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Jasper J. Jaspers
Jasper J. Jaspers
@jaspers47.bsky.social
Trying to reclaim the number 47. It's not going well. Mostly movie opinions and lefty snark https://letterboxd.com/ajaspers47/
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Step right up folks, see the human geek. Two bits a gander. God's cruelest mistake. So horrifying, you'll forget you're supposed to hate James Franco.
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
Step 1: Create a network of LLMs and Image Generators Step 2: Lobby congress for Kafkaesque roadblocks to adult websites Step 3: Convince the world data centers are a trillion dollar necessity Final step: Own a smut empire the likes of which Larry Flynt could never have dreamed of.
the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
Down at the ol' general store, townfolk gather on the stoop after sundown, either resting a spell in a nice rocking chair, or circle 'round the pickle barrel for a game of checkers, all while listening to pop-country on Hank's bluetooth speaker.
This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.
Your reminder that fantasy films can look like literally anything, not just medeival Europe
EXCLUSIVE 🪩 Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is a rock inspired fantasy nodding to David Bowie and The Who. “Narnia is literally a world made out of music,” she tells Empire. “And rock ’n’ roll to me felt like a world made out of music.” Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
Uh-oh, my aunt* in Boulder is going to use this as leverage† to get me to visit. * pronounced like the insect † two syllables mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
This is something I've noticed with increasing frequency: Anyone can direct a bad movie. There are lots of reasons why things go south. Instead, a bad director is someone who makes a good movie and then spends the next decade making you feel like a fool for liking it so much.
The film, which stars Johnny Depp, will try to find the "gray area" in A Christmas Carol. www.avclub.com/scrooge-gray...
Means, motive and opportunity are all right there for all to see. No doubts there. The question is instead, is crime illegal?
Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy. It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-sa...
Cavalier types will be quick to excuse themselves with claims like "it's not a perfect solution" or "we need to address the root causes of the issue" But really, these guys will never help their communities because they have no community. The closest thing they had was Little St James.
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
Steer half the people towards the inappropriate relation, steer the other half towards her clearly toting around a diaper bag. Make it so defenders never know which argument to be focusing on.
The Natalie Harp outrage might be the biggest and fastest right wing freakout since Charlie Kirk. Someone clearly does not want mainstream normie attention on Trump's relationship with her. Or they're all competing with each other to see who can cape the hardest and get some tee time with the Boss.
Clear takeaways: - All art is a labor of love - Always challenge yourself - Children deserve quality media Lesser takeaways: - The 1950s were a really boring time to be a kid - Publishers will always screw you - Don't write a book about novelty food. You will have to eat it forever.
(Tournament announcer voice) In this corner! The youth of America! Who decide what trends live and die with their disposal income and influence as they enter the work force! And in this corner! Billionaires! Who have burnt their goodwill, survive on bailouts, & haven't had a good idea in 15 years!
The amazing thing about this is that Zuck is talking about chatbots as a way to capture a younger audience for his graying platforms. Kids *hate* chatbots. My 18 year old and her friends use "that's so AI" as a pejorative to dismiss anything distasteful or ugly: futurism.com/artificial-i... 35/
Tournament of all the things from the past decade we thought were jokes that turned out to be deathly serious: this doesn't even make the quarter-finals. It gets knocked out alongside La La Land's BP Oscar.
Count Binface must be shitting his pants rn at the remote prospect he might actually win like imagine you created this novelty character for some good satire and then reality is surreal enough that you may actually be required to govern
A cynical me thought for a moment this would just lead to more unboxing haul and AI meme TikToks. But then I realized: What would TikTok look like if creators made videos they actually wanted to make because maximum engagement wasn't a financial imperative?
From ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.
Solutions? I mean, apart from permanently shutting down the nation's power grid? Well, historically, our nation trying to fix its rot from the outside in doesn't work (prohibition, war on drugs, etc). Sadly, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
Solutions? I mean, apart from permanently shutting down the nation's power grid? Well, historically, our nation trying to fix its rot from the outside in doesn't work (prohibition, war on drugs, etc). Sadly, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
Offer a suggestion like this? You're revealing more than you think. Five bucks says this guy watched Ace Ventura or Austin Powers for the first time in twenty years and with all the hype and fanfare removed, realized they were just above average.
Comedy ages incredibly badly. I mean which 40+ year old comedy movies hold up? I can only think of a handful: Annie Hall. Some Like It Hot. Dr. Strangelove. Young Frankenstein. That’s about it. I like Philadelphia Story & It Happened One Night, but I doubt anyone under age 40 could tolerate these.
Offer a suggestion like this? You're revealing more than you think. Five bucks says this guy watched Ace Ventura or Austin Powers for the first time in twenty years and with all the hype and fanfare removed, realized they were just above average.
Comedy ages incredibly badly. I mean which 40+ year old comedy movies hold up? I can only think of a handful: Annie Hall. Some Like It Hot. Dr. Strangelove. Young Frankenstein. That’s about it. I like Philadelphia Story & It Happened One Night, but I doubt anyone under age 40 could tolerate these.