In 2022, when Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal debuted on HBO, OpenAI had not yet publicly released ChatGPT. Elon Musk had not yet embedded himself in the highest levels of the federal government so as to dismantle it. AI as an industry had not yet upended job markets, our collective and individual mental health, or the … Continue reading
Who among us can deny the alluring draw of golf carts circling and darting here and there in formation set to the rhythm of their instructor’s whistle and shouted directions, “Ted! Ted!!”? Certainly not me. Only a couple seconds into Lance Oppenheim’s intoxicating documentary Some Kind of Heaven, which opens with the faint sounds of … Continue reading