Matt Burnett

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Did Gavin Newsom write this

Let’s fucking go.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Very sad to learn that Kimberly Hébert Gregory, the voice of Craig of the Creek’s mom Nicole, has passed. She brought so much heart and comedy to our little show. She will be missed deeply. My creative partner Ben Levin posted a wonderful tribute here: www.instagram.com/p/DPbxXqREUk...

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one

I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things

It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

Every day feels like another 4 years is added to the time it will take to un-fuck this.

My almost lifelong interest in Magic The Gathering just plummeting off a cliff with these 2026 sets. Woof. Getting a return to Lorwyn turned out to be a real curling of the monkey’s paw.

Woof.

The way he says “for no reason!” makes me think there was definitely a reason.

Hey y'all. I will not be returning to SNL this season. A couple of factors (wasn't on the show last season, have never even auditioned or submitted a writing sample) have made it impossible. Sorry to all the fans!

really worth watching

Hope everyone in the industry learns some lessons from K-Pop Demon Hunters blowing the hell up! Saw it in a sold out theater today, audience was INTO IT.

I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.

Oh, we’re going to let the AI guy have a 6th crack at his project, but I get my funding pulled after presenting only the first version of my invention, “the computer that poops”?!

Trying to imagine a child that would see someone popping a wheelie and not respond with "Oh, that is sick as hell."

It’s obvious with the price they set - this is a deal done in collaboration with the Devil, who is subsidizing the price of the ticket.

How the ‘Creek Crawlers’ are using their summer vacation to inspire others This summer, a group of intrepid kids in Indianapolis is documenting their adventures and posting them on Instagram. Along th... TikTok video by pbsnews

Cool kids: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6UqGC3h/

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

It was all for nothing. All the canned projects, people laid off, countless hours of work and films and shows thrown away. And the end result was just "Yeah we're back to where we were before it began."

This is going to be somebody's Joker origin story moment.

The woke college students were right but we can't acknowledge this because then we'll have to consider whether they're right about other things too. That I'm a big stupid moron for instance

At the “big reveal” of the Fantastic Four credit scene my kid yelled “It’s the Mandalorian!”

To wear one of those hats with the propellers on top, to me, is immature. Do not spin that shit at me, I will drop your ass. Truly childish behavior. In this day of age

Gavin Newsom is such a fucking loser. Wild how these dirtbags act like remembering someone's pronouns requires a Mensa card when there are about 10 million different last names in the world and they learn those no problem. Just admit you don't care.

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

It was in remarkably good condition considering how many times I played it un-sleeved on sticky picnic tables at the neighborhood pool club.

Today I sold the Revised Edition Taiga dual land I opened in a pack of Magic cards 31 years ago. It was time.

Goddammit

Did the California Film and TV tax credit bill wind up lowering the budget threshold for TV animation to qualify from the $1 million per episode?

Hey Chuck, think you could muster up a little more enthusiasm for a guy who finally has people excited to vote for your party again?