FB Meta has to be the shittiest thing around. I will be so glad when facebook finally dies.

Adobe CC just became more expensive because of AI. Though you can get a cheaoer olan without AI. It probably means that the non AI plan is going to become shittier and shittier till you shell out for the more expensive plan ugh helpx.adobe.com/creative-clo...

NYC, you'd be insane to not vote for him. bsky.app/profile/zohr...

We’ll be in Toronto for our world premiere. Say hello if you are there. youtu.be/vFvbpDoQYT4?...

Very exciting news! April 27th will be the world premiere of Marriage Cops at the Hot Docs Film Festival, a film that @shashwati.com and Cheryl Hess have been working on for years. If you are in Toronto please spread the word. It is an amazing film, so don't miss it.

beyond defense a price must be extracted. son of a bitch must pay

Not only the first but ONLY Hollywood union that has ever said anything about Gaza. They also don't make a lot of money. I know people feel hesitant to give to Hollywood folks (I understand) but animators deserve your support

Why #Netflix sucks. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Trump, in one song. youtu.be/tQLllnGww8M?...

The Onion nails it.

The Uberization of media consumption and production. And a revelation about that well kept secret: Netiflixes viewer numbers. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/m...

mmm breakfast.

The prosthetic trauma of Dark Tourism in Israel, and its role in the unhinged colonial genocide of the Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Penguin chicks miraculously survive tearaway iceberg

AAP leader Atishi took oath on Saturday as Delhi's third woman Chief Minister and became the youngest of all three to hold the top office in the National Capital. She also became the 17th woman to hold the post of Chief Minister in independent India. www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...

Bellingcat’s Pooja Chaudhuri reveals how articles based on disinformation and hateful content on Indian websites are continuing to generate profit through Google’s Adsense programme and other ad tech platforms despite being debunked by fact-checkers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08...

This is very funny.

Why isn’t X dead yet? A business model that is based on misinformation and trolling deserves to die. Oh and #ToxucElonMusk must go.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Harris to Trump: Bok bok bok bok bok

I think we may be slightly overreacting to the NYT piece on the Trump debate “agreement” in that NYT let the intern write it.

Trump clutching his pearls. So #weird. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... #TrumpWeird #JDWeird

Wargaming Trump 2 and coming up short "Time is short, and the work of preparation demands more ambition and more hands on deck."

“networked misogyny across multiple global platforms that will earn tech bro owners billions of dollars – and decide the 2024 election. It’s misogyny that will dictate the future of NATO, the war in Ukraine, peace or war in Europe. A firehose that will be directed at a single woman – Kamala Harris”

NBC just said the French built the Olympic Village so it could be converted into housing after the Games. Know how the US designed Lake Placid’s Olympic Village in 1980? No lie—so it could be converted into a Federal prison. Which it still is, to this day.

What?! Academic publishers are known to be evil. But this evil? Wow. www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...

The magic of Camlin. Not just a nostalgic fetish for deprivation. READ: In pre-liberalisation India, Camlin delivered a quiet reassurance about India’s own capability indianexpress.com/article/opin...

He did not become a right winger because his child came out as trans. His daughter came out as trans & like many right wing people he is now retroactively using that as a coward's justification for his radical beliefs. He is the world's greatest beneficiary of apartheid. He was always right wing.

Did Buddhism all by die in India by the 13th and 14th centuries? - Not at all.

Modi will adapt to what the situation demands of him. I misjudged him when I thought he was an archetypal fascist rather he's an adaptive one. The next major manoeuvre can only happen if the opposition performs well in the coming assembly election i.e., Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Haryana.

Sortition (election by the random drawing of lots) is arguably a better method of electing our president than one we currently have: a system where the votes of less than 0.09% of the population, living in just five "swing states," will decide for us.

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