I can understand millions of people watching hours of video in hi-def requires lots of data transfer and energy. But seeing how much it's a literal blip compared to the Hallucination Machines? It really highlights the level of irresponsibility involved.

Dreamt I was a millionaire and loved it. But now the dream is over. I have been logged off.

Of all the good feelings in the world, none gives me more relief than when the last warning light on my dashboard shuts off. Probably because it happens so rarely.

Knives were out for Chalamet, but I think what really caused the Marty Supreme shutout was just having Kevin O′Leary in the vicinity of the picture.

Continental decision to follow-up the In Memoriam section with the Frankenstein reel.

Drift catching is not the end goal of engaging with a film. If you think otherwise, you′re conflating art with a manifesto.

Divide your attention proportionally between the unsubstantiated and unlikely rumors that Iran would use the Oscars telecast as a potential target for terrorism, and all the scenes from The Naked Gun 33 1/3 featuring a bomb in the Best Picture envelope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=go5a...

Mountains of evidence AI is destroying the planet, the economy, and causing biologic changes to the brain: "It's okay, I only use it for the lulz" One rumor about MSG from 50 years ago: "Oh god, that stuff is dangerous. Keep it far away from me."

Sit tight, I need to check something...

In his defense, he cops to not watching the thing he's trying to discuss, actually watches it, and changes his mind when he realizes how incredibly wrong he was instead of doubling down. First of all, don't be that guy to start with. Second, be willing to forgive folks who escape indoctrination.

A truly great insult is when you just present the facts and they're humiliating.

Line in the sand, I'm not watching any cartoon whose ads are filled with characters screaming and making dopey faces at the camera. This is Minions bullshit. I don't care if Hoppers actually is Pixar's funniest film ever, your commercials annoy me.

Leonard Nimoy's narration puts Civ IV over the others. #My9Games

"Bernstein, why don't you finish one story before trying to get on another?" "I finished it." "The Virginia legislature story?" "I finished it." "All right, give it to me." "...I'm just polishing it."

Leonid Andreyev once wrote: "I cannot get accustomed to war; my brain refuses to understand and explain a thing that is senseless in its basis... What is it if not madness?" It was written, appropriately, concerning his home country's endless series of wars in Persia and the Middle East

Brezhnev had to import 1/3 of the USSR's food supply in 1972, because of droughts and a population boom. This led to the common stereotype of Soviet bread lines. America's food imports are at 18% for 2026, and expected to climb another 7%. (We averaged 12% in the 2010s)

Lenny Small with a rabbit has a better possible outcome

Bruce Springsteen can't write songs fast enough to meet the current moment

And this is as good an example as any as to why the Letterboxd Top 250/500 is just like any People's Choice Award, vox populi measurement. They're never worth paying attention to.

Lester Burnham spent two hours learning how not to be a pedophile and was killed by a Nazi. Don't tell me American Beauty is an outdated film. ...Kevin Spacey is a legitimate argument.

*Bangs pots together* Savannah Guthrie's mother has been missing for 23 days

Birthday cake made of ancient grains. This Machine Kills Fascists sticker applique. Patchouli scented dryer balls. A pair of the ugliest sandals you've ever seen. Autographed copy of the Bhagavad Gita. A goat. A Reagan/Bush 84 tee-shirt. Come on, Mr. Jiggs. This isn't hard.

Party one owns a toaster. Party one moves in with Party two. Party two also owns a toaster. Two toasters are redundant, one is sold off. The same amount of toast is made with 50% fewer toasters. Replace toasters with human livelihoods. This is why anti-trust laws are important.

Cheesecake is such a weird thing. Somebody took cream cheese, an incredibly fatty food, and decided to add a bunch of sugar. Then they doused graham crackers in butter and baked it. Then some people decided it wasn't quite decadent enough, so they covered it in caramel, syrups, or cookie crumbs.

Jelly is more stable than this stupid market

Bean counters found in 2014, Dr Oz gave proper medical advice just 46% of the time. 15% was flat-out wrong, and the remaining 39% seemed to have been completely made up. When people say AI can do your job, they mean it can do *their* job, because they suck at it. www.newsweek.com/researchers-...

Boom, right here. This is AI in a nutshell. It tells you it can do anything. It tells you you don't need to think. It tells you to trust it. Then it makes mistakes you learn to avoid in a 9th grade intro to HTML class.

You know, hiring Ted Danson as a celebrity spokesman requires you to remember he played a demon who created a version of hell where everything seemed superficially okay but things were actually engineered to be aggravating and unnerving and tormenting in their own special way.

Symbiotic relationship between people who give a fuck and people who enable fucking

Patriotic sentiments aside, I'm still pissed off the racists are ruining a perfectly good number.

Slam that like button. Break the nose of the bell icon. Turn the subscribe button into a vegetable for the last of its painfully agonizing days, until it begs for the sweet release of death, which you will not grant. And share with your followers.

Book me on the Daily Show. I can be wildly unpopular for a fraction of the price. Here's a sample: "You know things are bad when the only person to face repercussions for the Epstein Files was Dril."

Neck and neck between "Don't Go Putting Wishes In My Head", "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding", and "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"

Right on. The guy who raised ticket prices despite unpopular rides, fewer amenities, and converted precious real estate into Instagram backdrop locations as an attraction is now in charge of the whole company. Hey, did you know they greenlit a second Avatar park?

Right now, I'm hesitant to talk up anybody famous. Regardless of politics or behavior. Not a good place to be during awards season. Sorry, but after learning about Stephen Hawking, I'm not assuming anything about anyone.

It's also being reported that the man who was ordered to "stop hitting (him)self" was not hitting himself, but his hand was being grasped by the taunter and forcibly propelled into the victim's own body

The headline may make you facepalm, but it's just one subsection of an ongoing problem: Kids raised on short-form video have become adults, unable to live without the constant serotonin drip second-screening provides.

End, in the following order: Fascism The enabling of Fascism Backronyms

Of course the movie Argo famously replaced efforts of the Canadian government with American because Hollywood's gonna Hollywood. It's still a good movie regardless. But this version where America replaces Iran? I don't care for it.

The decline of the TV theme song and the introduction of streaming's Skip Intro button both align with the popularity of the show True Blood, which featured among the imagery in its opening a maggot-infested decomposing animal corpse.

World, we got lucky. There were losses, there were horrors, but Minneapolis persevered. They won this battle, but the war continues. Learn the lessons: Do not stop watching. Do not stop recording. Do not grant your enemy respite. Do not stop helping each other.

As the terrors continue, please try to find mild joy in the schadenfreude of these fuckers, raised on the pageantry and scare tactics of the third reich, getting screamed at by roomfuls of strangers in pom-pommed ski hats while trying to enjoy a cold enchilada plate

We used to have a specific type of actor that we really don't see anymore

Know what? Too easy.

It doesn't get said enough: the most underappreciated people in society are grocery clerks the day before a snowstorm.

It's not that I have strong opinions towards F1, and it's not that I'm upset about all these racing movies feeling somewhat interchangeable. It's just that if F1 didn't get a Best Picture nomination, this would have been the first year I saw all the nominees before they were announced. So close.

The Etsy witches are asleep at the switch

End of my feed? I follow over 300 people. I sort by newest first. I've only been scrolling for maybe ten minutes. There is not supposed to be an end to my feed. I don't make myself miserable five times a day opening this app just for you to not hold up your end of the agreement.

Of all the things fighting for my attention this week, Will Stancil is not cracking the top fifty. Keep chatting about him if you want, I'm just going to pretend he's one of the side characters from a Disney+ Star Wars program everyone's watching except me. Bix Caleen, Romar Adell, Will Stancil.

The important thing to remember about Disney is there's a distinction between Disney (the corporation), Disney (the animation studio), and Disney (the brand). I don't trust the corporation an inch, but by and large, the filmmakers are good eggs.