Eric Andre couldn't dream of making an interview this awkward

The world is organized around protecting men from accountability and protecting D&D players from learning a better game

Carly Rae Jepsen announces new double album 'Day And Night'

This is a somewhat popular but also explicitly bad take: Culture as inspiration through human reception is something radically different from accumulation of all cultural works by corporations trying to rent "creativity" and "agency" back to us. Mixing those things feels very deceptive.

Shaking every director and producer by the ears while screaming "there is literally no pressure to have immaculate Storyboard art, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"

Backrooms, 2026 - ★★ Anyone tasked with making a feature film adaptation of the meme "The Backrooms" will soon arrive at one specific problem, which is that it is very easy to write a compelling act one for this ("Someone stumbles upo... https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/backrooms-2026/

Jens Spahn ist gefährlich für die Sicherheit unseres Landes.

James Burrows ist tot, und ich glaube, dass die meisten auf diese Nachricht reagieren werden mit: “Wer?” Burrows war der wichtigste Regisseur der letzten 50 Jahre, von dem kaum jemand... https://smoitzheim.online/posts/rip-james-burrows-der-wichtigste-regisseur-den-keiner-kennt

Men in Black, 1997 - ★★★★★ Whenever I rewatch this I'm like "why aren't there 20 of these this is such a perfect framework to tell an infinite number of cool-guys-vs-aliens stories within", and then I remember what the couple of s... https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/men-in-black/

'Til death do us part...until OP stole her heart. I ALSO CHOOSE THIS GUY'S DEAD WIFE, coming Spring 2028

Disclosure Day, 2026 - ★★★★★ Absolutely shameless movie. Basically pretends that there has never been any movie about aliens, or really, any movie at all. All of this complimentary, inject this into my veins. https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/disclosure-day/

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 - ★★★★★ The last half hour is, if not the best Spielberg shit ever, certainly the *most* Spielberg shit ever. https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/

Today in "Absolutely not."

Wir sind geschätzt 10 Politainment-Zyklen entfernt von dem Punkt, an dem Teile der CDSU sich vom Grundgesetz als Diktat der Alliierten distanzieren.

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Literally every time I open @maris.bsky.social newsletter I add a book to my to-read stack and I’m made better for it.

everyone wants to use the op ed pages to be like OPINION: Racism Wasn’t That Bad but this guy gets it. an op ed ought to be about some damn shit. anything as long as it doesn’t matter

Ich war die Tage bei einem Kneipenquiz, und einer der Moderatoren hatte sich eine, nun, interessante neue Spezialrunde ausgedacht: seine eigene kleine Version des Familienduells. Wie in der alten Fernsehsendung... https://smoitzheim.online/posts/ki-slop-im-privatleben-ist-passivrauch-furs-gehirn

genuinely, i think about this sketch once a day. all time classic.

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

The Truman Show, 1998 - ★★★★★ Watched on Monday May 18, 2026. https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/the-truman-show/

Absolutely love this: A lot of Hebrew translations go through Israeli publishers, but they don't have to. Big ups to Sally Rooney for respecting BDS AND working to distribute her work in translation!

Erin Keif doing a speed run through "Rock Island" from THE MUSIC MAN is the best thing I've heard in a long time.

Grogu’s family has announced he has passed away. “He was probably like 56 years old, which is like a baby age for little freaks like him,” his mother told the Times. He will be flushed down a special toilet with an extra wide pipe designed for Yoda disposal. “Like a big green turd,” she added

goes hard, I fear.

The Devil Wears Prada 2, 2026 - ★★★ This had the insurmountable problem that you simply can't tell a story about journalism in 2026 without acknowledging The State of Things, but doing that will inevitably make your movie I... https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/the-devil-wears-prada-2/

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, 2026 - ★★ Watched on Monday May 11, 2026. https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/mike-nick-nick-alice/

The Last Wave, 1977 - ★★★★★ Watched on Monday May 11, 2026. https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/the-last-wave/

Irgendwann schreib ich hierüber mal ausführlicher, aber Tom Cox’ letzte paar Bücher sind großartig und ich find das sehr inspirierend, wie er seine erfolgreiche-aber-etwas-abgenutzte Formel hinter sich gelassen hat, um weirdes, persönliches, schwer zu kategorisierendes Zeug zu schreiben.

The reasons I despise them just keep piling up. wkamaubell.substack.com/p/substack-c...

Not only do Substack platform Nazis; they lie about how easy it is to leave the site and take your subscriber list with you (as I did last summer). Every time I get one of these, it's Substack's fault, and it threatens my livelihood. This will tell you why: tomcox.substack.com/p/an-explana...

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We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

“in the future you won’t need a mouse anymore you can just talk to your computer” “oh cool so i just tell it what to do and it does it?” “sure! just take care to also mention every single thing you DON’T want it to do” “wha--“ “…and make sure to butter it up a little, tell it how smart it is first!”

Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1975 - ★★★★★ Watched on Sunday May 3, 2026. https://letterboxd.com/smoitzheim/film/picnic-at-hanging-rock/

Increasingly fascinated by the self-sabotage of the Jet Lag: The Game team. It’s a great concept dragged down by them convincing themselves they’re better game designers than they are, terrible (non-)editing, and Sam’s refusal to ever prioritise being entertaining over his (usually bad!) strategy.

„Was dieses Papier von einer normalen Spardebatte unterscheidet, ist das vollständige Fehlen jeder Abwägung. Kein einziger Vorschlag fragt, was die vorgeschlagenen Einschnitte für die betroffenen Menschen bedeuten. Kein einziger Vorschlag erwägt, ob die Einsparung den Schaden rechtfertigt.“

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Die erste Staffel von “The Pitt” habe ich an einem Wochenende durchgebinget, 15 Folgen, um die 15 Stunden, ein langer Marathon, und die Serie schien wie gemacht dafür: In nicht-wirklich-aber-gef... https://smoitzheim.online/posts/the-pitt-ist-auch-in-der-zweiten-staffel-feinster-competence-porn

Okay but she's lowkey spittin here

Substack will *not* save investigative reporting: - It’s slow and sporadic to produce, and newsletters require weekly (at least) consistency. - It requires multiple reporters, editors, data folks, lawyers. - It often requires travel expenses, record fees, database subscriptions, etc. - Lawsuits.

podcast is a medium for the people and celebrities should not have them Amy Poehler I love you but fuck off, you're crowding out the people who talk about actually interesting things, everybody is listening to you ignore the problems with Fred Armisen or listen to Maya Hawkeye talk about work ethic

[Apple Podcasts embed] Willkommen zu einer neuen alten Folge von Podcarsten geht ins Kino! Wir hatten lange keine Zeit, neue Folgen aufzunehmen, hoffen a... https://smoitzheim.online/posts/podcast-die-geschichte-von-videospielverfilmungen-und-warum-der-alte-super-mario-film-gar-nicht-so-schlecht-ist

Almost all discourse about reading is driven by people who openly hate reading, and is fueled by people taking their weird and off-putting whining seriously instead of telling them to fuck off and read better.

Wieso lese ich eigentlich jetzt erst, dass seit Jahresbeginn mit dem Wehrpflicht-Modernisierungsgesetz alle Männer zwischen 17 und 45 eine Erlaubnis brauchen, wenn sie länger als drei Monate das Land verlassen??? Wtf???

obsessed with Joel Kinnaman‘s old man performance in the new season of For All Mankind youtu.be/D5QTTn8Tkag?...