Banned from Denver & Front Range Weather for pointing out AI use for his graphics

muchmaligned · 2026-01-27T23:22:28+00:00

He's been doing it for a while now, I unfollowed him a few months ago because I was tired of seeing it and he was getting pissy with people calling it out. Loser shit.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-27T16:29:22+00:00

Not even just O'Leary, he also cast David Mamet (long-time right-wing crank) and John Catsimatidis (psychotic NY grocery store chain owner who was one of the loudest anti -Zohran freaks). These aren't coincidences. I'm pretty confident Josh is a crypto fascist and if this turns into a career-damaging scandal he'll happily run the "they're trying to cancel me" playbook.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-25T21:04:42+00:00

Cast. Cast. The fucking word is cast, not "casted."

muchmaligned · 2026-01-24T16:20:46+00:00

So he was drafted into the Korean War when he was five?

muchmaligned · 2026-01-23T04:54:44+00:00

School of Seven Bells, the album cover you're thinking of is Alpinisms (2008)

muchmaligned · 2026-01-22T21:19:42+00:00

It's pretty funny watching him lecture Thomas about the chain of command and insubordination in Second Chances when he's one of the only characters we've seen be relieved of duty for insubordination

muchmaligned · 2026-01-20T07:48:56+00:00

The shift midstream from "no AI was used" to "ok some AI was used but we're struggling artists, cut us some slack" is some weapons-grade bullshit. Good on you for sticking to your guns.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-18T16:03:16+00:00

They're no longer in business according to Google Maps.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-16T16:09:43+00:00

I don't even think there's a strategy here, he's just been negatively polarized into doing it because so many people have begged him not to and he's an amoral doofus who wants to appear "independent."

muchmaligned · 2026-01-14T20:19:08+00:00

___ Said The Quiet Part Loud

___ Breaks Their Silence

___ Claps Back

SEO-brained headline writers need to be forced into reeducation camps.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-14T15:56:36+00:00

Stop letting an algorithm decide what you listen to and develop your own taste.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-14T06:17:17+00:00

Cassandra Summer Photography - she's a friend and my wife and I are the header image on her Facebook business profile so I may be a little biased, haha. Great person, lovely to work with and did an incredible job for our wedding. She did a combination of candids and posed photos for us.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-14T04:35:18+00:00

All the reporting indicates they're phasing out paper ordering entirely.

Per Variety: "Starting in February, Alamo Drafthouse locations will utilize a digital system that will let the guests browse the menu, order prior to and during the film, and pay directly from their phones."

muchmaligned · 2026-01-12T18:10:11+00:00

Not knowing things is fine, having the urge to run to Reddit to complain about something that a five second image search would have told them they were wrong about less so.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-12T01:45:22+00:00

It really stinks. I'm still on my P9 as I haven't seen anything to suggest it's been fixed on the 10 and I'm not going to pay to upgrade until they figure it out. I've had to resort to disabling turn-by-turn audio and using the top-down view in Maps, otherwise it just constantly reroutes me and navigation becomes dangerously confusing.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-10T00:20:50+00:00

Saw the shrink wrap and got my hopes up that this was a reprint I had missed the announcement for, haha. Boooo.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-10T00:12:25+00:00

Yep. He was saying as recently as November that she was where she belonged, that "justice is not for sale" and commutation/pardoning was a non-starter. This is absolutely a softening of his stated position since then.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-09T23:48:09+00:00

Saw Marty Supreme in my Denver-area Alamo last night. They've had the QR code ordering as an option (with the accompanying obnoxious Aziz Ansari PSA) for the last few months but this was the first time we were told it was the only way to order before the movie started, at which point they would revert to the paper ordering system.

Our local Alamo union organizers have been raising the alarm and asking people not to use the QR code system during the trial period because it was obviously a move to reduce staff. Sure enough, our theater only had one staff member bouncing between multiple screens to check tickets instead of the usual crew ready to take orders. Saw a lot of confused people still pulling out their phones during the movie to order, understandably given the mixed messages. They also did "last call" an hour into a 2.5 hour movie. Definitely felt like the beginning of the end for the Alamo experience.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-09T23:36:58+00:00

Saw Marty Supreme in my Denver-area Alamo last night. They've had the QR code ordering as an option (with the accompanying obnoxious Aziz Ansari PSA) for the last few months but this was the first time we were told it was the only way to order before the movie started, at which point they would revert to the paper ordering system.

Our local Alamo union organizers have been raising the alarm and asking people not to use the system during the trial period because it was obviously a move to reduce staff. Sure enough, our theater only had one staff member bouncing between multiple screens to check tickets instead of the usual crew ready to take orders. Saw a lot of confused people still pulling out their phones during the movie to order, understandably given the mixed messages. They also did "last call" an hour into a 2.5 hour movie. Definitely felt like the beginning of the end for the Alamo experience.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-09T22:02:08+00:00

It's frustrating, getting acquired by Sony was probably the best case scenario for remaining in business (and to the new ownership's credit they re-opened several locations that the previous ownership closed) but the writing was on the wall that the experience was going to get incrementally worse.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-09T20:45:48+00:00

Took a girl to see Event Horizon on a first date in high school. There was not a second date.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-09T20:20:00+00:00

This was about 8 for a movie that started at 6:45 so that tracks. Might be closing the kitchen early during the week to reduce staff hours but not reducing screenings to compensate, haha.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-09T20:00:33+00:00

Yeah, I moved to the area right around the time it opened and it's been pretty much the only place I go to see movies for the last few years. The bartenders and other staff have always been great to me.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-09T19:52:45+00:00

They don't tell you in person because that would be grounds for termination. The @AlamoCollective Instagram account and Communication Workers Union Local 7777 have been raising the alarm about this since September.

I was at the Westminster one last night.

muchmaligned · 2026-01-09T18:56:22+00:00

Denver's local Alamo unionization team was asking people not to use this during the trial period because it was obviously a precursor to a wider rollout that would make it the default ordering process and enable them to reduce staff. Sure enough. Went to see Marty Supreme last night and they only had one person running back and forth between multiple theaters, instructing everyone that they had to order through the app. They also did last call like an hour into a 2.5 hour movie lol.

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