It’s autumn, time for a pumpkin chai latte.

Guys, you’re being mean. Pedro Pascal recorded dialogue for a whole week to make this movie.

I love ANDOR, the 24-hour movie.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: < A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

It’s one thing to read a paper and disagree with the researchers’ conclusions. It’s quite another to write a headline purporting to be the researchers’ words when they actually claim the exact opposite. Computerworld: www.computerworld.com/article/4059... OpenAI: openai.com/index/why-la...

If you’ve never had a gay summer fling, can you truly understand CALL ME BY YOUR NAME? I need to run some experiments, raise one finger for Control Group and two for Hot Homo Summer Fling Group.

Imagine being a soldier taken off the battlefields of ‘Nam. A guy claiming to be Santa Claus tells you his genius plan is to give some midgets he found in the English countryside a H-bomb which they must take to Hanoi in order to dismantle it. Man was a saint for putting up with as much as he did.

"How are we even going to get to Hanoi?" "Eh I'll figure it out." And then he dies because he wants the H-Bomb for himself to defend his hometown of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

You expect WASPs to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like Penis Hut where I might get 360 no-scoped for being myself.

I'm finally getting around to downloading ANDOR. It's what Cassian would want.

I'll be recapping the new season of Slow Horses every Wednesday starting next week at @moviejawn.com! I'm pretty excited.

I see a lot of people saying “Of course they would neeeeeever just make their models say “I don’t know.” Except, if you look at the source, the authors suggest penalizing confident guessing and rewarding uncertainty. openai.com/index/why-la...

The city AND the city???? Slow down there, pal.

Down with Love remake satire of social media girlboss and manosphere influencers

Manifest #3333 from Zuma (CONFIDENTIAL) 1. Webkinz Monastery 2. Twisted Tamagotchi

I’m interested to hear what comes out of Brandi’s new album working with a producer who also works with Gaga and Katseye. Less enthused about Dessner but perhaps it’ll be different than Swift consider the vast leap in vocal ability.

BEAU IS AFRAID has a hopeful ending. Discuss.

where did September go. I mean it, what do you mean it's September 20???

SD Twin Peaks figures made for an issue of Hobby Japan (issue unknown, but safe to say early 90s). Not my scan, so I gotta track down this issue.

I'll be recapping the new season of Slow Horses every Wednesday starting next week at @moviejawn.com! I'm pretty excited.

ezra klein zero credibility any% speedrun

I didn't think it would be difficult to find the origin of the "Diversity win!" meme. I can't even find a know-your-meme page.

please stop making me look at Ted Cruz's face

writing about Jeremy Saulnier was such a pleasure! big thanks to @lukeoneil47.bsky.social for reaching out and having me do it

There’s going to be really annoying discourse about Eddington and One Battle After Another even though they’re probably approaching the same damn thing from different directions, yeah?

No #LastFourWatched from me today, this is the only movie I’ve seen since last Friday! Too busy finishing up Perdido Street Station.

you’ll never guess what this is referring to

my first piece for @truthdig.com, about the political grey areas in recent films from Alex Garland, Ari Aster, Celine Song and more

can someone explain the appeal of Matt Mercer to me

The floating repost circles on Instagram are so dumb. You’re just cutting off part of the image so now I can’t see what I want to see but I can see that someone I randomly followed five years ago and forgot about reposted it.

you’ll never guess what this is referring to

"He died as he lived, twisting statistics to lie about minorities in hopes that others would murder them on his behalf."

when I say I like a man who plays the piano, this is what I mean

when I say I like a man who plays the piano, this is what I mean

I found most descriptive passages in Perdido Street Station—of which there are many—so difficult to comprehend I worried Ol’ Long Covid had finally got me. Luckily, reviews from 10-15 years ago also say it’s dense and stuffed and incomprehensible. Safe for now. Anyways finished the book!

thinking about him

There are two ways you can consume this: “Obama is a weakling who is tacitly endorsing Charlie Kirk because he’s not using the language and tone I would,” or “a professional communicator is making a point, I may not be the audience, and his primary aim may not be my personal emotional needs.”

should I write a blog post later on how the latest viral post in my circle about AI is a misattributed claim from a reprinted copy of a reductive article written by an AI researcher that mostly copies and partly gets wrong an explainer article about an OpenAI research paper

It’s pretty funny you can get a notification for someone reposting your repost of their post

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst has always been the way. Far too many people talk like they’re hoping for not-too-bad and preparing for not-too-bad.

the concept of trying to ‘shape the information environment’ ….from Bluesky

I have not read theory, this is just a casual question, maybe someone has already asked this: Does the belief that better* representation of marginalized identities in popular media will bring about better outcomes for people with those identities conflict with dialectical materialism?

The micro-recommendation this week is an illustrated book of whales [insert space whale sound from Star Trek here].

Vulture Cinematrix No. 539: Sep 16, 2025 I got 9/9 correct Score: 2394 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/playcinematrix I almost never get 9/9 because I am a baby who knows nothing.

The micro-recommendation this week is an illustrated book of whales [insert space whale sound from Star Trek here].

This is the larger point I'm constantly making about the misogyny slop ecosystem: they don't have to pay anybody to participate, they just have to set up a structure where they have created a narrative people can easily monetize. "Bitch is lying" is that narrative.

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A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

21 / HORROR COMEDY X VIDEO CAMERA 🎥 ✦ Dead Talents Society (2024): Ghosts make tik toks to stay alive (as much as they can, anyway) ✦ One Cut of the Dead (2017): A movie crew desperately tries to film a zombie movie while their reality is much like the movie