Use Of AI Can Reduce Film Budgets By Up To 40%

By William Teach October 10, 2026 – 10:30 am

Can AI also make better scripts and come up with new ideas?

AI Can Cut Film Budgets by Up to 40%, Says ‘The Outlaws’ Director Kang Yoon-sung, as Netflix Reveals Use on 300 Titles: ‘A Human Touch Is Absolutely Essential’

Netflix has used AI in one form or another on some 300 of its titles, Lee Sung-gyun, the streamer’s senior director of APAC production, told an audience at the Busan International Film Festival.

On the same panel, “The Outlaws” director Kang Yoon-sung said AI workflows could take 30% to 40% off a feature film’s production budget.

Lee shared the stage with Kang and Kimball Thurston, chief technology officer at W?t? FX, for “Film Production and AI: New Tools, New Possibilities.” Netflix and the MPA co-hosted the session. It was part of Creative Asia, the Netflix and BIFF program for emerging Asian talent. Film critic Yun Sung-eun moderated.

“Across around 300 Netflix titles, AI has actually been put to use in various ways,” Lee said. “It’s being used in previs, in production design, in working out set-dressing concepts ahead of time, in editorial, and of course in VFX.”

Lee said new technology has always startled people when it arrives. “All these technological changes and new tools have helped a great deal with the ‘how,’ how we make what we make better, but they never decided the ‘why,’ why we have to tell this story,” he said. “AI is the same.”

He gets it: AI is a tool. A powerful tool. But, that is it. It is not sentient. It’s still programming. Powerful programming that can assist and decrease costs while providing a heck of a lot of help.

Lee said he related strongly to Kang’s point. Some things now come out with a single click, he said, “but when it comes to conveying emotion, ultimately a human has to touch it once more. I strongly agree that a human touch is absolutely essential.”

Humans are still necessary to actually act. Everyone needs to calm down about AI doom. But, perhaps they could let AI pick out good books to convert into movies and write scripts, things we haven’t seen before.

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Cult: Only Half Of US Kids Can Identify The Cult Reason For A Slight Increase In Global Temperatures

By William Teach October 10, 2026 – 7:15 am

This is one of the most culty things I’ve read in a while, which is disturbing since it comes from what is supposed to be one of the best institutes of learning in the nation, Yale

Only about half of U.S. teens can correctly identify the causes of climate change

More than 80% of young people in the U.S. say they are worried about climate change.

Schifter: “Whether it’s going outside to play in extreme heat, or if it’s about the jobs that they’re going to be able to access in the future, the world that they are living in is being shaped by our changing climate.”

But Laura Schifter of the Aspen Institute says a recent survey that her group commissioned reveals that many teens do not fully understand the issue.

Only about half of the teens surveyed know that climate change is mostly caused by carbon pollution from human activities like burning fossil fuels.

And even fewer know that nearly all climate scientists have concluded that human activity is causing climate change.

100 % cult, 0% science.

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Senate Democrats Upset Over Cost To House Illegals At Gitmo

By William Teach October 10, 2026 – 7:00 am

You know what would be a lot less expensive? If Democrats would simply allow DHS to deport illegals back to their own countries without all the caterwauling

Senate Fact Finders Decry Costs of Migrant Detention at Guantánamo

In August, a team of Senate staff members inspected the Trump administration’s migrant detention operations at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. They found 445 government employees assigned to the site, mostly U.S. military members on temporary deployment, and zero migrants.

The findings were released Friday, in the latest report to criticize the cost of the operation. Early in his second administration, President Trump ordered the Homeland Security and Defense Departments to get ready to hold tens of thousands of migrants designated for deportation at Guantánamo. About 850 migrants have been held there since February 2025.

So, wait, were there illegals there or not? Also, there are going to be military members at Gitmo regardless

“This comes at a significant cost to taxpayers and undermines military readiness,” according to the report, released by Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.

How so? Military members are going to be at Gitmo regardless. And not every member is a frontline fighter

The study also found the Guantánamo operation has cost more than $100 million, which means the government has spent $118,000 to house each detainee there.

How much is the US government, the state governments, and local governments spending on housing illegals, feeding them, clothing them, etc, money which could be used for Americans?

Government officials described the Guantánamo operation as a way station for detainees being deported. The report said the average length of stay for the 850 men was 20 to 30 days. Some were held for months.

Let us skip the detention methods and just boot the illegals out. If they do not want to go to their home nation let them pick a country and put them on a plane and sayonora.

Only Democratic staff members took part in compiling the report. It follows a critical study by the Government Accountability Office of wasteful overall spending practices by the Trump administration’s detention and deportation operations. It included the $2.85 million it spent on tent housing for 5,000 detainees that was dismantled and never occupied. The tents, it turned out, did not meet federal detention standards.

Surprise! Democrat hit piece fed to the NY Times.

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Your Fault: Hurricane Isaias Supercharged Because Your Drove A Fossil Fueled Vehicle

By William Teach October 9, 2026 – 4:14 pm

Strange, because there were no other hurricanes in the Gulf, nor the Atlantic all September. If the water was so warm why were there none? Oh, right, right, sorry, we aren’t supposed to ask questions, just blindly Obey the whims of the cult

Climate change supercharged the warm Gulf waters fueling Hurricane Isaias

Isaias underwent rapid intensification in the western Gulf of Mexico between October 7 and 8, strengthening from a tropical storm to a hurricane. By Friday, October 9, the storm rapidly intensified again, strengthening to a Category 3 hurricane. Isaias is moving over exceptionally warm Gulf of Mexico waters and is forecast to make landfall on the Gulf Coast between Alabama and Florida late Friday, October 9.

The exceptionally warm, record sea surface temperatures fueling this storm across the western and central Gulf of Mexico are up to 600 times more likely due to human-caused climate change. The waters over which Isaias formed before becoming a named storm were up to 800 times more likely. These warm waters significantly enhance the storm’s potential strength.

And, yet, if this is the case, then where were all the other hurricanes?

Isaias could bring a substantial storm surge to the Gulf Coast. Human-caused climate change has raised sea levels in this region by about 6.5 inches since 1900, allowing storm surges to reach higher levels and increase their potential for destruction.

Horseshit. Average sea rise per century is 6-8 inches, meaning a warm period should be much higher to offset low to negative sea rise during a Holocene cool period. Yet, just 6 inches during the 20th Century.

Climate change is forecast to add 7 mph to Isaias’s maximum sustained wind speeds.

They’re just pulling numbers out of their asses. And still do not mention the dearth of Atlantic hurricanes (which includes the Gulf of America) through September.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 9, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are islands living in the sun because carbon pollution drove away the hurricanes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on “Europe Chose National Suicide—America’s Midterms Will Decide Whether We Follow”

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EU Parliament Backs Adding Muslim Brotherhood To Terror List

By William Teach October 9, 2026 – 10:30 am

But, will this go through in full with all the Elites in EU nations, who seem to like letting in Islamists? How about all the Islamists who are already in positions of governmental power?

European Parliament Backs Adding Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Groups to EU Terror List

The European Parliament voted Thursday to support adding Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations and individuals to the European Union’s terrorist list, approving a sweeping resolution aimed at combating Islamist influence across Europe and preventing EU taxpayer funds from reaching extremist networks.

The resolution passed by a vote of 381-167, with 15 abstentions, calling on EU member states to develop a coordinated strategy to counter what lawmakers described as “Islamist entryism” and the influence of Muslim Brotherhood networks within European institutions and civil society.

The measure urges member states to provide information allowing the Council of the European Union to assess whether Brotherhood-linked individuals and organizations meet the criteria for terrorist designation. It also calls for scrutiny of alleged front organizations, financial networks, youth groups, and other entities associated with the movement.

Although the vote does not itself designate any organization as a terrorist group, it places political pressure on EU institutions and national governments to consider such action.

The resolution also calls on the European Commission to investigate whether EU funding has reached Brotherhood-associated organizations and to strengthen safeguards against public money being directed toward Islamist networks.

They’re on the right track, but, it is interesting that the EU gov’t seems happy to slap on rules and restrictions for the peasants for so many other things, but, not this. But, it’s a good start that they are recognizing the danger of the Muslim Brotherhood and all the groups and individuals they back. But, is it too damned late to do something about it to save Europe?

Ahead of Thursday’s vote, French EPP lawmaker Céline Imart, who led the group’s efforts, called for a crackdown on Islamist influence while emphasizing the distinction between religious freedom and political extremism.

“We need to make sure Europe doesn’t fund Islamists. Islam as a faith and political Islam as an ideology must not be conflated. We must protect both democracy and religious freedom,” Imart said.

“Where rules allow, the Council should list individuals and organisations linked to the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist entities. European money must not fund groups that threaten our rights and freedoms,” she added.

And that “religious freedom” is where the Muslim Brotherhood takes advantage of the EU, using the rules, laws, and founding charters against the nations and the people. The MB specifically calls to do that. We’ll see where this goes.

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Appeals Court Takes Out NYC Climate Scam Lawfare Suit

By William Teach October 9, 2026 – 7:15 am

NYC could not run without fossil fuels. All the cars, trucks, limos, cabs, and ships. Planes and helicopters. About 47% of its power comes from natural gas. Mayor Mamdani uses lots of fossil fuels to drive around, and take flights back to Africa. It takes lots of fossil fuels to bring in all the food and goods, because NYC really doesn’t produce a whole lot.

NYC climate change suit against Big Oil runs out of gas

An appeals court Thursday swatted down New York City’s latest attempt to hold major energy companies responsible for the costs of climate change, agreeing with a lower court that climate-aware customers of ExxonMobil, Shell and BP weren’t reasonably duped by the “greenwashing” of their fossil fuel products.

As NYC says in its complaint, the primary driver of climate change is “the extraction, refinement and combustion of fossil fuels,” driving people to seek cleaner energy sources.

The energy company defendants, the city claims, deceived consumers by misrepresenting the climate effects of its gasoline, advertising them as “cleaner” and “emissions-reducing,” while failing to disclose their harmful impact.

For instance, ExxonMobil claimed that one of its fuels was “2X cleaner for better gas mileage,” while BP described itself as “working to make all forms of energy cleaner and better” and Shell claimed to be “a bigger player than you might expect in this budding movement to realize a cleaner and more efficient transportation future.”

But a trial court, and now a state appellate court, found ExxonMobil, Shell and BP advertising and promotional statements didn’t violate the city’s consumer protection laws, and held the city took the ads out of context.

The cult has been yammering about how Evil fossil fuels are, but, even in a city that overwhelming votes Democrat and supports climate action (in theory), few actually give up their own use of fossil fuels.

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Cool: Trump Admin Supposedly Considers Shipping Illegals Out On Ships

By William Teach October 9, 2026 – 7:00 am

I’m waiting for the moonbats to compare this to slavery (where blacks were captured by black tribes and sold, you know)

Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants

The Trump administration is considering using ships, including a 500-foot training vessel and ferries, to deport migrants to Central and South America on journeys that could take days and cost millions of dollars, according to two U.S. officials.

The discussions over recent weeks are still preliminary, but officials have identified possible ships, including the Training Ship Golden Bear, a maritime academy vessel docked in California, said one person who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the plan. Defense Department officials have also reached out to companies about ships in Europe, the official said.

A different official, from the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees deportations, cautioned that the plan was still hypothetical and that no decisions had been made.

It is not clear why officials are entertaining such an unusual plan, considering the logistical challenges, high cost and checkered history of deportations by sea. The plan could, however, offload some deportation costs from Homeland Security to the Defense Department.

OK, so, a bunch of unnamed people who offer zero confirmation and basically say that the plan doesn’t exist at this time. So, why even write about this as “news”?

The plan would represent another escalation of the Trump administration’s evolving strategy for carrying out mass deportations using all available means. Those drastic steps have included flying people abroad using military planes, sending migrants to unfamiliar and often dangerous third countries, and housing people in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The administration has also embraced policies to deter immigrants from coming to the United States and persuade them to self-deport.

Oh, right, Orange Man Bad. That’s why. TDS.

“What ICE is functionally contemplating is prison ships,” said Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the Biden administration. “That raises serious concerns at every step. Moving people through international waters and past other countries’ territory for days at a time raises hard questions about which laws apply and who has jurisdiction if something goes wrong.”

TDS.

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Overheated World Alert: US, Canada To See Rare Early Snow

By William Teach October 8, 2026 – 3:10 pm

It’s your fault that there are hurricanes in the Pacific off the Mexican coast and one brewing in the Gulf Of America all while snow is brewing in the north

‘First widespread snowfall’ in forecast. Why it’s a rare event

stop global warmingWhile Americans in the Southeast will be dealing with Hurricane Isaias and its remnants over the weekend of Oct. 10, folks in the opposite corner of the nation will be battling wintry, snowy weather.

“The first widespread snowfall of the season is expected across the Northern Rockies this weekend into early next week,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Prediction Center said in a post on X on Oct. 7.

As much as a foot is possible in some of the highest elevations of the Rockies, forecasters said. “This will be a significant early-season snowfall for 6-12 inches of snow at elevations as low as 4,000 feet in the northern part of the Rockies from Saturday [Oct. 10] through Monday [Oct. 12],” AccuWeather senior meteorologist Brett Anderson said in an online forecast.

And

Map Shows Up to 18 Inches of Snow as 98 MPH Gusts Hit This Week

Up to 18 inches of snow is possible by early Thursday in the high-end scenario from the National Weather Service. NWS labels that layer experimental and puts the odds of exceeding it at about 1 in 10, with its expected totals running far lower. Drivers heading north this week also face hurricane-force gusts at elevation and the first frost of the season.

The heaviest band on the agency’s 72-hour high-end snowfall map, running into early Thursday, sits over the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire at 18 inches. Far northern Maine and the Adirondacks of northern New York reach 5 inches each in that run, while Colorado’s high country shows 1 to 2.

I’ll be honest, I do not see any snow on the radar, so, maybe that fizzled, but, the very notion that there could be snow on October 8th is horrible, all because you drove a fossil fueled vehicle.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 8, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is the need for tons of lifeguards for hurricane driven waves, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on “Can AOC win the Obama primary?”

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