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Ken Pisani

@kpsmartypants.bsky.social

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Screenwriter and Emmy nominee. Author of LA Times bestseller & Thurber Prize for American Humor finalist “AMP'D." Smartest of pants. Repped @ WME kenpisani.com

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · Dec 4

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 30m

This is the kind of artist AI thinks it can replace, the work it’s designed to steal and duplicate. It can’t, and it won’t if we don’t let it.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2h

"I’m selling movies, yes. But if I can do it with art, with beauty, in a way that reaches people and touches them... that’s what makes me happy"

— Drew Struzan

🧵 with more of his work

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 3h

He will not be missed, we just have to make sure @governor.ca.gov goes far enough away that we don’t have to be subjected to his bullshit anymore.

Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 4h

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint. He says California is “well positioned” to support the AI-driven data center boom, and he is reluctant to impose “rigid reporting requirements.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 17h

All the BW apologists at mainstream outlets should feel extra embarrassed about their advocacy for her, and her elevation to the top of CBS News, after this. It's incredibly worth a half-hour of your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 3h

Rhetorical question about shoes that are never on other feet.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 3h

Sen. DURBIN: Donald Trump deployed the Texas National Guard over the objections of our governors. Republicans, if a Democratic president deployed the Guard to your state over your objections, how would YOU react?

Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 3h

The real purpose of billionaires is to accumulate so much wealth that when you cause the economic crisis that wipes out 90% of it, you still have millions while everyone else is fucked.

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 3h

Capitalism is a funny thing, because GenAI/LLM technology is considered successful not because of what it does, but because of its ability to attract venture capitalist investors

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Shannon 🎃 Swift @shannonandswift.bsky.social · 4h

We're so excited for you all to see SEND HELP. Lots of crazy dark twists and turns in store. Come support original movies January 30, won't you...?

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 4h

Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien are stranded on a desert island in the first look at Sam Raimi's survival thriller SEND HELP.

Rachel McAdams Needs You To SEND HELP In First Look At Sam Raimi’s Survival Thriller

Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien are stranded on a desert island in the first look at Sam Raimi's survival thriller SEND HELP.

dlvr.it

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Fred Van Lente @fredvanlente.bsky.social · 1d

I'm back with an all-new COMIC BOOK DEATH MATCH: Part Two of the MARVEL TEAM-UP vs BRAVE AND THE BOLD bout! Haney & Aparo vs Claremont & Byrne! One will drink the sweet ambrosia of victory, the other will taste the bitter ashes of defeat. All for your pleasure: 13thdimension.com/comic-book-d...

COMIC BOOK DEATH MATCH: Brave and the Bold vs. Marvel Team-Up, 1976-1980

Fred Van Lente’s back with another not-at-all facetious clash of the titans…

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 22h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

I hope this absolutely destroys those companies.

NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 14h

Two families are suing AI companies after they say chatbots contributed to their children's suicides.

‘He would be here if not for ChatGPT': Grieving parents sue AI companies

It has become a trusted companion for millions of teens. But it’s not a person. It’s an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence – one that’s trained to generate human-like responses. And some fea...

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 14h

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 14h

Cool cool cool

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 17h

IT’S GOING GREAT

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

Yeah it's that simple: OpenAI needs to build 3GW of data center capacity, which will cost over $100bn, and they need to do so in around a year. All three of these deals are based on unreleased chips too. Where the hell is the press on this?
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Ichabod Crane's Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 22h

Eventually somebody has to actually get paid with these endless IOUs circulating, right? All these companies are being paid in fake scrip, but like, the rest of the world deals in real money, not Altman Farts. When does this stop?

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 1d

The question itself exemplifies the cowardice of our press in a moment that calls for much higher ideals.

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 1d

counting in coal tit:

(spotted woodpecker got within 5 metres of me - should have put more peanuts on my hand. wouldn't that be a marvellous thing? or would it shove its beak straight through my hand?)

2 coal tits on my hand, one in process of taking off rather beautifully

three coal tits on my hand. you can see where this is going

yep. four. it's the sunflower seeds and my beguiling ways

WHOA! five! there is not technically enough room for five, with the amount of scrapping they tend to do, so it's all a bit of a midair scrum. If they would line up and take one seed each nicely it would be easier. but no

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 1d

Just killed nine acres of trees and it told me to try saying "hi"

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

I love that they basically invented Krusty Dollars and people pretended it was currency

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 2d

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 1d

“Littleface,” man.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

One reporter (we know the FP doesn't have those, no matter what that crazy lady says) please ask them what job they would do if they quit.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Average NYPD salary with OT is well over 100K, you live like a king on that in Long Island ain't none of them going nowhere. Anyone who believes that is a stone cold idiot. How many other jobs are they qualified for where they could earn that? Zero. The answer is zero.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 2d

Aren’t we all.

Screen Rant @screenrant.bsky.social · 2d

Paul Bettany on #VisionQuest at #NYCC:

“Red Vision gave Vision all of his memories including the memories from within the hex but White Vision is having difficulty connecting to them. White Vision’s journey is his attempt to connect to those memories and who he was.”

Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 2d

Why put them on in the first place? It’s an amplification of their lies and disinformation followed only infrequently by performative “I’m hanging up now.”

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back