Kill the reflexive urge to engage with anything you think is neat by finding out what the worst people you can imagine are saying about it first. Feel what you're feeling and move on with your day.

It’s impossible to pick the worst, dumbest part of this sentence. It’s like a turducken of shit. Aronofsky needs to go lay down for a while or something

“According to Hardy, empirical tourism research suggests ‘90% of itineraries that AI generates have mistakes in them.”’ But also “about 37% of tourists use AI for travel advice or itineraries.” Jesus, people. Y’all gotta start stop outsourcing your brain to the electric lying machine.

*singing in David Byrne voice*

‘Politically motivated’ case against Indigenous leader Nick Tilsen goes to trial, ray levy uyeda reports. Tilsen, whose trial starts on Jan. 26, told Prism that officials in South Dakota are attempting to suppress Indigenous liberation movements.

“Canada, of course, will bring at least 10 new states when it joins with us someday.”

I must not fedpost. Fedposting is the mind-killer. Fedposting is the little-death that brings total incarceration.

Turns out this was, predictably, bad news. I am insanely terrified for what this means for my beloved Criterion Channel, and I praaaaay they have a Plan B

Those cheeseburgers need to work way faster, man

Another set of programming bangers from the infinite banger machine that is the Criterion Channel

We’re one of those “you can take it with superior force but lol good luck holding it” countries. Also, I need one of those cheeseburgers to do its thing STAT

What’s happening is a war of treason being waged by the Republican Party’s paramilitary against the citizens of the United States in support of ethnic cleansing.

If you don’t already have anti-MAGA block lists in place (and if not, why are you even here?), the least you can do is block the hell out of this bit of Twitter Ragebait. Do it. DO IT.

I’ve been screaming bloody murder for Canada to break from the hostile monster to the South on this for a while, and I’m glad to see Carney pull the pin. Incredible that the Orange Pedo has given China this kind of power, but he is also a huge moron, so.

I’ve been a proud charter subscriber since 2019, and Criterion Channel is still the only sub I won’t even remotely consider dropping. Anyone with even the faintest interest in film needs — NEEDS — this. It’s a slice of fried gold!

Goddamn, but 2025 took a lot from us. Thanks, Letterboxd, for a lovely tribute.

Deadbert

Absolutely towering king shit from Daniel here. Jesus, if only everyone was an ally like this

Is David Zaslav running Microsoft now too?

Microsoft Slopper-In-Chief says people should stop impugning their massive investment in slop

One of the most popular sites in the world, as run by a man with close ties to the president and has military contracts, is now officially a CSAM machine. The man who runs it should be in jail. Anyone still on it must be shamed and shunned. This should be the top story everywhere.

After decades of conservative hand-wringing about the undefined impacts of violent videogames, we now have a Magic Sycophancy Lying Machine that tells people to commit suicide or murder, and the virtue puritans are suddenly off staring at their shoes

Aw hell. Ransone’s work as Ziggy in The Wire is just all-time greatness, and it’s impossible not to admire any of his work since. None of us can truly know what struggles are being borne behind closed doors. May he finally be at peace.

I mean, things are tough all over. If rude criticism stops you from making art, you should probably not be making art.

This is utterly fantastic. The Criterion Channel’s best feature is its curated collections, and I’m very excited to Letterboxd to pull its own friends into doing the same. Great news!

Fuck every single one of these assholes. Once again, this is *literally* what the Nazis did.

National Geographic editor: “You get that photo of the bear?” Photographer: “Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.” National Geographic editor: “what”

Furious to discover that AI is now heavily infecting the million terrible Christmas movies I watch every year. I’ve discovered that one guy specifically — Corey Lee Barker! — has done what appears to be Suno-generated tunes for no less than 27!!! holiday movies in 2025 alone. Heavy heavy boooooo

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

I’ve chewed through my fair share of filmographies, and I’d say Joan Blondell. You get great classics like Footlight Parade, newer musicals like Grease, some great stuff like Cincinnati Kid and This Could Be the Night, and a slew of older movies with Cagney, Bogie, Robinson, etc. Easy choice.

More of this please

Immediately bought a half-dozen of these and would kill for a poster. If you’re a Canuck, strongly recommend

Is this platform still massively against leprosy or has it moved more towards acceptance?

If 2023 was the year AI slop was embraced by spammers and social media influencers, and 2024 was the year the slop era began in earnest, 2025 was when slop became embedded in our cultural institutions and social spheres. On the slop layer that we all must navigate now:

Julianne Moore, Wong Kar Wai AND a focus on hotel-based movies? Man, I love the Criterion Channel’s curation. What a gift this service and its peeps continue to be.

There is a very good reason why internal policies are internal, and it's because griefers are VERY good at testing the boundaries of the system until they're confident they can be as abusive as they want and still remain one millimeter away from the point at which they will be removed.

I sometimes genuinely do wish people could have the experience of seeing what gets reported and taken down so they could viscerally understand what an unmoderated space on the internet looks like, because however bad you can imagine it is, the reality is far worse.

Jesus, per Bible: We must feed and protect the most poor and vulnerable, rich folks can’t know true faith Jesus, per AI: Taxing billionaires is Satanic, we must shovel the poor into data center furnaces

Toronto is one of my fave food places, because it has an infinite range of culinary cultures and the food only gets better the more mom-and-pop hole-in-the-wall the setup is

My feelings on Fail Safe vs Strangelove are total sacrilege so I will not say them aloud. But real ones know

Fling DHS and everyone in it directly into the sun

Starting to think that OpenAI is looking for billions in loans not to fake being profitable but to fend off all the massive, massive lawsuits

There are more of us than there are of them.

The only thing that’s bad about this is that Dick Cheney isn’t around to see it

This team, man. Absolute kings out there, and win or lose, it has been incredible to watch them play this season.

Goddamn, Jays. Why? Bad form, bad juju, bad choice.

My god, I love this team. Absolutely incredible run, first through the Yankees, then the Mariners, and going toe to toe with the Dodgers in a way nobody saw coming. What a goddamn series this has been.

WE MUST DEFEAT THE POPE