“Science-speak” has invaded the fashion, beauty, and food industries—even as actual science has come under considerable threat, @elcush.bsky.social argues. She explores the rise of faux-scientific jargon:

New blog post! Wrote about new/reissued records from Cub @mintrecords.bsky.social, Peaer @peaer.bsky.social, Eleven Plus Two = Twelve Plus One @old3clabelgroup.bsky.social, and Wormy:

With help from his father, Larry, and their billions in Oracle money, David Ellison is trying to become the biggest studio mogul in Hollywood history.

New research presents the most compelling evidence yet that generative AI directly stores and reproduces material used to train it—a finding that could have massive legal consequences for the tech industry, Alex Reisner reports.

New blog post! Wrote about new albums from The Fragiles @dsett.bsky.social, Winged Wheel @12xurecs.bsky.social, Six Going on Seven @spartanrecords.bsky.social, and Clémentine March:

Steven Soderbergh’s smart spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box office is so hard to predict these days, and how he built his career filming “two people in a room”

With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium. Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...

Provare a tirare le somme su Football Manager 26 probabilmente è prematuro ancora oggi, ma sono se non altro emerse ormai due tendenze che vale la pena sottolineare: una verso la rivoluzione, e un’altra verso la conservazione. Di @giscoli.bsky.social.

These are the Essential Albums of 2025.

And the winner is… ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America has been voted best film of 2025 by our critics Find out what Sight and Sound critics have voted as the 50 best films of the year www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The way that encrypted chat apps handle backups can be a loophole, so knowing how they work—and how those you communicate with use this feature—is very important. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

“The authoritarianism of digital modernity operates through faceless collectivity. Its commands arrive not as decrees but as design choices. Its tyrannies are those of the nudge, the notification, the algorithm.” — @pettertornberg.com & @uitermark.bsky.social

What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.

Meet the scrappy new generation of shoegaze, dream pop, and post-punk bands shaking up the seven-country strip that bridges North and South America.

The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general. By @jessicakiang.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

This year has been grim for professional arts criticism. @skornhaber.bsky.social reports on the fans, stans, and influencers who are filling the gap:

Le locandine memorabili di Drew Struzan

New & Notable: The Australian cult band returns with a three-LP epic of tonal shifts, evolving motifs, and roiling phases.

“We were comfortable with the discomfort”: Six Finger Satellite’s J Ryan Six Finger Satellite frontman and synth player J Ryan talks to @jjstannard.bsky.social about the making of the Rhode Island group’s newly reissued 1995 Severe Exposure album www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/i...

The AI doomsayers are warning of a bubble, but—at least for now—that doesn't seem to matter to AI’s biggest investors, Will Gottsegen writes in The Atlantic Daily.

Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. But these days, they seem to have a sunnier outlook. What happened?

An optical system that induces random fluctuations in a laser beam could be faster and more efficient at generating images than conventional computers are go.nature.com/3USWZn4

A.I. tools unlocked “the sort of creative life I only dreamed of when I was younger,” one of the creators of an A.I. sketch-comedy show said. The technology put him in mind of “the auteur culture of the 60s and 70s.”

Millions of people worldwide have reason to be thankful that Swedish engineer Rune Elmqvist decided not to practice medicine. Although qualified as a doctor, he chose to invent medical equipment instead.

The addition of a fourth guitarist and improviser adds a knotty element to Modern Nature's spare, architectural indie folk on "The Heat Warps," our Album of the Day.

C’è una nuova serie del creatore di “BoJack Horseman”

"It's A Beautiful Place," the exuberant new record from Brooklyn art-pop duo Water From Your Eyes, is our Album of the Day.

"If conflicts are neatly resolved or avoided altogether, if every emotion is met with perfect affirmation, children may lose the opportunity to practice one of the most important developmental skills: learning to connect with people who are not programmed to go along with them."

A future filled with many AI personas — from the bad boy to the brown-noser — isn’t a mistake; it’s the best way to work with the technology, Phil Nolan argues. #aipersona #ai

New & Notable: The latest record from No Joy is a triumphant work of dreamy 90s alt rock with a black metal touch courtesy of co-producer Fire-Toolz.

#AlienEarth is more than Noah Hawley's splashy new exercise in IP management and franchise expansion; the series blazes its own path and wrestles with complicated questions of identity, morality, and control.

New & Notable: Crunchy, left-field noise rock from a power trio fronted by experimental guitar luminary Wendy Eisenberg; Krallice's Colin Marston produces.

Best known as lead vocalist of Galaxie 500, Dean Wareham has a new solo album. He spoke to Jacobin about what it means for music to be political in times when it’s hard to watch the news.

Natalie Bergman triumphs with sleek, swirling, '60s soul atmospherics on her sophomore record. It's our Album of the Day.

The Lofi Girl with chill beats to relax/study to was born in Studio Ghibli's Whisper Of The Heart. As it turns 30, we look at the unique legacy of a singular film:

From surreal odysseys to sexual awakenings, the swimming pool has long been depicted as a site of transformation, nostalgia and fluid identity

Don Caballero fused post-hardcore and prog rock for indie's answer to jazz fusion. Here are some highlights from the Pittsburgh band's discography.

These new releases, reissues, and compilations may be off the radar, but they're just as worthy of a listen.

Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.

You sound like ChatGPT

Wes Anderson has earned a reputation for his meticulously styled, diorama-like worlds. But the director has always been “clearly responsive to modern life”—and especially so in his new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” writes David Sims:

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol

Sword of the Sea, a new game from Giant Squid and the director of ABZÛ and art director of Journey, captures the calming, meditative side of surfing and skating. Read our preview. www.pastemagazine.com/games/sword-...

May was a fantastic month for jazz on Bandcamp. Here are the new releases to know.

In countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, tech giants are following in the footsteps of China’s WeChat, combining ride-hailing, shopping, payments, and delivery into one super-app: “I used to juggle between so many apps … Now, I just use one app; it’s so much simpler.”

“The death of the author is the birth of the critical reader.” — @davidgunkel.bsky.social #ai #author #writer

For years, Hollywood studios found it cheaper to shoot outside of California. And now that the TV and movie industry has collapsed, elsewhere is the only place they’ll shoot.

Color Theory: Wes Anderson and the comforting warmth of The Royal Tenenbaums -- A film color investigation. www.pastemagazine.com/movies/wes-a...

May's Best Ambient roundup has arrived.

The 50 best movie deaths of all time: A collection of the best cinematic deaths ever died. Shea Whigham’s death in Skull Island IS on here, right? www.pastemagazine.com/movies/movie...