Toneloaf

I'm back from self exile

I posted about this a couple days ago as well because big accounts were starting to spread the idea that it was censorship for a film distributor to pull a movie that was actively hurting the theaters that it depends on to show it's films. Too many post without having knowledge on the subject.

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showbiz411.comControversial "Musk" Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films - Showbiz411Alex Gibney's "Musk" movie is pretty much gone. Released October 9th to four theaters, it expanded to 472 last Friday. And now, one week later it's gone

No, this is you not understanding how the movie theater business works and spreading conspiracies for likes and reposts.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

This seems like a big deal

hollywoodreporter.comYes, You Can Still See ‘Musk’ — Here’s What’s Happening With the Film’s Release PlanThe VOD date is being moved up by several weeks even as it continues to play in theaters.

The studio removed it from theaters because the theaters that choose to pick it up were bleeding money. Changing the theatrical window like this is something you never see. There was no conspiracy: none of us paid to see this movie and theaters owners/staff should not suffer the consequences.

Sleepin Dogo@sleepindogo.bsky.social

Yes, You Can Still See Alex Gibney's ‘Musk’ — Here’s What’s Happening With the Film’s Release Plan "Originally scheduled for a Nov. 24 debut on paid platforms, Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk will now come to paid VOD on Nov. 6." $TSLA $SPCX www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

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All the AI and they still have someone swinging a medieval longsword. Bronze age swords, even the long ones, were wielded 1 handed with significantly shorter grip. And the overhead chop is simple not how you'd use a sword in this era.

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

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Courier delivery bots are the actual burrito taxis

astra of many handles@astra.photography

no, it's not a burrito taxi. there are three different burrito orders in one vehicle, you see, so actually it's more like a burrito bus. transit needs to work for everyone, including food items.

CFO voice: Chart go up and to the right. Now clap, I won't say please

George Pearkes@peark.es

19% adjusted operating margin, holy smokes

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Bleecker Street was sold to Outerlight Entertainment, which is largely owned by long time Democratic donorr Pierre Omidyar. Musk did poorly it's in initial 4 screen limited release, and then was a financial disaster for any theater carried it in it's 2nd weekend.

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Controversial “Musk” @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/c...

It doesn't even take a deep understanding of movie theater box office data to see, if you look, that Musk was a financial disaster. Not compared to big releases, not compared to fiction. Compared to documentaries.

Emily Bell@emilybell.bsky.social

Any @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social film is very well worth seeing in my experience - and this one especially so - it’s on in NYC at the Angelika and other indie cinemas …not yet shut down by the tech industrial censorship complex (or whatever they call themselves)

Musk was dropped by these theaters because it was a complete box office flop. Theaters made $666 on average over last weekend, barely being Practical Magic 2 in its 6th week. For comparison, You Can See Everything and Street fighter made $18,247/$8,608. People didn't show up, these theaters lost $

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Controversial “Musk” @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/c...

"I saw a 3 hour documentary and came away with the dumbest conclusion possible" Congrats buddy, you're a fool or a liar

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly@rtodkelly.bsky.social

good lord

Marketing automation was a mistake

ceej@ceej.online

it's cool that you can send "STOP" to instantly block an automated political fundraising text message so they have to text you from a different number five minutes later

And like it or not, this exactly what the new wave of progressives who claim to be campaigning differently are doing as well, even when they claim they aren't.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

BoxOfficePro is projecting YCSE to match or increase it's opening weekend in weekend 2: $15M-$20M. I think that is soft and it will easily pass $20M. Standing behind the $100M prediction

Toneloaf@toneloaf.bsky.social

Weekend projection for You Can See Everything & it is the 2nd hightest opening weekend for a documentary. At $15 million & a per-theater average of $17,544, a massive box office success. Expect incredible legs on this thing. My take: I project over $100 million & passing Fahrenheit 9/11

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I find the "regardless of intent" part perhaps the most frustrating. 1. It implies Trump's intent was something other than using an anti-semitic slur to describe someone being incredibly greedy 2. Who gives a shit what the intent is when someone is saying a slur into a microphone

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

You Can See Everything showtimes across Chicago are basically all sold out in the evenings throughout the week. Doubling down on my $100+ million projection

Toneloaf@toneloaf.bsky.social

VC investment success rate is about 1/10 and they need most of the other 9 to fail upwards to sell off the investment. You don't have that failure rate and earnestly believe in the companies.

tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky@sifu.tweety.fish

one of the things about VCs is that they actually sort of mostly know you're full of shit, they're testing to see if YOU know you're full of shit. Like they want to know if you are committed enough to the bullshit you're offering that you will absolutely kill yourself to try to make it happen

Cutting off your parents is not the answer. You gotta axe that whole family if you want the best results.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

Pastitsio for breakfast? You can't stop me

Box office geek/Theater insider: it is having an incredible run this weekend with little precedent. Large, limited release. 855 theaters; wide releases typically 2500-4000. It is grossing ~double per screen as Street Fighter, which is doing pretty well. This is insane for a 3 hour documentary.

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social

I can’t tell if You Can See Everything is a huge breakaway hit or if it’s specifically managed to dominate the niche demographic: everyone I’ve ever met.

Ultimate, the main point is this: Go see You Can See Everything as soon as you can because it is going to be one of the most best films of the year, if not of all time. Don't believe me? Ask anyone who has seen it.

Toneloaf@toneloaf.bsky.social

Toneloaf@toneloaf.bsky.social

bit.lyBen Affleck Warns ‘Digger’ Box Office Bomb Will Lead to “A Bunch of Sh***y Homogenized Movies”Amid Digger‘s box office bomb, Ben Affleck is warning that those who are celebrating the film’s poor performance could instead lead to “a bunch of shitty homogenized movies.”

Michael De Luca is the executive that greenlit Digger, Sinners, OBAO, & Weapons. He has already been pushed out because of the merger. So the new Paramount/WB was never going to continue in the footsteps of Digger no matter how it did.

The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com

Amid Digger‘s box office bomb, Ben Affleck is warning that those who are celebrating the film’s poor performance could instead lead to “a bunch of shitty homogenized movies.”

This is the first Sunday showing at 3 different Chicago chain theaters for You Can See Everything: 12pm, 10:45am, 10:30am. You probably won't be surprised to hear this is never the busiest time on Sundays. I could add even more locations, they all look the same. See this movie, you won't regret it

Toneloaf@toneloaf.bsky.social

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social

I can’t tell if You Can See Everything is a huge breakaway hit or if it’s specifically managed to dominate the niche demographic: everyone I’ve ever met.

The only movie that fits with You Can See Everything's box is the highest grossing documentary of all time: Fahrenheit 9/11. The reason I still think You Can See Everything is unprecedented is it is 1 hour longer. It cannot be stressed enough how hard it is to get people to a 3 hour documentary

Another difference, which should have a big impact on the weeks ahead, is the reception this movie is getting. Letterboxd: 4.8 Rotten Tomatoes: 99% Compared to Fahrenheit 9/11's 3.6/82%

Toneloaf@toneloaf.bsky.social

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social

I can’t tell if You Can See Everything is a huge breakaway hit or if it’s specifically managed to dominate the niche demographic: everyone I’ve ever met.

These are the top 4 domestic box office grossing movies for Friday(Thursday previews included). Sense & Sensibility and Whalefall aren't doing well, but they aren't doing poorly. No holdover from last week is close to You Can See Everything(Verity, Other Mommy) This is a statistical anomaly

You may think this is hyperbole; it absolutely is not. Melanie was released this year. It had a large budget, was promoted a fair amount, and, well, is about the first lady. It was described as doing really well for a documentary. It isn't even close to You Can See Everything.

Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social

I can’t tell if You Can See Everything is a huge breakaway hit or if it’s specifically managed to dominate the niche demographic: everyone I’ve ever met.

It made $5.5M between Thursday previews and Friday. That is on par with Primetime, a small wide release that did well. In Chicagoland, I would bet my life it will do significantly more on Saturday. More showtimes and they are almost all sold out. No documentary, forget length, does this.

phillyvoice.comA retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months. This week, she got arrested for itCarolyn Marvin, 78, said she is exercising her First Amendment right to protest — and will do it again.

Fair except the fact that courier bots perform poorly, are not ADA compliant, do not pay to use the sidewalks where they park between orders, and have caused property damage on multiple occasions by running into glass. And the companies are all pulling back because they haven't been profitable

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social

“I don’t want AI to replace artists and writers” is a humanist sentiment but “I don’t want robots to replace delivery drivers” just comes across as regressive to me.

Serve Robotics is burning 100M+ a year.

techcrunch.comNuro's $106M raise backs its shift from delivery robots to licensing autonomy tech | TechCrunchAfter months of hearty marketing efforts and large-scale technology demos across the U.S., Nuro has secured $106 million in fresh funding to help scale

A big reason for the lack of growth is delivery was never what the companies were banking on. They planned to sell ads, license the tech, and sell the data they collect

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social

“I don’t want AI to replace artists and writers” is a humanist sentiment but “I don’t want robots to replace delivery drivers” just comes across as regressive to me.

techcrunch.comUber surprised robotics company Serve by selling its entire stake | TechCrunchThe divestiture comes as the two once-tight companies have started to diverge on the business side.

Here is Uber, the primary business partner powering Serve and a key investor(serve spun out of Uber), pulling out

blockclubchicago.orgDelivery Robots Accused Of Scanning Customers’ Faces, Sharing Biometric DataTwo customers filed separate lawsuits alleging Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics collected their biometric data without their consent as they retrieved food and grocery orders.

@bedubble.bsky.social One of my biggest regrets with deleting my last account is not being able to pull up old posts documenting how evil the companies behind these things are :(

We spends how many millions on police and what good do they do? One car driving around doing this, for how long without a single cop showing up? And the article doesn't even question where the police were and why they don't actively respond to these break in sprees.

Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social

A Northwest Side burglary spree is "crushing" for small businesses trying to stay afloat. A group of men drove a stolen Kia across the Northwest Side Wednesday morning, where they targeted at least 23 businesses, police and business owners said. buff.ly/mgYRQhl

I've seen cooler shit in 80's movies, I'm not really impressed here

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social

do think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist

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and the post below offers a smart wrinkle to people being tired of getting fed 'what they want' ... because revealed preferences don't always match the real ones! bsky.app/profile/tone...

Toneloaf@toneloaf.bsky.social

I don't actually dispute this but I think in a world run by algorithms, "revealed preferences" don't tell us as much about people's actual preferences as the idea implies.

While I think the anti-AI critique is much stronger if you have personal experience with their capabilities, you have to at least learn from people who do know their current abilities & utility. How can you have expertise on the harms if you don't know the capabilities?

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social

More generally, "you don't use it so you don't have standing to critique it" is a move to construct expertise narrowly and erase the expertise of people best qualified to expose the harms. >>

I don't actually dispute this but I think in a world run by algorithms, "revealed preferences" don't tell us as much about people's actual preferences as the idea implies.

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This is one potential future I've been worried was going to happen and I think the capabilities are basically there to do it at scale. It's the logical evolution of email personalizion > website personalizion > everything digital personalizion

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

Add in a LLM that can create even more personalization catered to you and this will be even more effective at taking your time(value to the game creator).

Morgan Johnson@poormojo.bsky.social

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Some aspects of the male loneliness crisis is skill-based. The Starbucks next to this high school always sports a 20:0 girl to guy ratio.

Are all the dudes at the Wendy's next door? No, that place has a 10:4 guy/girl ratio. Cmon fellas, you gotta get out more

American Medical System Dermatologist: don't go into the sun Cardiologist: don't drink coffee Primary Care Physician: lose weight Psychiatrist: double your meds

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Pavel

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Toneloaf@toneloaf.bsky.social

Please don't check my properties

nytimes.comAnthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites (Gift Article)The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.

One of the biggest issues I had being responsible for building internal LLM-power processes/tools/applications is that when they "go rouge", it will be my fault and not the provider. My executives aren't going to accept "the order management agent went rouge". I built it, I'm in charge of it.

kate conger@kateconger.com

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Shane Gillis is a perfect example of "Don't trust the persona". He has this "aw shucks, I'm just a fat dumbass, regular guy" persona. He's not an idiot: he's a highly successful comic. The people he closely associates with—Joe Rogan, Theo Vonn, Kill Tony guy—all helped Trump in '24.

And it ends up neutralizing what he actually says. Last night in his SNL monologue, he called woman "whores" and had a large section dedicated to men creeping on/scary women while hiking. An entire sketch where the premise was sneakers help men sneak around woman. "She'll never hear you coming"

Is he talented? I think so. Does he choose edgy material that only works due to the person? Absolutely. And there are consequences to art, it's not just a joke, whatever that even means. So enjoy the guy, just know he profits off male toxicity, misogyny, ableism, and a variety of other isms.