John

An unfocused Twitter. Music, movies, and boxing…mostly.

[John @TheJPA]

@ReighpTrump @Ovalfps Yeah, I mean…CGI replaced people who do set design. Sometimes CGI is bad. It requires taste and judgment to determine what you really need.

[John @TheJPA]

He’s “pro-AI” because it helps him do better storyboards. The man is a movie industry vet, and is used to dealing with all kinds of hucksters and bullshit artists. They also happen to be key subjects of his art! He’s not being fooled. Why are people like this?

[Low-Poly Paul Atreides @muaddibstyle]

Scorsese is pro-AI for the same reason so many middle aged and older people in creative industries are, and the same reason all those college administrators we saw getting booed were: they are being lied to about something they don’t really understand by enthusiastic rich people.

[Steven Godofsky @sgodofsk]

George Will's son Jon has Down syndrome. In 2013, he wrote this celebrating Jon's 40th birthday.

[Ben Horne @benjamin_horne]

As a programmer, I don't think this is far off from what's actually happening.

For reasons that now feel overdetermined (codebases = 100% of context, verifiability, etc.) software development was/is uniquely shaped to get eaten up by LLMs.

But almost no other fields/industries are shaped in this way, except for a few select niches like translation, low complexity customer support tickets, etc.

Sure, everyone uses LLMs for the specific things LLMs are actually quite good at (e.g. summarizing documents, translating things, searching the web for you, proof reading important emails before sending, etc.) but the only full-blown industry where LLMs truly thrive *at the core value proposition* of said industry is... software.

Because us software engineers and other tech people are insufferable and think we're the center of the universe, we just assume automatically that it's only a matter of time before LLMs make the leap into other areas of the economy, and disrupt them like they've disrupted coding.

"Surely if LLMs can put a dent in *my* job, it's only a matter of time before they do the same to others!"

Idk... I'm just not seeing this yet.

[John @TheJPA]

Anti-AI luddites are as dumb as pro-AI boosters. As with most things, we should be somewhere in between!

[John @TheJPA]

This is so dumb. In film, AI will be useful for storyboards, for VFX, for sound design. In music, there are so many subtle uses in engineering. It’s up to creators to be tasteful and prudent in how they use it so that it’s imperceptible. A tool we wield, not a true intelligence.

[Adam Yenser @CleanComedian69]

No one who loves their art uses generative AI. It’s a gimmick for frauds and a crutch for the lazy.

[John @TheJPA]

If you ever get down on the times at least remember, we are watching the greatest baseball player who ever lived 😌

[MLB @MLB]

Shohei Ohtani (the pitcher): 2 hits, 1 walk
Shohei Ohtani (the hitter): 3 hits, 2 walks

[John @TheJPA]

“Minor” Scorsese movies are better than 99% of directors’ best movies, and across genres (After Hours, Last Temptation) are still recognizable as his work. But sure, whatever.

[John @TheJPA]

Imagine posting this sincerely and not as rage bait. Amazing

[Ella Dorn 唐棠 @elladorn_]

I like Scorsese but why is everyone talking about him like he's Ingmar Bergman... he's a very competent filmmaker but not singular and clearly not infallible

[Matt Margolis @ItsMattsLaw]

IRAN WAR SETTLEMENT (v43)_Final(v6)_FINAL (5.26.2026)(v36)USE THIS VERSION(6.4.2026)(v4)

[𝙻𝚘𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚃𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 🇵🇸 @Y2K_mindset]

Full support to Martin Scorsese idc, the maximalist anti-AI stance for “creative” reasons is peasant brained slopulism at this point

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University put together the concert America truly deserved for its 250th birthday.

[the metten burger @themettenburger]

The Browns after trading Myles Garrett

[John @TheJPA]

The Steelers have a still great Watt AND Highsmith AND Herbig. We’re fine. People need to see this for what it is, another futile Browns attempt at a rebuild.

[Chris Mueller @ChrisMuellerPGH]

I am having a bit of edge rusher trade FOMO about this deal. Steelers could have been forward thinking and dealt Watt. Now? Now they hope that last year was an aberration and not the start of a steady decline.

[John @TheJPA]

Who ISN’T picking C?

[Andrew Hilary🇵🇸 @AndrewHilaryUS]

You win a some expense paid 10 day vacation to coastal Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The catch? You can only stay within one section. Which do you choose?

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

Jared Verse finding out he’s going from living in LA to Cleveland

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

young couples trying to raise a family in our clown economy are admirable bordering on heroic, so if you have kids, its actually a patriotic duty to invade spaces where boomers, "childfree" redditors, disney adults, other sorts of foul beasts, cavort and stuff their putrid jowls

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Nick Gonzales’s Mustache @SteelCityBucs30]

I love Greg Brown’s big moment calls