Congratulations to @merriam-webster.com on putting out a beautiful new edition of M-W Collegiate in print! This is the first new print edition in 20+ years

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

One of the great honors of my life has been helping write the catalog for the legendary Guillermo del Toro’s Bleak House Collection on sale today @heritageauctions. It was a fascinating study of the objects and inspirations behind one of cinemas singular voices! Follow along at ha.com

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Every truly great season of a TV show is alchemy. Everybody and everything in sync (on screen at least). Especially so in the 20+ episode, standard ad breaks era. Lightning in a bottle, you had to be there, etc. Anyway, it’s no wonder runs like that can still take our breath away decades later.

DO IT. The best value in streaming cinema.

"Condor deploys geographical motifs as signal of the intent to totalize. Redford as informational mechanic+industrial worker is more interesting than as English major +intellectual, + the great banks of telephone switches recall the ghostly proletarian content of the heist genre itself." Jameson

Tbh, not really vibing with either “angels and demons are real” or “a supercomputer will perfect us or destroy us” as organizing principles of society.

"How many colours would you like?" "Yes"

Happy anniversary to yet another incredible and indelible film from 1975.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Just imagine how any social media platform could be transformed if we all had access to even a half-dozen or so different fonts and some light text formatting. Bring back the chaos of 1990s-early 2000s design.

Chotiner interviews Janeway

Now would be a great time for reporters to be skeptical about government claims. This applies to any time, and any government, anywhere, really, but let's start with the one we have now.

Subtly downgrade a band: Newark Dolls

Everything feels like background detail in a Verhoeven movie these days

Share your favorite black and white movie.

Just a quick reminder that the world is on fire and escapism is a powerful tool to fuel your resistance. Unconvinced? Please come to my talk at Cornell tomorrow (9/25)!

Last night pre-Kimmel, I stayed current by watching The Anderson Tapes (1971) on the Criterion Channel, and two 1970 episodes of Night Gallery on Kino Lorber's gorgeously remastered blu-rays.

Sep 24th 1975 - After being allowed back on the air for a final farewell, Howard Beale launches into a rant about life being "bullshit", causing the ratings to spike. 📽️📅 Network (1976)

I've been #RaptureReady for thirty years.

MY PEOPLE, RISE UP!

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

Man, this rapture sucks.

Summer feeling just a bit vindictive as it heads out the door in North Texas today. 🥵

Remembering John Coltrane today on what would have been his 99th birthday (born September 23, 1926) | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/JColtraneHBD

The Lost pilot is now old enough to drink.

Me and my friends tried to imagine what life is like in NYC in the world of Marvel comics or something where you have regular monster attacks. What we came up with is that you could rent a 2/2 in Manhatten for maybe $500/mo, but your insurance would be $60k a year. You'd miss work a lot too.

So is the rapture scheduled before or after Fox and Friends?

This one does make some sense

this is my choice for skeet of the year

ok let's goooooooo (pre-launch page, sign up to be notified on launch) www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Happy Autumn Equinox! I hope you take time on this first day of Fall to feel the season. 🍁 This is a day of BALANCE —between day and night, darkness and light, inside and outside, action and rest. ⚖️ It’s also a time to express GRATITUDE—for the earth’s bounty and the people who harvest it. 🌽

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

happy first day of fall, crush some foliage and snort it, grab every pumpkin flavored item you see, roll around in the dressing room of a Spirit Halloween, yell at the sun, scare someone

It’s going to happen someday and people are going to celebrate and anybody who wants to scold that celebration had best be prepared to fight.

More to come, I’m sure.

Art and communication are essential, regardless of media form or format. But none of our dominant media platforms or transaction systems have ever been essential. We will always build alternatives.

I for one am not at all worried that the most powerful people on earth have optimized my society and my brain to be ultra-reliant on the misery machine we keep in our pockets.

Ah, Sunday afternoons. Lying on the couch sipping coffee and reading a great book, dog sleeping and farting nearby.

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

Seems the smart money should always be on “fundamental statistical and computational limits” forever kicking the ass of “drug- and capital-fueled hubris and magic-pixie Singularity fever.”

If life were a 1990s SF drama, we could all have learned a lesson from our wise friends and been welcomed back into the fold after all the trauma. Unless it was Babylon 5 or The X-Files, in which case we’d likely just commiserate over the existential dread with our friends as the credits roll.

We’re back tonight at 11pm on HBO Max/11:10pm on HBO! After an eventful few weeks away. And if the FCC is reading this, we just want to say: tonight’s episode is about…how cute your outfit is! And every episode after that, too, cause you’ll just keep wearing outfits! And we love that about you.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There have been *so many* Academia[dot]edu warning signs over the past decade; I’m glad these new terms of service — claiming world rights to your work, your voice, your likeness, your signature, etc — are driving even more people away. May it advance the Ed Tech Luddite Revolution ✊

can confirm

“Minimalism’s iron grip on reality is not honest or articulate. It’s a manifestation of a world that is actually out of control. The iPhone screams chaos at us, but it looks clean and perfect. It’s the ideal delivery device for madness.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...