John August

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Today on Scriptnotes @kenwhite.bsky.social joins us to debunk lawyer scenes in movies and TV. johnaugust.com/2024/lawyer-...

Lawyer Scenesjohnaugust.com John and Craig lawyer up with criminal defense attorney Ken White (aka Popehat) to look at legal scenes in movies and TV, and separate the tropes from the truth. How do lawyers actually prepare a case? Will they meet a client in jail? Do they need to gather evidence themselves? And what happens when they

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This is why you need tooth factor authentication.

"How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack" is a sentence that plunges me into the deepest, darkest infosec despair.

How to tell if your toothbrush is being used in a DDoS attack | Malwarebyteswww.malwarebytes.com Your essential guide to toothbrush security.

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SCRIPTNOTES 616 Novel/Comics/Screenwriter @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com (SANDMAN, GOOD OMENS) chats with @johnaugust.bsky.social (CORPSE BRIDE) & @clmazin.bsky.social (THE LAST OF US). johnaugust.com/2023/the-one... Join Scriptnotes Premium to hear the bonus chat and get eps early. scriptnotes.net

At least once a week.

What's a random quote from The Simpsons that pops into your head all the time? The contempt in Flanders’s voice when he says “Arizona State” kills me every time.

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I was prepared to dislike this article because the headline puts all the emphasis on transformer architecture as such, but actually it starts with a good scrolly-telling introduction to word embeddings and vector space. Good stuff.

awesome article that explains transformers for non-technical folks. and yes, everyone I know has received this link. it's that great. ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

Generative AI exists because of the transformerig.ft.com The technology has resulted in a host of cutting-edge AI applications — but its real power lies beyond text generation

Drew and I talk about how we make Scriptnotes, both the main show and the side casts. www.descript.com/blog/article...

How They Made It: John August and Drew Marquardt on lessons learned after 10+ years of Scriptnotes |...www.descript.com Scriptnotes is a titan in independent podcasting and a shibboleth among aspiring writers. Host John August and producer Drew Marquardt sat down with us to talk about their process.

This afternoon, I spoke on behalf of the WGA at the FTC panel on AI. Here’s what I said. johnaugust.com/2023/speakin...

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*pitching batman* imagine if your boss and his butler teamed up to break into the mental hospital and beat up all the patients. cool right? anyway there’s this clown that he hates

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Ep 600 of Scriptnotes w/ @mcq.bsky.social doesn't disappoint. A lot of great nuggets, but a stand out is the notion of being clear about who your audience is and what emotion you want them to walk out of the theatre with when you start working on an idea.

Just released Weekend Read 2, our app for reading scripts on your phone. Rewritten from the ground up with notes, lists, narration and more! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weekend-read-2/id1534798355

‎Weekend Read 2apps.apple.com ‎“Staggeringly useful.” - Dan Etheridge, producer of Veronica Mars and Party Down We’ve made the best screenplay reader even better. Weekend Read 2 makes reading screenplays delightful, optimizing scripts for the iPhone and iPad retina screen. Never squint and pinch to read a script again. Whether…

Today I’ll only be discussing this article and its multiple connections to 1990’s SPY Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/style/cannes-party-david-zaslav.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A Party in Cannes Announces a New Hollywood Power Playerwww.nytimes.com David Zaslav, who is now one of the top executives in the entertainment world, mingled with Scarlett Johansson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese at a lavish soiree.

Non-tech friends want to start a podcast. What is the most straightforward, turnkey way to set one up in 2023?

Oh look we both got a fun new toy! (Which we may abandon at some point and that’s okay.)

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