*puts on professional critic hat* There are so many reasons Zang Hai was the c-drama of the year but one of the least talked-about imo is that it had one of the most phenomenal battle sequences I've ever seen? 2 eps, clearly modeled after Two Towers, grounded in complex character dynamics, riveting.

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all i want for 2026 Bluesky is to be able to hide posts on desktop and have them also be automatically hidden on mobile, and vice versa, and have Bluesky support recognize that that's a thing that should have been happening from the beginning and it's really wild that it is not happening at all 💀

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someone read this, thought this was a perfectly rational, normal, non-heinous and non-abhorrent and non-aberrent series of words, and published it. Whoever edited this forfeited their right to, at minimum, have their opinion as a reviewer of books taken seriously ever again.

I don't know Eli but I know Kate and would trust them with my life or even more important, my cats, so I'm entirely sure this one's a legit need for help. Maybe you can help? <3

It's WILD that they discovered this by taking the most basic "what happens if we restore the chemicals that Alzheimer's depletes" approach to the problem instead of assuming Alzheimer's is just inevitable and unstoppable.

I brought all this up on my conversation with @slate.com's ICYMI podcast a while back (which is on youtube but not a video!) — specifically, I discussed how real-time filmed conversation means less editing, less fact-checking, less journalistic rigor, more misinfo, and less accountability.

my mom, increasingly falling down a worrying series of financial conspiracy rabbit holes, just got fed an entire fake AI-generated YouTube video claiming that the federal reserve "bailed out" banks after the silver surge. She was talking about how $ is worthless until I showed her it was fake. 💀💀💀💀💀

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this is contributing nothing to the larger convo about imperfect family photos, but fwiw I wrote a whole longish HP fic once about how hard it must have been for Hogwarts students trying to process grief while their dead relatives were still walking around and talking in moving portraits. Fucked up!

Podcast ads truly occupy an entire alternate universe where every single member of the audience is a mythical fledgling small business owner. The strangeness of it gets to me every single time.

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It would be so much simpler to simply NOT USE THE LYING MACHINE. We could simply NOT CREATE THE TORMENT NEXUS.

I beg everyone to understand that if gen AI inaccuracy exists in the legal profession, to the extent that it can derail cases and topple whole law firms, as per this court sanctions, then gen AI inaccuracy exists at this level of jeopardy in every profession. cases.justia.com/federal/dist...

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A very timely reminder that anonymity and open access are not only necessary for the internet, but for democracy

This piece is incredibly disingenuous. As journalists we literally CANNOT use gen AI to augment our reporting. It is not *functional.* It's like we've been handed a rusty hubcap and ordered to drive it. You can claim it's a Porsche all you want, but you can't bend reality to make it go vroom.

This is a good explanation of the bar scene in #10Dance - TBH, I wasn't looking at the Netflix English translation, bc I was listening to the actual Spanish & didn't realize how much it was watered down when translated.

man remember back when studios would pay artists for lush concept art and then you could buy the artbook along with the game you know something we were doing less than a few weeks ago watching these same studios go "actually fuck art we're hiring slop prompters now" is just bizarre

legacy media outlet hiring an Opinion writer "whose world views lean right-of-center, [though] we value open-mindedness and a sense of fairness over ideological purity." *goose with sign* open-mindeness about what, Jimmy? OPEN-MINDEDNESS ABOUT WHAT

“I’ve lived here for a long time, and I’ve never seen so many police cars.” ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.

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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

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the takeaway here should be that if LLMs are failing these accuracy tests and "not making shit up" tests at this level of transparency and fact-checking, then they are absolutely also failing these tests for ALL other usecases. If they can't generate an index, they can't generate an essay or code. 💀

it's been so surreal to watch the fascists and their enablers lining up to slot themselves into place as hollow cartoon villain caricatures, fueling the lowest-hanging pop culture morality tales for the next century and a half, provided we make it out of this era with cultural infrastructure intact.

it's heeeeeeere 🙏🙏🙏 the queer ballroom dance romance movie is here for ALL OF US

apologizing in advance for how unhinged i may become tomorrow

Reminder that filings in court cases showed Google executives explicitly plotting to degrade the search experience in order to keep users on the platform longer and show them more ads

we don't talk enough about how google searches are basically non-functional at this point. It no longer recognizes excluded words, it forces location searches, ignores words put in quotes, you can do a "verbatim" search or a timestamped search but not both together. And it prioritizes VIDEO RESULTS.

Remember that all of this is about continuing a vicious, hateful culture war that previously lost to the insurmountable brick wall of queer people joyously existing. Nothing these spineless cowards do changes the fact that trans & genderqueer people EXIST. All they can do is scrape away at us.

Will just say again that #10Dance is waiting in the wings to receive all of you 🙏

"Wow! You spent a lot of time telling us to stop showing you jobs as a gen-AI prompter! Good thing we didn't listen!"

I was so excited to be asked to participate in contributing to the critics roundup for this list. All but one of my submissions made the list, and I'm hopeful that one — Shuffle Along — will eventually be widely recognized as a masterpiece of meta-theatre.

Heated Rivalry nation, prepare for the 10Dance hive to rise 🙏

Going into 2026 like

thinking about how i walked out of / refused to take part in an all-editorial "here's how you can use gen AI!" presentation at my former workplace a while back, and how everyone seemed so genuinely shocked that i would do that, and meanwhile i was genuinely shocked i was the only one who walked out

today in job hunting: We know AI-generated writing is slop, but we insist that you use it anyway for *checks notes* creating scripts for a YouTube EDUCATION channel run by a DOCTOR *flips table*

I could cry, honestly

If authors get peer pressured to pivot to video instead of going back to blogs/newsletters, I’m packing it in. I am tapped out. I read so much faster than I can watch video, even with 2x speed. Please authors don’t be pressured. Just start a blog. Get an author web ring going. Reject the pivot. 😅

The number of people acting shocked by this amazes me, frankly, since we've been predicting exactly this— and seeing AI slop taking over google searches — for years now. Also we MUST stop using "hallucination," which frames this is an unfortunate quirky fluke. It is the program's intended behavior.

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but also, the idea that i have to reveal my face in order to be listened to is a non-starter with me. nobody is entitled to your face, and imo that's an idea that should have died a quick death a long time ago. (but also i have zero influence, so there's also that.)