Scott Barber

Marshall law time again

@THR Alex Kurtzman owes us all an apology

Andy Weir Apologizes to Alex Kurtzman After Slamming His 'Star Trek' Shows hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/and…

@KTLA @MayorOfLA made it so we can’t have density near rail lines so whats the point

The L.A. Metro board of directors has unanimously approved a plan that will reshape how residents get around the city. ktla.com/news/local-new…

@Variety For the love of god please start making Star Trek for Star Trek fans again and retire Alex Kurtzman already

EXCLUSIVE: “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will end with its upcoming second season. The show failed to find a significant audience, not ranking on Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming viewership charts at any point during its 10-episode first season. wp.me/pc8uak-1lH3kQ

@RickCarusoLA My guy’s all about the pop ups

Downtown LA is in decline. It’s unconscionable. Here’s one way we can fix it.

@AP Books, comics, rock music, TV, now AI, such an old blame game. People like this were mentally unwell long before AI was even a thing.

A new lawsuit says Google’s Gemini chatbot fueled a man’s delusions and nearly pushed him to commit a violent event near Miami's airport before he killed himself. apnews.com/article/google…

@iris_seraphina The key isn’t just remembering tech change, it’s what happened during your developmental years. Xennials grew up analog and came of age digital. No other group experienced that sharp of a contrast while forming identity.

So interesting!! 🤔 I definitely fit in more with the #Xennials 🙌🏼

Attention wealthy dreamers: David Lynch’s house is for sale. Don’t buy another yacht. Buy this house. Turn it into a museum. Let us drink the coffee and watch rare art films in it 🙏🏼

@Variety Social media has destroyed everything

Sophie Turner worries about the new #HarryPotter child actors after social media "destroyed me on numerous occasions." She was 13 when she joined "Game of Thrones." "I just want to give them a hug and say, ‘Look, it’s going to be okay but don’t go anywhere near [social media]. Stay friends with your home friends, keep living at home with your family, make sure your parents are your chaperones’ — it’s so important to have that grounding adjacent to the big, crazy stuff that you do," Turner told Flaunt magazine. Read more here: variety.com/2025/tv/news/h…

@kirawontmiss its called Bell’s palsy. Its common and treatable with a steroid

Back in April Lil Nas X revealed he lost control of the right side of his face. It’s all starting to make sense now…

@Todd_Spence Just reminds me how digital technology still hasn’t caught up to film

For no reason at all Jon Hamm and Adam Scott recreated the SIMON & SIMON intro and it's glorious

@Nerdrotics Alien earth is great. Best alien since alien 3

Somebody call ICE. New Video Disney's Alien: Earth REVIEW youtu.be/IJZ-IKDWFLE?si…

@WSJ Sign one. You’re not in their house because you’re poor scum.

The quietly ultra-rich live with subtle indicators of affluence—and most aren’t actually that expensive. Here are five. 🔗: on.wsj.com/460UBjt

@gilsmelissa90 @AuronMacintyre @SydSteyerhart I’m guessing they have an endless drip of polictical propaganda falling into their brains

@scottxbarber @AuronMacintyre @SydSteyerhart Why is this so hard for people to understand?

The Ukrainian constitution allows Zelensky to suspend elections until the war is over but also keeps him from ending the war See how that works?

@sama Anyone else having trouble using project files in GPT-5?

Updates to ChatGPT: You can now choose between “Auto”, “Fast”, and “Thinking” for GPT-5. Most users will want Auto, but the additional control will be useful for some people. Rate limits are now 3,000 messages/week with GPT-5 Thinking, and then extra capacity on GPT-5 Thinking mini after that limit. Context limit for GPT-5 Thinking is 196k tokens. We may have to update rate limits over time depending on usage. 4o is back in the model picker for all paid users by default. If we ever do deprecate it, we will give plenty of notice. Paid users also now have a “Show additional models” toggle in ChatGPT web settings which will add models like o3, 4.1, and GPT-5 Thinking mini. 4.5 is only available to Pro users—it costs a lot of GPUs. We are working on an update to GPT-5’s personality which should feel warmer than the current personality but not as annoying (to most users) as GPT-4o. However, one learning for us from the past few days is we really just need to get to a world with more per-user customization of model personality.

@TheCinesthetic Tarantino’s still heartbroken Lynch called True Romance a Wild at Heart knockoff. He fell out with him and now refuses to watch Dune (2021) just because Lynch made the ‘84 version. That’s how deep the wound goes.

Denis Villeneuve when asked for his thoughts on Quentin Tarantino refusing to watch his ‘DUNE’ films. “I don’t care”

@behrdz You did the right thing. It’s the only test that counts.

@sama That’s like 4 time traveling delorians worth

we have signed a deal for an additional 4.5 gigawatts of capacity with oracle as part of stargate. easy to throw around numbers, but this is a _gigantic_ infrastructure project. some progress photos from abilene:

@_NotAmericanDad @TrumpDailyPosts So he was right about there being an Epstein list?

@TrumpDailyPosts Merica!

Donald J. Trump Truth Social 07.16.25 07:28 PM EST To the Law abiding, Tax paying, Hardworking Citizens of the United States of America, I am thrilled to announce that I have officially freed you from funding California’s disastrously overpriced, “HIGH SPEED TRAIN TO NOWHERE.” This boondoggle, led by the incompetent Governor of California, Gavin Newscum, has cost Taxpayers Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we have received NOTHING in return except Cost Overruns. The Railroad we were promised still does not exist, and never will. This project was Severely Overpriced, Overregulated, and NEVER DELIVERED. Thanks to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, not a SINGLE penny in Federal Dollars will go towards this Newscum SCAM ever again. This was an ill-conceived and unnecessary project, and a total waste of Taxpayer money — But no more!

@sama Giving out the weights is very bad. Don’t do it to appease some small group of people or prove something.

we planned to launch our open-weight model next week. we are delaying it; we need time to run additional safety tests and review high-risk areas. we are not yet sure how long it will take us. while we trust the community will build great things with this model, once weights are out, they can’t be pulled back. this is new for us and we want to get it right. sorry to be the bearer of bad news; we are working super hard!