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RogerEbert.com@ebertvoices.bsky.social · 3h ago

"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social from her zero star review of ONE NIGHT ONLY:

The media and the establishment Dems treat this guy like the grim reaper because for them, that's exactly what he is. Even normies have been trained to know that all politicians are bought and paid for and the DNC likes that because it gives them some latitude to do a little corruption, just less.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 18h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

As always, "only for the laziest and dumbest amongst us" is undefeated. There's nothing AI is doing that you can't do on your own unless you're too dumb or too lazy.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

"No amount of spin can sugarcoat the utter disaster of layoffs, creative consolidation, and sheer mediocrity that awaits if Richie Rich runs roughshod over the industry he claims to love so much." Get 'im, @mcastimovies.bsky.social!

Not only is David Ellison lying about his film plan, it's not even a good lie

Paramount Skydance CEO and heir apparent David Ellison is very upset that the media landscape can see right through him.

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I spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...

The Ellison Credibility Crisis

The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...

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Book readers when they first saw Viggo Mortensen on screen in 2001

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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 18h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

It was so damn depressing to watch every TV writer who was willing and eager to have open, intelligent conversations about their process get hounded off social by a combination of aggressive stans and belligerent wannabes defending the right to be a shithead to creatives

C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 19h ago

I keep thinking about the discourse from the other day suggesting writers are gatekeeping writing information for ourselves and I just think back to 2019 when every writer was out there giving away writing advice until one by one each stopped because social media blows and we can't have nice things.

And all EA games are now worth $0. Support indies and people not powered by hateful fascist bastards.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 20h ago

EA is officially a privately owned company Main investors include Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners Deal was worth $55B

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

Corporate media in the age of monopolization isn’t worried about ratings or views, those are secondary to appealing to oligarchs and corporations who will supplement lost viewership in order to ensure control of mainstream discourse and the information diet of politicians and parties

SCOOP: The CDC has linked six additional states to a large outbreak of cyclosporiasis associated with iceberg lettuce — Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina — bringing the total tally to 15. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/w...

C.D.C. Expands Cyclospora Outbreak to More States (Gift Article)

Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina are now among the states linked to the outbreak associated with iceberg lettuce.

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"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...

Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set

The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.

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Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

Do you ever wonder if Iowa Rep Steve King looks at the GOP now and shakes his head, wishing he'd kept his mouth shut a little longer? He'd be the head bigot by now.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago

Sen. Jim Banks refers to American citizens as "the babies of invaders" and compares them to Nazi spies and terrorists

weird how he didn’t find jesus on this until he saw miller’s latest polling numbers

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Moreno on Max Miller: "My daughter lives in constant fear of this man ... you can't fathom what that makes me feel like when the dad's number one job is to protect your kids... if there's any minimum standard for being an elected official, he feels to meet it. I don't care about the politics at all"

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties, the pro-authoritarian billionaires who collaborate with them, & the “journalists” they hire to lie on their behalf.

John Timmer@jtimmer.bsky.social · yesterday

In this piece, Ellison says that he believes news should be based on facts and truth. But if that's the case, you wouldn't hire Bari Weiss.

in re Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which, in the original Martian Chronicles, occurs on today's date), I didn't realize the very first published version of the story, in Collier's magazine, was set in April 1985. (the current edition of Martian Chronicles now sets it in 2057).

Hank Green should not use LLMs in his work. Working scientists have specific use cases for LLMs, but science communicators like Hank and I do not. They add more vulnerability than value in our field. I laid out some history and background to walk you through the reasons why.

Is Benny gonna be a Mummy??

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · yesterday

Kevin J. O’Connor and Oded Fehr are returning for the new ‘MUMMY’ movie. In theaters on October 15, 2027. (Source: Deadline)

This is still one of my favourite photos, mainly because he told the government "you'll have to arrest me" and FDR went "fine" and literally told the press where and when he was going to arrest him

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 4mo ago

FDR literally had the president of Montgomery Ward arrested and the company seized for not negotiating with his workers

Scorpion: "The Critics are Wrong About My River Crossings"

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · yesterday

David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.

If the president were a democrat you bet your ass he’d rein him in. The Republican party is corrupt beyond redemption

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

It took him two months to defend his daughter, btw. He was quite content to remain silent.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Moreno on Max Miller: "My daughter lives in constant fear of this man ... you can't fathom what that makes me feel like when the dad's number one job is to protect your kids... if there's any minimum standard for being an elected official, he feels to meet it. I don't care about the politics at all"

David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS

This... makes it SO much worse. Does he know this makes it worse?? Especially when we see he's given CBS News over to the failbaby Bari Weiss to slowly suffocate under right wing bullshit.

Vulture@vulture.com · yesterday

The Paramount CEO David Ellison took to the NYT op-ed pages to make his case for why the Warnermount merger is a good thing, actually.

Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is set on August 4th, 2026. Today’s the last day to read it before the future becomes the present and then the past. thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...