"Someone will say I could have made the video myself. Maybe I could have. But the reporting and the reach have come apart, and the people with the reach don't report. Making the video is a week of desk work. The reporting was a year of my life."
This is a microcosm of what Big AI is about to hit the world with. It's a concerningly grey area at times. The point of journalism and storytelling is to get useful information to the public in the easiest possible way. There are numerous checks and balances involved. That all goes for a toss when engagement farming takes priority. Just credits aren't enough. Revenue sharing is the fairer way.
I was fortunate to be in Los Angeles to see the extraordinary Taylor Swift perform live Tuesday at the World Premiere of Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5.
Playing her newest sensation: “I Knew It, I Knew You” which was written for this movie.
Mark my words, Toy Story 5 will be a giant phenomenal smash hit. A truly charming
triumph.
Opens at AMC on June 19.
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
China’s densest urban village: Shipai Village, Guangzhou.
Within just 0.31 kilometers across 4 communities, it packs 31 main streets and 267 narrow alleys.
With over 3,000 crowded tenement buildings, its population peaked at over 100,000 residents.
For decades, this neon-lit maze has been the very first stop—and a gritty beacon of hope—for almost every migrant worker arriving to chase their dreams in Guangzhou.
Some recent watches/rewatches, in which screenplays worked very well for me.
Margin Call
Drishyam 3
Vadachennai
Limitless
Lucy
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Nothing like rediscovering films at your own pace.
Orey oru vishayam thaan. Raaja ellarayum sandhosha pada vaikkanum nu local bashai la pesuvaar. First, Tamizh laa aarambam, apdiye oru maari Kannada, and then a new fusion of some mumbo jumbo is created. Paravagilla, haadu chennagide. Ashte saaku.
I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.
This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.