Alisa Perren

This AI remake of SWINGERS sucks

Open AI commercial about using ChatGPT to plan a road trip

Hannah Read, 37, tried to use an AI chatbot to plan a trip to Norway with her partner and three children. She wanted to drive from her home in Flintshire, north Wales and cross the North Sea by ferry. "I thought it might make for a nice drive," Hannah says. "I asked ChatGPT if there was a ferry from the UK to Norway and it said there was one from Newcastle to Bergen." She later checked a ferry travel website but found no such route exists. A travel blog detailing how Brits can reach Norway says the last time the route operated was in 2008. "I did feel a bit disappointed when I found out the information on ChatGPT was incorrect, as I'd got quite excited and had started planning the trip in my head," Hannah adds. "My advice is don't rely on AI 100%, it's better to still do proper research."

Left: In a desperate effort to find reasonable use case, OpenAI is running ads during the baseball playoffs about how you can use ChatGPT to plan a road trip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=go4o...

Right: What happens if you actually do that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Netflix Pre-1980 Titles (Oct, 2025) NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) WILLY WONKA (1971) HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973) THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) JAWS (1975) TAXI DRIVER (1976) THE SENTINEL (1977) JAWS 2 (1978) ANIMAL HOUSE (1978) DRACULA (1979) THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN (1979) RICHARD PRYOR: LIVE IN CONCERT (1979)

Netflix has 12 pre-1980 films in October. They had as many as 21 in July.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) is now their oldest American film.

List in alt text. #FilmSky #Streaming

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way. What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money. Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight. To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinema and Media Studies at USC Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

We're hiring at USC Cinematic Arts!

Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req

This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig

Be my colleague!

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

a woman in a gold dress is singing on a stage with the words are you ready for it . ALT: a woman in a gold dress is singing on a stage with the words are you ready for it .

Let’s go

Moving into your house. If you want me gone you must fax me this notarized form in triplicate on the last thursday of a leap year; bsky.app/profile/abeb...

Same

I could have chosen many more “inappropriate” ones, my parents just brought me to everything 😬

Age yourself with a film you saw in a theater as a kid

City of Austin boosting local film incentives to attract more productions The Austin City Council is updating the local filming incentive by increasing grants and streamlining applications, aiming to bring more productions to the city.

City of Austin adding an additional incentive boost on top of the increased state film incentives. Exciting news!

www.kvue.com/article/news...

I love him so much

Shocking!

So. Again: There's no such thing as a "Generative AI" system that doesn't generate bullshit, because the processes whereby bullshit is generated are the exact same processes via which "Gen AI" do anything at all.

And this was obvious from even a broadly theoretical understanding of their operations

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Oh this is BAD.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

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so glad we're spending trillions on this technology!

I have just done a quick analysis of what the US media landscape would look like should Paramount SD's bid to takeover Warner Bros. Discovery go ahead. Paramount SD's market share would sore from ~10% of the $223B market to 26%. 1/

No seriously media outlets: Get gaming desks, your internet culture desks, & your extremism desks linked up YESTERDAY or you're going to find yourselves missing so much context it'll be fundamentally embarrassing.

Already seen things from NYT, BBC, & AP all failing to elucidate CRUCIAL information.

internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*

Toad is buried under the covers in bed. From "Spring" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.

"universal health care means studios wouldn’t have to subsidize workers’ medical expenses" -- hmmm interesting

I can’t believe we’re having the kind of day where congress releases a video of a UFO flying off after being hit by a hellfire missile and it’s not even one of the top three news stories of the day

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The difference is that the “office junior” will presumably not make up studies or mistakenly transcribe key statistics even when mistakes are pointed out, which “Deep Research” does constantly. These are errors you notice when you ask ChatGPT to produce a report on something you’re an expert in.

Who owns what in Big Media today How to track which media company owns your favorite show — and why that may no longer be a media company.

Off topic question--do you have any plans to produce a new version of this? www.vox.com/recode/2022/...

[asking as a teaching on the business of Hollywood who finds it very useful :) ]

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Totally fine with a feed that isn’t doom and gloom for a day