Christopher Nolan on AI:
“I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime. So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it. [My children’s] judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”
🔗 https://t.co/vyUx6mHzaH
Here's why people are voting for me in NY-12 today:
“I came to volunteer for Nina because I believed in her values. What I found was a candidate that other volunteers and other voters genuinely love.”
“Nina is fighting for public housing, for public health, for actually delivering services to the people who need them.”
“Nina’s willingness to stop arming Israel matters to me. It takes courage to say that in this race. And I’m saying it as a Jewish New Yorker.”
“She understands what’s happening in this city and in this country, and she’s not afraid to act on it. She is the only candidate who called on Chuck Schumer to resign.”
“She is a scientist and she wants the world to be better.”
“When I saw you in that debate on NY1, you were absolutely great!”
Steve Albini died two years ago today, on May 7, 2024.
We spoke with his friends, family, and collaborators — including PJ Harvey, Jeff Tweedy, Black Francis, Kim Deal, and more — about the complex legacy of the legendary punk iconoclast.
https://t.co/sDFsBzsG44
Remembering David Berman, who would have been 59 today
Here’s David performing New Orleans, accompanied by Bob Nastanovich on drums, at Shirley St. (Nashville, 2003)