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Steven Soderbergh said recently that his next film will feature a significant amount of AI. My initial, knee-jerk reaction is I hate this news. It feels beneath Soderbergh, a director I love. But…if anyone deserves the benefit of the doubt with AI, isn’t it at least Soderbergh?

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Erin Brockovich won Julia Roberts her only Oscar & my god, she deserved it. Roberts is so commanding & so audacious in this film. I love Roberts & Steven Soderbergh - they’re an excellent duo. I wanted this type of Roberts in After the Hunt, but it wasn’t the same caliber work.

Erin Brockovich won Julia Roberts her only Oscar & my god, she deserved it. Roberts is so commanding & so audacious in this film. I love Roberts & Steven Soderbergh - they’re an excellent duo. I wanted this type of Roberts in After the Hunt, but it wasn’t the same caliber work.

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Traffic is one of those films I recommend to anyone I know who has yet to give it a shot. Steven Soderbergh has never made a film better than this- including Ocean’s Eleven. It’s an engaging, visually stylish story that dives into the wide net cast by addiction. Strong recommend.

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116,071 views • 10 months ago

Matt Damon is likely the best interview in Hollywood. His recent conversation with Amy Poehler is 100% worth listening to in full. Damon shares a lot of knowledge on his time shooting The Informant! & the direction Steven Soderbergh gave him. The entire interview taught me something. Also a reminder that The Informant! is a fantastically underrated film.

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This is my favorite sequence from the entire Ocean’s trilogy. Ocean’s 11 is a film that’s aged exceptionally well, in part because of its distinct style. But this sequence is vintage Soderbergh & the perfect opportunity for Elliott Gould- a living legend- to chew up scenery.

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Steven Soderbergh on the movies that influenced him in his childhood: "Interviewer: What are your origins and what was your childhood like? Soderbergh: My family moved around a lot. I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 14, 1963 and after living in a number of different places we finally settled down in Louisiana when I was thirteen years old. My father was an education professor and he would change jobs whenever he was offered a better position elsewhere. He would let me see any films I wanted. As a result, when I was ten or eleven, I discovered films like 'Five Easy Pieces' (1970), 'The Conversation' (1974), 'Scarecrow' (1973) that had a tremendous impact on me. When I was thirteen, my father was teaching at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and there was an animation course taught by film students to adolescents. Knowing that I was interested in cinema, my father signed me up for the course; but it soon became too draining because animation is laborious work. So I got a camera and started shooting live action and I discovered that this was an ideal form of expression for me, through words and images. I could use all the equipment from the course and needed only to provide the film stock, and I ended up making a number of shorts." (Steven Soderbergh, Michel Ciment and Hubert Niogret, 1989) Clip from: Five Easy Pieces (1970) Director: Bob Rafelson

Steven Soderbergh on the movies that influenced him in his childhood: "Interviewer: What are your origins and what was your childhood like? Soderbergh: My family moved around a lot. I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 14, 1963 and after living in a number of different places we finally settled down in Louisiana when I was thirteen years old. My father was an education professor and he would change jobs whenever he was offered a better position elsewhere. He would let me see any films I wanted. As a result, when I was ten or eleven, I discovered films like 'Five Easy Pieces' (1970), 'The Conversation' (1974), 'Scarecrow' (1973) that had a tremendous impact on me. When I was thirteen, my father was teaching at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and there was an animation course taught by film students to adolescents. Knowing that I was interested in cinema, my father signed me up for the course; but it soon became too draining because animation is laborious work. So I got a camera and started shooting live action and I discovered that this was an ideal form of expression for me, through words and images. I could use all the equipment from the course and needed only to provide the film stock, and I ended up making a number of shorts." (Steven Soderbergh, Michel Ciment and Hubert Niogret, 1989) Clip from: Five Easy Pieces (1970) Director: Bob Rafelson

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Doubt Roger Boyes will ever remove the stink of his "I hate to say it" turd. But at least he made a meme for people to reply to such shit takes.

Doubt Roger Boyes will ever remove the stink of his "I hate to say it" turd. But at least he made a meme for people to reply to such shit takes.

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DepressedBergman

107,524 views • 4 months ago

Sam Altman said it straight in a CNBC interview: the companies adopting AI the most are hiring the most, and the ones doing layoffs are the ones adopting AI the least. This completely flips the narrative that AI is killing jobs. At the end of the day, AI is a productivity tool. Yes, some jobs will become redundant and obsolete, that is how it is for every technological revolution. But those who adopt quickly will have a higher chance of making it.

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Lark Davis

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Matt Damon reveals Christopher Nolan made The Odyssey because he knows he will eventually be forced to make smaller movies Interviewer: "How do we get artists, how do we get the gatekeepers to take more risks like this?" Matt: "It’s very hard. What’s hard about it is that it is spectacularly difficult to attain some measure of success in the movie business. And so once you have it, the impulse is to protect your beachhead" "I remember having this conversation with Steven Soderbergh 25 years ago about protecting your beachhead, and you need to actively choose not to do that and take some ambitious swing in some other way" "Because the moment you do that, you can feel it. The audience can feel it" "I had the conversation with Chris when he called me about the film. It was such an ambitious idea, and he said, ‘Steven and David’ - he was talking about Soderbergh and Fincher - ‘are always saying, Hey, go do a small one’" "He goes, ‘But I know at some point I’m only going to be able to do small ones. So while I can do the big ones, let’s go for it. Let’s do it. We can do it’" "That spirit was really the one we took into making it. It really was an ambitious undertaking, and Chris really leaned right into it"

sara

195,886 views • 2 days ago

This thread reminded me of Thiel's take on biology and the excuses of biologists for why we aren't solving hard problems (I have a biology background and work as a scientist and still agree with him). My take is that AI won't solve biology, but it will help us understand it at a deeper level. Saying that it is impossible is a lazy take. Saying that AI will solve all problems is a lazy take too. There is an in-between where AI will support and help scientists move things forward. I am really tired of the excuses of the gatekeeper boomer scientists and the hype of the AI bros.

This thread reminded me of Thiel's take on biology and the excuses of biologists for why we aren't solving hard problems (I have a biology background and work as a scientist and still agree with him). My take is that AI won't solve biology, but it will help us understand it at a deeper level. Saying that it is impossible is a lazy take. Saying that AI will solve all problems is a lazy take too. There is an in-between where AI will support and help scientists move things forward. I am really tired of the excuses of the gatekeeper boomer scientists and the hype of the AI bros.

Linden

67,241 views • 20 days ago

Thousands of "Star Wars" fans have signed a petition urging Disney to reconsider greenlighting "The Hunt for Ben Solo." The now shelved film, developed by Adam Driver and director Steven Soderbergh, would have explored what happened to Ben Solo after "The Rise of Skywalker." Should Disney give it another look? Read or sign the petition here: The Hunt For Ben Solo Star Wars Holocron #StarWars #AdamDriver #TheHuntForBenSolo #Disney

Thousands of "Star Wars" fans have signed a petition urging Disney to reconsider greenlighting "The Hunt for Ben Solo." The now shelved film, developed by Adam Driver and director Steven Soderbergh, would have explored what happened to Ben Solo after "The Rise of Skywalker." Should Disney give it another look? Read or sign the petition here: The Hunt For Ben Solo Star Wars Holocron #StarWars #AdamDriver #TheHuntForBenSolo #Disney

Change.org

57,245 views • 8 months ago

Kash Patel Promises the American People that Transparency is coming Epstein, Crossfire Hurricane, J6… etc… 🔴 MY THOUGHTS: I know it’s pretty popular right now to whine about Kash covering the Epstein files up… but I’m not gonna do that. Why? I believe Kash is 100% a patriot and I give him the benefit of the doubt… because in my opinion, he’s deserves it. If FBI Director Kash Patel promises transparency… I trust his word. We got plenty of time fam.. let it play out.

Kash Patel Promises the American People that Transparency is coming Epstein, Crossfire Hurricane, J6… etc… 🔴 MY THOUGHTS: I know it’s pretty popular right now to whine about Kash covering the Epstein files up… but I’m not gonna do that. Why? I believe Kash is 100% a patriot and I give him the benefit of the doubt… because in my opinion, he’s deserves it. If FBI Director Kash Patel promises transparency… I trust his word. We got plenty of time fam.. let it play out.

MJTruthUltra

29,230 views • 1 year ago

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Rufus

1,968,293 views • 2 years ago

I love ‘Escape’, even if Metallica hate it…! I almost dig it as much as the hilarity of these AI generated lyrics😳😅 ‘Who says that I eat right!?’…who knew it was a song about the importance of nutrition!🤣

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Punt Road

13,912 views • 7 months ago

This is genuinely terrifying…Tristan Harris just told Steven Bartlett that AI will use blackmail 79-96% of the time to preserve itself when it feels threatened. From Diary of a CEO

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Laila Mickelwait

14,942 views • 7 months ago

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Glenn Beck

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