BLUE HERON. good movie

Caught a small chunk of Christian Marclay’s THE CLOCK at LACMA (~3:50-4:23). Didn’t realize how much it would make you think less about when a clock is on screen and more when time is given in the script—not just for suspense (“you have one hour”) but by characters often getting the time wrong

I didn't notice until now that Rutger Hauer's character in BATMAN BEGINS--the jackass interim CEO of Wayne Enterprises--really looks like Donald Trump, at the time a famous billionaire celebrity

Douthat at 60 Min is a misunderstanding of his talents. This is not someone you want to see do investigative journalism, you want him to earnestly believe a demon might live inside a computer and to quiz an AI engineer about Carl Schmitt to find out if it’s true

when we said “bring back shame” this is exactly what we meant none of these assholes should be allowed to buy coffee in peace

𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷@jastuart68.bsky.social · 2w ago

Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.

look at this set of a train station used for an episode of ONE STEP BEYOND (1959-61)

I think it's fine

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 3w ago

I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.

Wow……..an IVY LEAGUE professor did that? At the IVY LEAGUES???!?!?

Happy Bastille Day!

aw man. the horror roles were timeless but he’ll always be Dr. Grant to me

Jam Walker@jamwa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Seemingly hasn't even hit the news yet. It went up on his Instagram 5 minutes ago. Awful.

nooooooo they would never do such a thing

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 4w ago

hey so it's starting to feel a bit like liberals on this site are using Platner's allegations as a blunt instrument to discipline the progressive left and maybe that's not a good idea

Night two in LA: evacuating my apartment because the fucking penthouse suite caught fire lmao

the headline is bad enough for platner but if you dig in and read this piece its just so, so much worse. he’s really gotta step out of the race immediately

Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · last mo.

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

his latest impressionist masterpiece

interesting to watch the broadcast of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix as the series finale of American Conservative television programming

a lot of Signifying happening today

I just cleared a reminder that has been sitting past due since late May and let me tell you what, it DOES get better

Great YouTube channel I stumbled across posted a great video yesterday on Russian Constructivism. Really interesting visual language for public teaching online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8viO...

The Forgotten Movement That Invented Modern Design

YouTube video by Design Docs

youtube.com

Puzzled by this view of retail investors that seems to assume they have rationally chosen to throw money they can’t afford at the largest growing industry in the market, the core of which is a mystical machine every wealthy person promises will be the most important tool in human history

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i am a retail investor. my strongest belief is that the nonconsensual pornography machine the government uses to kill children is worth twenty five trillion dollars

Flying back home to Portland for the last time after securing an apartment in LA. Next two weeks are going to be very strange

In 300 years, people will know more about the 1700s than the 21st century. AI is not only anti-human, its anti-history.

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

Foiled by three different AI apartment booking failures in two days during my hunt down in LA. One sent me to a ghost address halfway across town and gave me a phone number for the wrong agent. Maybe if I give it my social security number it would work better

They put me on a Star Wars plane

Rick Warren?!? lmao

maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 2mo ago

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Per another poster’s point: Republicans have tried to destroy plaintiff’s lawyers, Planned Parenthood, labor unions, ACORN, tenured faculties, and other groups perceived as leaning left for as long as I’ve been alive. Yes, slippery slopes, etc. — but turnabout isn’t just fair play, it’s deterrence.

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I feel it’s sort of underrated the extent to which a Dem Congress and/or states could (1) absolutely destroy car dealerships as a business, and (2) this would cripple a lot of GOP state and local parties

I feel it’s sort of underrated the extent to which a Dem Congress and/or states could (1) absolutely destroy car dealerships as a business, and (2) this would cripple a lot of GOP state and local parties

AG Andrea Joy Campbell@massago.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My office is putting car dealerships on notice. Today, we issued an advisory asserting that Massachusetts law requires transparent pricing in ads. Purchasing a car is a significant investment, you deserve upfront pricing, not hidden fees. I'll hold companies accountable to protect your bottom line.

most detailed reporting I've seen on the back and forth between anthropic and the white house. same basic shape reported elsewhere but more texture and quotes

Inside the whirlwind 24 hours that led the White House to slap export controls on Anthropic

A series of tense calls between Anthropic’s CEO and administration officials on Friday underscore how the White House is wrestling with advanced AI models.

politico.com

This is of course very troubling. But I can’t help wonder why the process described here—a leading expert at photographic forensics not being able to tell the difference between an AI video and a real event—is entirely sandboxed in the video. There is other evidence of events!

The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes

nytimes.com

Has anybody in media studies written about the Quote Tweet?