🐈Rex Parker🐈⬛ ✏️ 🧐
@rexparker.bsky.social
Correct crossword opinions / aka Michael Sharp / Teaching lit stuff at Binghamton University / 2025 ACPT Pairs champion (w/ Penelope Harper) / https://letterboxd.com/realrexparker
Heartbreaking. @rexparker.bsky.social put "Hayfever" on the first mix he made me & I was taken from the start. pitchfork.com/story/trashc...
Trashcan Sinatras’ John Douglas Dies at 63
The news arrives four days after the release of their new album Ever the Optimist
pitchfork.com
“Hello my name is Cornelius, I am a YETI (4) who works at a garage somehow. Do you have a minute to talk about breast cancer awareness?”
Sometimes I see people on here being dicks to people I follow and I go find them and block them, as a little treat
I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
nytimes.com
Men, women, the need to keep churning out children, it’s all expendable grist for the labor machine! And if you’re not useful to that machine you should die! Then at least you benefit the machine in your dying by making it money through hospital bills!
This epic thread appears to be *still going* and it’s 🎯 😘
Yooty@yooty.bsky.social · 5d agoThe conservative solution for the “male loneliness epidemic” and decentering men is to just remove women from public spaces.
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🤳 Hero’s journey, food, killing some rich asshole, food … such is life 🎥
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 5d agoHappy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🤳
This movie fucking rules and I am excited to buy this disc. JLT forever!
Entertainment Factor@entfact.bsky.social · 5d agoThe French crime thriller WITHOUT APPARENT MOTIVE / SANS MOBILE APPARENT (1971) starring Jean-Louis Trintignant has been released on Blu-ray www.theentertainmentfactor.com/2026/07/with... #bluray #classicfilms #withoutapparentmotive #sansmobileapparent #jeanlouistrintignant @vinsyn.bsky.social
Sorting / culling my Apple Playlists and my god I crushed this one. Why did I make this for you, @libbycudmore.bsky.social ?? Just because I’m wonderful, I suspect. Lucky you ❤️ music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Dazzling imagination, keen insight, tenderness, humor: Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a major entry in the crucial and personal subgenre of movies about filmmaking: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” Desire and Terror Meet
Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, which follows a celebrated young filmmaker tapped to reboot an old horror franchise, is a cinematic manifesto that examines how art can inspire both love and fear.
newyorker.com
Managed to get through last Criterion sale with only three new titles. Restraint! Watched one of those titles yesterday—every bit as good as I remembered
THE THIRD MAN on 35mm — my California vacation already looking good. Hot, evil Orson Welles. Zither music. Ferris wheels. This movie has everything.
You cannot trick me into reading Joyce Carol Oates’s take on Emily Wilson’s take on Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer. I have stabbed myself in the eye once too often. I have no more eyes left to stab.
You cannot trick me into reading Joyce Carol Oates’s take on Emily Wilson’s take on Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer. I have stabbed myself in the eye once too often. I have no more eyes left to stab.
I don't know how to say this in a way that isn't snotty: if you are changing your writing intentionally to sound "not like AI" or whatever, I think extremely little of your craft. This is simply not a problem or a consideration for an even moderately developed writer www.wired.com/story/more-t...
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.
wired.com
Worked out for an hour and felt pretty good then got on socials for five minutes and welp
Big fucking ups to this quote from Dr. Davis tho: “It’s bewildering. It seemed weird and laughable,” Davis said of the indictment. “It felt like the length of the indictment was a cover for how thin it actually was. I’m a professor. I’ve seen people pad out papers when they’ve got nothing to say.”
futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
futurism.com
Done The 3-book, ~1000-page ode to 20c NYC is over. I don’t know what the Great American Novel is, but surely, collectively, this trilogy is something like it. Gonna miss the HSU (Harlem Shuffle Universe) … until, inevitably, I read the books again 📚
I have the sense that a lot of educators are done with partial policies ("if you use AI, you have to cite it"), as well as with the grim task of policing the technology, and are instead (like me) just turning their whole class into a defensive apparatus.
