The Mandalorian and Grogu looks like they just stitched some of a dumped fourth season together. I have no idea what the story or hook is meant to be, or the justification for this being a film open to people who didn't watch the TV show.

Gotta say it’s apparent which Disney execs weren’t watching Andor.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

Having finally gotten around to playing it - Stray is exactly the gorgeous, special little game everyone said it was

It only just occurred to me that Kathryn Hahn and Idina Menzel are entirely different people

As Bluesky destabilizes a few people have asked me if I'm on Mastodon and look, I don't know if I'm Mastodon. No one knows if anyone is on Mastodon.

1st time I got doxed (before GG, when some nerds mad because I thought interactive fiction deserved to be on Steam and I got the 1st one approved to be on the platform) they got my info from a signup to house people displaced by the Boston marathon bombing. The concern around protest signup is legit

Craterhoof Behemoth is just happy to be here

The UK's chilling of free speech over Gaza goes international in the arts scene www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

The thing about streaming services is that their bread & butter are households that sub and forget - ppl who go months w/o actually using the product but enjoy having the option at their fingertips. They're the first to go in a boycott (it costs nothing to cancel) and they're the hardest to get back

if these companies would just put out a statement saying “we told him to go fuck himself” they would instantly have the type of loyal and dedicated customer base corporations dream of and spend decades trying to cultivate

"It was the wi-fi!"

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

Forcing a physical storefront to end the sale of adult material is simply fucking ridiculous. Payment processors have an insane amount of power that needs to be curtailed

Who knew that Amanda Seyfried was based?

No amount of an exceptional cast beyond him could make me want to see more Jack Black. A man whose stick became old even before he ditched his best friend in the gutter to protect his income.

People who walk around without their phone in a protective case

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Tiktok on course for Twitter/X Mk. 2

In the Society of Authors @fossilfreebooks.org have endorsed candidates: @jencalleja.bsky.social @mattabbottpoet.com @pollyrowena.bsky.social Mohamed Tonsy "They are all committed to fighting for fair pay, freedom of speech and protection from AI, and against industry complicity in genocide."

It remains the case that if I were to pick one streaming service to keep over all the others - it would be Apple TV+ inews.co.uk/culture/tele...

As a lineup of Britain's most disappointing celebrities join the efforts to fund a billionaire's anti-trans hate campaign, at least there's a few over in the US standing up for what's right with some words. www.jezebel.com/emmys-2025-h...

This is why AI is such a problem. If the owner of the platform doesn't like what the system says, they can change it. Anybody who relies on what AIs are telling them are at at risk of mainlining misinformation straight into there brains.

The Bear being listed as a comedy makes The Emmys look ridiculous

Logging on in the morning and getting an AI summary of my work slack which summarised me discussing my wife's medical concerns in a private channel 🤢

Further to this stuff about “debate culture”: I wonder if exposure (mostly online) to this genre of content primes students to expect this kind of behaviour from us (profs) when they enter into the classroom. That is, that they expect us to be antagonists in a game of “who is the smartest”…

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Polari Prize saga shows us how the Overton window on Trans+ rights has shifted 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/polari-prize-saga-shows-us-how-the-overton-window-on-trans-rights-has-shifted/

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Yes to this, 1000%. Entertainment journalists must ask the actors who have chosen to support and enrich Harry Potter author JK Rowling after she's spent the better part of a decade turning into one of the world's ugliest queerphobic bigots: "Why?"

Lots of people do not understand how others choose to spend money. Valuing of craftsmanship is HUGE particularly by other craftspeople. And they are willing to spend a lot of money for something worthwhile, even if the rest of their lifestyle doesn't reflect the wealth/status the price tag implies.

Remember when they did this for NFTs?

Every one of these people is fucking telling on themselves And the thing they are saying is "I will kill your family to make a buck" Because if they don't care about trans people, they probably don't care about *any* marginalized people

This passage from Joanne Kowling Rowling's latest book looks like something I'd write for my version of Nadine Dorries and her book, His Frontbench Woman. But without any of the gross sex. Shockingly bad writing, this.

An entire generation of British liberal media is just a complete write-off. Cast them off, start from scratch, there's not a single one of them who wouldn't burn someone for a paycheque from a billionaire bigot.

Really struggling not to end up concluding that a genuinely industrial percentage of mainstream British society has basically decided that trans people are cancelled now and so you can just freely fund the second act of one of the most rancid transphobic bigots alive.

The fact that an artist who sells pieces for millions and whose other graffiti is globally celebrated and protected created this statement about the UK government which the government desperately hid and destroyed literally would have been nowhere as effective in its meaning if they just left it up.

Literal email I wrote today "I'm afraid that as a self-employed writer I cannot survive financially by providing my labour for nothing, this month or in six months. It may be "merely an internal presentation" for you, but it's a considerable amount of work and time for me." I'm so fucking tired.

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

PLEASE!

Even the judge is like "nah this is a stitch up". Back to the drawing board, Anthropic and Author's Guild. Maybe have another swing that doesn't leave most authors in the dust. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...

Meanwhile in Glasgow institutions are flapping their hands and threatening to bury themselves in conflict with their own staff rather than join these kinds of efforts that are even spreading in the US.

Bluesky finally has a "save post" button, only two years on from that being such an obvious need that users invented an entire posting reply "pinning" system to get around the lack of it

If you do want to hurt Google’s power, start moving off its services and push your politicians so they realize this is an issue they should be working on. Move to Proton, Qwant/Ecosia, and Vivaldi to start. More options here: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

just checking in on the "AI" journalism revolution

The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy. www.wired.com/story/i-hate...