We don't get a lot of good news these days so you've got to appreciate it when it comes. This is a big deal!

they’re targeting weeaboos

As Charles Grodin responded to all the griping about ISHTAR’s budget, “Why should the public be concerned what the budget of a movie is? Coca-Cola financed the movie. It's not as if Coca-Cola was going to give that money to the people of America rather than spend it.”

Will the Britcard get me 5% off Pizza Express? It sounds like it should get me 5% off Pizza Express

It speaks volumes about how unmoored Labour has become from the people who actually voted for it in 2024 (i.e. people in work) that the line on digital ID cards is just an obvious lie to anyone who has changed jobs in the past decade!

Unfortunately when you follow UK politics closely, you realise that around 80% of Westminster believe this kind of thing is very smart, and moreover, true.

Paranormal Activity is a movie about how even demons don't like being filmed without their consent.

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

I say this all the time: anti-stratfordian theories are based entirely on the idea that a great author has to be born upper class.

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"

Imagine having such an incredible impact on American cinema while at the same time being one of history's greatest foxes, RIP Robert Redford

i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked

aw man, RIP

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.

“I’m an eleven, but continue.”

I think the thing I resent most about Starmer, aside from his politics, general demeanor, lack of competence, grating voice and fact that he looks photoshopped into every picture with him in it, is just that he refuses to do his fucking job at every turn.

They're also revealing their ignorance of the online economy. Kirk was doing the opposite of persuasion; he was chopping up clips of ill-informed students designed to reassure his followers that their opponents were all morons and it wasn't worth inquiring into their ideas any further

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

wild that MP3 is an audio file, MP4 is a video file, but MP5 is a submachine gun. Digimon-ass evolution line.

"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home" The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly

Norris says he'd do the same thing but he moaned for about ten laps the last time something similar happened

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it deserves to be a game because the decisions you make are kind of the entire point I’m getting so sick of this idea that a game reaches its full potential when it’s adapted to a movie or show, some of them are games because they were meant to be games!

"All litfic is about horny professors" has the same aura as "filmbros get mad when you don't want to watch a 9-hour black and white Polish movie about a pigeon." Just admit that you're dumb

fired from my first day at waymo for suggesting they add a singular mannequin arm to each vehicle that can wave hi, signal "you go ahead" or engage in road rage

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

severely accurate

More true than I realized when I made it.

@ the RW press

Hello Eric, this is your campaign manager speaking. I am advising you today to please keep saying this shit.

one thing i'll give this guy: every time he does something like this i'm like "that's the exact sort of thing he'd say in the jokes people make about him"

For anyone who thinks that is a lot of money consider that their last round of funding was for 13B, and that normally big copyright infringement costs like 150k per, not the 3k per they are gonna pay. A fine is a price. For 1/10th of their funding they will keep and use this data. Fuckers.

If it's going to be such an important part of my adult life, I really wish they had taught me to parry earlier in my schooling.

if you actually read the article, it sounds like they're mostly going to be reshooting the missing scenes with living actors and then deepfaking them to look and sound like the original cast, which is basically what I expected even with the "generative AI" spin

Labour Party internal election whilst in government and deeply fucking unpopular, no way this could go wrong!

I’m the guy who put loads of sugar in chocolate spread. I thought it would be funny. I didn’t realise everyone would get so upset.

read this thread. absolutely chilling. forcibly inserting ICE ads into a podcast, and deliberately manipulating the mechanism through which creators have any control at all over which ads are included. this is horrible

Rooting for the big corporation so hard rn

I'm going to assume that calling an MP a knobhead on social media will still be illegal

Sorry, I wasted too much of 2016-2020 reading long conspiracy threads about Trump, just ping me when he actually kicks the bucket

Good episode. While his character plays an adversarial role in the episode Armin Shimerman really liked it because in real life he was active in the actor’s union, felt it was good to see TV showing the value of unionisation.

Something that bugs me a lot is that schools don't hesitate to ban smartphones in a hot second but are anxiously and aggressively pushing students to rely on error-prone automated bullshit engines

american racists: british cities are full of people who are not british and pollute your noble culture loads of american "progressives" on bluesky, for no reason whatsoever: anything which isn't made by a white briton isn't british and your e.g. british-indian culture isn't actually british either

The way the article sanitises what she posted is also absolutely egregious.

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.

the desire to mass censor by parents is honestly often less about the safety of children and more avoiding the struggle of parenting and the loss of control as a child gains knowledge