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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Computer Science has found that, between 2021 and 2022, COVID-19 was a leading cause of death in children and young people

The myth that children aren’t harmed by COVID still persists. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01...

Here’s What Happened When ProPublica Reporters Tried to Find Out Where a Popular Prescription Drug Was Made We wanted to know where a widely used prescription drug that treats high cholesterol was manufactured and whether the factory had quality issues. The search led to a labyrinth of company names and databases that few would know about.

NEW: We wanted to know where a widely used prescription drug that treats high cholesterol was manufactured and whether the factory had quality issues.

The search led to a labyrinth of company names and databases that few would know about.

Look!
Let's say the plausible deniablity scamps are right.

Is he the best you can do? Are his choices *really* going to be *the best* for the people of Maine?

Do you see this. This is plausible deniability as a tattoo.

Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."

it's weird when both left and right can't seem to agree that nazis are bad and nazi symbolism is bad and hanging out with nazis is bad and revenue sharing with nazis is bad and

More than likely. There were no consequences to manchin, sinema, or fetterman changing parties after being elected, so I dont know why* we aren't expecting this to be used to cheat to win now.

*we know why

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Plausible deniability is basically itself a nazi symbol at this point.

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

I have a note: Please don’t make AI slop versions of actual signs ppl made by hand.

increasingly of the opinion that stealing Big Famous Jewels from big famous institutions is kiiiiiind of a victimless crime, guys

They really ought to hand you a bottle of water when you deplane to prep you for the obligatory (and largely ceremonial) cross-o'hare sprint

Everyone stay safe at the protest and remember, if you see someone trying to escalate to violence, property damage, etc. That person is a fed plant.

No one can put a price tag on someone's life.

Universal healthcare for all now.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From https://theonion.com/trump-spends-entire-u-k-trip-trying-to-figure-out-where-he-knows-prince-andrew-from/

Bethel Friends of Canines Bethel Friends of Canines is a non-profit dog rescue based in the rural Alaskan village of Bethel. Not only do we rescue dogs in Bethel, but we also rescue dogs all over the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta...

This is the Western Alaska animal nonprofit working to rescue the pets in Kipnuk.

The residents of Kipnuk are under a mandatory evac order but can not bring their pets with them. Supporting this group will help with charter aircraft, etc.

www.bethelfriendsofcanines.com

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade poster

Back To The Future II poster

The Thing poster

The Muppets Christmas Carol poster

At a time when billionaires would be all too happy to replace artists with AI slop, I think it's important to celebrate artists like Drew Struzan.

If you've seen a movie poster in the past 30+ years, you've seen something he did. A true master of the craft.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

WOW.

I want more Black people… especially Black men to actually become elders.

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Homes flooded in Kipnuk

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

First and foremost - DO NOT DEFUND FEMA! Our country needs them more and more.

Second, it’s Indigenous Peoples Day. I bet a lot of those affected in Alaska are indigenous.

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"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
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This is such a wild way to admit you never understood the basic fundamentals of your whole job.

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)

Thousands of acres of federal land now open for coal leases are adjacent to Utah national parks • Washington State Standard The map of 13.1 million acres of federal land now available for coal leasing triples the benchmark set by the law and includes parcels near or directly adjacent to landmarks like Zion, Bryce Canyon an...

Thousands of acres of federal land now open for coal leases are adjacent to Utah national parks washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/08/r...

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