@andrewtodd.co.nz
NZ/Can writer/director, consultant, and recovering film/games critic (RIP BMD). NZ Writers Guild board member. 1/2 of Freak Development. Working on SPECTRUM, SO LONELY I COULD DIE, and others. Inspired by actual events.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Finally, Matt Berry is deployed doing the weirdly specific job he does best: reciting names of celebrities
Have begun watching STARGATE SG-1 at the behest of my partner. I’ve always been a Star Trek man, but it’s hard to deny this show has a pretty great story engine powering it
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
in the stripped club. straight up "jorking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My peanits
The 2023 time stamp on this canon post is incredible. This is a 2014 weird twitter post. It’s like discovering the living coelacanth
This utterly mystified me when I moved to New Zealand at prime thumb-war age
octavia butler, david cronenberg, and douglas adams are the three 20th century artists with the clearest read on the future we now begin to inhabit
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Text saying "You've read your last free article."
Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:
AI making it untenable to produce the information that AI relies upon in order to function
Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.
Two NZ cinemas made it onto the TimeOut 100 greatest cinemas list this year! Congrats to the Lumiere and Roxy (and also to the Astor and Sun over in Melbourne, both of which are great). Go see some movies
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
I once fought an X-wing pilot so hard I cried into Keanu Reeves' arms afterward
“I don’t use AI for creative work, just the grant applications”
As someone who reads grant applications, it’s extremely obvious when you do this, and it doesn’t engender confidence that you can actually do the creative work
I’d forgotten gaming! Mostly for that reason. Also my understanding is that PC games are so wildly unoptimised these days that it’s diminishing returns on top of diminishing returns
Realistically the only people who have needed to buy a new computer in the last decade (or maybe even longer) are people who didn't have one already, people doing advanced creative work, or people whose old computer broke down
Every Oscar-nominated film in the VFX category does something remarkable, whether it's CG characters, compositing, or simulations, but Avatar does all of that for nearly every element in nearly every shot, for three and a half hours. It's honestly embarrassing *for Avatar* that it's even competing.
They're gonna have billions of people install it and fucking hate it but still be data points in their "the people want AI!" narrative
It's so bittersweet watching world-class VFX artists discuss their innovative and brilliant VFX work on their Oscar-nominated movies, while they're burdened by the knowledge that Avatar 3 is probably gonna take the statue (and deserve it)
And Movie Man on Stanmore Road (which carried mostly VHS, and mostly pretty rare VHS at that, right up until it closed around the quakes) was a grubby little chip shop
My first job was at Video Ezy! I still vividly remember the guy who would come in weekly to ONLY rent porn and ONLY ever on VHS (this was like 2007)
Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.
This is an incredible piece of journalism that I can't recommend enough. It's further proof why you need to support independent media
There are some roles open for auditions but they are all youth roles (ie nothing suiting you or I). If you know someone though: courttheatre.org.nz/let-the-righ...
Putting together an audio mood board for my upcoming LET THE RIGHT ONE IN original score (for stage) and getting quite excited and daunted at the task
It's called Remember Me, directed by Jean-François Asselin, and it was 2013, 13 years ago, holy fuck
There was a short at Fantastic Fest a decade ago about a guy who feared he would die if no one was thinking about him, and he tries tactic after tactic before (iirc) ultimately landing on what we'd now describe as outrage bait as the most surefire way to stay alive
I think about that short a lot
Yessssss get that repost Andrew
The Internets are full of Sickos these days ...
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