Rolling up to a quinceanera today. Decided to bust out one of the Lansky Bros suits I picked up in Memphis.
It’s a scam, it’s always been a scam, and it is so absurdly transparent as a scam I’d be laughing my ass off if it weren’t DESTROYING EVERY INDUSTRY IN WHICH I WRITE.
OpenAI— the literal *Industry Leader* in LLM/GPT-style "AI"— can't afford to keep its lights on w/o massive outside investments, & even the people who could wring a 7+ figure salary out of their coffers are jumping ship in light of the for-profit direction. Seems… Pretty bad, for "AI" as an industry
Mira Murati, the chief technology officer, and two others are leaving as leaders including Sam Altman work to transform the start-up.
Watching BATTLEFIELD EARTH behind a very elderly couple who had come for the Travolta and definitely did not know what they were getting into.
My dad died late last year and the last movie we saw together in a theater was Oppenheimer. He was in rapidly failing health by then but he was enthralled with it from start to finish so maybe that’s going to end up being my most cherished movie memory
Watching Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter on a second date with my now-wife, and laughing our heads off as the vampire starts throwing horses at Lincoln during a stampede.
I had the entire theater to myself for Naked Lunch. I kept changing seats to confuse the projectionist.
Somewhere between July 9-14th, 1999, the AMC I used to work at in Tulsa received its canisters of The Blair Witch Project. My best friend ran the projectors and knew I wanted to see it. We had a private screening, just like, 10 people. I had been spoiled. But that movie broke my fright bone.
I saw American Beauty in the theater. I kissed a boy for the first time while the movie was rolling. 110F outside and we were in the cold blissful darkness. He was a bad kisser, but I was excited to be kissed. When the gun entered the frame, the power went off. They had to kick us out.
My freshman year in the dorms a bunch of us gathered to watch Princess Bride and there was this gal I liked but she had several potential suitors but she chose to sit next to me and we chatted and laughed through the whole movie and we've been married for 20 years next May.
What’s your best memory of watching a movie? I’m not asking what the best movie you’ve ever seen is, I’m asking about the experience of watching that movie. Doesn’t matter if it was in a theater or at home. What’s your favorite memory associated with watching a movie and why?