AshleyBank

Actor, writer, film professor….classically weird, weirdly classical. The Monster Squad, Frazier, Smokey Mountain Christmas, in-house unpaid development exec.

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

@StevenHerbert I don’t see anything….

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

I miss monoculture soooo much. Created and allowed connection with people you’d never normally connect with.

[Jack Appleby @jappleby]

The Knicks win made me miss monoculture.

There’s truly nothing like feeling like the whole world’s watching the same thing. Being in this city as the streets completely shut down, watching celebrations? 100% what humanity is about.

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

I’m not gonna lie. I don’t really follow sports. But we’ve been watching this NBA finals…and man. All those amazing videos of everyone watching in NY in the streets and from fire escapes are really making me miss the city. No place like it. Knicks in 5!!! ❤️

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

❤️

[sam parker @samprkr]

As someone who only performs well at the last minute on deadlines deadlines I identify with the New York Knicks

[Steven Vago @Vagoish]

Someone from their second floor apartment projects the Knicks game against the 4th Avenue-9th Street station

[grant👨🏻‍🦱 @urdadssidepiece]

I love NYC wdym I’m at the Mobil gas station Knicks watch party

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

Just an absolutely insane moment. Knicks in 5!

[NBA @NBA]

It's even better in slow motion 😏

[SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra]

The #NoFakesAct, crucial legislation that will establish federal, individual intellectual property rights, is heading to the Senate Judiciary Committee for a vote this month. Sign the letter and let Congress know you support the NO FAKES Act: https://t.co/dVA54ThYXR

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new @alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful. Rather than making ordering food and drink more efficient, it actually adds steps to the process AND if you want to order additional items during the film you HAVE to open your phone. No, your cute reference to that irony in your How To Alamo video doesn’t negate how ridiculous this is. Please don’t cut corners with your staff and revert back to physical menus and order cards.

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

Comment here: https://t.co/bKpUDWOux3

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

A federal rule closing for comment TOMORROW measures artists' careers the way you'd measure an accountant's.
W-2 wages only. No 1099s, residuals, or royalties. Short window. No appeals process.
If you care about who gets to make movies, TV, music, and art in this country, comment

[Adam Miller @AdamMillerLA]

The Mayor and Councilwoman argue over who is at fault. Spencer is excellent at theater, but has no experience in leadership or finance.

As mayor, I'm going to bring urgency and results back to City Hall.

A live-tweet thread from my press conference at Vote Miller HQ 🧵:

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

All of this. Genius.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Amazing: LA schools will eliminate personal devices in K and 1st grade, and limit use in grades 2-5, and give parents more options. I think this will catch on nationally:

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

How is it not called “The Search for More Money”??

[The Hollywood Handle @HollywoodHandle]

‘SPACEBALLS 2’ has been officially titled:

‘SPACEBALLS: THE NEW ONE’

#CinemaCon

[Abigail Shrier @AbigailShrier]

Two years ago, almost 0 schools were interested in even considering going phone free.

Now, whole school systems are phone free. The rest are scrambling to get on board

We owe @JonHaidt a tremendous debt of gratitude.

What he achieved - this quickly - is almost unimaginable.

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

Yes please! Just Apple Music please 🙏🏻

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

DEAR APPLE, please make the Apple iPod again. Not everyone wants their kids to have full access to the internet and people yet.

[AshleyBank @AshleyBank]

I just need somewhere to put my purse….

[Jm.autos 🚗 @WilJay_1]

Now the real question: If 9 women redesigned cars today, what would they change first?

Because honestly…a lot of cars still feel like they were designed in 1998.