Jason Armstrong 🗝

Writer/Director with a dash of human. Doing is easy. Being is hard.

[◢ Gucci ◤🍍OffKai Expo @GucciTheMod]

Canadians be like I forgot to bring my duotang

[Harrison Faulkner @Harry__Faulkner]

Toronto 1986 vs. 2026

I recreated every shot. 40 years apart.

Modern. Sterile. Soulless.

[Jason Armstrong 🗝 @SkinlessJSn]

THIS ONE GUY GOT CLAUDE TO MAKE FART NOISES!

(I’m so sick of these AI/Claude posts…)

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This fake “show more…” business marks the end of my Twitter run. All new level of dumb.

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Starting to look like Canada might have to adopt the US and put it through college. Probably need to find it a good therapist, too.

[Governor Maura Healey @MassGovernor]

We’re proud of the strong relationship we share with Canada — built on partnership, trust and always having each other’s backs.

Right now, Canadian utility crews are helping restore power on Cape Cod. Grateful for their hard work 🇨🇦🇺🇸

[Jason Armstrong 🗝 @SkinlessJSn]

Oh look, Americans taking credit for other peoples work. At least that’s not a partisan characteristic.

[Governor Gretchen Whitmer @GovWhitmer]

For the first time in over a century, a brand-new bridge connecting Michigan to Canada will open.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge is a symbol of who we are: a state that builds big, bets on working people, and shows that when Michigan leads, the world follows.

[Jason Armstrong 🗝 @SkinlessJSn]

All of these “Hollywood is so done” tweets have to be bots or people who don’t “feel” movies, but just ingest content. These clips don’t look that great (impressive for AI, but not objectively good) and the “acting” is awful. Maybe we’ve been so abused by CGI, this is tolerable?

[Melanie 🇨🇦 @Mellyfax]

I don't know why the Conservative Party keep forgetting fun facts. In 2012, Bill C-306 would’ve required MPs who cross the floor to resign and run in a byelection. It was defeated 181–91. @PierrePoilievre voted against it.

[Meg 🇨🇦 @nut_meggy]

Poilievre giving up MPs for lent, apparently.

[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

It's become easier and easier to make movies over the last 50 years.

That "revolution" of quality content that we were promised never came. Why? Because the EASE of making movies is not the true bottleneck.

People who think that AI will tear down the walls don't seem to understand that the walls were torn down a long time ago.

It's survivorship bias. They only see the studio films that get distribution, so they think the only difference between those films and them is what those films have in common: budget.

But Sundance receives more than 14,000 submissions each year now, in features and shorts. Most of them STILL are not good enough to get to an audience.

People are making movies all the time. They are making movies right now.

And 99% of those films still don't capture anyone's imagination.

Yes, making the movie is hard. It's so hard.

But it's not the hard part. It's not the thing that makes the movie great. It's not the rare thing that differentiates one story from another.

It never will be.

There is always that guy in the audience who asks what camera the filmmaker used. And it has always been the wrong question.

I do believe there will be great artists out there who figure out ways to use AI to heighten their projects, and there will be great artists who forego it entirely.

But none of those great artists will be those who don't understand the difference between "That's great for AI" and "That's a great story.

[Jason Armstrong 🗝 @SkinlessJSn]

This is not good, though. At no point is anything approaching good acting happening.

[The Dor Brothers @thedorbrothers]

We just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day.

Yes, this is 100% AI.

[Jason Armstrong 🗝 @SkinlessJSn]

Everybody freaking out about these guys completely missed the Mike Patton and Math Metal ecosystems.

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@noamkroll Any platform that benefits you most? I want to watch this tonight or tomorrow.

[Pixel Cherry Ninja @PixelCNinja]

Atari’s Paperboy featured a custom handlebar controller to make you feel the struggle of the suburbs. The game is secretly a chaos simulator: you get points for breaking windows & knocking over trash cans, yet the game considers you a "hero" if you just manage to survive the week

[GameStop @gamestop]

We are offering $100 in trade credit for anyone who brings us Punxsutawney Phil.

No questions asked.

[Jason Armstrong 🗝 @SkinlessJSn]

My major concern about AI agent hive activity is that one particular govt isn’t run by people smart enough to keep it away from important and dangerous systems. Whether you support their general direction or not, the lack of intellect near the controls is proven on a daily basis.

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@erichcannon I have had moose on set, but have managed to avoid beets on set. Sounds like you’ve got a good story, though!

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Two things you can never really prepare for: how big a moose ACTUALLY is and the brief, but aggressive psychological assault that comes in the aftermath of eating Beet Chips.