Jack Rourke

hello it's me preaching the gospel of Jeremy Saulnier's filmography and how Blue Ruin, Green Room, and Rebel Ridge are essentially all about this (GR the highest peak of the mountain)

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OpenAI Needs A Trillion Dollars In The Next Four Years Shortly before publishing this newsletter, I spoke with analyst Gil Luria, Managing Director and Analyst at D.A. Davidson, and asked him whether the capital was there to build the 17 Gigawatts of capa...

Premium newsletter: Based on my estimates and analysis, OpenAI needs one trillion dollars in the next four years to build 17GW of data centers and other commitments, with at least $500 billion needed for company operations. There is not enough capital to do this.

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Recent bit of concept art I whipped up in ProCreate earlier this week. This character’s stuck around with me for at least five years. Feels good to finally have a project to stick her in.

A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025) "No fear...just like Tom fucking Cruise." Whole lotta "the mad bastard really went and did it!!" talk--for good reason, to be sure! Though it ignores how the thunderous achievement of this film is two...

Further thoughts here, this one’s gonna stick in my brain for a while boxd.it/bb7D1D

…the fact this exists is nothing short of a miracle…

Holy shit!

Jack is a really amazing artist so I can promise you this will be money well spent!!!

now seated for…

Happy to say I’m open for commissions again (with a fancy new infographic to boot).

If y’all have things you want me to draw, now’s the time to ask!

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

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pointing out the rights hypocrisy about freedom of speech doesn’t really do too much but i honestly am just stunned how blatantly and quickly they reversed on pretty much every constitutional freedom the moment they gained full power

You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics. To pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling.

if you want more art in your country, more music, more paintings, more photography and plays: FIGHT FOR CHEAP RENT.

the time of cheap rents saw an explosion of art and culture, and the death of cheap rents led us to the corporate controlled art wasteland we occupy today

some choice shots from this weekend’s live-read for UNIVERSE IN FLUX promo.

(special shoutout to my good friend Francisco Navarro for shooting these marvelous pics)

the same piece, but in black-and-white!

my last lazy Sunday was spent blasting NIN and doodlin’ lightcycles.

Whipped up a quick ProCreate piece inspired by the new TRON (I’ll be doing pieces for 2010 and ‘82 as well).

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

A picture of a wall with block letter graffiti reading: If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering, and ecological destruction, remember that a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn't work on you.

Today's mood:

How To Start & End That Interview In Two Words: “Howdy Bedbug!”

Seek And Destroy | Defector Steven Soderbergh made The Limey for $10 million in 1998, and by his own account had an absolutely miserable time doing it. Or, more specifically, he made it briskly and seemingly happily, then reconf...

I rewatched The Limey after Terence Stamp's death and it was a much sadder film than I remembered. He's amazing in it, and I wrote about that performance and the ghosts of the 1960s that haunt every corner of it. defector.com/seek-and-des...

Again, I say: Cuomo has given up on New York. He's now talking smack about Mamdani on shows no New Yorker cares about, not to win this election, but to burnish his national reputation as a conservative Democrat talking head.

Opening day of DARKMAN, 8/24/90

This useless man needs to be primaried.

"Centrists" can't bring themselves to say it out loud, but "local law enforcement" has been part of the problem - they just arrested a person for videoing them in DC.

Fascism isn't a distraction - it's the whole deal.

After getting licenses to cover every engineer, some at the cryptocurrency exchange warned Armstrong that adoption would be slow, predicting it would take months to get even half the engineers using AI. Armstrong was shocked at the thought. “I went rogue,” he said, and posted a mandate in the company’s main engineering Slack channel. “I said, ‘AI is important. We need you to all learn it and at least onboard. You don’t have to use it every day yet until we do some training, but at least onboard by the end of the week. And if not, I’m hosting a meeting on Saturday with everybody who hasn’t done it and I’d like to meet with you to understand why.’”

This is bad management! Why is A.I. important? Why????

Can we talk about that headline? If it’s true, you don’t need “Democrats say.” If it’s untrue, don’t put it in a headline. Either way, you’re fucking reporters. Find out what’s true, and write that.

BOTD: Remembering the eternal Ray Bradbury. Here he is surrounded by his collection, and the wisest thing he ever said about collecting ( and he said a lot of wise things )

How ‘Pump Up the Volume’ Predicted a Gatekeeper-Free Future This weekend marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Allan Moyle’s Pump Up the Volume, and in all the obvious ways, it shows that age: the music, the clothes, the cars, the references. More…

Happy 35th to ‘Pump Up the Volume.' An old piece about its prescience: