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

Holy moly, live cam on Kilauea!

Bilge Ebiri asks Jim Jarmusch a question we've always wondered about when it comes to indie filmmakers: “How do you pay the bills?”

This App Turns Your Photos into Music If You Want to Do That For Some Reason

[Tim Meadows in WALK HARD voice] "Jimmy Kimmel needs to think about his entire life before he jokes..."

no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that

millennials are band directors now and I think that’s terrific

fwiw it's lazy policy for council to just slap up a "Maximum 40" sign and then act like the job is done. If cities were serious about slower speed limits they'd design streets with slower speeds in mind. But Toronto drivers absolutely *do* want to speed with impunity.

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

Wrote about RENTAL FAMILY, one of my favourites from TIFF so far this year: www.kinetoscope.ca/blog/2025/9/...

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

Canon, take my money. This release might address everything I wanted in a new cine camera from them. What would be even better is if they put these specs into the R6 Mark III. petapixel.com/2025/09/09/f...

Editor: You get that illustration of the box of Grape Nuts and the gentleman? Illustrator: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what.

So weird how no one invented "looking busy at work despite not being busy" until recently. You'd think someone would've come up with that before now, but no, it's a new trend, with a name that is definitely real and commonly used.

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

All three actors bringing different and complementary A-games to this hideous moment, but for me this clip is about Edebiri. Her poise is astounding.

not in the top 10 things that's objectionable about this but speaks to the idiotic illiteracy of the trump supporters that they watch apocalypse now and think kilgore is cool. the point of the character is that he sucks and the way he sucks is emblematic of why the US lost the war!

1. People who like AI don’t give a shit about The Magnificent Ambersons 2. People who care about The Magnificent Ambersons and love it despite it not being the version Orson intended don’t want it to be desecrated and turned into AI slop So who is the even for?

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

YouTube is obviously framing this as the next frontier in what they already do with re-encoding low res video for slower connections. But it's clearly just a way to ensure "line goes up" for Google's AI investment.

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

Folks reasonably assume footage from behind-the-scenes featurettes are "truth", but it is now standard practice for studios to alter footage from "making-of" videos. (These gray screens are actually blue screens on the set of "Superman" (2025).)

The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts

The "story" the LLM "wrote" is just a plagiarized George RR Martin quotation.

I interviewed the winner of WINGS OF VOICE on Nathan Fielder's THE REHEARSAL. We talked about what contestants were really told about WINGS, whether people knew what the deal was, and how winning the "competition" changed her life. www.decodingtv.com/p/an-intervi...

I like the way they desperately tried to reframe to avoid showing the character on the left sitting down, was apparently just a torso weirdly fused into the table. SO useful!

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

Possibly my favorite internet video of all time remains Happy Harry's "Saturday Morning Watchmen"

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Imagine walking into an established writers room with a list this vague and acting like you just saved TV. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

MAN: What's that, girl? Trouble at the old mine? LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [The miners are striking for better pay and conditions] MAN: B-but Billy's down there! LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [BILLY'S A SCAB]

Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org

I wrote an article about YouTuber Joshua Weissman and his plagiarism, abusive behavior, sexual misconduct, and exploitation of his staff. You can click through or click the link in my bio to read it.

Wrote a bit about EDDINGTON and how it's not hard to see what it's trying to do, it just does too much of it: www.kinetoscope.ca/blog/2025/7/...

You should never follow any of these color charts. They are all stupid. I'll show you why. 🧵

A Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested by Tallahassee officers for credit card fraud www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones

Ice cream truck funerals apparently produce the most horror movie ass sound you can hear in real life

this is good

Tech geniuses: Gen AI will one day magically fix the world. Meanwhile, it's burning a fuckton of cash and resources that could fix actual problems. Also, we've trained it on your data and creative labour so that it can replace your job. Normal people: Fuck you Tech geniuses: Why aren't we loved?

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes theonion.com/study-9...

Sadly I still have the clip of him screaming "this will not stand!" (about a female M&M being made less sexy) burned into my memory

I wasn't super excited for Project Hail Mary, but the trailer looks like a blast and I didn't realize it was another Goddard script with Lord/Miller directing, wow www.engadget.com/entertainmen...

I'll accept Dickinson or Elordi, but never Holland. He's just not right for the role. My vote is for Jack O'Connell, though.