Andrew Todd

I miss having them!

News headline showing picture of prison and text “Man killed in Auckland prison identified as 32-year-old charged with his murder”

🧐 Quite the brain teaser, this one. Thanks Stuff! 🤨

Goatse tart

Baking a Strawberry Tart for my kids bake sale #smokefleet

A trailer for SIREN, the animated short @toxiquefilmbro.bsky.social and I spent the last several months working on

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

We under no circumstances have to presume that

Everyone's like "the new Bond film is gonna be written by the writer of PEAKY BLINDERS and EASTERN PROMISES" and nobody's going for the*really* interesting tease, "by the writer of LOCKE and SERENITY"

clippy saying “oops! it looks like you’re confusing the personal with the systemic. would you like help?”

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Princess Peach smoking at the decks at Coachella

How it feels to normalize something lowkey problematic

Our latest short film got an M rating (equivalent to PG-13), but the ratings board personally called the festival screening it to say "please don't show this to kids" - which to me suggests they should just give it the rating that means "don't show this to kids", but what do I know

This week's SNW is the closest Star Trek has come to being Galaxy Quest (although that one Prodigy episode did do the alien half of GQ) and I mean that as the highest compliment

When Strange New Worlds is on form, I don't know that there's any other show out there that brings me this level of joy tbh

"How does one...'unleash the artistic beast'?"

Outstanding Strange New Worlds episode this week. Layers upon layers.

“We have an idea for a video game. Picture a big gorilla on top of some metal framing hurling barrels at a plumber.”

That could not make any less sense. What’s the gorillas first name?

“Donkey”

The annoying thing about this is that creativity is always figured as this intrinsic quality of a person rather than a skill one develops.

You can become good at stories by practicing! ChatGPT is not practicing.

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

Absolutely sucks to see people I care about succumb to ai offloading. Piece by piece replacing their creativity, voice and opinions with dice rolls. Not faster or better, just less present in their own lives.

With the release of The Edge Of Fate, Destiny is now at a point that would've been unthinkable a decade ago: a compelling story, but an utterly uninteresting gameplay loop.

Finally getting around to Little Nightmares II and boy am I not gonna make it through this hospital chapter

FBI to open standalone office in Wellington The US policing agency's boss, Trump appointee Kash Patel, has been seen in the capital in recent days.

Guess we're a territory of the United States now?

There’s something so hollow and quietly tragic about a book no one wrote, or a painting no one made. Trying to feel something in it is like searching for water in a desert where no one has ever lived—just echoes without voices.

Nothing but a lonely emptiness.

The two best movie lengths are “just under 90 minutes” and “just over three hours”

Screenshot of YouTube

The year is 2025. I right click on an AI-generated comment on my YouTube video to delete it, only the "Remove" button has been shifted down to make way for a button that generates video ideas based on the AI-generated comment.

This is hell.

Yes, I know that and have supplied FD files for that purpose. Mostly write elsewhere and just use it for import/export.

Final Draft is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever used. There is absolutely no reason for it to be as buggy and crashy as it is. Its entrenchment in the industry is a borderline extortion scheme at this point.

Directing a movie I wrote