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How Are People Using Google Gemini for Screenplay Coverage? Is it a replacement or just a supplement for actual coverage?

There are a few great ways to use AI for screenplays; this isn’t one. Gemini is being used to provide screenplay coverage. ProdCos will be uploading screenplays en masse, looking for a Gemini pass before they actually read one. Good luck ever getting read again. nofilmschool.com/google-gemin...

This is all one needs to know - the protests are over. Anything that happens from here out will have been instigated from the top.

Opinion | An overreaching Putin refused to take yes for an answer The Russian president has a chance to escape his Ukraine disaster. He’s blowing it.

Ignatius misses the point here. Putin said no to a ceasefire because the moment the “NATO crisis” and “US crisis” ends for Russia, Putin’s head will land at the end of a stick. wapo.st/3ZaCWmG

You can’t ship excuses

Episode 1 Radio Station on Apple Music Listen on Apple Music.

Absolutely out of nowhere, I have fallen in love with Bolis Pupul’s music and production. Spacious. Knowing. Sardonic, in a good way. It started with this mix from my Deewee bros, Soulwax. It’s the first track. Check it music.apple.com/gb/station/e...

Trump's ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy — The Hill The Trump administration’s efforts to block international students from Harvard could come at a hefty price — and not just for the university.

Is it absolutely lost on the press that the two schools getting the most crap are Harvard and Columbia, Obama’s alma matres? apple.news/AJWsbdbVHSOi...

The Wagner Group’s dealings are darker than we thought — The Telegraph In Death is our Business, John Lechner offers a rare, vivid portrait of the mercenary group by interviewing ex-members – itself a feat

Do London PR agencies next apple.news/ADpbtNF2-RmS...

Opinion | Liz Truss: Elites killed my pro-growth agenda. Trump can’t let them stop his. The White House’s proposed tax cuts, tariffs and spending reforms are showing the West the way forward.

Hahahahahhahahhaha! wapo.st/4mxCyZy

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Discussion on AI filmmaking on France 24 right now, featuring our own @⁨Katharina Gellein Viken⁩ www.france24.com/en/live

Says everything

This is real: Amazon (or someone) has censored Robin Hood (2010). They’ve censored out the statement on standing up to tyranny.

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Analysis | RFK Jr.’s absurd statistic on the spike in chronic diseases in the U.S. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the percentage of Americans with chronic diseases has gone up 20 times in six decades. That makes no sense.

You have to understand: race is the foundation of everything this guy does, and not the way you’d hope for a Kennedy, despite his protestations www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent' The Trump administration cut funding for lawyers aiding unaccompanied minors in court.

It’s only been three months and we’ve sunk to this level of depravity gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Universal childcare, universal healthcare, mandatory maternity leave and high public education standards would make a good start.

Hungary poised to adopt constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings The controversial amendment also recognises only two sexes, providing a basis for denying other gender identities

This runs contrary to nearly every human principle of the EU. I understand that Europe without Hungary would put a literal hole in the southern heart of the union, but I fail to see how Hungary continues as a member of the EU or NATO under Orban (and Putin). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Unpacking an old game of mine to give to my daughter this morning, I found this wonderful piece from David Medalla. I’d tucked it away years ago during a house move, and now here it is to delight us again. Old friend, I miss you.

Nothing good makes it out of Wiltshire alive

Four and a half brutal paragraphs from @theguardian.com. Misogyny is radicalization & violence against women a form of ideologically driven terrorism a cabal of US leaders has embraced without embarrassment, when they should fear prosecution, much less their political survival. Such a brutal age.

If you’re an “entrepreneur” (hate that word) with a startup (hate that word too) and think you can just walk up to a #nocode environment and create a product from a prompt, I have some news for you….

Nasa rover discovers largest organic compounds yet found on Mars Presence of long-chain alkanes in rock raises new questions about possible existence of life billions of years ago

Good thing they didn’t discover oil, or Mars would need it some Democracy! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Today’s workspace. I’m building an app to help people structure stories, across all formats and genres. And then to flip formats, say, from Feature to Microdrama. I’ve spent my life studying story: structure, character, conflict, plot, tension, resolution and ambiguity. It’s called Story Arkitect.

‘Rocky Horror’ doc underscores heightened relevancy of a cult classic “Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror,” a new documentary by the son of “Rocky Horror” creator Richard O’Brien, highlights the film’s enduring fandom.

I remember doing the Time Warp… wapo.st/429bkA6

Nervous about Trump, international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans International tourists are canceling plans to visit the United States, with Canadians leading the way.

Not just foreign tourists. I’m an American, and there’s not a chance in hell I’d fly into the US right now, especially not with my foreign wife. So long USA. You won’t be the same next time I see you. wapo.st/4iJMM6w

Universe May Exist in Black Hole A significant discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed an unexpected pattern in galaxy rotation, potentially supporting the theory that...

www.perplexity.ai/page/univers... Someone help this poor art school graduate understand this please. Whether a galaxy spins clockwise or counter depends on the angle from which it’s observed, right? So how can that be an indicator of anything?

Techno-Fascism Comes to America The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.

Read about the new New Order. It doesn’t look like this is going away without an “event” - what that will be no one knows. If we’re lucky there’ll be rebellious teens around in 50 years naming their cool bands Tesla, MAGA & The Republicans after today’s fascists. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

I'm tickled we’re nominated for 3 AIMI Awards - UK's biggest genAI awards. @katharinagellein.bsky.social - Best Indie AI Music Video. Me - Outstanding Indie AI Video Producer, & Best Indie AI Short Film. See you at Brighton Beach House tomorrow night for an impromptu after party!