@doctorow.pluralistic.net is on @laist.com right now laying out in very plain and entertaining terms where we are at with AI. Highly recommend you tune in. Hopefully they’ll make it available for a repeat listen somewhere.
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Patrick J Doody
Профиль Vively4x Emmy Nom Show Runner - Editor - WGA Awards committee member - Actor Awards producer - AMPAS writer - 1997 Dadeland Mall Johnny Rockets Employee of The Year
So many things to unpack here.
Ms. UnformationRhetorical question: Is the current administration really that fcuking stupid?
Total bullshit. @vulture.com cough up the money. Freelancers can’t wait 60 days to get paid.
Jason BaileyWell, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:
This is why we BlueSky.
One Perfect ShotSINNERS (2025, dir. Ryan Coogler) #OnePerfectShot #Filmsky 📽️🧛🎸
This is produced like a high school TV 101 class. But worse.
Make It Make SenseIs Abdul El-Sayed actually a capitalist?
Excellent read about Chicago film history.
Scott TobiasI've been a critic in Chicago for almost exactly 27 years, and the screening room at the top of 70 E. Lake St. has so many memories for me. Good piece from Richard Roeper, and I love that he talked to the projectionist, Steve Kraus. Great guy, great at his job: www.rogerebert.com/features/a-h...
Made me think - this film could have made a killer Happy Meal.
Scott DrebitEnjoyed The Odyssey, disappointed in the lack of any Dunkin’s product placement
Oh man! Dream Warriors and The Blob kicked major ass. RIP Chuck
Bloody DisgustingFilmmaker Chuck Russell has passed away at 74. Chuck Russell directed The Blob & Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors in the 1980s, and later directed The Mask, Eraser, Bless the Child, The Scorpion King, and Witchboard (2025). A horror legacy that will never be forgotten.
Remind me again whatever it is Charlie Kirk did that deserves a memorial highway?
The Tennessee Holler“It’s an embarrassment for them to have done this.” Vietnam Vets just got Charlie Kirk’s name taken off Vietnam Veterans Highway, leaving egg 🍳 on the face of congressional hopeful Rep. Johnny Garrett + TN Republicans who did it w/o telling them. Full: www.newschannel5.com/news/tdot-re...
This is why we BlueSky.
Larry KaraszewskiIn case you’re watching Robert Altman’s “California Split” and wondering what’s the triple bill playing in the deep background when George Segal walks outside the massage parlor - it’s “COME BACK CHARLESTON BLUE” “ENTER THE DRAGON” & “GIMME SHELTER” All for 99 cents.
@theyuantwins.bsky.social Can you boost?
Amanda Deibert 5552 SDCC#SDCC comic con: our daughter left her 3D printed black dragon in the restroom near E/Starbucks. She printed it herself and is devastated. We checked the restroom and lost and found which means someone picked it up. If you bring it to 5552 I will give you a signed comic as reward