At first I was like ‘why can’t Americans make straight up romantic movies why do they always have to have a goddamn high concept gimmick’ but this has got to the most inadvertently relevant movie of our times?
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Why in the green fuck did the NYTimes give an oligarch’s failson an op-ed to write propaganda & falsehoods justifying how he’s massacred CBS News?? At least the WaPo had to be bought out by Bezos before they became a mouthpiece for this kind of bullshit. deadline.com/2026/08/davi...
David Ellison Says CNN Is Root Cause Of Paramount-WBD Merger Battle
In a NYT essay, Paramount CEO David Ellison argued that CNN is at the root of opposition to the company's merger with Warner Bros Discovery.
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Could every issue of X-Men with Psylocke after 1989 also be classified a ‘Racial Slur Variant’?
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 6mo agoEvery once in a while, I remember the time in 1998 when Marvel accidentally printed a Wolverine comic where, due to bureaucratic cock-ups and a garbled fax, Sabretooth was referred to as a "kike" in the narration Possibly the funniest bad thing ever to happen recalledcomics.com/Wolverine131...
After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”
Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
Been offline so none of you had to suffer thru my annual Tour de France posts so summarizing now the real story this year was no one could outrace global warming. Shortened stages, wildfires, & adaptations for rider physiology so extreme it’s like overheat doping. www.nytimes.com/athletic/743...
Smart beds, cold rice pudding and magic urinals: Adapting to the hottest Tour de France in history
With extreme temperatures hitting this year's race, The Athletic went to see how teams and riders are coping
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Get in the fucking Criterion Closet where you belong Shinji (are they gonna restore the cast karaoke covers of Fly Me to the Moon tho?)
IGN@ign.com · 6d agoHideaki Anno’s iconic anime masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion is officially coming to the Criterion Channel this September. https://bit.ly/3TuAlnB
Thought we had really really moved on to try and work for a better tomorrow but didn’t know how brutally triggering it would be to hear wizened hysterical boomers shrieking the word ivermectin again.
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
I wrote a whole book about this! And it wasn’t hard to find people to include; it was hard to narrow the list down from *OVER A HUNDRED* early gamedevs
.chantal//RYAN@thoughtrise.bsky.social · last wk.many of the early and most successful game designers and developers were women most people don't remember their names today, or recall that video game history started before the Boys Toys era funny that many of the games I grew up loving most were designed by women and I never knew til years later
Reading @greatdismal.bsky.social's Sprawl trilogy back in the day I wouldn't have guessed that the most depressingly prescient bit would turn out to be the sociopathic zillionaires like Josef Virek and the Tessier-Ashpools, but here we are.
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 3w agoThiel sees tech entrepreneurialism and kingship as intimately bound together: acting outside the rules to build the future that no-one else has the long term vision to grasp. “There have to be CEOs and founders. Those people are expected to wear the crown.” www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...
Anyone who doesn’t see how very satisfied I’ve been throughout production doesn’t get what I most want out of an adaptatation. Mind you, that does tend to happen.
Now this is so reductive can’t let it slide. The co-creators of the Neuromancer tv series are Black & Native American, it looks like you didn’t catch the iconic Molly Millions is Black in this adaptation? And Case sure wasn’t generic when the novel lit sci-fi up like a tv tuned to a dead channel.
Andrew Doull@andrewdoull.bsky.social · 2w agoDon’t write the most generic white protagonist into your sci fi TV series challenge
Hey look they made a tv series out of @greatdismal.bsky.social’s novel NEUROMANCER
Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995
Would laugh my ass off if someone made a movie in which Odysseus wears a historically accurate goofy ass looking Mycenaean Dendra cuirass with a boar’s teeth helm
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoPresumably including a historically accurate cyclops
Tech news these days is literally the montage in Robocop 2 of all the failed next gen Robocop prototypes crashing & burning
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w agoQuick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
Decoy Font, a font designed to be readable to humans but can trick AI scanning recognition into reading decoy text hidden in the letters. Wonder which state will offer this as a premium option for license plates? @greatdismal.bsky.social www.mixfont.com/experiments/...
Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
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To anyone who follows me, or doesn’t, please contribute to @richardkadrey.bsky.social ‘s extremely urgent new Go FundMe. His cat’s depending on you too. I don’t know a harder-working writer, and what he produces is always wonderful. Please re-skeet!
If only one journalist had the bravery to ask the US President to explain the offside rule
The curse struck again, Infantino’s favorite team & player lost.
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 2w agoInfantino trying to get Trump off the stage lol
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago
When will my husband return from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
Citizen keyboard vigilante takes another massive posting L
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2w agoHollywood Reporter projects the box office opening weekend of The Odyssey at $257 million globally.
Someone called the cyclospora outbreak MAHA Blast and I'm cackling like I'm 13 again.
Full spoilers for the entire ending but as I hoped @bilgeebiri.bsky.social goes in sharp on what I pose about Nolan’s Odyssey as an allegory for our times. He does not address my point that it is a remake of CABIN BOY however!
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social · 3w agoI wrote about the ending of THE ODYSSEY. www.vulture.com/article/chri...
This is such a great deep dive if you’re into the particular genius of Darin Morgan’s episodes of the X-Files
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩@oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · last mo.For this week’s Silent Sundays I wrote about the silent slapstick comedy roots of “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” which may well be the best episode of The X-Files.
Scintillating intellectual discourse from a guy with a 7 year old substack about Chris Nolan movies no one cares about, and instead offers this over any political pov on The Odyssey, a 3000 year old txt about corruption that led to civilization collapse at end of the Bronze Age, oh and slaves
bradley babendir@therealbradbabs.bsky.social · 3w agoyou can read it this way like you can walk into traffic: it's not very smart but if you're an adult i guess nobody is gonna stop you.