Have a blessed day folks

Writing fiction in any genre should be a purely human exercise. If you use AI to generate *any* dialog, story ideas, character shapes, *anything* creative, you're betraying the very concept of artistic expression. This is a bright flashing red line for me. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood

Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.

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when people say "do your own research" they generally mean "do not trust anyone with any relevant training or experience"

Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.

Bringing It All Back Home Highway 61 Revisited Blonde On Blonde

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Hell yeah, my first Tweezer of the millennium!!! #phish

Epic pre-show hang organized by @cdirksen.bsky.social , got to meet @wardqnormal.bsky.social and see old friends @tmwsiy99.bsky.social @cottonmather.bsky.social @bizarchive.bsky.social @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social @tmwsiy99.bsky.social and a bunch of others who are not on Bluesky! Have a great show!

I’m case any of you actually like Boston, unlike @chopaganda.bsky.social : My coffee Dunkin’ My Good Will Hunting My Mayor is Wu Boston in Two

Bluesky Chop@chopaganda.bsky.social · 5d ago

My city is racist My lobster roll has mayo My mayor is Wu Boston in two

Time to make a "Melt the Guns" jam chart. #Phish

“Jesus died, for somebody’s sins, but not mine…”

Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 5d ago

Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.

This is what I have to say to all of you who complain about Phish singing "Everything's Right" by saying "everything isn't right, how can Trey sing this!":

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · last yr.

Every time someone responds to an obviously normative-aspirational claim ("this not who we are", "this is not America", etc) with some I'm-very-radical descriptive rebuttal ("er actually America has always done <similar bad stuff>") an angel dies. Like, no joke, dead. Direct causal result of this.

With SARS-CoV-2 origins back in the news due to the GOP being complete assholes to Fauci, I thought 2 or 3 of you might be interested in this 2023 thread I posted on Mastodon. I mostly stand by it, though I think the chances of a lab leak are even less likely now (probably less than 1%):

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, wiith those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." -- Hannah Arendt

no I don’t need to know the story of a pilot inside the asteroids ship, or what the asteroids are threatening, or any of that. that is not the point. I am the pilot and after about five minutes I have died three times in space. that is “Asteroids.”

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2w ago

Atari Makes Universal Movie Deal For 10 Iconic Game Properties -Asteroids -Adventure -Berzerk -Breakout -Centipede -Crystal Castles -Millipede -Missile Command -Pong -Yars’ Revenge deadline.com/2026/07/atar...

Oxford Town Ballad of Hollis Brown Only a Pawn in Their Game The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll Percy's Song Hurricane [skip 45 years] Murder Most Foul

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name a song where someone dies/is murdered.

Trey's risk profile in the Dolan files elevated from low to medium because of his sleeveless shirt. #phish

Pleasantly surprised to not see Reps. Pappas or Goodlander on this list.

How partners gotta treat their millennial husbands when new indie with pedal steel drops :

First time seeing these two absolute American treasures tonight. Exceeding my extremely high expectations.

my page is an anti-anti-hops safe space. rp if you're not scared of a fluffy green flower

When the Argonath first appeared on screen in The Fellowship of the Ring a woman in the theater yelled "Would you look at that!" I still say it every time I watch.

Boner Vivant@dougtilley.bsky.social · last yr.

Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.

This is a pretty good idea. Like some sort of center where the focus is on controlling disease?

Sort of Damocles@sortofdamocles.bsky.social · 3w ago

Posted this in a thread earlier: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (1988) Studios, relationship intrigue, streetcars getting ripped up in favor of highways, corruption, police brutality, racism…

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3w ago

Okay, prompt time: What is your favorite iconic _L.A. Movie_ that isn't HEAT (1995)? Define "iconic" however you like

Little did we know that this was a threat.

RIP Sam Neill. The wordless acting he does in Jurassic Park when Alan Grant first sees a living and breathing dinosaur after dedicating his life to studying their bones is absolute perfection. Sure, it doesn't end well, but every scientist is chasing that moment when nature reveals herself.

Jurassic Park: Meeting the dinosaurs HD CLIP

What’s happening in this Jurassic Park movie clip? Alan (Sam Neill from Peaky Blinder) and Ellie (Laura Dern from Marriage Story and Little Women) are visiting the park, when suddenly Alan sees a huge Brachiosaurus. He's speechless, and as soon as Ellie sees him too, they both can't believe it. The small group of privileged people chosen to explore the park is ecstatic at the spectacle before them. Hammond (Richard Attenborough from Gandhi) decides to show them how he developed this wonderful park. Rent or buy Jurassic Park here: https://amzn.to/2V1XknJ What’s the Jurassic Park movie about? In Steven Spielberg's huge blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill from Peaky Blinders) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern from Marriage Story and Little Women) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum from Independence Day) are part of a group chosen to visit a themed park situated on an island and populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the creator, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough from Gandhi), assures everyone that the place is safe, they discover the opposite when various predators start hunting. Credits: © 1993 Universal Pictures Like this video if you want to see more episodes and tell us what you thought in the comments below. Don't forget to turn on notifications to catch our next videos! Keep up with us on Facebook! Binge Society | https://www.facebook.com/BingeSociety/ Binge Society - Action | https://www.facebook.com/binge.society.action/ Binge Society - Comedy | https://www.facebook.com/binge.society.comedy/ Binge Society brings you the best of your favorite movies and TV shows! Here you will find iconic scenes, moments, and lines from all the films, characters, celebrities and actors you love. As movie fans, we give you content we know you will enjoy! #trex #jurassicpark #night #rain #movieclip #movie #lauradern #samneill

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Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 4w ago

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Whenever you see the 2030 Winter Olympics described as "gender equal" in the coming years, just make sure you remember that it's only cause the IOC decided they would rather drop AN ENTIRE SPORT (nordic combined) instead of adding a women's event.

I don't care if it wasn't popular, Nordic Combined was one of the original Winter Olympic sports, and for the IOC to cut the men's competition completely instead of adding a women's competition is a travesty. My heart goes out to all the athletes.