I signed immediately. I'm not a Hachette author, but I know the teams over there have been put through it bad and they need all the support we can give

ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS is on Criterion Channel just in time for Douglas Sirk's b'day. Also: it and WRITTEN ON THE WIND are now on VOD! Previously, they had not been streaming at all (except occasionally on TCM/Criterion Ch). MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION + THE TARNISHED ANGELS still aren't streaming tho!

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

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There are plenty of actual books for that age range about all kinds of vehicles--we still have several even though our sons are in their 20s now. He could have written something written by a human instead of plagiarized from an aggregation of things written by humans.

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

Pathetic.

a reminder that I still run this bookshop for a couple more months 😎

You acting humorless and miserable does not actually make the authoritarians go away

there ought to be some elevated form of UBI for quirked-up & super old movie directors. like we just trust them to do what they like, they've been at it for 50 years. they shouldn't have to spend the last decades of their lives struggling to fund stuff

Fuck Nazi TV!

AI is best understood as a cyberattack against a functioning society and should be treated as such

Tim Heidecker, the man that you are…

with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

The Man Hired By The Onion Made A Sketch Where A Man Neighs Like A Horse And He Owns A Mattress Store And Admits To Being A Demon In His Dreams

Oh my god did he post the “I touched a clown, now I’m going to jail” sketch with this????

Oh my God. They put fart jokes into ANIMAL FARM and gave it a happy ending.

Ai companies are trying to buy credibility through Hollywood endorsements but all I see are artists permanently branding themselves as scabs

happy lesbian visibility week to these two specifically also, a reminder that I once wrote a movie about two lesbian witches who accidentally end the world

Bluesky wouldn't let me post this on mobile but! @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Look what I found at Bull Moose today!

was recently reminded of one of my all-time favorite bits of sequential acting, drawn by Natalya Lobanova

crybaby station used to be a real job, grandpa bought a house and raised 6 kids off the back of bein a pathetic lil guy that couldn't handle shit, now most people gotta remote into three different virtual crybaby stations simultaneously and use generative crybaby AI just to get by

i can't even enjoy susan collins losing to platner

I am so upset right now, TikTok quietly added a feature which turns on an AI feature on all the TikTok’s you have already posted to allow Ai to remix and make content of your TikTok’s and I didn’t know, you must go to privacy settings on your TikToks to turn it off yourself, want to warn others 💔

Not going to share the circulating screengrabs of Navratilova horrifically libelling Dr Upton on Uncle Elon's CSAM Website but she deserves to get sued for it & the few of you left who still think she's sound just bc she'll occasionally call Trumpy a wankpuffin or whatever might want to rethink that

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

I learned recently that it’s an insult in Germany to call someone “hobbyless” or to engage in “hobbyless behavior” and it’s become my favorite way to think of assholes who have nothing better to do than to make other people miserable. Get a hobby. Build a model train and calm down.

How many fucking “godfathers of AI” are there, and why do none of them talk about the actual realities of LLMs? Grifters galore

Howdy! I was able to scrounge up the first part of the payment but now June is fast approaching and I need to pay the second $2700. The world hasn't been kind to artists in the literal 1 month since the last time so I need to once again ask for help and rely on the kindness of strangers online ‼️💜

For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote. A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago. Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!

the only take that matters

Happy 80th to John Waters and his poppers birthday cake

tdov is fine and all, but i prefer buying trans women pizza. celebrate today by being a weird freak. push the bounds of what is possible and build the world you want in the present. make that zine, go have that messy hookup. being visible is boring, be more

I mean, of course that’s what happening. It’s been clear the whole time

We have a chance of removing the Online Safety Act! Any UK residents, PLEASE take the time to fill out the whole form. If we want to remove ID verification on websites that actually don't need it, we need to take action NOW!

WAIT HOW DID I MISS THAT @vicmmic.bsky.social HAS OUR FUNDRAISER PINNED. VIC I LOVE YOU AND YOUR WORK ARE YOU KIDDING ME. <3

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of. Call your reps NOW.

AGAINST ALL ODDS, THOSE WHO BELIEVED BLUESKY THAT THE CRASH WAS DUE TO A DDOS AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE BLUESKY AND WERE SURE IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE AI VIBE CODING WERE BOTH RIGHT

There will be lots of discourse on this focused on the egregious hypocrisy of the MAGA crowd endlessly complaining about Biden admin "jawboning" of Big Tech But imo the real story here is that Apple and Google's app store monopoly is a gift to dictators and a human rights nightmare.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

[to the tune of Beauty School Dropout] christian ska stepdad,

One thing to know about small businesses is that an ungodly amount of them basically look at a full balance sheet and not just revenue like once or twice a year so around tax season this happens A LOT