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Tom Towell retweeted
$442m to buy our elections and it constitutes just 0.045% of Elons wealth. That’s the equivalent of the median American household spending $92. If you can’t see the problem with this then I don’t know what to tell you.
Tom Towell retweeted
BREAKING: Eight US states have sued OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT has harmed children.
Tom Towell retweeted
why is it always “we cut thousands of employees to save money” and never “we cut millions from our CEOs salaries to save money”
Netflix is laying off around 1,000 employees, representing 6% of its workforce, in what is the streamer's biggest layoff to date.
Most of the layoffs will affect workers in Netflix’s product, technology, legal and HR teams.
“Our mission — to entertain the world — is ambitious, and delivering on it requires us to be disciplined about where we prioritize our people and resources,” co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters wrote in an email.
variety.com/2026/tv/news/net…
Tom Towell retweeted
The excuses being used by filmmakers and studios for using GenAI are extremely insulting to the intelligence of the audience and the labor of the artists whose work they stole, and are inflating the projected costs to claim they're saving money while destroying the environment.
"Merry the Christmas Witch" director Tom Walsh says his movie adaptation of the 2012 children’s book would've cost $80 million if he did not use AI. The final budget was $1.5 million.
“We were kind of stuck. The doors are not very open to new kind[s] of ideas and new kind[s] of stories and everything, and that makes it a little tough for independent filmmakers, so that’s where AI came in.”
variety.com/2026/film/news/m…
"We're not killing the art" says producer who didn't have to hire as many people because they were replaced by ai.
Hollywood is embracing AI tools despite doomsday fears and potential backlash from audiences.
“We’re not killing the art; we’re enhancing the art,“ says producer Ryan Kavanaugh, who used AI to help lower the cost of Doug Liman's "Bitcoin" movie from $200 million to $70 million. “It’s making it more efficient. It’s creating better tool sets. And all of a sudden, we really saw a big shift … from people that we thought were going to be like, ‘No, we can’t do that,’ to ‘Well, can we use it in this show?’”
Steven Soderbergh faced backlash for using roughly 10 minutes of AI in his John Lennon documentary, to which the director says: "Here’s what’s really funny to me: If I told people that nine minutes and 40 seconds was VFX that took two and a half million dollars in two years, there would have been no debate at all. So what are we talking about?”
Read the full feature from @CorbinBolies: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHWAB
Tom Towell retweeted
writing is supposed to be hard
the grind is the most important part
friction makes fire
fuck ai
It is a joy and privilege to read to my kids. My oldest can read on her own, but we still read together, too. I wouldn't trade the time for anything. They grow up faster than you think. I am holding on as long as I can.
Your kids don't need automation. They need you. Show up.
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Tom Towell retweeted
This should be considered a 5-alarm democracy fire.
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades.
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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AI Film ‘Gods Don’t Give Gifts’ Sets First Trailer for December Theatrical Run, Plans Oscar Bid for Best Animated Feature variety.com/2026/film/news/a…
Tom Towell retweeted
I feel like the President of The United States suggesting Iran should nuke Los Angeles and San Diego should be getting a little more attention than it is.
That's it. I'm cheering for the White Sox.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Tom Towell retweeted
The $4 billion Meta received from taxpayers through a loophole could have paid for over 1 billion school lunch meals for hungry kids.
We’re suffering through the priorities of oligarchs.
New reports reveal Meta has been classifying gigantic data centers as "pilot models" in order to secure a tax credit from the 1980s.
The loophole has allowed Meta to avoid paying nearly $4,000,000,000 in taxes last year alone.
