Adam Mallinger
@bitterscriptreader.bsky.social
Writer: SUPERMAN & LOIS, CRISIS ON INFINITE TEEN DRAMAS. Author of MICHAEL F-ING BAY https://amazon.com/dp/B00P1SQC9O/
http://thebitterscriptreader.blogspot.com/
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I winced a little reading this. Shitting on the script AT the Table Read is a bad move. The actors would get better results pulling the showrunner aside privately
Exclusive: The Inside Story Of The TNG Incident That Ended Star Trek Table Reads For 3 Decades
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##StarTrek
https://bit.ly/table-reads
Exclusive: The Inside Story Of The TNG Incident That Ended Star Trek Table Reads For 3 Decades
It wasn't exactly constructive criticism.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I winced a little reading this. Shitting on the script AT the Table Read is a bad move. The actors would get better results pulling the showrunner aside privately
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I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
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The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.
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Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
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“You left just when you were becoming interesting.”
RIP Tom Stoppard
RIP Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“You left just when you were becoming interesting.”
RIP Tom Stoppard
RIP Tom Stoppard
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To this day I will choose to watch a movie I've never seen because I remember its cover artwork from the video store. Browsing through media, being open to its various possibilities, exposes you to the unexpected. It can plant seeds in the mind that may take decades to bloom.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
To this day I will choose to watch a movie I've never seen because I remember its cover artwork from the video store. Browsing through media, being open to its various possibilities, exposes you to the unexpected. It can plant seeds in the mind that may take decades to bloom.
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
One of my favorites, and a bright spot in an often tepid final season
OTD, the #StarTrekTNG episode "Parallels," which showed various alternate universes that included Troi and Worf as a married couple, Wesley Crusher serving on the Enterprise, and a very desperate, Borg-weary Riker. Also: Worf's surprise party!
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
One of my favorites, and a bright spot in an often tepid final season
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I can't read this as anything other than a direct assault on the vaccine industry. Full stop. They are laying the groundwork to prevent all vaccine R&D. Not directly, but by requiring study designs for approval that are scientifically unnecessary and financially inviable.
Here's Prasad's full email, if you'd like to read it for yourself: www.washingtonpost.com/documents/30...
And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
FDA's big change to how vaccines will get approved
We obtained an internal email laying out the planned shift in strategy.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I can't read this as anything other than a direct assault on the vaccine industry. Full stop. They are laying the groundwork to prevent all vaccine R&D. Not directly, but by requiring study designs for approval that are scientifically unnecessary and financially inviable.
35 YEARS AGO TODAY - Adventures of Superman 474, Triangle number 1991-2. Written by Dan Jurgens, art by Dan Jurgens and Art Thibert.
A classic holiday tale from Jurgens, as Clark reflects on a tragic drunk driving accident from his youth in Smallville #TriangleEra35
A classic holiday tale from Jurgens, as Clark reflects on a tragic drunk driving accident from his youth in Smallville #TriangleEra35
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
35 YEARS AGO TODAY - Adventures of Superman 474, Triangle number 1991-2. Written by Dan Jurgens, art by Dan Jurgens and Art Thibert.
A classic holiday tale from Jurgens, as Clark reflects on a tragic drunk driving accident from his youth in Smallville #TriangleEra35
A classic holiday tale from Jurgens, as Clark reflects on a tragic drunk driving accident from his youth in Smallville #TriangleEra35
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…Oh. Oh no. Oh no nonono. …And yet: of course.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
…Oh. Oh no. Oh no nonono. …And yet: of course.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
"Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.
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Once, I was on a flight sitting directly behind Malcolm McDowell.
And I honestly don't think he appreciated how much dialogue I had memorized verbatim from "Caligula.
And I honestly don't think he appreciated how much dialogue I had memorized verbatim from "Caligula.
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Once, I was on a flight sitting directly behind Malcolm McDowell.
And I honestly don't think he appreciated how much dialogue I had memorized verbatim from "Caligula.
And I honestly don't think he appreciated how much dialogue I had memorized verbatim from "Caligula.
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If Dems win the midterms, there's going to be a huge temptation to subordinate everything in Congress to a messaging strategy about "affordability" to prep for the '28 presidential election. I have no problem with good messaging, but Kevin is right that Dems have to use power to stop the bleeding.
Some of us were saying during the shutdown that Democrats should have at least made the demand that Trump fire Vought to reopen the government since he's doing impoundment
Think of how to force the firing of Miller, Vought, Bondi, Hegseth, Noem, RFK & finding leverage to make it costly to keep them
Think of how to force the firing of Miller, Vought, Bondi, Hegseth, Noem, RFK & finding leverage to make it costly to keep them
November 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If Dems win the midterms, there's going to be a huge temptation to subordinate everything in Congress to a messaging strategy about "affordability" to prep for the '28 presidential election. I have no problem with good messaging, but Kevin is right that Dems have to use power to stop the bleeding.
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It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
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the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities
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“The approach could also have a chilling effect on the development of novel vaccines” — this is exactly what they are nihilistically trying to accomplish. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“The approach could also have a chilling effect on the development of novel vaccines” — this is exactly what they are nihilistically trying to accomplish. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Doing this when the recent elections and all the polls suggest that any fair election will thoroughly reject Trump and Republicans isn't just about cowardice. It's a declaration of allegiance to Trump's war on higher education.
Northwestern bent the knee, choosing to give in to extortion at the expense of academic freedom.
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Doing this when the recent elections and all the polls suggest that any fair election will thoroughly reject Trump and Republicans isn't just about cowardice. It's a declaration of allegiance to Trump's war on higher education.
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apparently the two turkeys pardoned by Trump have been arrested for committing a number of other crimes
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
apparently the two turkeys pardoned by Trump have been arrested for committing a number of other crimes
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biden had learned that too-small stimulus was a mistake, demonstrated keynesianism can make a robust, rapid, high-employment recovery…and reaped a corporate media freak out of colossal proportions b/c workers suddenly had an ounce of leverage. they treated his economy like a disaster.
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
biden had learned that too-small stimulus was a mistake, demonstrated keynesianism can make a robust, rapid, high-employment recovery…and reaped a corporate media freak out of colossal proportions b/c workers suddenly had an ounce of leverage. they treated his economy like a disaster.
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A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
@jerryordway.bsky.social happy birthday Jerry!
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
@jerryordway.bsky.social happy birthday Jerry!
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Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something
Does Pete Hegseth have a "golden shield" against prosecution in the form of a DOJ OLC opinion? Ed Whelan thinks not.
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Ed Whelan was Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for OLC from 2001-2004, so when he suggests that laws of war have been violated by the executive branch, that’s… something
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A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.