John La Costa

Screenwriter/Director | Columbia MFA |

[John La Costa @twin___suns]

LA weather is giving Shreveport LA 😖

[John La Costa @twin___suns]

first haircut in Weho & the gay in the chair next to me is going on about how “AI can’t use all the water because we are all made of water, girl” 🙃

[TheOASG @TheOASG]

GKIDS has announced at Anime NYC that they’ve acquired the North American theatrical and home media rights for Vampire Hunter D

[John La Costa @twin___suns]

brb growing claws

[Variety @Variety]

'The Matrix' Director Lilly Wachowski Says Hollywood Won't Finance Her $10 Million Thriller Because It's Got a 'Wall-to-Wall Trans Cast' https://t.co/wrlywMp7Lm

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@janusfilms

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

Montresori schools are NOT okay. We should NOT be teaching kids to entomb people alive in wine cellars

[mnemos @httpsmnemos]

“Hector Censuring Helen and Paris” Felix Jan Ferdinand Heyndrickx
c. 1820

[John La Costa @twin___suns]

clocked that uggo

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[John La Costa @twin___suns]

friend asked if I had been to this cafe & all I can think of is the peacock from animal crossing

[John La Costa @twin___suns]

@FerGzlz @Variety I set an alarm for 6am today to buy tickets and they were sold out by 6:08 am

[LizaMinnelliOutlives @LiZaOutlives]

Liza Minnelli has outlived Senator Lindsey Graham. He has gone to the big closet in the sky.

[Variety @Variety]

Meta AI can now use Instagram photos on public accounts without consent. SAG-AFTRA issues a warning to app users:

"We recommend that members (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness... If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings. Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels."

https://t.co/dpE5QEXUq6

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Instagram automatically opted all public profiles into its new feature that lets users create AI images based on their photos

How to opt out:

1️⃣ Go to your profile

2️⃣ Click the 3 bars in the top right

3️⃣ Scroll down to ‘Sharing and reuse’

4️⃣ Turn off for both Posts & Reels

[𝔾𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥. @paigezxmbie]

Woke up thinking about Alicent trying to discreetly leave Kings Landing by blending in with the poor people all while dressed in archival Christian Dior head to toe.

[Shane @sbliss89]

New level of Catholic guilt unlocked: the pope wants to know why you haven’t finished that draft yet.

[John La Costa @twin___suns]

@jtimsuggs flare through their hearts…

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

Europeans really do look at American work culture like it’s a mental illness

[best of old hollywood @oldhllywoods]

dean martin and jerry lewis in "the caddy" (1953)