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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18h

No it isn’t stop complying in advance

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty sure I’m not going to have health insurance next year and I would just like to offer a hearty FUCK YOU to my doctor who didn’t believe me when I said I was worried about that when I got my physical in January.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

"Most Americans probably don’t have a detailed grasp of what’s happening with ACA subsidies right now, but once people start getting letters notifying them of how much their premiums are going up, it will become a much bigger issue."

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 3d

“the screening is Thursday”

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Liam Billingham @liamgbillingham.bsky.social · 5d

No one paid $5 for under the top.

@katiewalshstx.bsky.social talks to us about Schumacher's cinematic craftsmanship. @diehardoab.bsky.social youtu.be/41eiEjFVPY0?...

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Blake Howard @oneblakeminute.bsky.social · 6d

When the @diehardoab.bsky.social boys asked @katiewalshstx.bsky.social and I to pair up for a Colin Farrell / Joel Schumacher joint, it was as irresistible as an early 2000s goatee open.spotify.com/episode/5rIc...

PHONE BOOTH with Miami Nice (Blake Howard and Katie Walsh)!

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 6d

If there’s one thing @oneblakeminute.bsky.social and I are gonna do, it’s yap about Colin Farrell. We’re both on @diehardoab.bsky.social this week talking about PHONE BOOTH (RIP Mr. Schumacher) open.spotify.com/episode/5rIc...

PHONE BOOTH with Miami Nice (Blake Howard and Katie Walsh)!

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Liam Billingham @liamgbillingham.bsky.social · 6d

This week on @diehardoab.bsky.social: @katiewalshstx.bsky.social and @oneblakeminute.bsky.social join us to talk Phone Booth!

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 9d

not a drop of dopamine to be found

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 9d

exactly

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 9d

the good thing about Bluesky is that every time I log on I see something that so profoundly disturbs me that I immediately have to log off and go to yoga/watch a movie/read a book/pull some tarot

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 9d

Need a cigarette after reading @deliacai.bsky.social's ant-AI screed in today’s Deez Links www.deezlinks.com/p/the-ai-cla...

Besides, I maintain that it is the distinct purview of writers and artists and actual non-baseball-cap-enabled thinkers to get our dunks in where we can, in the beautiful city of New York and larger project of America wherein cultural capital is still not something that can be entirely bought and stripped for parts yet; thus being able to categorically reject an AI company’s attempt to be “cool” and “community-minded” is probably the closest thing to artistic freedom we will have in this decade. So let me reiterate, actually, that I think this shit is so fucking dorky, and anyone who is excited about the “aesthetics” of an AI company reveals a soul so malnourished from lack of exposure to basic facts of experience, sensation, context and yes, TASTE, that a semblance of a gesture toward meaning activates some kind of rhapsodic trip-wire within. Oh my sweet children. I can’t believe you think that’s beauty.

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 9d

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story,” Thunberg said during a press conference following her release.

Read more:

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 11d

I wish them all ill

Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 11d

soooo cuckoo bananas

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 12d

I have never screamed ”EW!” at a season of Love is Blind more than I have at Denver. These people are INSANE.

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 12d

Whoever wrote this (I’m not bothering to click) knows nothing about the Oscars/the Academy. The largest voting body in the Academy is actors. SAG has already put out a statement against this. Why would HUMAN ACTORS vote for this monstrosity?

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 12d

NO 👏IT👏DOESNT👏

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 13d

Tilly Norwood raises the question of who will be the first to win an Oscar for best AI in a leading role

Tilly Norwood Is Expensive, Even for Hollywood

The “synthetic actress” may be cheaper to cast than Leonardo DiCaprio, but AI’s footprint carries major economic and environmental costs.

bloom.bg

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 13d

I love him so much

American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.social · 13d

We concluded our Beyond Fest William Petersen Tribute with a sold out screening of Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER (1986) last Saturday at the Egyptian 🙏

Thank you to everyone who joined us + to @katiewalshstx.bsky.social for moderating!

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American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.social · 13d

We concluded our Beyond Fest William Petersen Tribute with a sold out screening of Michael Mann’s MANHUNTER (1986) last Saturday at the Egyptian 🙏

Thank you to everyone who joined us + to @katiewalshstx.bsky.social for moderating!

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 15d

nothing confirmed as far as I know...

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 15d

THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is really quite tremendous. More initial thoughts here: boxd.it/bdO0eR

A review of The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)

Tremendous, and a true feminine companion piece to The Brutalist, not just in its female protagonist, but in the movement, music, and meditative rhythms that Mona Fastvold unspools on screen. Yet both...

boxd.it

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 17d

drinking a second coffee, eating baklava, enjoying some restorative screen time

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Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social · 17d

eeeeeeee

Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 17d

The great @katiewalshstx.bsky.social talking to the equally-great William Peterson about all things MANHUNTER. Through Beyond Fest all things are possible.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 17d

The great @katiewalshstx.bsky.social talking to the equally-great William Peterson about all things MANHUNTER. Through Beyond Fest all things are possible.

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