Lavaanya Garg

Writer-Director
I’m old school in a post-modern way...

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

@jwrld1808 Next time kill the background music please.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

@JustineBateman Hi Justine! Are you planning to revive Filmclub on Clubhouse anytime soon? Literally held onto the app just for that 🙋🏻‍♀️🙅🏻‍♀️ I miss it!

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever."

- Carl Sagan, in Cosmos (1980)

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

Gotta separate Arts & Crafts & Crime from the Artists. It’s not compartmentalizing, but humanizing and radically accepting the whole truth, warts and arts and all!

[Aubrey O'Day @AubreyODay]

I can hold two truths at once.
I’ve been vocal about abuse because I’ve lived it, and I don’t excuse it, ever. That hasn’t changed. But I also don’t believe engaging with someone’s art means I co-sign every opinion or action they’ve ever had. If that were the rule, most of this industry-and honestly most of the world-would be off limits. What I don’t support is harm, exploitation, or violence. And I’ve been consistent about that. You can disagree with where I draw my line, but calling it hypocrisy ignores the nuance. It’s not black and white—and pretending it is doesn’t actually protect anyone. If supporting art required endorsing every belief of the artist, none of us would have careers, or playlists. I’ve been clear about where I stand on abuse. That doesn’t change because I attended a show.
Nuance isn’t hypocrisy, it’s reality.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz: https://t.co/HEPHN4E54P

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

STUNNING🚨: It took New Horizon spacecraft 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.

Pluto’s icy Mountains.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

While you slept last night, completely motionless in your bed, our galaxy shifted millions of kilometers through the cosmos.

You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, but unimaginably far from where you were the night before.

The Milky Way does not glide silently through the universe. It is racing through space at about 600 kilometers per second, carrying with it billions of stars, planets, and everything they contain on the journey. It is a good reminder that, even when life seems motionless, you are always in motion.

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

@DannyDrinksWine Why does this scene remind me of Leo and Cate in Don’t Look Up?

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Bill Gates Is NOT a Philanthropist - Dr. Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva, a long time environmental activist and food sovereignty advocate, speaks on an episode of Behind The Badge about what really lies behind GMO seeds, the Green Revolution, and who controls the global food system. She challenges the idea that Bill Gates is a philanthropist, arguing instead that his influence in agriculture is driven by profit, power, and control.

Her words matter deeply for Africa. Gates funded organisations have infiltrated African governments in an Insidious move to influence agricultural policy across the continent. They lobby African governments to weaken biosafety laws and approve GMOs, pushing policies that benefit large agribusinesses while sidelining small scale farmers. One major example is the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, which encourages farmers to abandon saving their own seeds and instead buy commercial, patented seeds, including GM varieties.

Bill Gates is also pushing for intellectual property laws that can make traditional seed saving and sharing illegal. He is actively locking African agriculture into systems that serve Western corporations, while stripping countries of control over their land, seeds, and food future.

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

“A discerning audience with a high level of connoisseurship is as important to culture as the artists making the art.” So right! That’s exactly what I feel about cinema too. Quality of films is on the decline because discerning connoisseurs are scarce.

[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

a discerning audience makes art better‼️

I often remember this video & think about the audiences impact on art today bc now every critique is met with swarths of stan’s calling you a hater, but there is a very big difference between critique & hate and we’ve lost that I think.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The six-armed Kali in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) is one of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen’s most complex creations. Staging a fight between six men and a six-armed creature was a logistical “nightmare” and took four months to animate. Movie-making at its magical best

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

@TrungTPhan Where does it end? Just to pander to stupid viewers we dumb down the product? How much exposition & adultrating quality makes it worthwhile? There has to be a difference b/w business who just want more subscribers & filmmakers who want to tell stories in the best way possible

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

@TrungTPhan This thinking is so wrong - theatrical releases being pigeonholed as Nolan type tentpole films and anything that’s different or “less than” is only worthy enough to be viewed on a smaller screens. I fundamentally disagree. Pandering to lazy Netflix subscribers is killing the biz

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

@davidcoverdale Love you David! Best rock voice of all time! I am greatly inspired by you and your story. I’ve been trying to manifest watching you perform live but alas! Thankyou for being you! ✨✨💋💋🖤🖤

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

@davidcoverdale Have a cigar…. (Oh btw which one’s pink?)

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

@Apple @ApplePodcasts please create a bookmark feature that allows us to mark favourite podcast episodes so that they’re easy to organise and re-listen to at convenience. It’ll also serve as a history & come in handy when we want to recommend podcasts to friends in the future.

[Cyril Dabs @CyrilDabs]

I'm releasing a new board game called "Trade War- End Of Days" I feel it may sell well. Pricing for the game will depend on which country it's being sold

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

@davidcoverdale Lady Gorca Grapes Of Amazon

[Lavaanya Garg @LavaanyaG]

@ATRightMovies What about the standin’s skin, hair and the dog? How was that matching the rest of the sepia in the frame??