STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Some of the high quality content Zuckerberg’s platform is algorithmically shoveling into the brains of American consumers. This story is 100% made up, in case that wasn’t obvious.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

every time I see a notable media person say something odd about the notable person who was killed this week, I remember how working at CJR taught me many white journalists find it easier to sympathize and empathize with right wing individuals than non-white journalists they actually work with

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

More straight-up censorship. Children’s hospital staff can’t talk about the dangers of war to children because …“safety”.

Same 🌷🌷

Entergy CEO: We're giving up on our 2030 climate goals. But we're still hopeful for 2050 because Meta will do... something. Magic maybe? www.nola.com/news/busines...

The greatest minds in history are on the case

These people are on another planet.

The mask offness of these last few years we are living thru a terror era

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I want to know what Deadline thinks live-action means.

Honestly sometimes I get so confused how ppl in the lap of wealth in the west can still be such...18th century racists. The woman in this article sounds as if she's a page from a colonial pamphlet titled sthing like"The Angery Savage skull is designed to Ravaage her Milky Skin and Tendere Heart"

It’s ludicrous and insulting to suggest that the richest university in Australia can’t afford the two part-time wages to run Meanjin. Also: did they even try to save it? Donation drive? Philanthropic efforts? Offering it to another institution? No. The university council shut it down intentionally.

Some comments from strangers sweeping into my DMs as Crisis Actor ended and making me feel a little 🤯😭...I appreciate the reach out so much. Making any art can feel like a yell in the dark, but hybrid stuff like this? Grateful the subjects we care bout translated so viscerally for many. 💕💕

Some comments from strangers sweeping into my DMs as Crisis Actor ended and making me feel a little 🤯😭...I appreciate the reach out so much. Making any art can feel like a yell in the dark, but hybrid stuff like this? Grateful the subjects we care bout translated so viscerally for many. 💕💕

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Coming down from like the high of working on crisis actor, and like, the limerence for all the wonderful people I worked with is real tough right now.

More great responses to CRISIS ACTOR. Giddy tht crowds have been so enthused, moved and thoughtful by this experimental freak child we loved making. Only 6 tickets left for the whole season.

More great responses to CRISIS ACTOR. Giddy tht crowds have been so enthused, moved and thoughtful by this experimental freak child we loved making. Only 6 tickets left for the whole season.

Loving these responses coming thru after opening CRISIS ACTOR last night. Glad this risky wild labour of love is reaching its ppl and according to a few msgs "haunting" them into the next day. 👻👻👻

So glad you loved it, working on all the design and dev for web, phone, networking what’s it and stuff has been so rewarding, had quite a few “every theatre show should have a live chat” comments which is very gen Z sure, but to me it feels great to make something that’s really sat with folks.

CRISIS ACTOR is a cutting-edge combination of digital media and live art and theatre. It's overwhelming in the way the world is overwhelming. Nobody makes work like @vidyarajan.bsky.social and the whole team have created a show I hope has a longer life.

Loving these responses coming thru after opening CRISIS ACTOR last night. Glad this risky wild labour of love is reaching its ppl and according to a few msgs "haunting" them into the next day. 👻👻👻

It’s interesting but also depressing as hell watching ai boosters who see themselves as nominally progressive come to terms with this fact, even if the tech is neutral, it is culturally controlled by such fascist and racist elements that you can’t really responsibly use it rn

Hot girls keep coming to our show Crisis Actor at arts house for now or never, if you want to become a hot girl you should join them. Everyone’s a hot girl in the crisis house chat.

The chat at the show is so thirsty I get embarro

Ruby's interaction& visual design for this work is next level. Literally built a system from scratch. Live performance + u get to be on ur phone all the time...how can u miss this?? <3

ICE's show of force today in Los Angeles is grim but largely symbolic. They'll kidnap fewer people today than average. We knew they were planning something because their operational tempo slacked from Jul 4-6. Community members got to #MacArthurPark hours ahead of time to warn residents.

Crisis Actor is a hybrid theatre work including actors in real life web technology, game engines, real time processing, motion capture #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Each of the speakers has a practice that crosses multiple fields of work - theatre - literature - performance - comedy - web design and development - 2D and 3D animation - game development - real time processing #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Rushed back from lunch to @free-play.bsky.social for Edge Case Love with @vidyarajan.bsky.social @quail.bsky.social Quinn Franks & Sam McGilp talking about their upcoming hybrid theatre work "Crisis Actor" happening later in August for Now Or Never #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." ~ Agatha Christie Summer (1911) 🎨 Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky

War crimes as a form of marketing

In a cynical sense, this seems only consequent. After all, drones are both deadly weapons and media devices, and killing and image production are part of the same operation. It's not surprising (but nevertheless terrifying) that these images are reused to advertise what these devices are capable of

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Horrifying idea

How revolutionary would this be if made widely available?!

wtf is vibe coding im gonna punch u in the dick

wtf is vibe coding im gonna punch u in the dick

Behold, we've got another one of history's little guys!

ok but how does the particle know which other distant particle it's supposed to be in a quantum entanglement with? or that it will accept??? feeling anxious just thinking of the rejection.

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

seeing Agincourt in a lot of culture and art at the moment. what's up with that? deranged sociological theories only!

A broad class of problems can be chalked up to a cultural change wherein imagining has come to be seen as a more real form of understanding the world than other ways of knowing, and participatory lying is a more real form of legitimating truth than other social epistemologies