Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Begging you, reporters everywhere: stop using this framing. Anyone anywhere at any time can have an underlying condition. That has only become more true as you decided to join the war on COVID on the side of COVID. People with fallible bodies—all of us—deserve to not shit themselves to death.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Rookie mistake: assuming capitalists are all rational actors.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

BARTIROMO: It feels like we're moving into a Terminator-type world HASSETT: I hope not and I think not. AI companies definitely have an incentive not to destroy the world. That would destroy their companies too.

Yes, stupid immoral assholes have done far too well for basically forever, but right now, it feels like being a stupid immoral asshole has become the ONLY way to do well. That is a problem.

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

These dudes just tried to sponsor me lol. I've been getting blitzed with their ads ever since I turned them down, too.

Reuters@reuters.com · 6d ago

German court rules AI music firm Suno broke copyright rules reut.rs/3TLbhJ2

Everyone in politics wants to be in Hollywood and everyone in Hollywood wants to be in politics.

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 6d ago

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

any response to transphobia that falls short of open hostility is support, as has been the case in the defense of the most politically vulnerable population at any other point in history. politeless and decorum are dark alleys where disenfranchised people are hurt and killed out of your sight

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Golden Age of grifting.

Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.

Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.

Why are the police militarized to begin with?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Sen. Deb Fischer on Democrats: "They want to demilitarize the police. It's everybody's worst nightmare on what this society would become ... people have deep knowledge of what happens in countries that say they are democratic socialist ... look at Russia"

I have this very silly fantasy of igniting wild speculation about the subject of my next screenplay whenever someone leaks to the press which set of research-books I just ordered.

Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w ago

The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Real America is sick of movies with no trans people in them, ignore them at your peril Hollyweird

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

‘THE ODYSSEY’ is now tracking to pass $1 billion worldwide in its box office run. It is expected to become Christopher Nolan's highest grossing film ever.

I actually think the trillionaire saying his AI tool will remake a movie without the Black and trans actors in it should be a bigger story because it’s a perfect example of why the ruling class wants AI to succeed: so they can remake reality without those they deem undesirable - every nazi’s dream.

What do you mean before he was Scrooge he was Ebenezer those are just his first and last names lol

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

First poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”

a cabinet of billionaires thinks that its a good idea to set up a pipeline for a servant underclass. they also have strong beliefs that your genetic makeup predetermines where you should be placed in life. if you wrote all this in a work of dystopian fiction, you'd sound like you were nuts.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Linda McMahon says some elementary school students should be put on a "pathway" to become plumbers

Why is the latest marketing trend to start every advertisement with "We're sorry—WE LIED"???

The reason conservatives are saying this is because it's the exact same method of "selling out" theaters that faith-based distributors like Angel Studios use to astroturf box office "successes" for their own films.

“The sale of an item, instead of being the end of the exchange, becomes the beginning of a parasitic relationship; one that siphons value from the same commodity again & again, long after it was supposedly sold.” - @scarletred.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dialecti...

You Will Own Nothing: The Age of Rentier Capitalism

Replacing property with permission

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"Split Second" is a severely under-budgeted mishmash of half a dozen different genres that never really justifies its own existence (why watch this film when you could simply watch any of the much better films that it cribs from?), although it's clear the filmmakers have talent.

It really does just come from this inchoate sense, derived from the film 300 and half-remembered high school history, that the Spartans were the most manly men to have ever manned and that's it. It is that thick-headed and anti-intellectual. There is no grappling with the actual Sparta.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am endlessly fascinated by right wingers' obsession with Sparta. I can understand an initial vibes based appeal I guess - like if you opened the first page of a book on timocracy and were twelve. but the thing about history is you can find out what happened to those guys

It will never stop feeling weird to see previously kind of normal organizations turn into the Association for Scowling at Black Women in Particular While Ogling Everyone’s Genitals

Kent Parkstreet@kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 2w ago

I guess this is what so many angry people have been demanding. I imagine it will reveal zero to one men over the next decade.

Asking this sorta thing would get me swarmed with bots over on Twitter but I have more faith in getting some real replies here: where does one go to seek out good voice-over talent for hire?

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My next video is gonna be a huge fuckin deal to like 112 people on the planet.

Gonna see The Odyssey today. I don't think I've seen a thursday-premiere in at least 15 years.

Fuck AI. I'm sketching again.