Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
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He/him. Works at https://bsky.app/profile/filmstories.bsky.social, freelance writing & layout. Rides bikes; watches bike races. Birmingham City supporter. Rugby dad… Also music stuff, nerd stuff, #BobDylan stuff and all manner of opinionated bullshit.
🔥🔥🔥🔥 “All of the speculation and hype around A.I. is hiding the fact that the technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d agoAnyway, I made a reading list in public. I try to avoid doing that. The Twitter “syllabus” wars scarred me. It’s gonna be a touchy few days.
The consoles we can no longer afford because AI is about to end the concept of employment are now even more expensive.
Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 3d agoXbox has finally revealed the price hikes recently rolled out across its hardware, and Xbox consoles in the UK are now between 34 and 49 percent more expensive than they were last month. https://bit.ly/4xdRVuq
Rod Liddle wrote (amongst other disgusting stuff) in a national newspaper that he wanted to put up piano wire across roads at neck height to target people cycling. That probably added and encouraged others. That was enough to make me despise him. road.cc/content/news...
‘Tempting’ – Sunday Times columnist Rod Liddle on stretching piano wire across road to target cyclists
Sunday Times columnist Rod Liddle has said in today’s edition of the newspaper that he finds it “tempting” to stretch piano wire across the road to target cyclists – something that, as we reported las...
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Today has definitely been a day that I have lived... But I kinda wish I'd never got out of bed to be honest
Every person who aligns with Trump just further proves the idea that he's like poison; every one seems like that 'maybe it'll work for us' Arrested Development meme. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
English FA to drop support for Gianni Infantino after Wales withdraw backing
The English football association looks set to follow Wales in dropping support for Gianni Infantino’s re-election bid at Fifa
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Suddenly getting lots of follows from 'script festivals' who are keen on people paying them to read their material and 'consider' it, awww that's nice of them. Reminded: money is supposed to flow *towards* the writer, not away from.
Just back up what @ironspike.bsky.social is saying here, is the fact that Dr. Sarah Higgins smashed this record by days. www.own2026.com
Really good new Spidey. Possibly the best of the four for me.
At last, a movie that dares to ask: 'What if there were a Wicker Man?' youtu.be/HP0BWBWn14I?...
WICKER | Official Trailer | Only In Theaters October
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Film Stories 'Friday' Tee
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Film Stories@filmstories.bsky.social · 6d agoFortitude, a $45m thriller starring Nicolas Cage and from the director of Con Air, has been stolen from Netflix's offices. Now its producer is suing the streamer for $105m. filmstories.co.uk/news/netflix...
After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”
Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
You may have seen Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey but have you seen the 80s TV show Ulysses 31? Well, you should! youtu.be/qINRF4xZp58
Ulysses 31 - the 80s animated TV show that adapted The Odyssey
You might have seen Christopher Nolan's excellent The Odyssey but we recommend you check out the 80s show Ulysses 31! SUBSCRIBE:…
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Mr. Krabs Plays the World's Smallest Sad Violin
Alt: Mr. Krabs Plays the World's Smallest Sad Violin
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Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last wk.Social-media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate face threats to their lives in the Miami jail where the brothers are being held pending extradition on UK rape charges, their lawyer said
RIP Glen Hansard. His great version of Pressing On hits different today
Pressing On
YouTube video by Glen Hansard - Topic
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It is 2005. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2012. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2018. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations.. It is 2025. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2026. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allega--
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Don't beat yourself up, for whomst among us could have foreseen this..?
John Bleasdale@www.johnbleasdale.com · last wk.How did I not see this coming?
OTD: JJB SUPER LEAGUE 1999 London Broncos 16 Bradford Bulls 19 Welford Road, 28 July Despite seemingly no online photographic evidence, Welford Road hosted its first rugby league game in 1999. The Broncos would play twice more at the ground in 2001 and 2004, losing the lot.
I miss when I could look at a book cover or indie comic or basically anything else, and didn't have to stare at it with great suspicion looking for signs that it's been made with GenAi crap. I'm absolutely sick of this, I want all those damn datacentres shut down.
He should think about the weasley power-grab that enabled David Cameron and the Tory austerity agenda every single day; and he should never be allowed to go on a rehabilitation apology tour to say he regrets any of his woeful decisions. He should, in fact, fuck all the way off.
Chris Farnell@thebrainofchris.bsky.social · last wk.I'm honestly always a bit surprised to discover Nick Clegg thinks about, or even remembers that he was once the Deputy Prime Minister of the UK.
It's true... We decided not to spaff £60-odd quid for us all to see He-Man for exactly this reason. I cashed in my Father's Day chip to take us all to see Disclosure Day when I'm pretty sure the kids would've preferred the original plan to go out for dinner. 🤷♂️
Dan Owen@danowen.bsky.social · last wk.It’s dispiriting seeing MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE and DISCLOSURE DAY come to streaming already. I’m glad I saw them on the big screen, but it’s just so obvious that films aren’t making as much money because it’s SO cost-effective for families to just wait, what, a month or so? Madness.
these Young Male Christians should form some sort of Association, then they could offer services beyond gymnasiums and shower facilities, such as short-term lodging at which it might be fun to stay
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2w agofoolproof 👍
In which I argue that Elon Musk really should make his own Odyssey, because it will almost certainly crash the AI filmmaking scene in the same way he screwed up Twitter. filmstories.co.uk/features/elo...
Elon Musk absolutely should make his AI version of The Odyssey
Angered by Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Elon Musk has vowed to make his own AI version of the tale this year. Here’s why he should:
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fucking depressing story about a website that rocked and will hopefully someday rock again
Walter Hickey@walthickey.bsky.social · 2w agofascinating story from one of the best movie data guys about one of the best movie data guys stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...
