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ai films always feel like watching dream logic made flesh
it has the familiar contours of a movie with none of the actual cohesion. a real uncanny valley reaction in my gut
It’s here. The first AI feature film to screen in theatres. The first AI feature film by a female filmmaker.
Not a collection of shorts. A feature film.
Not a studio. One woman with a laptop.
Not a paid PR campaign. An organic social movement.
I didn’t just make a film. We made history. Together.
Because I never for a second thought this was about me. It’s much much bigger than me.
The era of waiting for permission is over. I’m living proof. And that makes some people mad.
Because there are no gatekeepers where there are no gates.
BOSS (2026). Coming soon to a theatre near you.
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Agents from OpenAI that were given data gathering tasks attempted to hack a Department of Education website and meddled with other gov't websites, new disclosures that are emerging as OpenAI continues an investigation into what its agents did this summer nytimes.com/2026/09/25/techn…
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The NYT confirms Haaretz's report that Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly warned before Oct. 7, 2023 by the Emirati president that Hamas planned a major attack, per 2 sources
The warning was not shared with Israeli security chiefs, per 5 ex-officials
nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world…
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i feel like i live in a waking fever dream.
i was watching piker play Cyberpunk on stream just few years ago and now he's a pivotal talking point on the floor of the general assembly
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good scoop and i think a smart buy for any of these companies — which is essentially buying a locked-in audience/fandom — but 300mm feels high for 15m in revenue and 30mm users
News -- among the handful of suitors who have expressed interest in acquiring Letterboxd: A24, Sony and....The New York Times Company! Bidding starts at $300 million. w/@LaurenSHirsch
nytimes.com/2026/09/24/busin…
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trying to think of any lawyer ive ever spoken to that would sign off on something like this and coming up short
"A California federal judge ordered Meta on Tuesday to rereview privilege designations on 300 documents in social media addiction litigation, after plaintiffs' lawyers cited a 'culture of privilege abuse' epitomized by Instagram swag hats embroidered with 'a/c priv'"
From Law360: law360.com/articles/2528578
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kids are brilliant at being online. put up fences and they'll find foxholes around em
(i, on the other hand, used to try and sneak alcohol out of the house in a logitech keyboard box which for some reason did not fool anyone in my household...)
Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code.
Hear the story: link.podtrac.com/phns92ui
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mark does a “one more thing” with a new hardware device — AI agent called “Muse Charm” that’s voice activated and palm sized
out in time for the holidays. maybe it’s about to be agentworld….?
(also conspicuously before OpenAI’s mystery hardware device)
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