in entire: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Going on record to say I have been on ADHD meds for about four years now and they have been absolutely life-changingly helpful. The only change to my personality is that I am beating myself up less and am less stressed.

bleary (feat. Akon)@bleary.off-the-records.com · 4d ago

Good way to assess the efficacy of ADHD meds: Collate reports from people who have experienced positive effects, collate reports from people who have experienced negative effects, compare the data. Bad way to assess the efficacy of ADHD meds: Neck a few pills and see what happens.

This is just a few weeks away!

James Hamilton@jameshamiltonwriter.com · 2w ago

EXCITING NEWS: Echo Wu, the creator and showrunner of Jentry Chau Vs The Underworld, is doing an exclusive Q&A as part of my Animation Writing Masterclass! We’ll dig into how she successfully pitched and sold her Emmy winning show to Netflix in our 5th/final class! animationscreenwriting.com

Had a couple of new sales today off the back of this news - very excited to teach this class! If you wanna learn how I go about developing pitches and pilots - both my own ideas and for studios - then come to my five-week Animation Writing course, over Zoom from Sept 5th!

Animation Writing Masterclass: From Pitch To Pilot | Enroll Now

Join our Animation Writing Masterclass to learn how to develop, pitch, and script animated television and movies, led by Emmy-nominated screenwriter and producer James Hamilton

animationscreenwriting.com

James Hamilton@jameshamiltonwriter.com · 2w ago

EXCITING NEWS: Echo Wu, the creator and showrunner of Jentry Chau Vs The Underworld, is doing an exclusive Q&A as part of my Animation Writing Masterclass! We’ll dig into how she successfully pitched and sold her Emmy winning show to Netflix in our 5th/final class! animationscreenwriting.com

I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

Report Suggests Nearly No One Is Buying AI Generated Goods https://kotaku.com/3d-model-markets-are-being-flooded-with-ai-sellers-but-no-ones-buying-2000724790

Raul Julia is the MVP and very arguably the lead role in the first movie; they realised everyone liked Wednesday afterwards so gave her all the fun stuff in the second one and minimised Gomez, a CRIMINAL WASTE OF JULIA

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 5d ago

Why do all Addams Family movies/shows end up about Wednesday or Fester? Both of the original films were fester plot relevant but Wednesday stole the show in Addams family values. Both recent animated films revolve around Wednesday and her live action Netflix show was going to have a Fester spinoff.

It is believable that the Beatles were in their twenties when you listen to their music but it is not believable that the Rolling Stones were ever younger than fifty. In this essay I will

Guys: just for fun, go on Wikipedia and have a look at how far back there are entries for Ralph Fiennes’ family. It’s WILD. However posh you already think he is, triple it.

anyone working in social media knows how annoying it is to have your client be like "why are we investing in youtube when we only got a few thousand views and we got 50,000 on tiktok" (even if the few thousand YT views represented a much more meaningful audience)

The Verge@theverge.com · 5d ago

By tracking views from the instant a video starts to play, YouTube's new counter works more like TikTok, X, and Instagram. www.theverge.com/streaming/98...

This is so dystopian

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

The reason your story isn’t working is because you are treating your theme as an afterthought and a label to describe the subject matter (“it’s about grief!”) instead of thinking through what you actually want to SAY about it with your story.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · last wk.

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

404media.co

this makes me think of that right wing argument against abortion rights where they're like "what if you aborted the person who might have a cure for cancer?" yeah well what if the person that could do that is already on this earth living in survival mode without the resources they need

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 6d ago

Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.

Other than explicitly comparing himself to Tarantino and Rodriguez, how fucking laughable to say “all films in cinema look the same” and claim that AI is - not “will”, IS - changing that. As if AI doesn’t look all the fucking same. And as if AI isn’t scraped from the films he says look the same.

The reason your story isn’t working is because you are treating your theme as an afterthought and a label to describe the subject matter (“it’s about grief!”) instead of thinking through what you actually want to SAY about it with your story.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · last wk.

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

This article can be basically summed up as “two small companies run by obnoxious cunts have no idea how either Hollywood or being meaningfully creative actually works”.

‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech

Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

theguardian.com

"79% of respondents said they don't trust Peter Thiel, while a whopping 71, 70, and 69 % said they “don’t trust” Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman, respectively (Musk will probably be mad he didn’t get that 69 figure.)"

Futurism@futurism.com · 6d ago

They're even more unpopular than data centers.

oh your entire industry is crumbling because of externalities outside your control? Have you thought of starting a patreon so that you have to do a bunch of extra work on top of that?

Had a couple of new sales today off the back of this news - very excited to teach this class! If you wanna learn how I go about developing pitches and pilots - both my own ideas and for studios - then come to my five-week Animation Writing course, over Zoom from Sept 5th!

Animation Writing Masterclass: From Pitch To Pilot | Enroll Now

Join our Animation Writing Masterclass to learn how to develop, pitch, and script animated television and movies, led by Emmy-nominated screenwriter and producer James Hamilton

animationscreenwriting.com

James Hamilton@jameshamiltonwriter.com · 2w ago

EXCITING NEWS: Echo Wu, the creator and showrunner of Jentry Chau Vs The Underworld, is doing an exclusive Q&A as part of my Animation Writing Masterclass! We’ll dig into how she successfully pitched and sold her Emmy winning show to Netflix in our 5th/final class! animationscreenwriting.com

hi, amid all the AI bullshit and layoffs and other bummer stories we are forced to write, id just like to let you know we are still constantly playing and writing about cool video games aftermath.site/tag/impressi...

Insane that AOC is being quoted as saying "Woke 1 was crazy" when this is what she actually said. youtu.be/SFwAnMLBSOw?...

I’m not going to defend the dumbest online cancellations of 2016-2024. Even if you think they were injustices, though, we are talking about maybe 100 people, mostly public figures, losing their jobs. That’s around a quarter of the number of firings after Charlie Kirk was killed.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

Twitch says quiet part out loud: Amazon AI is opt out because "nobody would opt in" aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amaz...

Yesterday evening I smashed my favourite mug, sliced my finger open, and burned the same finger while making dinner (not an attempt to cauterise the wound). Clearly cannot be trusted in kitchens these days.

If you’re already signed up to my animation writing Zoom class next month then you’re lucky as fuck because Echo is a MegaTalent

James Hamilton@jameshamiltonwriter.com · 2w ago

EXCITING NEWS: Echo Wu, the creator and showrunner of Jentry Chau Vs The Underworld, is doing an exclusive Q&A as part of my Animation Writing Masterclass! We’ll dig into how she successfully pitched and sold her Emmy winning show to Netflix in our 5th/final class! animationscreenwriting.com

Now's as good of a time as any to reiterate that I have never seen anyone in a mainstream newspaper or magazine write about how Mamdani, El Sayed and Hamawy are representing positive masculinity.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2w ago

Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.