All members of ICE belong in prison. The current administration belongs right there with them. Anyone in government not actively working to get rid of them are accomplices who are equally guilty.

Republicans are Nazis. It’s a mirror. It’s the same thing. Republican officials are Nazi officials. Republican leaders are Nazi leaders. Republican propagandists are Nazi propagandists. Republican party members are Nazi party members. Republicans are Nazis.

Evergreen: The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.

We should all sit with this ICE murder. Any one of us could be executed by ICE, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye. Instead they’d just lie about us to the world.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

all I’ve got is that the idea that you can commit any act of violence and say you were just executing a warrant is chilling and also common to US police

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

“When I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York” — powerful essay by the inimitable @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

the only way it was able to do this is because, as everyone including elon and sam altman have known for years, the datasets for these AIs contain a lot of CSAM the fact that what just happened doesn't shut down twitter and have elon et al tried in court for allowing is fucking insane

Blockbuster interview about institutional transphobia at the New York Times that names names of the bigots responsible: A.G. Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, Carolyn Ryan at the top, plus Pamela Paul, Jeremy Peters, Azeen Ghorayshi, Katie J.M. Baker, & an entire anti-trans pro-mgmt splinter group in the union

People being outed as pedophiles, shunned and (hopefully) punished is not remotely similar to people having their careers and lives ruined due to political beliefs, the political beliefs of those they're related to and associate with, or simply being gay, Jewish, an immigrant or not-white

On the critic side, my job is to dig into the choices the author made - why they might have made them, the larger social/literary/historical context of those choices, & how they make me feel. I can't do that with genAI. There's no intention or perspective. It's soulless. All meaning is superfluous.

Did you guys know that BLACK CHRISTMAS is my favorite movie about abortion? I wrote about it from that angle and how the violence of the picture overlaps and is linked to the central question of the right to choose. It's one of my favorite movies in general. www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

I wish the conversation around roles and the sexuality of actors focused less on “can they?” and more on “Gay actors get less opportunities and are disadvantaged professionally.” Casting gay actors in gay roles is about making being a gay actor a viable professional pursuit.

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why. Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

New York Times HR manager poring over Epstein files to scout potential new hires

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

Guess I'll post this again

KOSA has been defeated several times already and they keep trying over and over until the one time it goes through, at which point it becomes everyone's problem. It will be an unmitigated disaster if this passes and they say, well, sorry, now it's the law. Make sure your creature votes No on this.

"We hear you, you hate AI. But how about, hear us out, you started liking AI? 😮"

The way to restart the idea machine is PAY CREATIVES FOR THEIR WORK

If Rob Reiner didn’t matter, fascists like Donald Trump wouldn’t dance on his grave.

People are going to die

Pretty crazy that Musk willfully killed 100,000's of people *earlier this year* yet Corporate Media still regularly talks about him without mentioning that.

Ingesting AI slop is about as healthy for children as licking the dirt at Chernobyl.

I think one of the many brilliant things about Rob Reiner's filmmaking is his mastery of the simple shot-reverse-shot dialogue scene. For such a convention of the form, his were always framed, cut and paced to perfection to enhance the performances and writing in ways others couldn't quite manage

Not to be the unhelpful "it was always bad" person in the midst of controversy, because Tarantino is a talented filmmaker and also has always been shitty this isn't a revelation, but it does feel nice when I can say Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood is bad and feel less likely to be scorned for it

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Sounds about right.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

If you use GenAI, you’re not welcome here #NoAI

When we remember the names of Bondi Beach - victims, survivors, perpetrators - let’s remember, too, this hero: Ahmed al-Ahmed. A Muslim Australian fruit shop owner of Syrian descent, al-Ahmed risked his life & took 2 bullets to save Jewish strangers. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

AI slophouses openly admitted to stealing work from my dead friend. They are not there to "help creative people". They're fucking grave robbers.

Samus

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Rob Reiner was truly one of the greats of his generation. Few directors have had a run as incredible as his from This Is Spinal Tap through A Few Good Men. It doesn't feel real. No one deserves this. You will be deeply missed </3

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!

I see Wendy Carlos. I post Wendy Carlos.

Fun fact: today is Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday. And yes, he is still alive.

Repealing Section 230 would chill free speech by allowing platforms, not users, to be held responsible for what its users say. Platforms will become much more censorious over what its users can post. This is extremely bad They're trying to rush it. Call your reps, don't let them

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck. Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special. "She probably doesn't mean me" I do.

What do you think the first death knell of the modern media landscape was? When we started conflating art with content or when we stopped being able to tell the difference between audience and community?

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

Can't wait for another all white Best Actress line-up because the only non-white actress they'll actually even consider (Cynthia Erivo) is the only one who's missing for Wicked: For Good while the rest of the movie still racks up nominations in spite of its poor reception

Now You See Me 2 is among the most baffling films I've ever seen. The script is incomprehensible, the characters are flat sheets of basic personality traits with no meaningful arcs, the editing is atrocious, the cinematography poorly framed, the direction non-existent...