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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)

A birch tree with golden yellow autumn leaves photographed from a frog's-eye view, with some bright blue sky peeking through the leaves

A narrow footpath framed by birch trees with golden yellow leaves

An autumnal scenery with a bright blue sky

The birch trees are so pretty now

It’s so gooooooooooood

“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb

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Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

This is chef’s kiss

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

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I just paid $60 for a year of #PBSPassport, in a desperate bid to help @pbs.org Public Broadcasting survive. There’s a lot of cool science shows, dinosaur shows, murder mysteries, detective serials, period dramas. Y’all should check it out! $60 for a whole year is not very much compared to Netflix!

If I have to know so do you

As it was the least expensive of the crimes I’m okay with it. I did talk her into a Bobbi brown eyeshadow stick 🤣

A Sephora brand lip stain, a rare beauty blush, and a charlotte tilbury lipliner!

Making the better choices

After lovely brunch with @rageprufrock.bsky.social where we got trapped in Sephora during a rainstorm and committed crimes against ourselves, I'm now baking bread and watching ep 2 of #revengedlove to commit more crimes against myself

It’s…genuinely good??? I don’t know what is happening nothing makes sense

So the best (worst) thing about living 5 minutes from @rageprufrock.bsky.social is that we can have BL nights where we are both read for filth

So @rageprufrock.bsky.social just used the phrase “emotionally atomize” not once but THRICE #desire

I would bet money Jane is a veteran of the Ray Wars

Today I'm reading The First Word by Christine Kenneally on my balcony, eating blueberries I got at the farmer's market, and like. Things are bad, but sometimes things can be good

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God I haven’t written porn in an age but the current discourse is provoking

People in the replies trying to litigate this like "well maybe SOME sex scenes are okay if they aren't just there to make people horny" and I am here to say that I think it's fine if the purpose of a sex scene is to titillate, actually!

Thrilled to report that it’s “eat a peach standing over your kitchen sink” season.

screenshot from this week's "new scientist" magazine and their feature story on "the lost humans"

screenshot of a feature from "the new yorker": a fiction piece by zadie smith titled "the silence"

screenshot from the libby app and it's newsstand feature

12.45 am on a sunday night/monday morning is a great time to remind americans about the libby app and getting/renewing a library card because while ebook holds might take a while to come in: MAGAZINES.

see what your local library has w/r/t overdrive and digital collections and then go read stuff

So annoying!!!

This friendship was a mistake

In case anyone was wondering I'm STILL furious

there are a lot of things i love about where i live now, but i think one of my favorites is being able to hear music in the plaza outside

That’s a good way to think about it