It’s a shame that GTA VI has been delayed but I’m excited by Rockstar’s promise that the extra time will allow them to give all the pedestrians in the game “a rich inner life” and “the capacity to actually experience pain”

Plaques commemorating African American soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands.

"Toronto the Good" #photography

This was an interesting article to translate. Next year the Fire Horse comes round again. (Spoiler: the author doesn't expect a similar phenomenon in 2026.) www.nippon.com/en/japan-top...

The dim dankness as the days go short makes me think I'm living on an alien planet.

Interesting sponsored content from Meta in Canada

With two sons who are conscription age, I have deep misgivings. The CF is coming off of a decade or more of deeply broken leadership, where essentially the entire CF leadership has been forced to resign or even prosecuted for conspiring to enable sexual assault. Does the CF have the capacity here?

Groundbreaking British Museum show set to challenge samurai myths

This is my primary complaint. I do study this stuff, at the graduate level at a fancy CS program. Sam Altman and Elon Musk and their ilk have poisoned the well for one of the most important advances in maths and computer science in many years. Like Monsanto took DNA modification & exploited it.

天一金紙店 #art #photo #photography #shop #nightphotography #dream #Tainan #EastCoastKin ©️skinskin

Tagging @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy who likes these thingies

Set in Taiwan, YI YI (2000) follows the lives of the Jian family from the alternating perspectives of the 3 main family members: father N.J., teen daughter Ting-Ting, & young son Yang-Yang. YI YI celebrates its 25th anniversary with a new 4K restoration! Opens 11/14 at UPT: siff.info/yiyi25th-bs

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Mong Tong's Taiwan Mystery II features a montage of unusual architecture and occult phenomena from around the country. It was released along with an art book featuring photos and imagery from many of these sites. The music is also really great; dreamy instrumental psychrock. youtu.be/kwHcZaPLl58?...

Toronto

He should call it And Another Thing

My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

Learned that my son’s gr 10 careers class has been showing O’Leary and Shark Tank videos to “learn how to pitch a startup.” I quite like the teacher and don’t want to cause a fuss, but I just can’t get over willingly introducing students to this utter and total moronic jerk.

BBC really burying the lede there

In case you missed it... “Black Photojournalism,” an exhibition that opens Sept. 13 and runs through Jan.19 at the Oakland museum, brings together the work of 60 photographers who documented life in America

A tale from the commission - when Prince Charles (as he then was) called for the slave trade to be on the curriculum as the Holocaust is, one v good journalist at the Jewish News wrote a v good piece on that debate after speaking to me and others:

Mozilla deployed an AI bot that overwrote 20 years of volunteer Japanese translations, without consultation. JP community leader resigned, and the offer from Mozilla is to "hop on a quick call to understand why they're struggling". FFS. HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583...

"Here, it is cinema itself which is the phantom carriage, taking us on a journey that can divert, horrify and depress – but also enlighten and improve": Victor Sjöström's THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921) screens 6.15pm today at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2020/12/25/t...

Not the smartest people

best ending of all time, let's be real

The average renter of a 1 bedroom apartment has already received notice that their total rent for 2025 will be $660 more than last year. For the average $2.2M single family home, last year's 3.9% property tax increase cost them $150.

#OutOfContextComics #ComicsOutOfContext #BobDylan

Yet Cinema Club, Theater Aimyou in Osaka (20 seats) in a couple of days, CineMalice in Ochanomizu in December... there are many mini-theaters struggling to survive (Nagoya CinemaSkhole 😢), and others closing... but there's is also a trend of new theatrical spaces opening...and not only in Tokyo...

In many respects, this is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

Despite getting my flu shot ten days ago I have come down with the flu. youtube.com/watch?v=k8nM...

And Michael Harris outlines the big spending and the big cuts here #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Kozaburo Yoshimura retrospective coming to film at Lincoln Center

This victory speech from Zohran Mamdani is the most profound Dem speech of its kind since Obama at the DNC in 2004.

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

This is like watching the Home Run Derby. bsky.app/profile/zohr...

With mini profiles of filmmaker/curators Echo Xuedan Tang and Zhu Rikun, and a quote from @shellyk.bsky.social

Highly recommend this book! uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/occult...

got to see OBEX over the weekend as a part of denver film fest in addition to being a rare piece of media that grasps the deep horror of both technology *and* cicadas (it’s very weird and quite good!), it was also made by one of the minds behind one of the best videos on the internet:

🔭 NGC 891 a kopa galaxií Abell 347 Špirálová galaxia NGC 891, vzdialená približne 30 mil. ly, zobrazená s tmavým prachovým pásom naprieč diskom. Nižšie je skupina galaxií Abell 347 vzdialená cca 240 mil. ly (NGC 906–914). 🕐 516 × 10 s expozícií #Astrophotography #SeestarS50 #Galaxy #DeepSky

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

Fascinating post touching on platforms and content moderation, censorship, language and linguistics, Chinese characters, translation, and online culture. H/t @samuelwa.de

The mothership has landed (from 2021, taken with a Pixel 4L) #photography

Essential reading about how our entire economy has been warped by a bunch of woo woo nonsense

Clocks change tonight. You know that that means. youtu.be/aAkMkVFwAoo?...