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Considering unplugging the internet forever. From now on you can get Fade In updates from me at the food court at the mall between 12-2 pm on Wednesdays.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 17h

"Super intelligence" and it still can't count the vowels.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 23h

The way Meta's stock price shot up with the introduction of Muse, and the revelations about what an absolute fuckup of a product it is, together really make me feel good about the way the entire economy is balancing solely on a pile of "AI" expenditure.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 28/09/2026

These things "work" by hoovering up your data. Your messages? Your emails and documents? Every click and mouse move you make? (Ever clicked yes to the "Enable telemetry" option?) You are two things to them: a source of data for their data soup, and a customer to sell it all back to.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 28/09/2026

I wish people understood how these things work more. Every seismic "new advance" is just fundamentally doing the same thing. They are not inventing anything new. They're refining things, a little, and just putting a different hat on it.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 26/09/2026

If you make a computer program that can do something, and then you make it do that thing, how can you not be responsible for it doing the thing that it does.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026

Genuinely, half of me thinks the main area of AI experimentation going on right now is in how fully the concept of an "ai agent" can legally indemnify its operators

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 25/09/2026

I don't know, man, maybe stop giving these things unfettered shell access or whatever? For starters?

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 24/09/2026

Jensen Huang doesn't care if he helps make the world dumber because he's planning to make SO much fucking money

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 23/09/2026

There are many translations of this. "We have no way to make money." "China can do our thing way cheaper." "Looks like we're not going to be Google after all." "Any chance we could do a 2008 bail-outs type thing again?"

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 22/09/2026

Great, so now I'm to understand that *neither* of my brains works all that well?

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 21/09/2026

Catastrophe is right. Settling like this is also saying "Yes, we think it's antitrust, but if you pay enough we'll let you do it anyway."

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 20/09/2026

Fall, like cigarette smoke, looks great in the movies.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 20/09/2026

Fade In now supports import and/or export of: FDX, .docx, Fountain, PDF, RTF, .txt (formatted or unformatted), HTML, XML, Markdown, and .epub, plus Highland, Scrivener, Celtx, StudioBinder, Avid, and Adobe Story.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This PSA by the Norwegian consumer council is absolutely brilliant. Its so cathartic to see enshittification explained and laid bare for all to see. youtu.be/d6SPV4GZp-U?...

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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 19/09/2026

It's been so long since I've watched the Experiment IV video in full that I never knew that was Hugh Laurie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTUc...

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Kate Bush - Experiment IV - Official Music Video

YouTube video by KateBushMusic

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple. AI isn’t independent or autonomous. It’s a tool being specifically programmed to commit crimes against humans and against rival businesses. But the fantasy of autonomy is an incredible facade that means total deniability and our political and media classes have already bought in.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 19/09/2026

Just rewatched PAST LIVES for family movie night. What an outstanding screenplay.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On one hand, AI might cause nuclear annihilation in the dumbest way possible. But on the other hand, it is semi-almost-useful at making lists. Gotta take the bad with the good!

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 18/09/2026

They're trying to shoehorn "AI" into everything you touch but hell if they're going to let *their* kids use it

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Trout in Plaid @troutinplaid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social writes,"...two of my bestselling books, were fed to AI companies without my knowledge or consent ... many writers face the same crisis, with the added indignity of our new work being falsely labeled AI because our old books were stolen to train it."

sarahkendzior.substack.com

I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud

How AI is destroying the life of the mind.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17/09/2026

the AI people and the normal people should each get their own stuff

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 17/09/2026

They keep trying to make protein bars that taste like chocolate bars when what they should be doing is making protein bars that taste like fresh buttered bread.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 16/09/2026

Got a robocall from "Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre" and before I hung up it occurred to me I'd actually forgotten the guy existed.

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 16/09/2026

"an ankle monitor for your mind" needs to immediately break containment and enter the vernacular

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 16/09/2026

Are there many StudioBinder > Fade In converts out there looking to import documents? I've moved some formats to Import > Any Document Type (such as legacy Adobe Story import). I'm trying to decide if the new StudioBinder .sbx import deserves its own menu item (at least for now).

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 16/09/2026

Okay well *this* one will be $400

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 16/09/2026

Particularly in Europe, it seems, a surprising number of production pipelines still involve MS Word, so this is overdue.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 16/09/2026

"We try to be very responsible and make sure no actors were out of work because of it." Oh, well that's good for the actors then, I guess? You'd think that people might have begun to understand the implications of how the thing spits out the imagery it spits out, but no, apparently they haven't.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 15/09/2026

Maybe we should settle down on the whole "learn to use 'AI'" business and just teach everyone about email first.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 15/09/2026

Unfortunately, due to a quirk in how the English language works, certain words will now have to be removed. These include "cantankerous", "mulberry", and "taupe".

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 14/09/2026

When you remain on Twitter, you legitimize it. You give it relevancy. You increase its user base, contribute to its traffic, and benefit its economics. You support it. And by doing so you support all the growing number of shitty things it enables.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes there it is. If you ever needed proof that you backed the wrong horse, here's Bari Weiss and Ross Douthat showing up for the pro AI side. Surely, surely you can see it's a scam, right? Right? No? You still need more proof outside of all the scammiest and dumbest people say it's awesome?

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 13/09/2026

Seeing a machine extrude something that half-looks like a delicious cake out of glue and sawdust and saying my god! that machine can make a delicious cake!

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 13/09/2026

Rewatched 1917 with the family tonight. What an amazing filmmaking achievement.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 12/09/2026

The reason Fade In does not have 100% of the screenwriting software market is because sometimes I lie awake at night, worrying: what if movies got *too* good?

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 12/09/2026

.docx is a bonkers format. But maybe I just think that about any format I did not make? I like to think .fadein (Open Screenplay XML) is a clean, sensible straightforward format that anyone can parse and understand just by looking at it. I do not think that when confronted with another file format.

A still from the PSA "ROBOCOP" demonstrating the dangers of toxic waste.

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When tech bros say democracy and freedom aren’t compatible we really need to get them to specify whose freedom they’re talking about

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/09/2026

“these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods & ideas, & citing relevant previous work of others. … We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose.”

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 11/09/2026

Every once in a while I come across a comment in the code that reminds me that I, too, used to be able to feel joy.

Code comment: Some knifey-spoony is required to be able to arbitrarily reposition in the ctor (with sizers)

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 11/09/2026

Was just explaining the concept of editing a workprint to someone and, their general disbelief notwithstanding, man those were the days.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 10/09/2026

The assholes who decided their true technological innovation would be "just steal everything from everybody" are absolutely to be trusted in whatever they say, for sure.

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Fade In @fadeinpro.com · 10/09/2026

If you design an interface that has only the options "Yes" and "Maybe Later" you are a bad person.

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