“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated." -Anne Frank

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

YES!!!! Got my first win in HADES II. Felt so fucking good I had trouble concentrating on the very cool story stuff that happens after. Took me about 15 hours to get here, but that’s probably half what it took in the first game. Tho this one has a lot more going on, including a whole other path.

The only thing I don't like about Kat Abughazaleh or her candidacy is that her district is about 1,000 miles from mine, so I can't actually vote for her. Everyone in Illinois' 9th is lucky to have her.

Got within one hit of beating Chronos in HADES II this morning. Had a crazy good build going. But it was my first time seeing his second phase. This game is so ludicrously fucking good, you guys. Holy shit.

“Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince, pair that with some kind of stalker antagonist and it’s gonna be a viral sensation

me before and after shelling out to see One Battle After Another in IMAX

I said over and over again this was going to happen last year - that subscription revenue wasn’t going to make up for lost CoD sales - and sure enough, here we are. It wasn’t hard to see coming. It’s the same problem Netflix has had making $200 mil movies and then tossing them straight to streaming.

The price hike being entirely because CoD didn't bring in any new subs but totally slaughtered its' sales on XBox makes total sense reminder, it wasn't until last year that Playstation had more CoD players than XBox.

Mixed thoughts on LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL as an album. Some really good stuff, especially next to recent albums like Lorde’s VIRGIN or Hayley Williams’ EGO, which are confrontationally vulnerable, it often sounds more insular and defensive than Taylor can be at her best. Fate of Ophelia is a banger tho

At the Taylor Swift movie thing, and the best part so far is they’re just playing her music and showing album pics instead of the usual loud commercial preroll. Also promising no trailers. Can we get Taylor Swift to bully AMC into doing this for everything please?

Wow, Xbox found the only way to somehow make game streaming worse: force you to watch ads before 'playing' your game through a hyper-compressed stream full of stuttering, artifacts, and input lag. Leading innovators in the space of 'making gaming suck.'

I like that the entire games media establishment is whistling past the graveyard of a 40 percent tariff on game consoles going into effect next month unless 1) a trade agreement China has no incentive to sign happens or 2) the Supreme Court actually upholds a lower court ruling for once.

This is so stupendously ridiculous it's almost funny, until you remember the reason it's ridiculous is that he's being paid to say this by a brutal despotic regime that dismembers journalists and bankrolled 9/11, and then the sheer degree of hypocrisy and corruption is just sad and sobering.

Mamdani’s controversial stance is the he believes an arrest warrant by the ICC needs to be respected regardless of the accused. Those who disagree believe that international law must never be applied to the people they like. It really is that simple.

Ah yes. Every time I go to the movies, I stroll up to the ticket taker and ask, “Pray tell, are there any virgins in this film?” And after a short but increasingly tense back and forth I am escorted out of the building by armed security.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

I like Taylor Swift, I've enjoyed many of her diss tracks, but this honestly makes me think less of her. Charli's "Sympathy is a Knife," which this seems to be a response to, isn't even a hit on Swift, it's a vulnerable introspective song about insecurity. This is brutally mean, petty, and small.

Chewing on the game pass stuff today i think more and more this is about day one games and first party sales numbers. I imagine someone looked at the release slate this year and did some math about the sales they think they lost and decided the free ride is over.

every day JB is out there showing none of this is hard, the democratic party is just that soft

Fuck yes. Always wanted to see this, but it’s only ever existed on one print in QT’s personal collection (the literal print they showed at Cannes) that he breaks out at the New Beverly. Hope it gets a home release too.

If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

Honestly “Republicans are shutting down the government to hide the Epstein files” is pretty good messaging.

every republican president of my lifetime has completely destroyed the economy

the website to cancel Xbox Game Pass subscriptions is overloaded

Already seeing some describe ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER as a “flop,” and while yes, it’s unlikely to make a profit based on this initial theatrical run, I also think WB is probably pretty happy with how it’s positioned as a long-term prospect.

Xbox 360 Dollars Per Year

Game Pass going from $20 to $30 in the US, which feels like a death knell for this whole experiment. The pitch was always 'Netflix of Gaming,' but this is more expensive than any video streamer. The economics of this just don't make sense for anyone. www.ign.com/articles/xbo...

This whole shutdown debate should be so much simpler than it is. It isn’t about strategy or scoring points. This is an illegal administration proudly shredding the constitution every day. For that reason, any Democrat who believes in the law or the constitution shouldn’t vote to fund it. Period.

“oh no, what if there were a couple of state-run grocery stores in New York City”

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICYMI, my review of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER from over the weekend. Needless to say, and given the Trump declaration of civil war this morning, it's a film we desperately need right now. www.jonathanlack.com/p/review-one...

"ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a celebration of the power we derive from our diversity, the indomitability of our spirit, and our essential rejection of authoritarianism, which was the driving force behind our revolution against a colonial monarchy and its mad king." @mangiotto.bsky.social on 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

starting to think that an increasingly senile trump is being shown a different reality by his aides by making ai videos of shit and telling him it’s real news

David Cross folks.

I love environmental storytelling in dystopian sci-fi games.

I didn't play HADES or HADES II in early access, but given how ludicrously polished and confident both games are in their final forms, I have to imagine early access was good for the overall process, even if it's not the way I personally prefer to play.

If Democrats cave on this, I will never, ever, ever, ever vote for them ever again. Ever.

SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE: Men will literally record an entire album in their bedroom and release it with no singles, no tour, and no press, not even with themselves on the cover, instead of going to therapy.

Watson: I love and miss my friend, and I want them to know I'm still here and that I love them, and I hope they see that love and soften their heart Rowling: Nice try woke scum, you'll be lined up with the rest of God's failures Media: Why do people keep attacking Rowling

“…despite the massive budget, PTA did not make a sudden pivot towards Hollywood studio filmmaking: a Hollywood studio made a pivot towards PTA, and he delivered them a no-holds-barred PTA movie.” My review of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is up at Fade to Lack: www.jonathanlack.com/p/review-one...

If you’re worried about losing your health care, apparently Trump has a message for you:

They want to fuck each other so bad it makes them look stupid

One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.

“…despite the massive budget, PTA did not make a sudden pivot towards Hollywood studio filmmaking: a Hollywood studio made a pivot towards PTA, and he delivered them a no-holds-barred PTA movie.” My review of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is up at Fade to Lack: www.jonathanlack.com/p/review-one...

Got a full review of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER going out in the morning on Fade to Lack. Wasn’t sure I’d be able to write something coherent, because it’s such a massive slice of movie. But I’m glad I made myself try. Be sure to subscribe (it’s free!) to get it in the morning: www.jonathanlack.com