New research sheds light on how mediocre employees, “loyal losers,” help would-be authoritarians maintain power. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

In which I write posting advice I am fully aware I will fail to diligently follow. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mlerwhwebs2b

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

Well the Fourth was with this one. Saved from the trash compactor when I sensed its presence and set up its escape.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Every once in a while, I like to watch this video clip of Joe Biden comforting a grieving Parkland family to remind myself what compassionate leadership looks like. This is the stuff I truly miss.

this is a really smart observation it’s not just zuckerberg tho narcissists are the “leaders” of our age

I get about 5 emails a day exactly like this from various people looking to invest in my vertical.

Which platforms should your streaming service support? If the answer isn’t “all of them,” you’re compromising. At Moonstone, we refuse to charge a "per-platform tax." We deploy iOS, Android, web, Apple TV, Fire TV, and Roku out of the box. Here is how we do it: 🧵

if (human == woman) { human- -; object++; Default.value = “Mom”; store(family_dignity, location = clothing);

Best Star Trek crew.

How we out-ship streaming engineering teams of 100 with one architectural rule. The harder something is to change, the "dumber" its code should be. This is more than a technical principle—it's a strategic philosophy for enterprise product development. 🧵

The era of renting your audience from streaming aggregators is over. For the last 18 months, we’ve engineered a fundamentally superior direct-to-consumer engine for @circuitcinema.com. Today, we’re opening the infrastructure to the industry. Meet @moonstone.network 🧵

"Writing code that works, without consideration of how it will fail, is a recipe for catastrophe. It is a way to create tech debt at scale. It is shoveling asbestos into the walls of our technological society."

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I just want someone in my life who would decorate our door with The Wreath of Khan

We’re building the most advanced independent media app in the world. That’s what I tell the team and it’s what they’re delivering. v3.3 is a major step toward that vision. Download, sync, and enjoy. 🎬

avg linkedin user like "i'm happy to announce i'm starting a new position as part of the how to kill superman by blocking out the sun research team at luthorcorp" & the comments are all goons from similar branches of the legion of doom going "omg congratulations 🎉"

its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made

It's that time of year

the bricks are alive at this day to testify it; therefore deny it not.

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

Coming soon! Join us for a very special Q&A screening of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) with director @nicholasmeyer.bsky.social on Nov. 11 at Laemmle Claremont 5 at 7pm! 🖖 🎟️ Tickets: laemmle.com/film/star-trek-ii-wrath-khan #startrek #wrathofkhan #nicholasmeyer #ricardomaltaban

Gorgeous landscapes, wonderful photography… choo choo 🚂 Great British Train Journeys from Above, tonight at 8pm on Channel4.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I built the streaming service @circuitcinema.com to give indie filmmakers a fair shot & viewers an alternative to the oligarchy. I coded all the mobile & TV apps myself. Oh, and I directed the first live-action VR360 TV series.

OH: if vaccines caused autism, we’d have way more trains in the United States

Thrilled to see our vision for platform expansion coming to life. It’s a testament to the power of a lean, focused team with the right architectural approach. Now, on to the next milestone in bringing Circuit Cinema to 95% of connected screens worldwide.

Like Apple TV+, @circuitcinema.com has raised prices in the US and other countries. The difference is that 0% of your subscription fee goes to bribes, donations, kickbacks, or gold offerings to Dear Leader, and 100% of it supports the important work of independent film artists around the world.

DGA ADs must have blocked this scene.

I hate to break it to you, but a single person anywhere in the world can make a film without AI.

Picture this as a moment in one of Shakespeare’s history plays.

WHO'S THE BIGGEST GOLF CHEAT? Judge Smails from Caddyshack, James Bond villain Goldfinger, or Donald J. Trump. Play the video...

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

police departments should be required to: 1. carry *private* liability insurance 2. that insurance should be priced at market rate 3. failing to carry that insurance should decertify the whole department

This is top notch book cover design.

Happy birthday to Stanley Kubrick, one of auteurist cinema's greatest cat lovers. When he went to Ireland to film Barry Lyndon, Kubrick left daughter Katharina a 15-page memo on how to take care of the cats. ♥️ #Caturday (shown here on the set of A Clockwork Orange, 1971)

Ok, fine, I can't resist. You did say any show: Capt: Robin Lefler (TNG) 1st/science: Spock (TOS) Doc: Carol Marcus (TWoK) Sec: Voqha (The Experience) Eng: Reginald Barclay (TNG) Nav: Sulu (TOS) Lounge: Kel (Paramount's Kings Island)

i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating

If you know any aspiring, young filmmakers, please encourage them to apply for this workshop — brought to you by the fine folks at Sag Harbor Cinema and NBC Universal. 🙏🏼 sagharborcinema.org/summer-filmm...

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD. Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

In non-apocalyptic news, listening to NIN's Pretty Hate Machine after some time, and every single track is a banger. Such a good album.

Fun day at @danceswithfilms.bsky.social supporting indie film and seeing another great performance by @itsmeredithjackson.bsky.social in Still Smiling, produced by Luna Zhang.

Really important. So many people die needlessly every year in the water. Please share.

Everyone has a take on AI these days and here's mine. www.linkedin.com/pulse/managi...

For your #Emmy consideration in the Outstanding Emerging Media Program category: PERSPECTIVE, the first live-action fully immersive TV series. Streaming in the Circuit Cinema app on Meta Quest headsets.