Again going to bang my drum: *Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks *Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails *Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent. Gen AI is poisoned at the root.

Annual reminder that if you see a menorah in someone’s window, that’s an act of defiance against bigotry and hate. It’s also pride and bravery. It’s says “a Jew lives here” and that’s both painting a target but also reminding everyone that we still exist and we always will.

From 1994, Kakuranger! I've seen it in its entirety and it's a really fun series about the worst dressed ninjas selling crepes out of their cat bus

It's pretty incredible that just when I think I can't hate this man more, he does something else to make my hatred grow

The space that Japan occupies in the perception of race in the minds of these culture warrior types is strange. It is both this exotic & fetishized ideal of racial purity but also Japanese characters are just white to them when it suits their political/cultural hang ups.

Tbh I find both Power Rangers fans and Sentai fans both to be pretty annoying in their own way, but the PR fans have earned at least some level of pettiness after all the mockery from Sentai fans about having their franchise end lol

Divatox was the single best thing about Power Rangers: Turbo & it’s a damn crime we never got a Lightning Collection figure of her!

trans people exist. billionaires shouldn't.

Here are the Senators who voted to criminalize hemp products: [with alt text included]

In light of recent events I just want to reiterate what I said a few weeks ago which is that Toei is not your friend (anymore than any other big media company, really).

Republicans: this is the Democrats fault despite the fact that we are in total control of the government Democrats: seconded Everyone who marched and voted:

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Dick Cheyney knew what was coming and intentionally chose to die today.

Of course

POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet

dudes drippings or releasing and shouldn't be around any weapons' MAGA Trump's simps = ODD Bunch Keep and Eye on anything you care about!

If you see this, post a robot.

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Tron (the 80's original) is notably a movie about how a fast-evolving computer program gobbles up everything it can find, financed & protected by an executive who stole a whole library of artistic creations from a small-time creator & labeled them as his own for profit.

Yeah that was my takeaway from Regina King's performance in "If Beale Street Could Talk" "Wow, she showed such range between grit and vulnerability, but how many men has she slept with??"

The real magic trick that tokusatsu plays is all the metallic clicking sound effects they lay over the actors swinging plastic toys around to make them feel somewhat like legitimate gear

Even if Bluesky does go pear-shaped, that doesn’t mean I’m going back to Twitter any more than Facebook starting to suck meant that I was going to revive my old MySpace.

Had a lot of fun getting out my thoughts with @willyjcoe.com. Give us a watch!

Me all day on the internet seeing non-Black people ask what has happened to America.

Labour Day is a very important holiday in North America.

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

Growing up in church and the Christian school system, I did watch a lot of media that was connected to Focus on the Family, like McGee and Me. This episode was about how horror movies are bad. (I now watch a lot of horror movies.)

At this point 50% of my FB feed is comprised of entirely made up shit like this. I'm a historian who studies politics and media, so it's easy for me to be a critical consumer of this schlock. But for the average consumer, this sort of social media is like putting a stick blender in one's brain.

The internet is literally nothing but spam now.

Trump and right-wing media's attempt to rehabilitate Ghislaine Maxwell and ignore the Epstein files is not going to end well. It's because they have spent a decade radicalizing their own MAGA base that won't forget or let it go.

Make New Jack Swing Great Again

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

awesome. so cancelling our show and putting us & hundreds of other animation workers out of work was totally pointless. great! lol

I don’t want your AI designed toys. I don’t want your AI written reviews. I don’t want your AI generated images. I don’t want your AI ever, at all, anywhere.

Now imagine being a Black person who has always been told to work twice as hard, all the while constsntly your achievemnts questioned.

The 3rd official promo video for #KamenRiderZeztz, showing off the Capsems used to change forms! Zeztz premieres in September 2025 in Japan, US, Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam & MENA! 💥 Kamen Rider Zeztz Discussion: www.rangerboard.com/index.php?th... #仮面ライダーゼッツ

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

Cheating with the head of HR is crazy 🤣

As an atheist raised Catholic it’s a daily marvel to me to see all these people that consider themselves Christians—followers of THEE Jesus Christ—foaming at the mouth for the opportunity to either directly oppress or remove support from already-vulnerable populations

The TV guide channel. Pre streaming and pre on demand video there was a whole channel that just told you what was on over the next 90 minutes or so.

Official images have arrived for the DX OrcaBooster 5050! It includes the Wild GozyuWolf Sentai Ring and can combine with TegaSword to form TegaSword Akatsuki! 💍 #Gozyuger Toy Discussion: www.rangerboard.com/index.php?th... #ゴジュウジャー

By the way, Bob Vylan ‘dropped by agents’ and VISAs revoked. Cancel culture exists, but it’s conservatives and liberals who are doing it. Fuck touring the US. Bob Vylan will be alright.

good job, the government. i had never heard of bob vylan before today

"Nine hundred dollary-doos?!?!!" "Clockwise! (zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom!) Counterclockwise!(zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom!)" "It's a miracle! No, ultrasuede is a miracle, this is just good timing."

We can’t afford billionaires and their wasteful luxuries any more.