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👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.

This weekend I did a double feature of THE BONE TEMPLE and SEND HELP and I have no one to talk about such things with here in PA! 😫 Well…no one but this guy.

For Liam.

Every writer I know, every artist I follow, is in the fucking trenches trying to survive this shit. GenAI is not the future because if it keeps going there is no future, and even if it was that would be no excuse.

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

[confused at a party] Yeah I guess I’ve seen hamnet

Blue states are being denied federal funding for essential services simply because we voted Democrat. Our representatives should refuse to fund the government until this is corrected. Why should we continue to contribute taxes to a federal government occupying and terrorizing us in Minnesota?!

For those interested... the remarkable tv series "Watchmen", starring the fantastic Regina King & Jean Smart, is being run in full on the HBO Drama cable channel this afternoon. Stop whatever you're doing and go watch it! #tv #Watchmen #comics #comicbooks #dccomics

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Wake Up Dead Man Unless You’re a Vampire, Then Please Don’t

I cannot believe this is real.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

The cashier at Target should be able to work full-time and afford their bills with a little left over. That’s not radical.

I’m glad Amy Madigan is getting awards buzz for #Weapons, it’s a fun performance and we certainly don’t have to choose!…but Sally Hawkins was in #BringHerBack this year too. Just saying!

Just four more sleeps until VIOLENT NIGHT! Tickets still available to see the bloody great new Christmas classic with writers Josh Miller and Pat Casey in discussion after the film. Tickets at www.trylon.org/film/violent...

Read the whole thread. It's funny for the first sentence and then immediately switches to horrifying.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. (hell yeah) #FilmSky

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

Every time I read something like this, I think about how when I was living as "a white millennial man," people would notice I was talented and just sort of hand me stuff without me advocating for myself. My current career -- where I am still successful! -- has been much, much harder to attain.

This photo of @kim.senate.gov clearing trash in the Capitol rotunda after the Jan. 6 attack was, for many, the first 'introduction' to the senator from New Jersey. How fortunate we are to have elected officials like Andy Kim, who continue to protect our country and Constitution

When I was depressed I thought everyone's life is defined by the worst thing that happens to them; the joy people are taking in Rob Reiner's work proves how wrong I was. Just as importantly, life on Earth is not defined by the worst things people do & say—please don't let this convince you otherwise

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

If Benoit Blanc is such a great detective, why hasn’t he noticed these are all the same guy

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Looking for a freelance researcher based in Boston for a brief gig in January or February. Please email [email protected] with your relevant experience, availability, and rate.

I could not believe had terribly IT: WELCOME TO DERRY screwed up the Black Spot fire, for some reason reducing the racism behind the massacre. www.patreon.com/posts/145476...

Could not agree with Justin more: saw WICKED: FOR GOOD on Sunday and there were really loud, disruptive teens (I’m sorry, teens!) causing a ruckus for the entire runtime plus terrible sound quality at the theater. Didn’t love the movie either so I wished I had just watched at home. 🤷‍♀️

The delta between what Biden did and how much anger he got for it and the absolute crickets Trump has gotten for making the student loan landscape *magnitudes worse than it was before* is absolutely one of the most enraging things about this entirely enraging era.

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

It’s so fun watching Bill Skarsgård play Pennywise again. That’s it. That’s the skeet. #WelcomeToDerry

Long live movie theaters. Long live physical media. Long live art & artistry & artists. Forever. In this dimension and the next.

The both-sidesing here (by Bessent to be clear) is off the charts:

Choosing to be slightly optimistic about Netflix and WB — creators in business with Netflix are increasingly asking for theatrical windows and physical media releases…perhaps this is a way for Netflix to have its cake (we are exclusively in the streaming business) and eat it too (but WB isn’t).

Saw this and momentarily thought Rachel Brosnahan had gotten engaged to Ernie.

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

The world is full of terrors but THE GUEST is currently streaming on @amcplus.com in the US so do yourself a favor and let smokin’ hot Dan Stevens take you away for 90 minutes.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

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FYI: For those of you that missed reading Mary Shelley’s seminal science-fiction novel in high school, Netflix is offering a new incentive to get readers into the classic. The streamer has partnered with Penguin Random House to release a new paperback and e-book edition of Frankenstein, in honor of…

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Jaws is a 4th of July movie. Die Hard is a Christmas movie. But guess what? Jaws 4 is a Christmas movie. Die Hard 4 is a 4th of July movie.

MAX PAYNE (not my pick. obvi.)