David Slack

@slack2thefuture.bsky.social

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TV Writer - Person of Interest, Law & Order, Teen Titans, Jackie Chan Adventures, etc. Proud WGA Member. Pro-Democracy. Anti-Evil.

A poster for the upcoming SUPERGIRL movie with Milly Alcock as Supergirl with messy hair, sunglasses, and bomber jacket over her costume. In the lower right, there is the tagline: “Truth. Justice. Whatever.”
A screengrab of the impersonator profile which is identical to the real Laura Bassett’s profile except the username is @jessicadeleon181.bsky.social and the account has only three followers. Please block and report.
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.
Adam Kotsko’s amazing 2023 tweet — a poll asking people: What's your favorite tech innovation? Illegal cab company - 16% Illegal hotel chain - 17% Fake money for criminals - 32% Plagiarism machine - 35% (Adam is on Bluesky btw and you should follow him.)
Sean Connery in a furry Russian navy hat in the opening scene of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
A screengrab of an absolutely dead-on post by Jack @jackscarab.bsky.social "What trillion-dollar problem is Al trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
A Star Trek TOS title card made with the image generator where the title is “PAPER TOWELS!!!” from John Moe’s epic run on Old Twitter in which he mocked Bounty’s Twitter account so mercilessly that I nearly passed out.
A screengrab of a WSJ article with the headline “Elon Musk: I’ll Put a Man on Mars in 10 Years” but the timestamp at the bottom says “11 years ago” and now it’s been 16.
Screengrab of the tabs at the bottom of every Bluesky post, clearly showing the “Reply” icon: a right-pointing arrow that has been part of UIs since the dawn of the internet jesus why am I having to teach Steffen this basic stuff???
All along, Mr. Paxton kept getting richer. When he first won public office, he listed his assets as less than $200,000. Two decades later, on an annual state salary of about $150,000, he reported a net worth approaching $8 million with residential properties in Oklahoma, Florida, Utah and Hawaii. Mr. Paxton has been secretive about the source of his wealth, creating a blind trust and then failing for years to disclose to regulators the assets in that trust as required by state ethics rules.
A photo of a billboard in Los Angeles for terrified baby Spencer Pratt. Over a background of AI slop showing the city on fire and an oh-so-scared blonde woman in yoga wear running for her life with a stroller, we see the banner “SICK OF THE CHAOS? READY TO FEEL SAFE?” And under that: “VOTE FOR PRATT FOR LA MAYOR.” Spencer Pratt does not live in Los Angeles and had never held a real job. What are we even doing? Like, I mean, I’d *maybe* vote for Lo Bosworth. But fucking Spencer????
Jack @jackscarab.bsky.social "What trillion-dollar problem is Al trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
A BTS photo of me and Boris McGiver on set for POI 323 “Deus Ex Machina.” We’re both smiling. I’ll in a blue henley with a beard. Boris is in a suit with a bloody (fake) bullet hole in his white shirt.
A BTS photo of me and Amy Acker on set shooting POI 317 “/“. I’m absurdly bundled up in a brown Canada Goose jacket and Amy is smiling and gorgeous.
BTS footage of a stunt from PERSON OF INTEREST “Zero Day.” A camera car with a Russian arm leads the way as a black car drives down a road near a highway overpass. Then the back of the black car explodes, the car flips and travels 100 feet on its nose before crashing down upside down. Stunt Coordinator Jeff Gibson was driving and he was absolutely fine afterward.
A before and after photo of what my wonderful friend Boker was doing to the bone-shaped squeaky toys in just one 45 second take. On a blue cart, we see one intact toy on the left and a mangled pile of fluff on the right.
A picture of the country Denmark, which *very clearly* looks like an old hunched over Batman facing to the right.
A photo taken from a camera on the solar panel of the Artemis II Integrity spacecraft, showing the crescent moon in the foreground and in the distance a tiny sliver of the crescent Earth
A screengrab of a Tweet thread. @WhitmerThomas: When I was 5 the chef at Benihana kept tossing shrimp in my mouth and I threw up on the table and it cooked my throw up @seanoconnor: Did the chef at least turn it into a heart? @WhitmerThomas No they took me and my dad into a room away from every one and gave me ice cream while probably apologizing to my dad who I distinctly remember saying to the chef "cool it with the shrimp pal"
A video from Instagram of a man working in a Domino’s Pizza kitchen. He has a delivery bag on his head like a hat and lip syncs to Taylor Swift’s “Fate of Ophelia”, and then when the music swells, he puts the bag ALL THE WAY DOWN over his head so he can’t see and then SPINS THE PIZZA DOUGH like a goddamned pizza ninja it is so indescribably amazing that all I can say is if I tried to do it, we would be picking little bits of dough out of things for the rest of our lives but this guy fucking crushes the task and makes it look EASY.
A screengrab of Tyler’s post: Tyler, from the Int.. @tyler... • 2m What if we all, everywhere, just agreed to have no things happening anywhere, for like a month. Just for people to remember what it's like.
A screengrab of a Twitter poll by Adam Kotsko: What's your favorite tech innovation? Illegal cab company 16% Illegal hotel chain 17% Fake money for criminals 32% Plagiarism machine 35% 35%
A screengrab of a Wall Street Journal article with the headline: “Elon Musk: I’ll Put a Man on Mars in 10 years.” But then the date on the screengrab notes it was “11 years ago.” And this article is now 15 years old, because Elon Musk is a liar, a con artist, and a Nazi.
A screengrab of the author as one of the Cardinal’s Guards in the “Three Muttsketeers” episode of Wishbone. He wears a silly swooping hat, a huge curly hair band wig, a red cloak, and a think handlebar fake mustache that would pop off anytime you made him laugh.
Varmint, who is CLEARLY a dog (an orange and white chihuahua pommeranian mix to be specific) perched on a sofa cushion and staring blankly at camera — just like a motherfucking cat.
A screengrab of a Wall Street Journal story featuring a photo of Elon Musk with the headline “Elon Musk: I’ll Put a Man on Mars in 10 Years.” The article is dated “11 years ago.” This article is now almost 15 years old, and Elon Musk is still a Nazi con artist with a broken dick.
A screengrab of a Wall Street Journal story featuring a photo of Elon Musk with the headline “Elon Musk: I’ll Put a Man on Mars in 10 Years.” The article is dated “11 years ago.” This article is now almost 15 years old, and Elon Musk is still a Nazi con artist with a broken dick.
A TikTok where a woman asks why her friend doesn’t use AI, and her friend (played by the same woman — I don’t know her name, sorry) lists all the horrible things about AI. The first woman agrees with everything she says and then at the end sneers, “Well… you should probably just embrace the new technology.”
Jack @jackscarab.bsky.social "What trillion-dollar problem is Al trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
Jack @jackscarab.bsky.social "What trillion-dollar problem is Al trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
A photo of Varmint, our chihuahau/pomeranian/hellhound mix who will fucking bite you if you give him a chance.
Cuban-Style Black Beans Double, triple, or quadruple the recipe and freeze for feeding crowds down the road. These beans are great with Ropa Vieja or as a basic side for dinner (think rice and beans!), as well as an eggy breakfast. By Rick Martinez | October 13, 2017 MAKES ABOUT 2 QUARTS Ingredients 1 pound dried black beans, picked through, rinsed 1 bay leaf 1 medium onion, finely chopped, divided 1 green bell pepper, seeds and ribs removed, finely chopped, divided 8 garlic cloves, finely grated, divided 5 teaspoons Diamond Crystal or 1 tablespoon Morton kosher salt, plus more 1 teaspoon dried Mexican or Italian oregano, divided 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil Freshly ground black pepper Cilantro leaves with tender stems (for serving; optional) Preparation Bring beans, bay leaf, 1/4 cup chopped onion, 1/4 cup chopped bell pepper, 1 Tbsp. grated garlic, 5 tsp. Diamond Crystal or 1 Tbsp. Morton salt, 1/2 tsp. oregano, and 5 quarts water to a boil in a large pot. Reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally and adding more hot water if needed to cover, until beans are tender and covered by about 1/4" liquid, 2 1/2-3 hours. Discard bay leaf. Meanwhile, heat oil in a medium skillet over medium-low. Add remaining onion, bell pepper, garlic, and oregano; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are very soft and beginning to brown, 15-20 minutes. Stir into cooked beans. Top with cilantro, if using. Do Ahead: Beans can be made 3 months ahead. Transfer to an airtight container and freeze.
A photo of Sam Eagle who has blue feathers and a thick black brow because he is so SERIOUS about being PATRIOTIC. And yes, pedants, I know he’s a Muppet not a real bird. But did YOU know you can go stand in the corner and think about why you’re like this to strangers on the internet?
Vonnegut’s text from the end of the preface to Breakfast of Champions: “So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back to November eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden…”
Benecio Del Toro as Sensei and Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
A photo of Kate Bond as Bob Ferguson (complete with a waterproof mascara beard) and me as Sensei from ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER which is an absolutely amazing film. More than a month after first seeing it, I still think about it all the time. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should fix that immediately.
After his condemnation and censure, McCarthy continued to perform his senatorial duties for another two and a half years. His career as a major public figure, however, had been ruined. His colleagues in the Senate avoided him; his speeches on the Senate floor were delivered to a near-empty chamber or received with intentional and conspicuous displays of inattention. The press that had once recorded his every public statement now ignored him, and outside speaking engagements dwindled almost to nothing. Eisenhower, finally freed of McCarthy's political intimidation, quipped to his Cabinet that McCarthyism was now "McCarthywasm".
A photo of a Fisher-Price Steering Wheel, a colorful children’s toy that lets babies pretend they’re driving a real car — which is exactly what we’re doing if we fall into the trap of thinking that posting on social media is ever going to create any kind of real or lasting change. Of course, it’s helped spread messaging and organized movements — everything from the Arab Spring to MeToo to the resurgence of white supremacist movements. But if you want real change, that takes real action in the real world. We can’t post our way out of this.
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A video of the live jazz I just stumbled across in my own neighborhood. I don’t know anyone’s name, but these guys are incredible!
Twitter poll by Adam Kotsko 5/16/2023 @adamkotsko What's your favorite tech innovation? Illegal cab company: 16% Illegal hotel chain: 17% Fake money for criminals: 32% Plagiarism machine: 35%
A screengrab of my post in “Quotes” with a red arrow pointing to the three dots in the lower right. Tap on that.
Jack @jackscarab.bsky.social "What trillion-dollar problem is Al trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot photo, about which the great astronomer Carl Sagan wrote: “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds… The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
A promo video of Unitree’s Stellar Hunter, a dog-like robotic abomination which should not exist and will almost certainly be used to terrorize and kill people, doing various cool moves like it’s this fun toy and not a dystopian weapon of war.
A screengrab from the Simpsons of Homer with Lisa wearing the state costume Homer made her for school. She’s taped between two misshapen pieces of foam with the letters “FLOREDA” glued haphazardly to her. In quoted text at the bottom of the image, Lisa is saying “I’m not a state. I’m a monster!”
Jack @jackscarab.bsky.social "What trillion-dollar problem is Al trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
Maxwell faced persistent allegations of procuring and sexually trafficking underage girls for Epstein and others, charges she denied. 10] Maxwell was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire by the FBI on 2 July 2020, through the use of an IMSI-catcher ("stingray") mobile phone tracking device on a phone used by her to call her husband Scott Borgerson, her sister Isabel, and one of her lawyers. [112]
from @washingtonpost.com Exclusive: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump's two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.
A screengrab from the iOS weather app showing an Air Quality Index of 202 - Very Unhealthy
some weird thing that looks like if a cotton ball and an anteater had a baby
A screengrab of a Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me” Google’s “Al Overview” responds with: “To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your search by cuisine type if you have a…”
An image of the Anywhere Sofa, Navy with White Piping from the Pottery Barn Kids Collection. Just $239 at Pottery Barn Kids! (Local taxes and Stacy’s Law background checks may apply.) https://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/navy-with-white-piping-anywhere-sofa-lounger/
A Red Meat comic strip by Max Cannon. In all three panels, the image is the same: a floating skull surrounded by a sunburst pattern hovers behind the head of Earl, a bug-eyed weirdo dressed all in black who resembles Edgar Allen Poe. Earl stares out at camera. Panel 1: The floating skull says “I live.” Panel 2: Silence. Panel 3: Earl says, “It keeps sayin’ that but I still ain’t lookin’.”
A photo of me at about 22. I’m up in a tree at night, wearing jean shorts and a tee shirt, smoking a cigarette and holding a beer. Big stoned smile on my face.
A photo of a sad woman in a green wig and striped costume next to a whimsical chemistry set at the infamous Willy’s Chocolate Experience in Glasgow, Scotland. “Underwhelming” does not begin to describe the level of half-assness here.
A photo from the LA No Kings Protest March of a protestor holding up a sign that reads: “THE HOLOCAUST STARTED AS A MASS DEPORTATION.”
A TikTok video of me showing our peaceful protest in Los Angeles and talking about how we don’t need ICE, National Guard, or Marines in our city.
A huge crowd gathering outside LA City Hall for the No Kings March because the United States is a DEMOCRACY not a DICTATORSHIP