Larry J. Cohen

History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme in unpaid royalties.

3 Screenshots from the move "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991): First, Sarah Connor stands in a desert landscape with a determined expression, and the subtitle reads, "I need to know how Skynet gets built.". Second, the Terminator, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, faces her in the same desert setting, with the subtitle, "The man most directly responsible is Miles Bennett Dyson.". Third, the Terminator is shown driving a car with Sarah Connor in the passenger seat, and the subtitle says, "The system goes on-line on August 4, 1997.".

Aug 4th 1997 - Skynet, the world's first Automated Defense Network, was activated.

📽️📅 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

On AI and Copyright, Trump Is Groveling Before Big Tech and Selling Out Working Americans It’s not just creatives threatened by Silicon Valley’s ethically questionable business model.

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YouTube video by Me The AI AI Rewrote Titanic’s Ending with Google VEO & AI Tools

And if you don’t believe me, this fresh hell is already here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w7T...

YouTube video by Duke Phillips Phillipsvision

As usual, The Critic already predicted the next circle of cinema hell — using GenAI to “fix” movie classics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKGb...

Google search's AI summary is like the loud confident idiot in the room who doesn't always know the answer to your question but HAS TO be the first one to reply to it.

The gram be damned.

I really don’t think people are ready for when Meta, X and probably even LinkedIn start making A.I. generated ads with their likenesses using the data from all their photos and posts.

WGAE’s Sam Wheeler joined @cnn.com Erin Burnett OutFront to discuss ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ cancellation, what CBS calls “a financial decision.”

Senators Introduce Bill To Restrict AI Companies’ Unauthorized Use Of Copyrighted Works For Training Models The legislation would require that AI companies get individual consent.

*Immediately plays in my head* Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire.

YouTube video by Cinema Conservancy VIDEOHEAVEN (Official Trailer)

The eulogy to the video store I didn’t know I needed, but will almost definitely make me cry my eyes out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=niB0...

In case you were worried, “amazeballs” has been officially entered into the lexicon.

Larry Cohen on Glass Photography Community Larry Cohen on Glass

In the spirit of better social media... have to send some to praise to @glass.photo. Reminds me of the best days of Flickr and Vimeo. Pure and simple. glass.photo/larryjcohen/...

Ditto.

WGA East Leaves Elon Musk’s X Following “Racist And Antisemitic Language” From AI Tool Grok The WGA East announced it is leaving Elon Musk's X after the AI tool Grok made several racist and offensive remarks, including praising Hitler

Incredibly proud of the @wgaeast.bsky.social for taking a stand against an A.I. company masquerading as a social media platform. Hope more people realize how important our data is and the way it's being monetized actually matters. deadline.com/2025/07/wga-...

Late to the game, but Josh’s special is both very funny and a great excuse to think about cruffins again.

I deleted all my Zuckerberg products years ago and have never looked back.

Our Privacy Expert Tried, and Failed, to Disappear From the Internet It’s not as simple as deleting a few accounts.

Wirecutter’s privacy expert tried to scrub his online presence. It wasn’t possible.

Writers Guild of America East Vox Media Union STRIKE AVERTED: TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED!

BREAKING: The @voxmediaunion.bsky.social reached a tentative agreement with management on a new 3-year collective bargaining agreement! The 250-member unit will vote to ratify the contract in the coming days. As a deal has now been reached, there will not be any pickets outside Vox Media’s office.

What does @vox.com management think happens when a union made of journalists and screenwriters go on strike? I promise the people who write stories for a living know how to message that denying healthcare and siding with A.I. is not just shameful, but deeply shortsighted. ✊🪧

The thread 🧵 to read on the Disney/Universal lawsuit against Midjourney —

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

One step closer to Hal 9000... “It’s very very disturbing that your response is always to lie.” amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

This was the @bsky.app praise I was waiting for.

The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...

If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality...

www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

Napster relaunches as an AI company and bets on agentic tools Infinite Reality’s rebrand to Napster Corp. comes alongside the debut of Napster AI, a new business unit, and Napster Spaces.

And fun fact: Napster is being resurrected as an AI company. www.digitalcommerce360.com/2025/05/16/n...

AI’s Napster Moment May Be Next In 1999, a groundbreaking site launched that felt too good to be true. And that’s because it was. Sam Altman should take note.

Few weeks ago, I was talking to congressional staffers on Capitol Hill about A.I. and copyright law. When I mentioned Napster, they had no idea what I was talking about, so I co-wrote a piece in @thr.com — www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

This is the way.