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 โThe Wireโ, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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Also, I'm not as offended by "Wood" (it's camp!) as I am by Wi$h Li$t. Fuck that song so hard.
08.10.2025 20:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
OK I've listened to Showgirl and the turn-her-head-all-the-way-around-crazy song on this album is Father Figure.
And, of course, it's the best fucking one.
08.10.2025 20:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Be dominant. Remember what Stormy taught us, Mark: The man likes to be spanked.
07.10.2025 15:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
One thing about AI is that it allows people to bypass the emotional discomfort of not knowing what tf you're doing, even as you're trying to figure it out. That space between knowing and understanding is confusing and frustrating and students don't know how to cope with lingering there.
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Sometimes dumb feelings make good art. I don't know what to tell you.
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Beavis and Butthead, and South Park, and both comedies, as, I suspect, this song is. Maybe lighten up. And crass is absolutely gendered because the bar is so much lower. "Cartmen gets an Anal Probe" is crass for them. "Wood" is crass for us. It's not the same.
06.10.2025 18:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This is what I mean. I'm not into the song because it's not that good, but "crass"? I've never heard a man be called "crass". Let a bitch get her back blown out.
06.10.2025 15:42 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
That tattoo could have been a fridge magnet.
03.10.2025 22:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Women, 30-35 is going to be rough. Expect a lot of strangers telling you that you are selfish and irresponsible to not already have kids. But after 35, when you are dead to them: you'll be much much happier. 35 is the best birthday, not the worst.
03.10.2025 16:21 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Before I listen, does the new Taylor Swift album have a song about her being turn-the-head-all-the-way-around insane?Because I would like to start with that one. Those ones are the good ones.
03.10.2025 15:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
These massive ass trucks are just another reason why turning right on red is so fucking dangerous for pedestrians.
02.10.2025 17:56 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This chud.
02.10.2025 15:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A printed poem which reads:
I hav for breakfast Weetabix
I hav for lunch some meat
I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat
Peter Hazel, 5
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
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Here you go, lazy-bones.
01.10.2025 16:52 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I'm not Alexa. Read the news.
01.10.2025 16:31 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Getting $100 while the government cuts services Canadians need and thinking that's a win is dumb as fuck. Yeah.
01.10.2025 16:19 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Vous avez gagnรฉ en gagnant les progressistes, comme moi, qui ont peur des conservateurs et de Donald Trump, et maintenant vous les imitez. Nous ne referons pas la mรชme erreur deux fois.
01.10.2025 16:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Drinking beer and not wine is how you show them you're not like other tourists. You're different.
01.10.2025 16:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Yup, just like Mulroney successfully did by letting the private sector take over the housing --- ohhh waittttt...
01.10.2025 16:10 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Seriously. They got their government by galvanizing progressives against PP and Trump. We won't be fooled twice. Do what you were hired to do, Mark.
01.10.2025 16:07 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I'm not a military fetishist, I'm a regulation fetishist.
01.10.2025 16:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Mark, just do your job and run a government with services, please. This is so stupid.
01.10.2025 16:04 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I just want someone innovative and disruptive to invent something I actually want. Like food that never gets cold.
01.10.2025 02:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I think that's really unfair to whores.
If a john had funded the killing of a whore's father, I don't think that whore would necessarily sleep with him. Pete Davidson is special that way.
30.09.2025 18:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
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CBC's editorial board is compromised.
I just wrote this to them.
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