We’ve BEEN warned.

Surgery is 12/31. I expect to be in bed for week at minimum during recovery.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

Currently watching.

#MyDVDCloset 🎬

I want to do more cover art in 2026, so I'm going to be insufferable about mentioning that from now on. Commissions OPEN.

Started reading a piece on Waiting to Exhale, which the author described as a “chick flick” and I can’t say I recall films about Black women, specifically, being included in that label, in real time. Or recall anyone Black even saying “chicks” regularly. It feels like a cultural/linguistic retcon.

I liked X-Men: First Class but that’s still unforgivable. Justice for Edi Gathegi as Mr. Terrific in the new Superman.

Trailer for The Odyssey. I’ll be seated.👁️

“The 2025 pop culture yearbook, from pettiest cameo to nerdiest movie moment” www.npr.org/2025/12/22/n... These 4 moments were fun.

I read the book in HS, had the soundtrack on CD and later had the film VHS and wore it out in college.

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

Love when my interests intersect in a meme.

so nobody was gonna tell me Khruangbin has a "Summer Madness" cover

I am “I’ll watch videos of a leathersmith restoring old Coach bags” years old.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

"...Yet we also need you to enact a bold vision for the role of city government in fostering the arts and helping communities thrive by uplifting their cultures." This.

Censoring a story about the outsourced regime gulag is not consistent with freedom of speech. But it is consistent with the belief that “free speech” is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

They were never defending freedom of speech. They were defending a right to monologue. The former cannot coexist with the latter.

"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up

One of the central tenets of AI artists is that their refining prompts makes them equal (or even superior) to any artist, analog or digital. They are so, so close to a breakthrough but they always U-turn just in time to avoid it.

One of the most emotional moments I've experienced on a screen as a father was in SINNERS. To me, having a whole post on 2025 movie dads without mention of Sinners is...absurd.

Sunday Taquitos #7: Raid at Santa’s Workshop Art by Ivan Ehlers.

Lisa Fischer

I'm not in marketing but an angry guy shrieking "Guess what asshole...AI isn't going away so you might as well accept it!" doesn't strike me as the way you'd pitch an ostensibly useful product

Currently watching.

Every step you take will be on a Lego until you take this back.

Share a magazine cover you love. 📸

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Black Solstice loading up beautifully this year

So along with the inevitability fallacy (since a clutch of billionaires & boosters simply told us so), we now have to concede to the availability fallacy? Let me say this as loud and clear: the presence or availability of a thing does not resolve the question of its appropriateness/harmfullness

Soccer pre-game fits > Any other sport

Until we admit the plagiarism machine was based on creating an underclass ( that they have watched be ignored for caring about theft) the farce just gets worse and worse

Have you seen "prompt engineers" or "AI artists" jealously guard or hide their prompts or accuse others of stealing their 'work' (prompts)? Incredible shit

I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

This made me cry my eyes out.🥺❤️‍🩹

@blackamazon.bsky.social has given me so many light bulb moments it's only right I give back. gofund.me/a5ee0064

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

"Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board" www.newyorker.com/culture/phot... Deborah Willis (author of iconic Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present) was his undergrad mentor? So cool.

Everything I’m learning about Anthony Joshua is BY CHOICE.😂😂 Why he posted a TT of him knocking Jake Paul down and the caption is “Netflix and chill.” YOU KNOW WHAT…😭😭

Christopher Nolan sat down with Ryan Coogler and Denzel Washington with Delroy Lindo, re: Sinners. And gave them their flowers. THIS IS WHAT I WANNA SEE! *in Kevin Jz Prodigy’s voice*

I couldn’t think of anything under 10 minutes, but Mahershala Ali has 20 minutes in Moonlight and he’s great.

Vince Staples’ Criterion Closet visit is up. So good. www.criterion.com/shop/collect...

During the early years of the pandemic, I made air fried french fries out of whole potatoes (with very minimal oil, which is why I liked it). Everyone was just air frying for no reason. Good times.

“Vocab Quiz: The Most Misused Art History Terms” www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

My brain is spaghetti; I meant to say Muhammad Ali (fighting Sonny Liston) *as photographed by Neil Leifer* is what that gen ai fake b&w Joshua/Paul boxing image is trying to evoke, hoping people *feel* what they feel when they see the former…so they’ll ignore that the latter is fake.

I think about this all the time.