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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Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Democrats have the opportunity to seize the political higher ground on the data center takeover - the most widespread and *non-partisan* issue right now - and they are blowing it. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Is it Ai or is it cake?

Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.

Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.

A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.

AOC on why men depict women in nonconsensual deepfake AI porn “What these abusers are trying to do is make an example of women who are in the public eye in order to discourage women everywhere from standing in their own light, and that also goes again.“ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

Exclusive | Netflix Is Exploring Live TV and Bundles as It Struggles to Keep Viewers Hooked

The streamer is rethinking some of its core strategies to compete with rivals.

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So Dan Moraff and Morris Katz, two slick political consultants who thought they knew everything, saw a video of a gruff-sounding oysterman, and decided, without further evidence, to lure him into politics by telling him he was a “hero of the movement” who was going to “lead the revolution.” Insane

I bet the "progressives" defending Platner would totally go along with a right-wing push to repeal the 19th amendment

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4w ago

A lot of this is also rooted in the fact that left wing men would rather try to win back white working class men than build a coalition with white women with college degrees (who are decidedly economically progressive) and Black voters (older ones are conservative. Younger ones are more left-wing)

A lot of this is also rooted in the fact that left wing men would rather try to win back white working class men than build a coalition with white women with college degrees (who are decidedly economically progressive) and Black voters (older ones are conservative. Younger ones are more left-wing)

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago

“But the bigger problem is how much of the media of ‘the left’ is dominated by men who appear to have no understanding of sexual abuse or intimate partner violence, but do have a pretty hefty sexist streak that they either aren’t aware of or don’t care to remedy.” YES @juliedicaro.bsky.social

Did you ever read that book THE POWER, about a world where women became the dominant sex? I read it forever ago when it came out, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately...

I'm sorry but neither rapists nor rapist apologists should have a say in how a state's Democratic Party cleans up the big electoral mess they created.

Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 4w ago

Platner camp defiant, this was sent to volunteers

If we lose the entire Senate because too many dismissed the skepticism of a nazi tattooed sex pest as a candidate... 😡

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

So maybe "Dem HR lady politics" are... better?

Being a woman rocks because if you use AI you’re stupid and if you don’t use AI you’re dumb

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

If only we had actually shut down the Confederacy after the war.

Alright SCOTUS... am I still a citizen or not??

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

utterly horrific.

A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family

Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.

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This is part of the reason why the tide has turned so hard against moderate dems. People say fascism is an aesthetic - it is, it's all people going on TV to claim that gas prices were higher under Biden. But moderate Dem stuff is also an aesthetic, freeing someone to LOOK LIKE you're above it -

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · last mo.

Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) released Tina Peters, saying she was remorseful despite obvious evidence to the contrary. “I do show remorse,” Peters said today. “The remorse is that people that should be in prison are not. That's my remorse.”

it’ll never cease to amaze me that the Democrats’ greatest win in decades (running a junior senator named ”Barack Hussein Obama” in 2008 on an aggressively reformist progressive campaign and winning massively, taking every single battleground state) is the one thing they’ll absolutely never do again

Trump trying to hold the bipartisan housing bill hostage to get the SAVE America Act passed is him trashing the GOP's strongest midterm election strategy for the worst. I love that for them.

Michelle Obama just delivered one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard. She upheld her husband’s legacy, defended the dignity of all people, appealed to our better angels, & reminded us of the America that we could be. What a contrast to the depravity occupying the White House.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Michelle Obama: "No one has the right to sit in judgment of who is American enough. And that's why, folks, we simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent."

Imagine if reporters asked questions as hard as the hosts of The View

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: What did Black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color? JD VANCE: What exactly are you talking about? AUDIENCE: *groans*

"What do you rebuild in its place?" I don't know, fucking flowers? Wild grass? The overwhelming beauty of literally anything else? It's not just a metaphor, you have to destroy the surveillance palace that doubles as a fascist bunker if you don't want disconnection to be part of American governance.

Nathan Newman- Working to 8647, the Pedophile Rapist@nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I don't like Newsom to begin with, but this disqualifies him all by itself. Anyone who leave a brick standing that Trump put in place is just inviting the next authoritarian to do the same thing. Destruction in this case is cleansing.

Really great how every single media company is going to be owned by 3 white guys all loyal to MAGA. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Fox to Acquire Roku in $22 Billion Deal

“This is a defining moment for Fox, and a natural extension of the deliberate and focused strategy we have been executing for nearly a decade," with a strategy focused on live news and sports.

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