Industrialized art is built to remove us from the world, communal art is made to bring us closer to it. The tension between the two modes and the willingness to engage with both inform every sphere of art-making.

"Adam Hamawy, a surgeon who became a hero of the pro-Palestine movement after treating patients in Gaza, is heading to Congress after winning a Democratic primary in southern New Jersey"

Together, our voices will be heard! Sign our #DHWU petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/da... 🐴✊

"Eventually, though, what's left of the free press will have to reckon with the fact that the far-right fringe is now the modern world's governing elite — and openly declaring an intent to repeat the 1930s. That's a story."

"In the U.S. today, translations make up a meager three percent of total book publications." ... "The market has its landlords" www.thedriftmag.com/the-translat...

HELL YEAH!! Sending all my love and support for the workers at Dark Horse Comics. Most of the comics I've worked on have been published by DH and none of it would be possible without the highly skilled workers seeing these projects through to the end.

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)

It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

Very excited to go see IS GOD IS and I LOVE BOOSTERS in theater in the next few days, maybe even as a double bill.

Not many things more lovely in a filmmaker's life than reading multiple fantastic film and pilot scripts by friends, lately at a rate of pretty much one per week.

The Waves Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Wuthering Heights But that's too easy because that's just the three I probably return to the most often? So three more: Sula Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Água Viva

"What has wickedness got to do with it?" www.commentary.org/articles/gar...

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System."

"Those who don’t have the truth tend to over-perform it. ... I’m completely convinced that the dominant narrative form is a kind of war model—it pushes the idea of protagonist and antagonist, of conflict. ... But human experience doesn’t work like that." mubi.com/en/notebook/...

This is devastating. Just devastating. "Many observers rightly warn that Callais threatens minority representation in Congress. But minority voters' power on school boards and city councils is no less consequential and may be at even greater risk."

Ha ha. Yes. Yes!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7J...

Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:

as a CSA survivor, the whole conversation around the Michael movie is one of those moments where you really get to remember, in no uncertain terms, how hostile humanity is to its own children

"I don’t think it’s the filmmaker’s responsibility to show what you’re supposed to take away from it, or reach any kind of conclusion. In fact, I find that sort of attitude to be very full of yourself, to feel that you must do that, as a filmmaker." letterboxd.com/journal/kiyo...

It changes perception because it's real! I've always appreciated devs who go the extra mile for producing handwritten notes and textures in real life to put them in video games (Alan Wake 2 is a very unique prime example, Re Engine Resident Evil titles, Eriksholm, and TLOU series also come to mind)

Erupcja (2025, dir. Pete Ohs): Good film!

The Drama! I liked it!

Blue Heron (2025, dir. @sophyromvari.bsky.social) –

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...

"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!

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/...

"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...

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...

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...