The Fifth Element was released 29 years ago today! This is probably THE film that I discovered, thanks to this account, is very popular. Way more than I expected.

Abughazaleh: One of the most egregious aspects of this is Hegseth saying that this conflict that we started is ordained by God. Is bombing a school full of schoolgirls ordained by God?

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

I don't buy Tucker Carlson's apology for boosting Trump. No one else should either. Let me explain what's really going on.

Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs. Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026. This is what corporate greed looks like.

Mayor Mamdani chats with New Yorkers while walking the six miles from City Hall to Gracie Mansion, fulfilling the promise he made in his inauguration speech to “be outside” as Mayor — “because this is a government of New York, by New York, and for New York.”

I have not forgotten about Jeffrey Epstein since 2019 and trust that I will not be forgetting or “moving on” from the Epstein Files anytime soon or probably ever

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

I've been called worse

To say someone "died for US freedom" is a lie institutionalized to such a degree with the sole purpose to propagandize the idea that US folks dying to attack another people to further enrichen your US ultra-rich owners is somehow protecting your own freedom.

Seventeen years ago today, #BattlestarGalactica came to an end. If you've wanted more in that universe, I've got a couple of big books for you ... and they're free: ety3rd.com #BSG #Caprica

Our grassroots movement forced every power — from AIPAC to the establishment — to use their entire arsenal, just to barely beat us. Our loss today merely makes the path easier for the next person who runs. It’s an honor to be able to clear that path.

You’re not smarter or better just because you hopped on a bandwagon, nor is refusing to hop on a bandwagon a hopeless or worthless cause

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year” Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

This International Women’s Day, five women at EFF talk about the women who have inspired them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Is anyone still able to enjoy anything truly & deeply, without a substantial portion of their mind, heart, and soul in the clutches of dark existential dread? The restorative power of being in the moment, feeling joy & wild abandon — is being crushed, and I worry about resonant cumulative damage.

Five-year-old me: Oooh, that Batman cartoon! What adventures will he go on today? *the villain is left in tears, unable to process their fears and obsessions. And Batman, a looming presence born of the inability to rationalize terror, is the only one there to comfort them* Me: Oh. Huh.

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

If you see this, post a fictional character you want to be.

I want to share with you a piece from a German documentarian on the chilling parallels between ICE and Hitler’s Brown Shirts (reproduced with his permission). Please read and share. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-ice-and-hitlers-brown-shirts

if cops weren't killing and hurting and abducting people anywhere and some randos were just damaging property for no reason I'd say, what the fuck, but given that one side is "shooting moms in the head" and the other side is "making it harder for the shooter's friends to sleep" i know who I back

The conservative rhetoric around protecting women makes more sense once you understand that victims exist purely as a hypothetical for them. Once a victim actually claims the label, they become a threat. This is also why they prefer dead women to living victims.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

We made it through another hellish year. No matter where you are, let’s take a moment to acknowledge that we’ve worked hard and tried our best 🙏🏼

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

@mattcolville.bsky.social MS forms does have drag n drop ranked questions. Results are given as average rank per possible answer so I suppose two answers may have the same rank which may not be useful to your purposes

MCDM Productions' Draw Steel will expand with seven new products in 2026

Excited to announce that my next book, I AM THE NIGHT, not only has a great cover but is available for pre-order now: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I’m sure this four hour Defunctland video essay will fix me.

After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.

I'm getting very tired of seeing AI used for protest images. You're showing you don't deserve to win if you can't even be fucking arsed to craft signage.

Something that ran through my head as I saw descriptions for Steam Next Fest games: if the project uses gen AI, it’s an instant skip Yes, even if it’s “just” for store assets However it’s intended, it LOOKS like an active gap in your craft, and there’s infinite other games to spend my time on

the thing no one can prepare you for in your youth is the sheer number of things you’ll begin to find wonderful and fascinating when you’re older that would have absolutely bored the ever-loving shit out of you back in the day

"AI is going to replace artists.” Oh really? AI is going to rack up student debt and then be a disappointment to the family?

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

The trouble with playing the We Love Katamari soundtrack at a four-year-old’s birthday party is all the parents looking at each other and mouthing “is this English?”

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

conservatives are increasingly going to deal with issues because they treat a man being murdered in broad daylight and a beloved character being recast with a black actor as the exact same level of severity. everything is a crisis and the only acceptable response is to "crush" the enemy

lord give me the intelligence of former lower house member shinichiro kurimoto, the grace of actress mayuko takata, and the discernment of culinary critic asako kishi, amen

Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.

I got access to a top-secret preview of the inquiry: - Israeli military flawless, doing great job at ethical cleansing - The journalists were Hamas - The hospital was Hamas - The explosion was Hamas too, more Hamas than the hospital even - Any questioning of this inquiry is Hamas

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.