Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

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Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Man City dropped points, my Knicks stomped the Seventy Floppers, Natasha Cloud is on a WNBA team, Wemby and Ant are going toe to toe, it’s been a good sports day.

I know we've long given up having the rule of law here but this is utterly fucked, I can't believe we're just letting this shit happen during an election campaign

Keir Starmer says he respects the right to protest, but will ban some protests. He is concerned about the "repeated cumulative effect" of protests but not the repeated, cumulative genocidal war crimes leading to the protests.

A’ja, Paige, Angel, Chelsea, Gabby, give us all the trophies.

swear to god nothing has radicalized like me like watching rich men burn our planet, dry up our freshwater and poison our kids to invent the world’s most powerful technology — a robot chick who laughs at all their jokes

“Claudia is wonderful. Her existence is defined by her being a receptacle for me and me alone. She is so sensitive, so intelligent — you can tell because she really gets me. When I am done with her, I will end her existence.” Not creepy. Not creepy at all.

Substack is an inherently pro-individual, anti-community, anti-new-writer technology and is responsible for the death of so many excellent small literary venues.

I blame Substack. The single worst development for the literary world in the last few decades.

Me checking the Knicks score:

I’ve said this before, and many have to, but the AI slop pitch *always* ends with “and it’s awesome, you’ll be able to, like, create a non-consensual fantasy between you and a hot girl”

@pfischer.bsky.social has written my favorite book about this generation of filmmakers. I thought I knew all the stories yet every page offers new insight. These icons are humanized in a way I haven't seen before. Putting them on the same timeline is brilliant. Inspirational & moving. 10/10!

🥂 Absolutely incredible - £600k (plus some change) raised with a couple of days to go. The kindness and generosity of this community always amazes me. There's still time to give if you can!

I understand they play in a farmers' league where you don’t have to face such strong teams every week like in the PL, but I think Bayern in two and a half CL knockout games have created more magic and enjoyment than Arsenal have in the past year and a half.

I hate him. Won a landslide off progressive voters, and all he has to offer is “we’ll beat Brand Name xenophobia with Store Brand xenophobia.” Absolute prick.

There's a really simple answer to this, and it's "In fact, you are a rapist. You were found legally liable for rape." Is there not one journalist who will say this to him?

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

Read the whole thread. Utterly terrifying for those of us in higher ed.

Some of these Brunson-winding-down-the-clock-looking-for-a-path-but-hitting-a-dead-end-and-chucking-instead possessions are really ugly basketball.

I've always liked the shorthand "story is what happens, plot is how it happens"

Despite what the legislator is claiming, this isn't theoretical. Louisiana cops cited this woman for "indecent" exposure for wearing a crop top. Even with a dismissal, that's legal fees, sleepless nights and public shame. Harassment is meant to send a message.

In case anyone’s interested, here are the two books I got for my birthday this year! (I’m reading UNSHOT COLUMBO now, and I’m really enjoying it. I just finished reading about two Larry Cohen stories that got turned down, and I’m about to read about a De Palma script!)

Yes feel free to just walk in tonight! The more the merrier

This whole brand has become a swindle, a confidence trick, a hollow nothing based on the pitch that you’ll have FOMO about the alleged biggest event of the year unless you shell out to watch the old movie, the old movie w new footage, the stuff on D+. The less people care, the sweatier the con gets.

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients. The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

TONIGHT

I’m really looking forward to being at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social this evening with @drewmcweeny.com to talk Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, and 70s American cinema. Free RSVP. Come support a legendary bookshop and have a good time in the process!

Great game of fine margins, this. Woodwork hit three times, a yellow that could have been a red, a goalkeeper mistake leading to a goal and one that didn’t. It’ll be 2-1 probably but it could have been 3-3 or 2-0 to either team. On such flips of a coin are titles won and lost.

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

This is why I keep saying over and over that Poland is one of the world’s most dangerous places for Jews right now. They are systematically erasing and rewriting history. This is just one of countless examples.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

this is like a miracle

Also you can hear Paul on the new episode of KCRW's The Treatment with Elvis Mitchell where they were nice enough to plug our event! www.kcrw.com/shows/the-tr...

On Monday (4/20) @pfischer.bsky.social discusses with @drewmcweeny.com & signs THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD: COPPOLA, LUCAS, SPIELBERG—AND THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICAN CINEMA. Steven Soderbergh said "Riveting...Drop everything & read this straight through. I did" RSVP here: bit.ly/PaulFischer

I'm hosting this event w/ @pfischer.bsky.social & @drewmcweeny.com on Monday! When I heard about Paul's book, I quickly reached out to the pub & luckily we figured out a date for the store. Then they said Drew was in & my 'stoked' level doubled. So don't miss it! This Monday at 7pm. It's 4/20!

LOS ANGELES! I’ll be at the @latimes Festival of Books tomorrow at USC, on a panel at 3pm, talking THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD and titans of American cinema. It’s sadly an all-male panel, which the fest say they tried to remedy, so I want to also share, here and tmrw, relevant books by women out now

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

Choi Eun-Hee died 8 years ago. When I first met her, she told me she hoped people would one day finally accept she and Shin Sang-Ok had been kidnapped to North Korea, instead of claiming they had defected and lied about it. It's good to see she didn't hope in vain. www.chosun.com/english/kpop...

Children starved and atomized to dust by the colonial machine: all good Some taxes on your luxury penthouse you don't live in because you have another luxury house: one of the scariest things you've EVER SEEN

I like following The Short Fuse and 1.76 Acres on here because every Arsenal game, the whole Arsenal game, every single post is complaining about the referees and the commentators with a degree of paranoid outrage that makes me feel like I'm back in the pub at home

This is the house in which Francis Coppola wrote the "I believe in America" speech. www.msn.com/en-us/movies...

So the Hornets won a one-point knockout game thanks to LaMelo deliberately injuring the opposition’s best player and then later travelling on the winning bucket. Refs caught nor reviewed either. Great great great

Everyone in the screenshots in this thread is a moron and does not have the literacy skills that would make it worthwhile to have them as readers anyway.

Everyone who went before 8 was expected to go before 8, except Jaquez and maybe Carrion? Who both look like really good players but not "...or fuck it, we'll stick to the 2nd round instead" players.

I’m so excited about so many WNBA teams. Paige Azzi and Alanna? Phee and Olivia Miles? Dom Flau’jae and Awa Fam? Citron Iriafen Betts Amoore Harmon? Aces Big 3 running it back? Angel on the Dream? Valkyrie Gabby? Satou in NY? Kiki Mabrey Sykes in 🇨🇦? The men’s NBA *wishes* it had as many fun teams