Bijan

Books: Ian McEwan’s new novel What We Can Know (just finished it), The Maniac, and a book of short stories by Martin Amis named “Einstein’s Monsters”

I’m reading again! Oh, but what is this? I’m fixated on fiction about the consequences of nuclear weapons? Winter is coming, I guess…

I wouldn’t call them my “favorite” works I’ve watched this year but scenes and lines from Eddington, One Battle After Another and The Lowdown (FX/Hulu) still swirl in my brain…I’m all in for the modern western. We live in a world of guns and bitchslaps

My dog was also a big fan (my first criterion marked by his teeth, he always had great taste)

“Is everyone in Hollywood just okay with whatever OpenAI prefers?”

☎️ @mattbelloni.bsky.social trying to give the town a (necessary) wake-up call re: AI cos trampling on IP rights

“…the AI ship is going to sail… with Hollywood staying well behind—and eventually wondering where its business went.”

I think AI is acceptable right now because the underlying information is still discoverable, with people able to trace back to truth and discover AI's mistakes. but we're building towards an information ecosystem of liquefaction zones, where there is no foundation of truth under the slop.

They trademarked it lmaooo

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Hahahahahah

Situation Wanted, Women. Artists. MOTHER OF THREE-10, 11 & 15-DIVORCÉE. AMERICAN. THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE AS AN ACTRESS IN MOTION PICTURES. MOBILE STILL AND MORE AFFABLE THAN RUMOR WOULD HAVE IT. WANTS STEADY EM-PLOYMENT IN HOLLYWOOD. (HAS HAD BROADWAY.) Bette Davis, c/o Martin Baum, G. A. C. REFERENCES UPON REQUEST. [accompanied by a headshot of a smiling Davis]

It’s 63 years to the day since a desperate Bette Davis put an advert in Variety’s situations wanted pages, resulting in her being cast in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and resuming her decades-long feud with Joan Crawford. Well, that’s the legend, anyway... 🧵

Friend texted me this morning to share that she watched this crazy movie last night (In the Realm of the Senses) and it gave me an opportunity to share passages from one of my favorite “directors share their thoughts” books. Always in awe at how transgressive Oshima was for his time

"The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil."

Me doing my physical therapy exercises to get back to running away from my problems faster

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I can’t stop thinking about a documentary film that my coworker recommended offhandedly this week: TRAINS (2024; Maciej J. Drygas). If you have the opportunity, please see it. Comprised of only archival footage and no dialogue, collected from over 40 archives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKE_...

Omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I’m an adult. I’m listening to the new @nin.com Tron: Ares soundtrack in bed, lights dimmed, while completing a crossword puzzle

It looks like it mentions that he was living with his “transgender lover/roommate”. I thought he lived at home with his parents? I also didn’t see any reliable sources confirming this, too

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I wrote about Robert Redford's environmentalism and, obviously, Sneakers.

For some reason, the trailer for this movie played during EVERY US Open ad break on the ESPN app. Despite this, I know nothing about except what the title implies and that it’s directed by Kogonada (which I found out deep into the tournament, after days of torment).

What! It’s updated everyday. They don’t even know how it works. A person even chooses the word of the day every day…

This is my our peeve at home!!!! It’s ridiculous. Hate this app. lol

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

It’s amazing and I’m so glad we are out of cancer season…I broke my ankle during cancer season 😭

Breaking news: the world is ending and funding for essential climate change research is being cut in the US but at least Kinder Eggs with the toys inside of them might get a comeback

Crow standing on a balcony railing with a churro

shout out to this crow who just dunked what seems to be a whole churro in the bird bath

It’s so dumb …but I can’t help but watching? I don’t understand. It’s like what if the robber barons were given the same energy as a Little Golden Book

Oh god I went back and I couldn’t even watch the aftermath…devastated for him. This has happened multiple times it seems :( this sport is so brutal.