if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
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i'm tired!!!!! and i edit visual stories for the new york times
that rage against the machine lyric about rallying around the family with a pocket full of shells really hits different once you’ve come home from the beach with toddlers
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
What do you mean before he was Scrooge he was Ebenezer those are just his first and last names lol
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w agoFirst poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”
I don’t know how to convince anyone of this, but the hundreds or thousands of words many publications run below the headline aren’t decorative. Often they contain nuance that doesn’t fit into ten words.
i have a new job! very excited to get started www.nytco.com/press/climat...
Climate’s New Visual Editor | The New York Times Company
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President Trump is trying to use the levers of the federal government, along with personal influence over state and local lawmakers, to reshape the rules governing the 2026 midterms. Take a closer look at the many actions he is taking to influence future elections.
The Many Ways Trump Is Trying to Tip the Scales for the Midterms
Here’s how President Trump is using the powers of his office to try to reshape the rules governing the midterms and future elections.
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As the only U.S. president to seek to overturn an election result, Trump has spent years undermining confidence in American elections. Now, he is using the powers of the presidency to advance an agenda rooted in the same debunked election conspiracy theories. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Many Ways Trump Is Trying to Tip the Scales for the Midterms
Here’s how President Trump is using the powers of his office to try to reshape the rules governing the midterms and future elections.
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There should be a movie called “all cats are big now” where all cats are suddenly 10 feet tall and hunting their owners and Patrick Wilson is a scientist looking at a screen and it shows a graph of cats being small and then big with an arrow pointing at big and he takes off his glasses dramatically
you can just not have kids if you don’t want to have kids. it doesn’t need to be because the apocalypse is coming.
(“flintstones” theme) tote bag fulla tote bags! every yuppie’s closet must contain in the town of brooklyn! bring your little doggie on the train
something that gets lost in the glp-1 vs. "losing weight the old-fashioned way" construction is that many people who lose weight on glp-1s HAVE, in the past, done it the old-fashioned way. over and over! this is now the fourth time i have lost 20%+ of my body weight. "do it with hard work" is a scam
my top three favorite boroughs of new york: 1. new york 2. philadelphia 3. brooklyn 4. the one and only new york city! 5. boston 4. bodegas
Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.
I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.
Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 4mo ago"OUTSTANDING."
another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"
If you aren’t watching The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, you ought to so they’ll make another season
mike taddow@miketaddow.bsky.social · 5mo ago“in the new york fire department, there’s a special unit that fights fires in chicago”
NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics. We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races. 1/7 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics
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NEW: Pardon seekers are routinely being asked to pay $1m+ to lobbyists & lawyers claiming access to Trump, often with bonuses if clemency is granted. I investigated the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex, & detailed the backstory behind 1 interesting pardon.
Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump
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if anybody knows a teen boy who works out can you please ask him why they're all dressing like steve jobs in the weight room these days
"...the risk in this kind of sexual scandal is to lose sight of the nature of the acts in question, which I call the "derealization of evil," meaning a lack of consideration for the suffering and trauma of the victims. We no longer perceive evil as it is."
'The Epstein scandal is astonishing by the scale of the complicity and rape culture at the top of society'
The philosopher Marc Crépon, who specializes in the forms and effects of violence, analyzes the public response to the sex scandal in an interview with Le Monde. He warns against the risk of disregard...
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something i'd like to see in the next season of "strip law" is a throwaway joke about isaac chotiner. i feel like the audience would really appreciate that
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Prince Andrew's Arrest
Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵