I have a policy about not writing or commenting on pieces of media that I haven't experienced firsthand, but it really sucks with Indian films where I have so much I want to comment on but that doesn't mean I want to sit through a 3 hour Hindutva seminar just for research purposes😒

Dhurandhar and Salaar have got me convinced that sequelitis in the Indian film industry is finally paying off. If you'd told me 2 months ago that Dhurandhar 2 was going to be half flashback and half conclusion ala Baahubali, I would have rolled my eyes. But they seem to be doing well with it.

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

I'm genuinely curious to see how HBO handles the BG3 serious but more thankful than anything that they are explicitly not looking at the first two games at all -- the callbacks were the worst written part of BG3 by far although I seem to be in the minority of ogBG fans in liking the Durge mostly

Got any plans for Monday, January 9? Tune in to our "Hot Takes" episode with community organizer, tastemaker, and scenebuilder @rogecorp.bsky.social! You'll find us at twitch.tv/hottakesvapor at 8PM ET that night with @luxuryelite.bsky.social and @yungshiro.bsky.social as your hosts. See you then!

Sometimes I worry that Zoë doesn't connect to my interests in the same way but then she says things like "Lady Gaga's Grammy performance was like the interval scene from 'Vikram'" and I'm like no one has probably uttered that sentence before but TRU

In fond remembrance of my 3 Mile Island memorial mug, an item which no one seemed to find as remotely funny as I did. Real Pennsylvania history there tho.

It would be great if AI could actually do things. Like if I could tell my computer in natural language to organize a folder of 7000 ROMs removing duplicates by prioritizing English releases- that would be great! But the much celebrated Gemini 3 still cannot count letters. LLMs are not the AI we need

I was not an AI luddite, but in 2026 as the world feels like brakes without pads metal on metal squealing rawness, it's hard not to see genAI as a tool of control to wrestle back the freedom we gained via the dawn of the internet. They are rewiring and draining our brains. Deskilling is declawing

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Guess I can reveal that I'll be handling the music for this! Gonna be aggressive and more industrial, can't wait for y'all to hear it~

We love you, Hwaesa Auto

Rest in peace @zaturnvalley.bsky.social. No words, just going to be spinning your tapes on repeat this week. 💔 Your memory will truly be eternal to us all.

Come get Yakuza 3 for cheap before they ruin it

What do you mean Jeffrey Epstein was permabanned from Xbox live

"Ubik" by Philip K. Dick

All the energy spent worrying about whether Signal is safe would be better spent making sure you and the people you're talking to on there have their digital hygiene in good standing, overall. Here's a guide with useful food for thought from IGD (2019): itsgoingdown.org/signal-fails/

I like the energy of Upscrolled but I feel like adding another social media site to do what I'm on Bluesky to do seems counterproductive to the goal of spending less time on social media in general? Am I missing something

Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat reissued on vinyl AND Jet Li returning to the big screen directed by Yuen Woo-ping?? I am calling today as a Damn Good Day and it's just past noon (for me)

Great article, well spoken and conducted and a lot of things I agree with (which is not the basis for it being a good interview but I like it!)

I was definitely surprised by how badly they botched trying to do this with Charlie Kirk but it doesn't surprise me that they're trying it again until it sticks. same people who spread the "communist China social credit score" BS btw, lmao. we'll have that for real soon enough

Pay attention to this. Do not let up on the pressure, demand accountability and change until the root cause has been resolved. Anything short of that means failure.

Didn't realize my morning meeting was pushed back 2.5 hr so I'm just eating castella off a (remotely deposited) check and drinking black tea listening to @yungshiro.bsky.social music recs Man, I really do love mornings when I get to have 'em.

Please, just Bobby. Robert Tank was my father.

I still believe nonviolence is the way. Fetishizing of revolutionary violence is always promoted by those who consciously or unconsciously know they won't be the ones who have to face or enact it. I don't wish for blood in the streets because it will have faces and names that I know.

Tonight at 8PM ET, "Hot Takes" is hosting one of the forefathers of the #chillwave genre of music, @brothertiger.bsky.social! Tune in at twitch.tv/hottakesvapor for an evening of likes, dislikes, and hot takes with @rogecorp.bsky.social, @yungshiro.bsky.social, Brothertiger, and the whole Horde!

Mfw today was supposed to be the Salaar 2 teaser drop but the update we got instead was Salaar 2 indefinite postponement b/c of RajaSaab flopping

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I can't wait to have to ask every person I know who's going to any kind of action if they've uninstalled TikTok from their phone yet or not

Big homie double feature comin' at ya! For those who may have heard the original master of Forgive Yourself, this one is a totally different experience -- like listening to a cranked-up amplifier vs listening to fancy audiophile headphones. Both versions occupy very distinct niches in my heart.

Wordle* actually accepted "padam" as a guess which makes me think they've either gone full தமிழ் or Kylie Minogue is simply that influential... *as always, played in such a way as to minimally benefit the NYT

"How was your day at work?" well aside from outreach days I WFH so it's pretty uneventful. Meanwhile Zoë describing her average work day to me: youtu.be/8qCVXCFREkQ?...

rocking with @orchidcamp.bsky.social this week definitely a huge sucker for the lethal artwork+sound design combo going on here music.apple.com/us/album/rob...

when I say I dress like a colorblind person this is what I mean

Banned from every platform and review outlet after releasing our debut song "Lengthenin' Bread" Known only through a niche YouTube video essay called "Mama's lil baby HATES this song!!"

« One of the main things we learned is that SARS2 is able to persist for a long period of time in various tissues across the body. This is really unusual and changed the paradigm of thinking about this as a chronic viral infection versus a transient, acute respiratory viral infection. »

It's been sad to see the Yakuza franchise start to fall off so hard, but the insult to injury is that it had to come to a head around Yakuza 3 which is such a special and heartfelt game and already unfairly maligned from the jump.

All the homie should jump on this and follow Jared, the work he does is super mega important and pertinent and his podcast is exceptional. Don't let "antifascist" just be a word that hangs uselessly off your bio, support someone doing very real and groundbreaking work against fascism!

I bet the music in this smacks too

today in "don't ask me for the track ID", I'm ordering an Indonesian tape that appears to be exclusively Chinese pop artists but the whole thing is in Japanese. What song is this? I don't know either, man. But it's good.

I'm flattered that this kid in front of me on the street thought I was trying to jack him but I was actually omw to a harm reduction meeting 😭 bro almost walked into traffic trying to get away from me I almost increased some harm this morning 😭😭

via the article for the album "a thousand suns"

For our next episode, we're bringing on a serious heavyweight from the #chillwave era, @brothertiger.bsky.social! Hosted by @rogecorp.bsky.social and @yungshiro.bsky.social, don't miss out out on this very special episode next Monday, January 26 at 8PM ET at twitch.tv/hottakesvapor. It'll be fun!

I've been so heavily into Ninja Gaiden Sigma (on PC w/ Sigma Black mod) lately I might actually look into an Xbox emulator, if such a thing exists, so I can play the originals of 1 and 2 😅

Oh man I gotta get up early to get my record player fixed lmao why did I plan things out this way 😮‍💨 danced my ass off all night my feet are DEAD!!!

I want to take a minute to pay respect to Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin of black midi who died by suicide a few days ago. I find it saddening that with how massive black midi were as a band, I have seen no one comment on this since. Reminder that he left the band in 2021 because of mental health struggles