James Easton

BLOOD STONE Carolina Carrasco 2 A story of power and revenge amazon.co.uk/Blood-Stone-pu… #writingcommunity #movies

AI: a bit too much explanation in this line of dialogue Writer: well this is one character explaining something to another character AI: that’s great push back And they say these tools will replace editors.

@adrianmckinty Very much in the French jailbreak tradition.

What wd you do if your bank robber boyfriend got arrested? If you’re mild mannered Sydney librarian Lucy Dudko you hijack a helicopter at gunpoint, land it in the prison exercise yard, break him the f out and go on the run in the bush C’mon Hollywood 👇

@mamboitaliano__ And here we are discussing it on social media.

🚨 And here it is: the tragedy of our time in a single frame This is what social media and “influencer culture” have done The Gate of Heaven, Lake Como, Varenna, Italy 🇮🇹 A line so absurd you’d think it’s the last restroom on earth Make it make sense

In the last month I’ve had several people send me “their” writing work only to realise on reading it’s AI prose Every time I’ve started reading with interest, only to realise and feel queasy. Like biting into what looks like juicy steak, and finding it’s made of plasticine 🤢

@wartirnes Another NATO partner on the front lines

Italian "Folgore" Paratroopers in Heavy Firefight – Afghanistan Rare combat footage shows paratroopers from Italy’s elite “Folgore” (Lightning) Brigade engaged in a direct firefight with Taliban forces during their deployment as part of ISAF. The Folgore Brigade operated in Regional Command West (Herat, Badghis, Farah, and Ghor) during their rotations in 2009 and 2011. Over the entire 20-year mission, Italy deployed 50,000 troops, lost 53, and had more than 700 wounded.

@Scaramucci You value it in $ you wally

Bitcoin got us to $126,000. So now we feel terrible at $72,000. But here's the thing — you own Bitcoin. I owned one Bitcoin before the rally. I owned one Bitcoin during the bear market. Same Bitcoin. Different feelings. The asset didn't change. The price did. Nothing stops this train. @scottmelker

@FutureInclined @ratlpolicy I thought the same thing about War and Peace. You only need the title for that one.

@ratlpolicy 50% of Moby Dick could be removed without effecting the story or the philosophical arguments. A lot of older books are actually shit by modern standards.

This may come across as harsh, but if you can't read 100 pages in a week, you shouldn't be in college.

@TimurNegru Had a dip today actually #mallorca

Missed my morning walk but did go for an evening swim. Anyone else brave enough to go into the Mediterranean at this time of the year?

@eliotpeper There is a full circle thing here. My daughter has rediscovered books and says they’re better than anything.

Walk. Read books. Watch movies instead of reels and albums instead of singles. Spend full weekends with friends instead of just going to dinner. The world is deep, and there are patterns that are only revealed with time.

@thealepalombo I love your output but must we cover everything?!

This is Camogli, about 30 minutes from Genoa. Liguria, Italy, is so underrated. What are other underrated places in Italy that would deserve more coverage?

@dioscuri I’ve eaten some total crap in America.

Europeans like to scoff at American gluttony, but an underrated factor in the US obesity crisis is that American food is just unreasonably good. Not fine dining specifically, but the average sports bar or taqueria or diner food is just much tastier than typical Euro equivalents

I see no signs at all that AI can write as well as human writers whose work is strong.

@annbauerwriter My guess would be nobody really read it before the buying trigger got pulled. Then someone did and, Oh….

In fact, no. The standards of traditional publishing fell to the point where they brought out a crappy AI book. Very different.

Keep writing folks. Ignore the AI doom peddling.

@FinanceLancelot Don’t be silly

Hollywood is so done.

@r0ck3t23 Just pap

Eric Weinstein spent his career warning that the institutions holding civilization together were more fragile than anyone admitted. Most people ignored him. They’re not ignoring him now. Weinstein: “Get your board in the water and prepare to paddle like all get out. The tsunami of a lifetime is coming, and nothing your elders have seen is going to prepare you.” Not metaphor. Warning. Every piece of advice inherited from the generation before assumes a world where expertise compounds over time. Learn a skill. Master it. Trade it for stability. That contract is broken. Weinstein: “There’s no good advice to give that’s specific.” The landscape shifts faster than advice stays relevant. There is no specific playbook because the game changes before the ink dries. Weinstein: “Every occupation that is named is over. I’m gonna be a dentist, radiologist, accountant, teacher. These are all over.” Not hyperbole. A precise description of what’s happening to economic structures that took centuries to build. The specialist is dying. The single-track career is over. The lifelong path to security that previous generations handed down as gospel has been washed away faster than anyone modeled. Weinstein: “Every place is over. I’m moving to Austin. It’s over. Miami, it’s over. Nashville, over.” No geographic escape. No safe harbor. The wave is not regional. Weinstein: “Whatever is coming, get flexible. Get good on a bunch of different stuff. Learn how to think across disciplines.” That’s the entire playbook. Not a specialty. Not a credential. Range. The ability to think at the intersection of things rather than deep inside one of them. The moat of the single-track career is gone. What survives is adaptability. Weinstein: “I have no idea what’s gonna be left for us.” Brutal honesty from someone who has spent his life thinking further ahead than most. Even he can’t see the other side of this. Weinstein: “Somebody’s gonna come out on top. And I hate to tell people that you should try to come out on top.” Competition intensifying to inhuman levels. Weinstein: “I don’t think it’s healthy to have everyone trying to be world-class. I think you should be able to just have a life.” The new era demands multidisciplinary excellence just to stay viable. Constant reinvention as a survival requirement. An unnatural state that a healthy society shouldn’t impose on ordinary people. Most people don’t want to be world-class. They want stability. Meaning. The simple security of knowing their contribution matters. The technology doesn’t care about that. It optimizes anyway. Weinstein: “I don’t know that it’s the greatest golden retriever in the world. Sometimes I think it is, but he does a lot of dumb stuff. But he’s my golden retriever.” In an era demanding perfection, what endures is imperfect connection. Being loved despite not being optimal. That’s what machines cannot replicate and what we’re most at risk of losing. Most people are still looking for the safe harbor. There isn’t one. There’s only the board and the water and how hard you’re willing to paddle.

If anyone wants to teach me Polish online let me know and we can talk.

@DimEvangs @chess_feed Rh6+ Qh5#

White to move, mate in 2!

@MarioNawfal The more are three Tier One teams. Two are American.

🇺🇸 INTERVIEW: THE MAN WHO SHOT BIN LADEN SPEAKS ON THE CAPTURE OF MADURO There’s two elite forces in the world: Delta Force and Seal Team Six. Seal Team Six was behind the operation to take out bin Laden, and Delta Force is the one that captured Maduro. I spoke to the man who shot bin Laden to get his take and analysis on the capture of Maduro What went into planning? How did they take out the air defense systems? How could such an operation have no casualties? Did someone betray Maduro? Was there a stand down order? I also asked him broader questions on the capabilities of Delta Force/Seal Team 6. How do they compare to other special forces? What makes them so capable? And how difficult would it be to capture or kill other leaders, including Iran’s Supreme Leader. I hope you enjoy the conversation.

I’m a Marine Corp veteran, trained by LEOs when I served in US embassies on how to handle unruly individuals or protestors. 1) If you are the guys with guns, you are the ones responsible for the situation. Doubly so if you outnumber the person you’re engaging. 2) You do not need to use force except to control the situation in order to deescalate it. Minimal force required. 3) You are NOT here to look for excuses to use more force. Even if the person gives you an excuse which “justifies” using force, that doesn’t mean using force is de facto the right move. 4) “Let the other person retreat” often resolves the situation just fine! Don’t surround people, back them up against a wall, etc. Your job is to control the situation. “I put myself stupidly in danger” is not an excuse to escalate “because I’m in danger.” 5) People will feed off of your energy. If you come rolling up like a fascist thug ready to break skulls, people will meet you at that level. If you show up calm, professional, and having a friendly chat, often that brings the temperature down. Everything I see from ICE agents is they are relishing violence and exercising power, needlessly escalating situations, looking for opportunities to shoot their weapons and beat the shit out of people.