What kind of AI? To do what exactly? What models is it trained on? What's the approximate ecological impact? These are some of the questions to be asked of talent, always, when AI in filmmaking is discussed. www.avclub.com/steven-soder...

This is the century where the human species turned genocidal against itself & the planet. From the industrial revolution all the way to climate change ego death psychosis – too many reasons to count. The choice will be to turn the tables or hide under them, waiting to die.

"I call on artists and filmmakers everywhere in the world to be a voice in these critical days and hours ... to stop the destructive aggression that has increasingly destroyed civilian infrastructure. ... Attacking a country’s infrastructure is a war crime." variety.com/2026/film/gl...

Saw FACES OF DEATH and lived to post about it!

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Saw Julia Ducournau's ALPHA. Found it deeply moving.

The latest episode of Overinvested is all about ALIEN, delving into the film's creative backstory, dystopian political worldbuilding, and wildly influential production design: www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/ali...

“The Yugoslav Wars never ended, they just entered into global circulation.” thebaffler.com/salvos/yugos...

"Sure, Hollywood may be weathering its umpteenth apocalyptic storm, but to reduce the fate of the entire art form to that of the US film industry is nothing short of myopic." mubi.com/en/notebook/...

“El Fasher represents a moral and political failure of the international system designed to prevent genocide” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

EXCLUSIVE - Hegseth said that “family after family” of the service members killed in Iran war told him: “Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done.” But a father who met with Hegseth tells @nbcnews.com he never said that www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

"This is not a time for empty condemnations, but for sanctions and arms embargos that will impede Israel’s ability to keep escalating its aggression." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Thousands of union workers employed by the largest meatpacking company in the U.S. went on strike early Monday morning, calling for higher wages and safer working conditions at the JBS facility in Greeley." coloradosun.com/2026/03/16/j...

I get Max Richter's Hamnet soundtrack – if anyone earned the use of On the Nature of Daylight it's him, and the entire album flows from it / around it. It's genuinely interesting work by a fascinating musician – his work for the Royal Ballet's Woolf Works is transcendental.

Incredible wins for many. Happy for them! Shutting out The Secret Agent and It Was Just an Accident is an embarrassment. As for any further thoughts:

"Moura is a magnetic camera subject, but there’s no vanity in his acting" www.theringer.com/2026/03/13/o...

"Moura is a magnetic camera subject, but there’s no vanity in his acting" www.theringer.com/2026/03/13/o...

This is Israel, the Western bastion of rewarding soldiers for anally raping a handcuffed hostage with a knife because the victim can't testify due to having been thrown into the Gaza extermination camp and probably having been massacred. apnews.com/article/isra...

"Last weekend, Iran, one of the world’s oldest, most storied civilizations, was attacked by two countries: the US, which adorably is about to celebrate its 250th anniversary; and Israel, which is younger than Liza Minnelli." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

PMC’s have used drones to kill more than a thousand Haitians in last few months www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

"We all shared this experience of being interrogated, of being made to sit in front of a wall. We were all blindfolded ... Obviously, at that point, our hearing took over as the dominating sense." Excellent interview with Jafar Panahi by @helmetgirl.bsky.social www.papermag.com/jafar-panahi...

Ahead of the State of the Union address, I wanted to share my thoughts on the credulous coverage of “prediction markets” and the grim economic structure that coverage has ignored. Prediction market platforms are a pit stop on a crisis…. ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/prediction...

For @papermag.com.web.brid.gy I had the great honor of interviewing Jafar Panahi: www.papermag.com/jafar-panahi...

smells like updog in here

When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.

"It takes some effort to remind ourselves that Rome was filthy, its grand structures smeared with feces and surrounded by long-collapsed slums. Romans shat into pots, over private cesspits, by tombs, by statues, in doorways, on roads." lareviewofbooks.org/article/filt...

I interviewed the author of bestselling book The Fort Bragg Cartel. We cover the potential for regime change in Venezuela, the unique rate of violence around US bases, our “low information” Congress, Israel’s influence on US army doctrine, and more ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/interview-...

If one accepts that the ruling elites are largely a (partially unconscious) death cult stuck in a nihilistic feedback loop, their full-scale commitment to AI reveals itself as climate change accelerationism, a mundane representation of the desire for endless murder and extraction

"Art which stays news, in Ezra Pound’s phrase, is art in which the question “what does it mean?” has no correct answer. Every narrative has, at least, a capacity to suggest a metanarrative, and art that “works” is highly suggestive in this sense" www.nybooks.com/articles/199...

"Mary woke to a faint buzz that seemed to come from just beside her. “I froze,” she told me. “I could not move. I could not scream.” A dark square hovered near the ceiling. ... If they could fly a drone to her bedside, they could see everything" nymag.com/intelligence...

If you think movies are over because a corporation might buy another corporation, I suggest pulling your head out of your ass and steering it towards the entire world of an art form that is barely a century old while within that infancy blooms a promise of the infinite

"Silence not only fails to support Ukrainian society. It normalises and legitimises an abnormal, criminal situation." www.equator.org/articles/the...

"The father, named Fei, told Spector that he was separated from his 6-year-old son Yuanxin inside 26 Federal Plaza and not told where ICE agents were taking him." www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...

"What kind of country is this?" mubi.com/en/notebook/...

“My novels have been influential and popular in Britain, where I am among the bestselling literary authors of the last decade. The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.” www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

"...when we see images of floods in Bengal, what we are looking at is not just the result of weather events: it is also the product of a project of terraforming that began in colonial times and has continued until the present day" www.equator.org/articles/bey...

“We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out. It’s one bubble to rule them all.” prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...

let's fucking go

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

"Susan had been calling the police on the community for two years." www.filmcomment.com/blog/intervi...

“I hate AI,” Gilligan says ... “AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. ... a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires. I think they’re selling a bag of vapor.” variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Wouldn't have mattered if sliwa dropped out. Mamdani had an actual and in fact mandate.

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

I don't know how many more ways to say "you need to start fucking listening to the people who warned you that exactly this would happen." LLM/GPT-type "AI" recreate patterns in pursuit of matching statistical correlations on which they're trained. They make shit up. Do Not. Put this. In healthcare

All right, Bluesky. Do your thing. I've got two cats – a kitten and a young cat – clearly strays, bonded, incredibly sweet, and of course cautious. I want to help collect them, do the whole spay/neuter/whatever else they need thing, can foster them, can't keep them. Recs for LA?