I’m not a fan of AI and don’t have even the slightest clue as to how it works or why, but I hope Trump would prefer a raccoon be stapled to his forehead than help the whiney babies in Hollow Wood.
Years ago I tried to capture a raccoon and put him in a cage to transfer to the wild (he was terrorizing my cats and had to go elsewhere) - my sympathies are with you! They can be very nasty critters!
I don't care about the whiny babies in any way, but I do feel bad for the thousands of folks who do the actual work. The movies, I believe, was the first industry to be unionized. Health care and pensions. That, IMO, is for workers, not a drunk "movie star" thinking their opinion means more than anyone else's opinion.
This is exactly the sentiment of most people and the purpose of this specific psychological operation. The average working person is going to be significantly more affected than these celebrities, which is where the conversation needs to be.
The solution to the problem of AI is ultimately going to be a UBI (universal basic income) which as most of already know, will not be unconditional. This will naturally create two distinct classes of people to control: the "working class" and the "non-working class" or as the predator class like to call, "the useless eaters". The controllers of society know this and they are going to use this to tear us apart even further and to make us more controllable. The only way to stop this is to keep taking about it, so lets keep it up!
Cannot name one movie I would even slightly want to go out of my house to watch or even from my comfy chair at home. Nuthin’. No celeb trips my trigger. No talk show elicits a response. No designer gown impresses. No glass box soulless hovel of the rich cantilevered over the ocean turns my head. That place is dead to me.
I'm sorry in advance, but Idontknowwhy, I'm fascinated by Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington: maybe because of how they've reacted to questions on "the racial problem in America." Fascinated enough to check out DVDs of their older stuff from the tax-payer-supported state-wide library system anyway.
I don't visit the movie bawdy houses mostly because I figure public libraries' purchases of umpteenillion copies all across this fruited land has already paid for the production about a million times over. I feel like, with all that money spent, taxpayers own the damn things.
Needed clarification: I'm sorry for not boycotting shows unreservedly, not for being a fan of the two mentioned, who no doubt read this 'stack regularly too. And Mel Gibson. And you know the others.
I was a regular”Go to the movies” kind of gal. Mostly art house and independent films and the occasional Hollywood film.
I’ve tried to go back to the movie theater. For the past year or so I look at what’s showing at my neighborhood multiplex, on a regular basis, and there is absolutely nothing I want to see. The subject/content is absolutely pure dreck, as well as being so evil and demonic.
I did recently go see the Bob Dylan fictional bio-pic, “A Complete Unknown”. A film that was very well done, had great music, was nominated for several Academy Awards, and won absolutely nothing at this year’s “Oscars”.
Of course when you do go to the actual movie theatre you are still subjected to minutes of “trailers” for upcoming films prior to the film you are going to see. Every single one was about a film with very dark themes, whether it be present day or futuristic.
I had to close my eyes on most of them. I did not want those images imprinted in my psyche.
I was thinking AI movies might be an improvement on Hollywood’s movies. So predictable, with impossible twists, soul numbing profanity, gratuitous sex, and instructions in cruelty.
The letter would be better if it were from the regular working people in the industry, best boys, grips, etc. They’re the ones who will suffer the most when Hollywood withers.
Another thought though! How about making some good movies? Without progressive BS shoehorned in? I’ll give an idea for free, go read about the Abernathy brothers. The story is unbelievable and could be a fantastic, old school Hollywood movie.
FJ, you are right on target. Once upon a time, in America, the education system would have created a sea of people who understood enterprise and entrepreneurship well enough to see the withering of one vine as opportunity to plant another.
Your reference to the working people in the industry reminds us that the people who actually know how to MAKE movies are still there. I'll give another free idea that they should pool their resources to hire a few "idea hamsters" to get a plot and go make something they themselves would actually enjoy seeing and offer it as a what-could-be.
This is on purpose. Instead of focusing on how AI will greatly affect the average working class person, our attention is being drawn to multi-millionaires with multiple houses, cars, yachts, and airplanes that most people feel little sympathy for.
WOW!! Went and looked up the Abernathy brothers at your suggestion!! Fascinating!! So did you read the book, and recommend it?
My high-school-aged children use a curriculum for American History (Notgrass - excellent!) that includes 10 - 12 pieces of literature per year, to give a better understanding of the time being studied, and this book sounds like it should be included!
What’s wild is the timing. Trump’s pushing an AI Action Plan to keep the U.S. ahead of China, and just last week, OpenAI and Google submitted briefs basically saying, “Let us use whatever we want, copyright be damned—it’s for the greater good!” Meanwhile, these Hollywood A-listers, who’ve built careers on intellectual property, are clutching their Oscars and Grammys, begging the guy they’ve roasted for a decade to be their knight in shining armor. It’s like watching the Rebel Alliance ask the Emperor to fix their X-Wings.
Well...the tinsel town folk are all worried about death by AI..about AI stealing their precious creativity and royalties. They have no idea that ship has sailed. They have allowed political correctness, wokeness ideology and fear of original ideas to suck and mutilate any efforts of real creativity, of real invention at the box office. They have mocked half, or perhaps more than half their audience at award shows yet expect them to fill seats at movie theaters. No, their industry is a zombie corpse that few care about to look at. I feel for the few who have integrity and just want to write innovative scripts. Or act for not fame but for the love of acting and making real art. They should be lifted up by the discerning public and the rest can be eaten by the AI monster.
What I think we should see, is that your monologue gets to PDT, and then he reads it! Aloud! On camera! It would get ten bazillion hits, or whatever thy are referring to these days!
They only care about themselves as always. What they really want is another way to earn a penny off their boring, memorized lines, and to be paid for AI using their material to learn. This is step one of their “pay up suckers” campaign.
“We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” the open letter said.
(“Essential” bah hah hah hah How have I survived so long without them? Someone call 911!)
What they really mean is it should not come at the expense of “THEIR lifestyles”. Period.
They quickly added support for every industry under the sun but couldn’t care less about any of them when it risked exploiting other fields, even a doctor’s practice. Only when it tiptoed to their doorstep do they now suddenly care about everybody else too. Oh, and the gardeners, because God forbid you use AI to learn their secrets in cultivating tomatoes.
Just like "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" I have an invasion of a brain snatcher called Trump's voice and cadence. As soon as I started reading your Trump "reaction", he was magically there in my head, so magically, incredibly magically, like no other magic, his is the best kind of magic...oh no, he might just be in my head forever.
first impression: they don't really deserve 'saving' do they? I can't remember the last time I actually watched, let alone enjoyed a big Hollywood picture (Avatar maybe?)
celebs that left the country for political reasons? are you kidding me? how much more arrogant can these minimal talent phonies be? they really think they are THAT important and/or influential that they themselves might be some kind of target of the kind of persecution & cancelation that they put OTHERS thru? where ever you're living, Ellen and Rosie, I hope they have spas that offer covid boosters and marketing deals for crappy housewares made in China. wow, what patriots THEY are... not! hopefully most of their fans are not buying that crap (but who knows. I look at a cover of a People magazine and don't know who any of the celebs even are!)
love the snark, Jenna! so glad I found you to spice up my day with dripping sarcasm and biting humor. muwwwwwa!
I’m not a fan of AI and don’t have even the slightest clue as to how it works or why, but I hope Trump would prefer a raccoon be stapled to his forehead than help the whiney babies in Hollow Wood.
Hahaha epic image! ;)
Spit my coffee all over my table thank you very much 🤣🤣🤣
Was just dusting off my “hell no”s to come here and grumble, and just like that my mood changed to laughter and I can’t stop smiling. ❤️👍
When I speak in front of a large audience, instead of picturing them all naked, I will picture them all with raccoons stapled to their foreheads.
😂
🤣🤣hahahahahaha 👍
I HAD a racoon stapled to my forehead. Mock if you will, it was not pleasant.
Years ago I tried to capture a raccoon and put him in a cage to transfer to the wild (he was terrorizing my cats and had to go elsewhere) - my sympathies are with you! They can be very nasty critters!
I don't care about the whiny babies in any way, but I do feel bad for the thousands of folks who do the actual work. The movies, I believe, was the first industry to be unionized. Health care and pensions. That, IMO, is for workers, not a drunk "movie star" thinking their opinion means more than anyone else's opinion.
This is exactly the sentiment of most people and the purpose of this specific psychological operation. The average working person is going to be significantly more affected than these celebrities, which is where the conversation needs to be.
The solution to the problem of AI is ultimately going to be a UBI (universal basic income) which as most of already know, will not be unconditional. This will naturally create two distinct classes of people to control: the "working class" and the "non-working class" or as the predator class like to call, "the useless eaters". The controllers of society know this and they are going to use this to tear us apart even further and to make us more controllable. The only way to stop this is to keep taking about it, so lets keep it up!
Love love this
OMG...you win the internet for the day with that comment!
I'm picturing it - and ROFLMAO!! Thank you for the laughter, that's a GREAT image!!
Haven’t laughed this much in a very long time! Thanks for the laugh and the hilariously disgusting image!!
Leave them to wallow in their desperate misery, but I’ll encourage you to keep finding them new homes and Jahbs abroad.
Congratulations "Mary Ann Caton!" You have invented a "meme!" You are famemeous.
(https://jennasside.rocks/p/trump-wants-to-obliterate-the-department)
If you know, you know.
And now I'm inspired!
Your Trump monologue is spot on
It's PERFECT.
It was spot on! I even read it in his voice. "Yuge"
I don't think AI could do any worse than Hollywood does on its own...
Cannot name one movie I would even slightly want to go out of my house to watch or even from my comfy chair at home. Nuthin’. No celeb trips my trigger. No talk show elicits a response. No designer gown impresses. No glass box soulless hovel of the rich cantilevered over the ocean turns my head. That place is dead to me.
I'm sorry in advance, but Idontknowwhy, I'm fascinated by Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington: maybe because of how they've reacted to questions on "the racial problem in America." Fascinated enough to check out DVDs of their older stuff from the tax-payer-supported state-wide library system anyway.
I don't visit the movie bawdy houses mostly because I figure public libraries' purchases of umpteenillion copies all across this fruited land has already paid for the production about a million times over. I feel like, with all that money spent, taxpayers own the damn things.
Needed clarification: I'm sorry for not boycotting shows unreservedly, not for being a fan of the two mentioned, who no doubt read this 'stack regularly too. And Mel Gibson. And you know the others.
That’s just me. I take it back, I will watch the Shawshank Redemption as many times as necessary. Especially the end. 😀.
Janet, SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, YESTHANKYOU.
My dad once referred to it as the “Shimshaw Designation” and that been its name ever since in our family. Try it out. Thank me later.
Cocaine bear was a laugh, though 😉
(Who or what was “cocaine bear”?…just another slang name for the 80’s?)
I’ll give you that. 🤣.
I was a regular”Go to the movies” kind of gal. Mostly art house and independent films and the occasional Hollywood film.
I’ve tried to go back to the movie theater. For the past year or so I look at what’s showing at my neighborhood multiplex, on a regular basis, and there is absolutely nothing I want to see. The subject/content is absolutely pure dreck, as well as being so evil and demonic.
I did recently go see the Bob Dylan fictional bio-pic, “A Complete Unknown”. A film that was very well done, had great music, was nominated for several Academy Awards, and won absolutely nothing at this year’s “Oscars”.
Of course when you do go to the actual movie theatre you are still subjected to minutes of “trailers” for upcoming films prior to the film you are going to see. Every single one was about a film with very dark themes, whether it be present day or futuristic.
I had to close my eyes on most of them. I did not want those images imprinted in my psyche.
Hollywood's 40-year fascination with trope-plots is where they got the idea for AI in the first place.
Agree 💯 Can only go up.
I was thinking AI movies might be an improvement on Hollywood’s movies. So predictable, with impossible twists, soul numbing profanity, gratuitous sex, and instructions in cruelty.
🎯
The letter would be better if it were from the regular working people in the industry, best boys, grips, etc. They’re the ones who will suffer the most when Hollywood withers.
Another thought though! How about making some good movies? Without progressive BS shoehorned in? I’ll give an idea for free, go read about the Abernathy brothers. The story is unbelievable and could be a fantastic, old school Hollywood movie.
FJ, you are right on target. Once upon a time, in America, the education system would have created a sea of people who understood enterprise and entrepreneurship well enough to see the withering of one vine as opportunity to plant another.
Your reference to the working people in the industry reminds us that the people who actually know how to MAKE movies are still there. I'll give another free idea that they should pool their resources to hire a few "idea hamsters" to get a plot and go make something they themselves would actually enjoy seeing and offer it as a what-could-be.
This is on purpose. Instead of focusing on how AI will greatly affect the average working class person, our attention is being drawn to multi-millionaires with multiple houses, cars, yachts, and airplanes that most people feel little sympathy for.
I had to look them up. What a great movie that could be!
WOW!! Went and looked up the Abernathy brothers at your suggestion!! Fascinating!! So did you read the book, and recommend it?
My high-school-aged children use a curriculum for American History (Notgrass - excellent!) that includes 10 - 12 pieces of literature per year, to give a better understanding of the time being studied, and this book sounds like it should be included!
I have not read the book (Bud and Me), only read some articles about them online. I am now going to find it and read it!
For my part, I won't miss them.
One of the worst aspects of the culture war and the last election cycle was learning how many of them are just plain stupid. 🫤
Support local theatre!
Yes! Two thumbs up for local theatre. As AI becomes ubiquitous, we'll all be starved for REAL PEOPLE. (The playwright says, crossing her fingers.)
"What do you think about sycophantic celebrities suddenly sucking up to their preferred punching bag?"
I don't think of them.
I even read that in Trump voice! Great job with what you imagine he would be saying.
I had to read it out loud in my Trump voice 100 times to get it right 🤣
lol! Can you please record yourself doing this so we can all have a little peek into your creative workflow?
It IS perfect.
What’s wild is the timing. Trump’s pushing an AI Action Plan to keep the U.S. ahead of China, and just last week, OpenAI and Google submitted briefs basically saying, “Let us use whatever we want, copyright be damned—it’s for the greater good!” Meanwhile, these Hollywood A-listers, who’ve built careers on intellectual property, are clutching their Oscars and Grammys, begging the guy they’ve roasted for a decade to be their knight in shining armor. It’s like watching the Rebel Alliance ask the Emperor to fix their X-Wings.
Well...the tinsel town folk are all worried about death by AI..about AI stealing their precious creativity and royalties. They have no idea that ship has sailed. They have allowed political correctness, wokeness ideology and fear of original ideas to suck and mutilate any efforts of real creativity, of real invention at the box office. They have mocked half, or perhaps more than half their audience at award shows yet expect them to fill seats at movie theaters. No, their industry is a zombie corpse that few care about to look at. I feel for the few who have integrity and just want to write innovative scripts. Or act for not fame but for the love of acting and making real art. They should be lifted up by the discerning public and the rest can be eaten by the AI monster.
So well said, Kathleen!
F*ck em! Reap what you sow!
spot on
What I think we should see, is that your monologue gets to PDT, and then he reads it! Aloud! On camera! It would get ten bazillion hits, or whatever thy are referring to these days!
🙏🤣
Love it.
Exploiters eventually become the exploited, according to the headline;
“Ben Stiller, Aubrey Plaza Among More Than 400 Stars Who Urge Trump to Stop OpenAI’s Push to ‘Exploit’ Hollywood”
They only care about themselves as always. What they really want is another way to earn a penny off their boring, memorized lines, and to be paid for AI using their material to learn. This is step one of their “pay up suckers” campaign.
“We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” the open letter said.
(“Essential” bah hah hah hah How have I survived so long without them? Someone call 911!)
What they really mean is it should not come at the expense of “THEIR lifestyles”. Period.
They quickly added support for every industry under the sun but couldn’t care less about any of them when it risked exploiting other fields, even a doctor’s practice. Only when it tiptoed to their doorstep do they now suddenly care about everybody else too. Oh, and the gardeners, because God forbid you use AI to learn their secrets in cultivating tomatoes.
Hollywood likes the vaccines, maybe they can get phizer to design a safe and effective one for this issue as well
Brilliant. How about designing a mask they must wear on their faces for the rest of forever?
Just like "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" I have an invasion of a brain snatcher called Trump's voice and cadence. As soon as I started reading your Trump "reaction", he was magically there in my head, so magically, incredibly magically, like no other magic, his is the best kind of magic...oh no, he might just be in my head forever.
Also spot on!
I would like zero of my tax dollars used in that effort. Thank you very much.
first impression: they don't really deserve 'saving' do they? I can't remember the last time I actually watched, let alone enjoyed a big Hollywood picture (Avatar maybe?)
celebs that left the country for political reasons? are you kidding me? how much more arrogant can these minimal talent phonies be? they really think they are THAT important and/or influential that they themselves might be some kind of target of the kind of persecution & cancelation that they put OTHERS thru? where ever you're living, Ellen and Rosie, I hope they have spas that offer covid boosters and marketing deals for crappy housewares made in China. wow, what patriots THEY are... not! hopefully most of their fans are not buying that crap (but who knows. I look at a cover of a People magazine and don't know who any of the celebs even are!)
love the snark, Jenna! so glad I found you to spice up my day with dripping sarcasm and biting humor. muwwwwwa!