Donnie Darko, Justin Timberlake, & Camper van Beethoven mentioned -- a few thoughts on Richard Kelly's bizarre & extremely entertaining film Southland Tales. Plus, news about stuff I'm up to -- upcoming talks & events online & irl (in #nyc) -- and an audio monologue about Mark Fisher & corporate LLMs. This one's sort of all over the place but it was fun to write! (I'll put it somewhere that's not Substack when I'm less time-crunched..) link: https://elftheory.substack.com/p/lost-in-california #philosophy #LLM #film #AI