Seeing the original off-broadway version of this remains on of the high points of my goddamn life, and that was with JCM’s understudy playing Hedwig that evening.

IIRC it took them 24-48 hours to get Pynk available after the video dropped; there’s probably some 7th-dimensional engagement-maximization chess going on here.

It makes more sense when you understand that Cohen is not a lawyer in the traditional sense. As this very story confirmed, the total number of legal “clients” that Cohen had was three. He’s not in the business of practicing law, he’s a fixer/bagman.

Could be both!

It helps to understand that there are two sorts of “AI experts” in this world. There’s the kind who are descendants of the folks who started MITs AI lab back in the 60s, who are really experts in fancy statistical models and generative/genetic algorithms...

I feel like I’ve just walked into the nerdiest-ever re-creation of the movie line scene in “Annie Hall”. Thanks everyone!

Well shut my mouth. :)

Honestly Musk’s actual motivations (primarily fear of a “hard-takeoff “AI singularity) aren’t any less weird.

Okay, this is entirely not the point of the thing, but:

Nifty!

A well-known reviewer made it a point to mention breasts?

Wait you WHAT? Can you, uh, confirm that?

This is completely nitpicky, but...

Having watched that video, I’m not sure “ambiguous” is the correct word. It would have been slightly less subtle to have it be 4.5 minutes of flashing neon letters spelling out “I enjoy having sex with Tessa Thompson” but only slightly.

Pity.

(I love it when each ‘like’ on a comment is the sure knowledge that another person out there shares your shame.)

Nah, Sidaris was all about the rocket launchers.

Actually Andy Sidaris would have said “Is there any way we can work a remote-control model helicopter into this shot?”

Yeah, can confirm.

She looks like one of those old Conan “If They Mated” collages of, well, Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain, except somehow intimidatingly beautiful. Genetics are funny.