Aaron Dowd

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

Jeans AND genes both rhyme with EPSTEIN.

ICE is about to go on a recruitment ad blitz, including on Hulu, HBO Max, and Amazon Prime www.404media.co/ice-is-about...

Follow the money and prosecute the scammers when they fail to deliver.

You don’t have to do everything today but you can do a couple things, and that’s all that really matters in the end

Elizabeth Spiers with the crystal ball, from three months ago...

After 13 years as a band, we are going on our most ambitious tour to date. Steady as she goes www.koltonmoore.com

Kolton knows how to write a song that sneaks up on you and leaves you with tears running down your face

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Fed Boss Slaps Down Trump’s Claim Tariffs Don’t Hit Shoppers The Fed snubbed the president’s plea to cut interest rates and instead held them steady.

Jerry has a set www.thedailybeast.com//powell-hits...

They are out here stealing @theonion.com 's bit

There’s a very simple reason why I shoot 35mm film in the year 2025: I hate money and I love pain

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

it's almost as if depending on the world's most undependable person for "critical infrastructure" was a bad idea

The last six months will be defined by the GOP’s crusade to eliminate health care access and protect Jeffrey Epstein.

The American people are paying attention.

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Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

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This world would be a much better place if more people read Hunter S Thompson and John Steinbeck

Ohio State groper enabler.

Awesome

And

✅ Two week tour opening for Robert Earl Keen in Colorado, Arizona, and California

I’m reading headlines on LinkedIn like “fast food restaurants having fun with retro menu prices”

Which is a funny way of saying people aren’t buying shit and the corporations are panicking

i now have such a deep understanding of the luddites and why they were bashing the shit out of those looms

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

ICE isnt going after criminals. They are kidnapping farmworkers, nannies and hairdressers so Stephen Miller can try to Make America White Again.

Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.

“If a lawyer brought me this file and asked if it was suitable for court, I’d say no. Go back to the source. Do it right,” said Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on digital forensics and misinformation, reviewed the metadata at WIRED’s request.

Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.

Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro.

I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.