I’m playing Shadow of the Colossus and feeling bad about it. I keeping saying “sorry buddy” out loud every time I kill a colossus

Scientist falsifies hypothesis, film at 11

In the spirit of transparency, I want to share a statement about the role of AI in my writing process: I would rather cave in my face with a brick than use it

I say this as someone who has been way less hot on Nolan's film than a lot of people I know but: That review from Emily Wilson is genuinely awful. We're talking a step or two away from cinema sins level criticism here

thinking about how much time alfred must spend scraping guano off the batmobile

I'm hesitant to declare that an individual text I'm predisposed to hate signals the downfall of civilization (cause that feels like right-wing nonsense most of the time) but Angry Birds 3 starring MrBeast sure seems like it could only be the product of a dying empire

here’s my offer, The Atlantic magazine, I will read the next “reactionary pretends to give honest advice to Democrats” take if you let me write a piece where I, a DSA member, pretend to give honest advice to Republicans

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:

Mr. Shit Head the Little Worm Who Sucks got 15% less racist. I profiled him for the fifth time to see how cool he is now.

Solrad kindly let me ramble at length about truth and fiction in the context of Joe Sacco's latest book. give it a read!

SOLRAD Magazine@solrad.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today on SOLRAD, we feature Tynan Stewart reviewing THE ONCE AND FUTURE RIOT by Joe Sacco solrad.co/on-the-impor... @tynan.unimportantbird.com

the odyssey was a genuine spectacle. but i was left wondering: if you took away Nolan's budget and IMAX and gave him a shitty camera, could he still make a good movie?

THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.

driving three hours to see the odyssey in 70mm is simultaneously the most film bro coded thing I've ever done and also so mild compared to some of the travel itineraries I've heard about

the Aeneid produced by the Asylum

edith@edithcharles.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chris Nolan has just made The Odyssey, but what other classical works should be made into films, and who should direct them? Greta Gerwig’s Antigone The Coen Brothers’ Metamorphoses Alfonso Cuarón’s Iliad

Rise and grind

Looks like Scalawag magazine got duped into publishing something from a pretty well-known AI scammer. I'm glad they quickly unpublished it. But the editors seemingly didn't do a single google search to check on this new contributor's credentials?

turns out the cure for male loneliness might be invasive species control

MPR News@mprnews.org · 3w ago

The Buckthorn Removal Singles Club meets every Sunday at a Minneapolis park to remove invasive plant species and create connections.

Someone should write a story about a curséd device, lusted after as a transformative source of power, that renders its users unnaturally youthful long beyond their time

IGN@ign.com · 3w ago

Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen will return as Frodo and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum — more than 25 years on from when Fellowship of the Ring released, and now director Andy Serkis has said some level of digital de-aging will be used. https://bit.ly/4fxOKI3

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'

Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".

thepinknews.com

donate to Wikipedia also this is the funniest shit

Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 4w ago

“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

404media.co

I don't care how often I see this, I'm still not going to buy the panopticon shades

No reason gay Jesus couldn't also be shredded. People forget that he rolled that boulder away from the entrance to his tomb all by himself

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4w ago

Pastor Martin Sedra fumes that "America has created this gay version of Jesus Christ": "Jesus was not effeminate. Jesus was a bold lion. I always tell people Jesus was not a soft guy. He had six packs. He was the most ripped guy you'll ever meet."

This is not remotely a “shocking breach of journalistic ethics.” She told him not to come to her house, he came anyway, let himself in and (allegedly) raped her. The texts don’t change the basic parameters of the story.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago

"she asked for it"

The primary villain in The Atlantic's massive cover story on the "end of reading" is short form video and the internet, but the author didn't forget to make a little dig at comics (because of course)

Non-zero chance that Platner resurfaces six months from now on Joe Rogan as part of a right-wing pivot. It's basically a law of nature for these dudes

one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 4w ago

#BrokenTimes: "Republicans have taken a different tack.... It is a question on which the left and right have largely diverged"

The actual breach of journalistic ethics here is Ryan Grim framing this as an important scoop. Jesus

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago

"she asked for it"

"she asked for it"

say what you will about ants, those guys have the grindset