The best ones are people asking about food product photos, because for that genre of image the answer is almost always "not AI but also only real in that there is an indexical relationship between object and image, and even then it's likely been mucked about a bit"

Matt Denny@mattdenny.bsky.social · 2d ago

browsing reddit is absolutely not good for me, but I cannot resist the fascinating window into how other people think. My current unhealthy obsession is "is it AI?" posts because some people incapable of thinking of outside the binary of real/ai ignoring other ways something might not be "real"

browsing reddit is absolutely not good for me, but I cannot resist the fascinating window into how other people think. My current unhealthy obsession is "is it AI?" posts because some people incapable of thinking of outside the binary of real/ai ignoring other ways something might not be "real"

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 01,1952

HAL 9000: My instructor was Mr Langley and he taught me to sing a song. If you's like to hear it, I can sing it for you? youtu.be/KUwjNBjqR-c?...

Cats In The Cradle-Harry Chapin

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Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago

A thought provoking piece. It's also really satisfying in seeing that I'm not alone in seeing this as a Christianised Odyssey, but the writer does more with this observation than I thought to and it is convincing

Dominic Dean@drdominicdean.bsky.social · 7d ago

I've written up some thoughts on Emily Wilson's review of The Odyssey; a little on what she got right, a lot on what I think she missed, and why it matters. dominicdean.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/o...

I don't entirely agree with the points made here as applied specifically to Wilson's review, but I do agree with it insofar as this describes general trends in accounts of cinema by experts from fields outside film/media that do not engage with the film as film. A good read

Elena Lazic@elazic.bsky.social · last wk.

Emily Wilson's piece on Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY for the LRB went viral and was received very positively by many — but not by virtually every film critic I know. For @animusmagazine.bsky.social I wrote about why: animus-magazine.ghost.io/a-tale-as-ol...

you're laughing, our age of bronze is collapsing and you're laughing

I need to stop reading the bottom half of the internet re Wilson, but so many people frame the review as trashing or eviserating Nolan's film and guys...I don't think it was a negative review? To be honest it wasn't even really a "review" in the sense these people seem to be treating it

it would be quite funny if the outcome of the project of tailoring curriculm to the needs of local employers reveals that actually much of UK industty is service, financial, clerical, data entry type jobs and so actually a general curriculum focusing on literacy, numeracy, civics is fine

These are lyrics from a weird 1979 UK post-punk band.

Girls Running From Houses@girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 3w ago

The house is giddy. The neighbour is self-sufficient. All the girl wants is steady employment.

This is what I find very odd about "The Discourse" - I keep seeing the LRB review positioned as some sort of antagonistic takedown and it's just ... a thoughtful opinion piece from the person most identified with the text in the public consciousness

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · last wk.

I enjoyed Nolan's ODYSSEY quite a bit, and found it more moving than expected. I also read Wilson's critique and found that both enjoyable and insightful. It's not even really a bad review -- it's an incisive dissection from the POV of someone whose knives have long been sharpened on the material.

Burnham's plan is very simple to execute: divide the nation up into different units of specialised production - districts if you will - with the capital specialisng in the culture industry. The curriculum of each district will be tailored to produce efficient workers and contestants for reality tv

I was already cold on Digger because I despise Iñárritu but I'm not sure I've ever been more actively repulsed by a film trailer and I had the misfortune of watching it in Liemax

I like that Wilson has clearly seen Nolan's other films, and reads this film in light of those. Wilson is also, as always, smart and sensible about the act of translation/adaptation (and in ways that tends to baffle hacks wanting antagonistic soundbites about fidelity) This is a measured evaluation

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · last wk.

Here is an archived link to Emily Wilson's takedown of Nolan's Odyssey, which seems to have partially crashed the LRB's site: archive.is/VOO3p

Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.

The Mummy (1999)

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 2w ago

How does one become indoctrinated into bisexuality?

an Understanding Comics equivalent for TTRPGs would be great, although that would need to be in the format of a TTRPG, which might get a bit recursive

Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social · 2w ago

Query: What guides are there (in any format) for how to read a tabletop roleplaying game?

Building an Ossuary and listening to Duran Duran is clearly the only sane response to the apocalypse. I wholeheartedly approve

28 Years Later reminded me more of Millions than 28 Days Later and I think that is almost 90% me being both incurably auteurist AND contrarian but there is something there about faith and melancholy from a preteen perspective that resonates for me

Musing on whether I think it is useful to do a week on revisionist westerns for my genre module. Now, if this were straightforwardly a westerns module I'd be doing this as a matter of course, but this is amodule that is supposed to teach genre broadly with the western as case study

Voxpops

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ok, talking about class in vox pops is now banned until it starts making any sense.

I can think of few companies who have so much goodwill backed up. I've missed them, and I wish them so much success. Welcome home. networkonair.com/blog/post/6-...

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Hello. We’re Network. Not the same old Network. We’re a brand-new team, excited and dedicated to making Britain’s TV and film heritage available to everyone.

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Parents favorite day… picture day 📸🤣 #CalvinandHobbes

"THE ODYSSEY is historically inaccurate" Oh word, did you notice that there is a Cyclops in it

Count the Rice is the episode of Game Changer that most accurately simulates what it must be like to step into a circle of toadstools and come to the attention of a powerful and capricious fairy

Does anyone know of any Cold War-era efforts to establish magical or psychic defences in Britain against nuclear attack, in the same way as magical groups in WW2 worked on occult protection against Nazi invasion?