the New York Post hed: I THINK YOU SHOULD LOUVRE

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

AI filmmaking is completely unserious. You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

need to make everyone in San Francisco watch this video every morning and every night

The thing about weird artists is that they do exactly as implied: They make the weird choices...and weird choices are innately human. A machine can only approximate weird, but it will never know what it means to intentionally skew. Weird art is power and possibility. Strangeness is existence.

Accidental Wes Anderson

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Strange what some folks understand as political. This was absolutely an explicitly political performance.

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

Doing art badly is good and sacred

Remember, sneering works. It’s working now. That’s why the lowliest AI fan and the CEO of Microsoft are trying to get us to stop saying “slop.” AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything

They say “But you LIKED this art when you didn’t know it was AI!” like it’s some kind of gotcha. We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.

This is a three-part interview with Aaron West that gets into the origins of CineJourneys and the A24 book, divided into three parts, with the first about the podcasts and CineJourneys. www.whatstheidea.ca/interviews/a...

On the topic of “our” duty to persuade abusers, a tale: —— THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker.

Credit to boom99.7 #Ottawa #Canada for this wonderful tribute to Catherine O’Hara, rest easy Queen, you will never be forgotten #CatherineO’Hara #NationalTreasure

Canadian postage stamps are superior to American postage stamps. This was issued in 2014.

Catherine O’Hara and Andrea Martin did amazing and radical work together on SCTV youtu.be/qxR3Mwn5PXI

"AI is a tool of fascism" really needs to start being one of the primary talking points

ohmfg

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

Sometimes I just randomly shout, “TO WHAT END!”

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

The technical issue is, the company's gone fascist.

The Melania will continue until morale improves.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

Believe your eyes. A whole lotta gaslighting goin’ on.

They're so baffled by mutual aid and actual community. They're always screaming "this money must be trickling down from somewhere! Theres no way people actually care about one another!"

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I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

@johnny.6witch3.com thanks for the repost!

New Psychotronic Sisters episode: remembering Udo Kier www.youtube.com/watch?v=c71_... ‪on YouTube and wherever you get podcasts

Discover your next read with this collection of new and upcoming classic film books! www.outofthepastblog.com/2026/01/new-... #filmsky #classicfilmreading

It may not have the hot clang of the Book of Revelation, but when the Danes are selling your bonds it has not been a good day.

Word of the day: kafkaesliue

I received a notice that I've been posting Pre-Code film clips here for over a year and have yet to post the one with Toby Wing dancing on a tabletop in a negligee. So, rather than pay the fine, here it is, with a bonus of Ida Lupino doing the rhumba. From Search for Beauty (1934).

ah, the "if we impeach megatron, we're still stuck with starscream" theory yes, exactly find me one pickup truck with a starscream flag on it, i dare you

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

*tapping the sign*

I've been dying to tell people I wrote the essay for TROUBLE IN PARADISE, a true Lubitsch masterpiece, and now I can. It's hilarious, it's gorgeous, there's nothing like it, and spending time with Trouble last year soothed my soul. www.criterion.com/films/723-tr....

You'll hear "you're overreacting" the entire time all the way up until the sky falls down

🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”

"Let them eat a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing."