Two fun stories to view side-by-side: - An Australian psychiatrist is refusing patients that don't agree to the use of an AI scribe - A new Canadian study finding AI scribes have a shockingly high failure rate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

Getting rid of public servants and contracting privately to pay for stuff cause the only thing right wingers know is moving public funds to private hands. They do what their donors want.

Maggie Cheung, my kinda gal. ;D

Yesssssssssssss please. New from the director of THE CHASER, THE YELLOW SEA, and THE WAILING. youtu.be/Vt7860xZFXk?...

this feels like the crux of things, and I don't see it highlighted enough: being creative is fun! i want a machine that does my laundry so i can focus more on making art, not the other way around!!

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Thought it was time to introduce the son to Johnnie To and naturally went for Sparrow. He asked me to Shazam some of the music and I'm like, boy, I can grab the CD from upstairs. :D

Well, there was an actual direct pipeline from neocon pundit turned MAGA cheerleader Victor Davis Hanson to Frank Miller & Zack Snyder…

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

I've heard billionaires have incredible marbling.

Me to me randomly at 4am

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Has anyone here used that Letterboxd Video Store? Good streaming quality and stable?

1,400 babies born every day with HIV because their mothers suddenly lost access to the antiretroviral medication that prevents the virus being transmitted in utero apparently wasn't enough.

Just spitballing here, but.. Obayashi-tober?

Scientists anticipate we will hit the Intellectual Property Singularity by approximately 2032, at which point the one content available to the masses will be a single grey cube owned by Disney.

Back with Chapman To & Fiona Sit. Rewatching The Bounty (2012).

Remember when EVVVVVVVVVERYTHING was going to be on the blockchain? Remember how so many people say AI is inevitable so just start using it?

Woooooooooooooooah. I just finished watching The Serpent's Path 2024 and holy fuck, the way this is continuously dark and still manages to end on an even darker note. That Kiyoshi Kurosawa, man. That Kô Shibasaki.

The Ghost In The Shell still looks positively bonkers, maybe more dorky with the latest trailer. Less than 2 months to go now. youtu.be/yedJOylFOtg?...

Hantatouille

“AI in schools” is going great

Meanwhile in New Zealand. An outright criminal joke.

It's happening. Mr & Mrs Gambler starring Chapman To and Fiona Sit, directed by the absolute visionary and king of good taste, the man himself, Wong Jing.

Hell yeah!

Mortal Kombat II is a good and enjoyable Mortal Kombat movie.

So naturally, on a Friday night where I play through a game called Mixtape, I end up listening to Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American. And then realise that album will turn 25 this July. Thus seeing the video of the title track on MTV must have also happened just about 25 years ago..

It’s straightforwardly the case that “AI” is an excuse to turn every US citizen into a walking networked ring door cam to feed into a privatized national surveillance security state partnered with eugenicist fascists

I died laughing at this video that cuts together all the footage of Tucker Carlson talking about how he literally got attacked by a demon ghoul in his bed and Trump is a dark wizard PLUS the times he’s denied ever saying it. Had no idea he doesn’t just suck he’s actually batshit crazy.

Happy Mixtape day everyone!

New Zealand values are when you are a pedophile and become the president of the political party and that political party starts talking about immigrants not adhering to New Zealand values 🙄

What was done to Barrera was unforgivable, frankly. And much as I love Matthew Lillard, Neve Campbell etc, those who went to work on Scream 7 afterwards should be treated as scabs

Not that I follow the Champions league, but I feel I have to be a fan of Paris Saint-Germain now, what with them smashing Bayern München twice in a row.

It's kinda bonkers that this has been my gaming year so far and at the same time I've gotten my movie mojo back. I'm telling y'all, that Asian Cinema and yours truly list will hit the big 3 this year.

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Oooh, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, director of 2022's best film Fast & Feel Love, has a new film out. Human Resource. After learning about a new Na Hong-jin film finally being a reality, this is the next very bit of exciting Asian cinema news. This angle makes 2026 look good. It's the only one. xD

Watching The Drama and I am so confused about the part of the premise that kicks off the drama. 😅 This all seems like such a non-issue. Must be silly Norwegian director humour. 😅

Can you hear that wailing chasing you all the way to the yellow sea? New Na Hong-jin incoming!

Hello, everyone! My dear friend Emma needs help with her health problems and needs money for her expenses in relation to endometriosis. If you all do what you can to donate to Emma or share this post for awareness, she and I would be so grateful. Thank you so much. gofund.me/c17026243

I think what this year and the more terrifying than ever state of our planet truly needs is me revisiting a bunch of comedies starring Fiona Sit and Chapman To, to mentally escape all this and have both a revived crush and plenty of laughter. Yes.

Refutations to Anti-Vaccine Memes Originally this cartoon was about Covid vaccination, but it's just as relevant to measles, pertussis, and all the other vaccine-preventable diseases.

Watching this and thinking to myself, this Matthew Kim with his laid-back, let's all get along talk sounds like a stereotypical libra. He was precisely one day before my 5th birthday. Lmao. youtu.be/4tBcU1am-To?...