Thanks! If you’ll indulge me, I want to elaborate on one example that “offended” me because I’m worried my last comment came off as concern trolling. There’s an episode where Larry dates a single mother to a child she says has autism. Larry suspects the child does not actually have autism, and is just rude. I am very…

There are two episodes where he uses the N-word. In one, he’s helping a rapper come up with lyrics. In the other, he’s repeating what a neo-Nazi said to him in the bathroom but someone overhears and gets angry at him, which leads to the final scene where he has to again repeat what the Neo-Nazi said, but instead of…

Because that’s how book tours work.

“The Rebels in Star Wars are the Viet Cong”

No weekend box office article for this week?

I would be incredibly surprised if there were people who watched Curb Your Enthusiasm and concluded that Larry David is who everyone thought Jerry Seinfeld was while watching Seinfeld. I guess time is a flat circle and it’s easy to lose context when you watch things after they originally aired, but the premise of Curb…

It was.

Whatever’s grinding Seinfeld’s gears, I don’t think it’s the death of the network sitcom. Someone else suggested that he’s upset that Michael Richards lost his career, and I think that might be the right track. Not Richards specifically (he seems very at peace with what happened and has made it clear that he’s not…

The consequences apparently include a $56 million opening. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/will-smith-bad-boys-4-box-office-opening-victory-1235918123/

Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James, and two more people.

I like how the “only at Cinemark” caption on the video implies Will Smith watches movies with the audience at Cinemark theaters. Maybe that’s how they’ll lure audiences back to the theater.

Don’t worry, champ. People aren’t going to college because it’s becoming increasingly unaffordable. In fact, OnlyFans is probably responsible for paying a few people’s way through college.

Climate change has really made those unnecessary.

Even when they’re sold for a reasonable price, the ticket buying experience is completely miserable. You’re competing with bots that immediately turn around and scalp the tickets for a grossly inflated price and if you manage to nab one, the service fees can add $100+ to the price that was advertised. It’s such an…

To make people mad.

Is that in the movie? Because most people haven’t read the comics.

Sure. I don’t think any useful or sustainable deep learning tools or projects are going to come from any corporation for the reason you point out. That’s why while I’m excited for the technology and developments in general and love talking about it in the abstract, I don’t care for or use any of the products that have…

Well, name calling isn’t whining either, but that’s between you two.

I meant AI generated asset as in elements of the final film itself, whether it’s a piece of music, a visual effect, an establishing shot, etc. 

It sucks that any discussion about it devolves pretty quickly into outrage and other really strong emotions, because yeah, it stops us from having those discussions - discussions we need to have because the technology has arrived and isn’t going to go away - and because it makes people really irrational.