Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

"the projectionist has the final cut". #JustWatched 'Arthème opérateur' (1914, Ernest Servaès)

We didn’t need AI slop. We had Poser.

Future historians will look back on this period like the end of the Roman Empire but with shitposting

TSA stays in the arena for groping innovation www.404media.co/tsa-working-...

Someone tell this double rainbow it’s supposed to be Bleak Week🌈

Ok my Leader Lady enamel pin is now up for preorder! It's currently being printed at the factory, and should be shipping out in mid- to late-June. The X's in the mock-up mean those holes will be punched out just like real perfs which I think is gonna look neat! www.etsy.com/listing/4310...

Doing something where I need to contact a bunch of police depts, many of which are so small as to barely have websites, and every time I do this I'm surprised that these departments whose sites barely work have pages that are like "policy on persistent drone surveillance" or "how we use our tanks"

A technology that has proven to produce false positives that can ruin innocent people’s lives.

Ok this is your moment film lovers, I am fine-tuning this enamel pin design to order over the weekend and I am curious if other people will a) get it, and more importantly b) buy it?

What fresh hell is this?

Quit messin around and get to the @gaptheatre35.bsky.social asap!

On Friday the Copyright Office issued a report about artificial intelligence that included questions and concerns about the usage of copyrighted materials by AI technology. buff.ly/8mDnila

imagine if you won an olympic gold medal and the only freely-licensed photo wikipedia could find for your article was this

ET stands for "Eraserhead Two". because it's the sequel

Maybe instead of 30 dolls she gets one. And maybe it costs a few dollars more. And maybe it contains the transferred soul of Charles Lee Ray. And maybe it's always yelling "Ade due Damballa. Give me the power, I beg of you." It's fine.

guy who thinks the Protect The Dolls shirts are about tariffs

We live in the stupidest possible timeline.

Two rare Russ Meyer films are playing the Gap Theatre in 35mm on Saturday, May 10, 2025! Tickets are $10.00 per person. Showtime at 10:00 PM Doors open 30 minutes before showtime. Tickets are available at thegaptheatre.com and at the door. #35mm #film #theatre #russmeyer

My brother worked at a drive-in theater in 1970. After the "Mark of the Devil" finished its run he brought home a case of the leftover vomit bags. My thrifty mother noticed their high quality construction. As a result all of my lunches during junior high were packed in "Mark of the Devil" bags.

There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).

#Onthisday in 1913, Bollywood was born, with the release of Indian cinema's very 1st feature, Dadasaheb Phalke's Raja Harishchandra. It only exists now in fragments (1475 feet of it), which you can see here, with both Hindi and English intertitles: http://bit.ly/1rRtfHP #otd

is he gonna teach the warfighters how to draw a cat eye sharp enough to kill a man? www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

The perfect cup for my needle oiler, courtesy of the @amianet.bsky.social Film Advocacy Task Force. Helping me keep projectors alive for future generations, without making a mess. The Edison Projecting Kinetoscope is spinning like a top. 127 years young.

Film reel halo?

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

View from the Projection Booth

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Late last week we received notice that our two federal grants—totaling over $500,000—were canceled… Read the full letter from John C. Haas Director Kelsey Scouten Bates on our blog at rosenbach.org

Do it you cowards

This is what its like to work in the Trump administration now. When a career official objected to declaring that living immigrants were dead on legal and ethical grounds, security guards went to his office and told him to leave. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.

🎞️35MM Frames & a reel of THE DRAGON PAINTER🎞️ The Chicago Film Society presents a New 35MM Print w/ color tinting of THE DRAGON PAINTER! Featuring Live Score by MIYUMI Project🎶 This Sunday at 11:30am Get Tickets Now: https://musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-events/the-dragon-painter

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

no subtitles necessary #FilmProjection www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpp...

To me, the most important part of the Korean Constitutional Court's ruling kicking Yoon out of office was its recognition of the peoples' movement and the "conscientiouis action" it took to block the EX-president's declaration of martial law. Language like this is impossible to imagine in our court.

pretty astonishing demonstration of walter benjamin's argument about fascism as the aestheticization of politics

“I will do all we can to enforce 100% OPSEC,” the Secretary of Defense declared as he discussed sensitive military operations with senior White House officials in a group chat to which the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine had been mistakenly added.

You really gotta read this story. Gift article link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

What’s the best feature of our historic Art Deco theater? I’d say it’s our iconic marquee.

Uncle O'Grimacey Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Written and directed by Apichatpong O'Weerasethakul

Running film like it’s 1949 at the @mahoningdit.bsky.social

When the digital sound processor failed at my single screen theater that still runs film, I joked that we’d have to ditch the digital nonsense and become the New New Beverly. My friends reopened The Gap as a 35mm venue, and it’s the real New New Beverly.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months

american society has been at “TV Interstitial from ROBOCOP” for a while but “president does a car commercial on the white house lawn” is really pushin it

Modern People: "Silent movies are boring!" Silent Movies:

Some friends have been hard at work revitalizing a single screen theater, and this Friday they begin their realization of a New Beverly for rural Pennsylvania. Like the Ambler Theater, I'm hopeful it won't just be a hit, but that it will help revitalize the community itself. thegaptheatre.com