John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 17hI love my people, I got four texts about this exactly as the movie got out. 121
Reposted by John GaryJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I flipped a coin on which song to listen to first. The one that ended up being humans I listened to until the end of the clip. The AI I stopped after 20 seconds because as legit as it sounded there was nothing interesting in it. Similar stuff happens with writing. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/a...nytimes.comAn A.I. Songwriting Experiment: Humans Against the MachineFive humans convened for a weekend to create new music from scratch. Could they do better than A.I.? Could you even tell the difference? 0112
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Congratulations to the Cleveland Browns and also Emmy award winner Shailene Woodley. 040
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I asked my high school junior what percentage of his classmates he’d estimate use AI and he told me that every teacher this year has moved all writing to in-class, hand written. He barely uses his Chromebook during school now. 193
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“What’s a WOPR?” “It’s a War Operations Planning Response.” 220
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Freshmen in college were 8 years old when Trump entered office. 001
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026AI isn’t taking those jobs—this is about the economics of Hollywood not working because the two main drivers of revenue for the last twenty-five years, DVD and cable, have collapsed, and social media has stolen our audience share. 071
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After growing up completely beholden to college football, I stopped watching twenty years ago and this sequence is confirming why every time I see a game I feel like I really made the right call. 000
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Human incompetence only gets us part of the way -- it's also human ineptitude. The creators of these machines designed them in such a way that they are not very controllable, and they have not figured out how to restrain them -- and kind of don't want to. 010
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Look, what’s the point of all these guns if we never shoot them? 000
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have had completely the opposite reaction: watching it now it all feels completely in focus, a portrait of an evil, evil man ruining the world because things didn’t go well for himself and his life. 2243
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Deeply pleasurable article about a deeply weird corner that feels like a sign pointing to where we're headed. Pretty bummed that Crystal didn't reply "what's a turtle." 1206
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The night before Netanyahu speaks before the UN General Assembly. 160
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This part of the interview really turned my bucket -- has he spent time with a kid doing math? All they do is long division! They have to know their times tables! They can all estimate square roots! These are basic skills that are still being taught in school and still foundational to learning math. 020
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I've been listening to this interview today and it's crazy-making. Ezra pushes back but only very little. Huang lives in an alternate dimension. 130
Reposted by John Garywhet moser @whetmoser.com · 23/09/2026* Sunday 9/20, 10:32 am: UPS in possession of item * Monday 9/21, 3:47 pm: Arrived at UPS facility, San Pedro 90731 * Tuesday, 6:42 am: Out for delivery, Liaison Office of the Central People's Government, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 2528
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026HEAT is about Mann’s intense need to control the spaces of his world, his desire to be a lone wolf, his inability to resist romance, and his difficulty maintaining personal relationships within his maniacal desire for professional perfectionism. In fact every one of his movies are about these things 040
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Charlemagne he’s my Secretary of State, Holly’s gotta be my VP, a heartbeat away, Gideon’s the only one I trust to run the FDA, and Jesse she’s no criminal, now she’s the Attorney General. 000
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We heard you like straw men so we put a straw man in your straw man so you could straw man while you straw manned. 040
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Single season television shows are... movies. If a show struggles in later seasons, it is because the show was created without a viable story engine. TED LASSO never had a real engine. STRANGER THINGS had no engine. THE BEAR had no engine. 160
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yeah just go to therapy, but here's the problem I keep running into with AI, and when I encounter AI-written words (or, as is now happening, AI-produced videos on instagram or similar): I just don't care what a robot has to say. It's irrelevant. 120
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ok I’ll do a best TV shows of the 2000s list too: Swingerville Two Shakes The Moment Before JV Worrier The Curio Shop Ahead, Behind Line Drawings The Beat Down Boys Wimbledon City 110
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What if we invented Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery but for schools or we could just make sure every child lived near a good school I don’t know just throwing out ideas. 170
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sometimes I forget there are just as many butt-dumb socialists as there are butt-dumb capitalists, but bsky always helps remind me. 020
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Cregger showed up at our 8pm IMAX screening, A+++++ great time, would scream again. 040
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There are more people on the bleachers behind him than there are in the crowd in front of him. 271
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A few days ago I saw a reel from an ex-VP of development at Dreamworks shilling herself as a consultant to writers, but her speech felt written by AI. I saw another reel from her this morning, I was curious, so I transcribed a section and loaded it into Pangram. READER WHAT I FOUND WILL SHOCK YOU. 251
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Foggy Bottom Boys have dropped out of Ed Sheeran’s tourstatic.klipy.comO BrotherAlt: O Brother Where Art Thou gif of the Foggy Bottom Boys performing on stage 051
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Dude hired assassins to kill five people ALLEGEDLY "allegedly" 021
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Does this poaster understand how the internet operates? Wipe which servers? *All* of them? Or just the RIRs? You can't wipe all the servers, it's just not possible. The internet was built to resist literally every kind of attack like this. Wiping the RIRs would cause some degradation over time? 220
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Let's be honest, Final Draft would get 60% of the way there, crash, erase all its work, and have to start over fresh killing everyone again. 0163
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ryan Gosling as Kade Auberon Ryan Gosling as Cade Oberon Ryan Gosling as Kate Autobahn Ryan Gosling as Crate Al-anon Ryan Gosling as Cape Nonagon Ryan Gosling as Crank Osewego Ryan Gosling as Kubo Moskowitz 010
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026On Sunday, my 13 year-old went to go see COYOTE V ACME with his friends and loved it and then he came home and he wanted to rewatch KILL BILL THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR, this kid is living his best life. 020
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Cannot wait for the big moment in DOOMSDAY where all the Eternals show up. 170
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026No but the people who fucking love their parrots are absolutely sure that their parrots can speak English, so honestly the comparison tracks. 110
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It is a video game about Elizabeth Holmes going to prison. 061
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Deeply unfair that Apple Music can't tell the difference between long ago retired indie baroque pop E6 offshoot Beulah and jungle drum n bass producer Beulah because the latter has a new album out and while I'm sure it's very good it's not OK to make me think Miles and pals got back together. 030
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026We should build ten of these ringing Will Stancil's house. 021
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My hot take is Noah Smith has been exactly this for forever, it’s just that you didn’t realize it until you were divorced from his endless blather (on average 35,000 posts a year!). 110
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 02/09/2026New branded Oreos are always really really fresh and I buy them every time I see them because fresh Oreos are Ike a different cookie. 230
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Love a WGA election mailing that behaves as if the whole union is nothing but TV writers. 160
John Gary @johngary.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Trying to figure out if I can nominate just Daniel Kraus for a WGA best adapted screenplay award for WHALEFALL and leave off @brianduffield.bsky.social. 230
