NEW ARTICLE: Twenty Screenplays by Women to Download for Free and Study

After my friend writer-director Liz Garcia challenged a fellow filmmaker's list of great screenplays for lacking any by women, I culled the internet and assembled this list of twenty brilliant scripts by women you can download for free and study.

Read: https://medium.com/@cole.haddon/on-screenwriting-twenty-screenplays-by-women-to-study-898caa6f47ba

#screenwriting #screenwriter #writing #storyteller #film #movies #cinema #cinephile #writerscommunity #writinglife #amwriting #CreativeWriting

Behold "Glaze", a software tool that subtly alters the pixels in a piece of art online 🎨 ...

... in a way that isn't detectable by the human eye 👀 ...

... but renders the image useless for training a visual AI. The AI can't detect the artists' style, and thus can't mimic it and copy it. 🤖 ✖️

It's item #1 in my weekly "Linkfest" newsletter here 📫 : https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-6-gps-on-the-moon-8-bit-jane-austen-and/

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My sincere wish for all aspiring writers is that they’ll find the courage to sit their ass down and write an actual *thing*. Not a blog post about the thing. Not a review of books about the thing. Not nibbling at the edges of it, or wringing hands about how others do it.

Write your THING. It’s scary. It won’t be perfect. You get better every time, but you can’t really make progress until you jump in the damn pool.

FFS please. 😂 DO IT.

I’m rooting for you.

I'm having like, an ongoing panic attack as I'm collating and compiling Brain & COVID research articles together.

Like chemobrain in some ways,

Like HIV associated neurocognitive decline in some ways,

Like Parkinson's in some ways,

Like Alzheimer's in some ways,

Like accelerated aging in some ways,

Like stroke in many ways,

AVOID.

COVID.

FOR FUCKS SAKE.

#COVID19 #COVID #CovidIsNotOver

On a topic different from what I usually post about, I am a #PassengerRail advocate.

In the US.

Where #Amtrak stopped publishing printed #timetables, making it hard for people to plan trips.

So in 2022, I wrote a program to generate printable timetables from the same #GTFS data that they send to places like Google maps.

Results are at https://railpassengers.org/timetables

Sadly, I can't take the train right now due to lack of #Covid safety.

Just thought some people might be interested. @chas