Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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The translator and scholar has low media literacy when it comes to movies (or is pretending to). If she thinks the attack on Troy is meant to be celebratory...

Eric 👨🏻‍💻@eman41.bsky.social · yesterday

This passage makes me want to just log off and throw my phone in the river. The discourse on this has officially reached its end

new Katie Skelly interview by Hagai Palevsky in The Comics Journal: www.tcj.com/survival-is-...

'Survival is Aspirational': An Interview with Katie Skelly - The Comics Journal

The promotional copy for Katie Skelly’s graphic novel, Heaven, informs us that the new book is Skelly’s first outing in six years. In other words, it tells us: Katie Skelly is back. Of course, to thos...

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Eligible to vote for the Harvey Awards are all professional comic creators — "writers, artists, colors, letterers, designers and editors" — plus "publishing professionals (sales, marketing, etc.), comic book retailers and librarians." Apply to vote at the link here. Voting closes Aug 28.

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Dylan's "Forever Young" performed at Glen Hansard's funeral: youtu.be/sGvN_Peaq9c

Glen Hansard funeral concludes with a rousing rendition of Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young' | RTÉ News

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The brilliant voices behind RogerEbert.com asked me to expand my thread on Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY as a pointed assessment of America as “empire at dusk” into a full essay, which I was honored to do. Please read/share—and thanks to @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social @briantallerico.bsky.social for the invite!

RogerEbert.com@ebertvoices.bsky.social · yesterday

"Nolan’s film is not a misbegotten attempt to modernize a classic—it is a deft and purposeful reflection of America in this moment, seen through the glass of mythological metaphor." Jeff Yang writes about THE ODYSSEY and the “people from the sea.”

I love em dashes so much that I even added a shortcut in my phone keyboard for them. — — — ! Generative AI detection tools are themselves AI and are therefore unreliable like other AI is.

Zack Davisson@zackdavisson.com · yesterday

This is the new worry for authors--that "detection tools" will say our work is AI. I heard a "clear sign of AI" is em dashes. Well you want to know what I fucking love--what I put an excess amount of into everything I write? That's right. Em dashes.

“Uber’s strategy recycles an old and ugly script: If a woman drank, if she rode alone, if it was late, if her memory is imperfect, then maybe she is to blame,” Ms. Engstrom said. “But those are precisely the circumstances when Uber told consumers its service was supposed to protect them.”

David Bixenspan@davidbix.com · yesterday

Fucking hell. (Gift link/no paywall.)

Emily Wilson is condescendingly rude & misses points about Nolan's Odyssey, & now she's written ANOTHER piece on it. 🙄 If you have to read it, it's best to use a gift article link, so here's one. Maybe I'll read it later myself, but right now I can't be bothered. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside It

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is full of contradictions about deceit and violence.

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"If Nolan’s film really is 'woke', this is why – because it’s fundamentally a film about the value of multilateralism produced for an increasingly nationalistic world. Musk and co seem to have missed this message. But it’s the real reason why they should hate the film." Peter Swallow on The Odyssey:

The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview | Peter Swallow

The new film extols the value of a rules-based world order. That’s far more radical than any casting decision says Labour MP and classicist Peter Swallow

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This is easily the most interesting discussion about Nolan's Odyssey I've come across so far. Chinese academic Zhong Shu interviews Nolan & asks him about the thematic meaning of his adaptation, which is my favorite aspect of the movie. youtu.be/wa4I8Ch2TRo

Christopher Nolan talks narrative decisions, film critics and whether he Christianised The Odyssey

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Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 5d ago

this interview with Nolan from a Chinese outlet is the best i've heard on The Odyssey so far. really worth listening to. (lmao what is this link image?)

Even many actors don't know what method acting is. Here's Ellen Burstyn talking about method acting in a recent interview with Farran Smith Nehme for the Criterion release of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: youtu.be/WpvMPdObkRg?...

Ellen Burstyn on Making ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE with Martin Scorsese (Excerpt)

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Like the book Hell, Ink, and Water, here's another exhibition catalogue book for a Mike Mignola art show at Philippe Labaune Gallery in NYC. I'm sure the show'll be amazing! Watercolors, pencil drawings, & ink drawings. Circus of Bones 144 pages, $50, hardcover imagecomics.com/comics/relea...

CIRCUS OF BONES HC THE ART OF MIKE MIGNOLA

This is the official hardcover catalog of the upcoming MIKE MIGNOLA gallery show at the Philippe Labaune Gallery in New York City.

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"In this shot, you're gonna lumber on down there to the little girl with the flowers..."

Opening Saturday for another Marvel movie. At my local Regal multiplex, ten of their twenty screens are devoted to the new Spider-Man film, totaling 58 screenings today. There are 43 screenings of other movies there for a total of 101 screenings. More than half the theater is showing the MCU movie.

This is easily the most interesting discussion about Nolan's Odyssey I've come across so far. Chinese academic Zhong Shu interviews Nolan & asks him about the thematic meaning of his adaptation, which is my favorite aspect of the movie. youtu.be/wa4I8Ch2TRo

Christopher Nolan talks narrative decisions, film critics and whether he Christianised The Odyssey

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Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 5d ago

this interview with Nolan from a Chinese outlet is the best i've heard on The Odyssey so far. really worth listening to. (lmao what is this link image?)

I'm glad the guy who reviews comics for The New York Times has better taste in comics than he does in music.

"Latter Days" is my favorite Over the Rhine song from my favorite album of theirs, one of my top ten favorite records by anyone, Good Dog Bad Dog. youtu.be/FQxC9tIMuJM

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Speaking of Over the Rhine, when they played their Tom Waits tribute song "Don't Wait for Tom" live, Karin Bergquist would add to the percussion by hitting a cookie sheet, I think with a mallet. Here's the studio version. youtu.be/hHa8LhCHkTI

Don't Wait For Tom

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If I could interview the original quartet, or at least Karin Bergquist & Linford Detweiler, I'd choose Over the Rhine's album Good Dog Bad Dog: The Home Recordings. I'd include reflection on the impact the record has had & also info on the re-release with "It's Never Quite What It Seems."

Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d ago

You have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

"Loving Marvel Movies Is Not a Personality, and No One Makes Hating Marvel Movies Their Whole Personality Anyway, You Straw Manning Dipshit"

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

This is from the short TV series Orson Welles' Sketch Book. The whole show was just him talking to the camera for about 15 minutes, plus some sketches he drew. 6 episodes (included in the playlist linked below) & a postscript episode, all of which can be seen on YouTube. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Orson Welles Sketchbook (1955) - YouTube

The complete collection of episodes from "Orson Welles' Sketchbook" including the hard to find final episode.

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Every file.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

"Somewhere in the bleak mid-distance, something beautiful is born."

Yeah. Trump isn't some master strategist. He's a stupid bully with very few tools in his toolbox. He lies and threatens and uses force, but he can't duck and weave, he can't feint, he can't take one on the chin... His "art of the deal" is just to try bullying. That's all he's got.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 6d ago

The thing I wish that more Democrats and threatened universities and vilified news organizations understood better about Trump is this: He never has a second move. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

What a surprise.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Thanks to my friend Andy, I saw Glen Hansard (1970-2026) play with a band at DAR Constitution Hall in DC back in 2015. Richard Thompson opened for him solo and later joined him onstage for a 1960s song by Thompson's old band Fairport Convention, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes": youtu.be/ypWZPzLub_g

Glen Hansard with Richard Thompson - Who Knows Where The Time Goes

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Glen Hansard (1970-2026) covering Dylan's "Pressing On" youtu.be/PnAw3xitJak

Pressing On

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