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• As AI reshapes how stories are created and consumed, Hollywood faces an existential question: Can it stay culturally central or is it being overtaken?• Startups like Luma and Moonvalley are pushing the boundaries of AI-native filmmaking, while legacy studios scramble to adapt.• Depending on how it’s used, AI could spark a creative rebirth or hasten Hollywood’s slide into irrelevance.• Across conversations with tech CEOs, studio executives and filmmakers, some foresee a renaissance. Others warn of a flood of cheap content and a “Black Mirror”-style future. At a Starbucks in downtown Culver City, Amit Jain pulls out his iPad Pro...

We returned home from a twenty one day vacation in the Philippines Thursday and I have a lot of photos and short videos I would like to edit and compose into a story.

I’m here to announce that we are not a nation of scholars. Good lord, we’re barely literate. It’s a wonder that more of us don’t walk around with our knuckles dragging on the ground. And it’s about time that high school counselors and all the rest of us quit pretending that every 17 and 18 year old squirt should be shoehorned into colleges and universities. Probably half, maybe three-quarters of the kids wandering around the Groves of Academe have no legitimate reason to be there. Of course I realize that in order for those youngsters to be out in the...