Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Because if you care about securely owning a movie that you love--as opposed to "owning" it only until a license agreement over which you have no control expires without warning--you need a DVD or Blu-ray. The hardware may be yesterday; the concern is very much of this moment.

@mkramer.bsky.social I flew home from Disneyland with a lightsaber in my carry on and TSA had no issues. I also kept my plastic Coke bottle shaped like a thermal detonator (grenade), it was all good

Widely known that only the coolest people talk with their hands this much

Sam Altman looking at a plate of avocado toast and asking ChatGPT how to eat it

Every year, on December 9th #thanksLost

ChatGPT cuts the crusts off my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm a big business boy.

“I cannot imagine figuring out how to [do thing human beings have been successfully doing for 300,000 years] without [this product I sell]” is like the textbook definition of a snake oil pitch.

“First time?”

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Theaters don’t need to reinvent the experience here. It doesn’t need to be a concert. Enforce phone use, maintain your projectors, bring back honest theatrical windows and hire a staff who cares about it. That’s all. I don’t need a four course meal, props, special guests or gimmicks. Give us movies.

The “lost chapter” video game cutscene that plays after The Whole Bloody Affair is the first decent argument I’ve ever seen for leaving the theater as soon as the credits start. You’ve been warned.

Can anyone explain to me why this is considered a reasonable argument in a world where my tax dollars finance massive stadiums so the public continues to have access to live sports?

All good things must come to an end. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Add Wake Up Dead Man to this list, btw

James Bond Writers: Arrrrgh! We just don’t know how to explain to the audience how Bond is alive when he shows up played by a new actor! @rianjohnson.bsky.social: Eh, fuck it! If we get a season three of Poker Face, Charlie’s played by Peter Dinklage now.

Great read. It’s always frustrated me that criticism of the uncomfortable Munich sex scene never accounts for the sex scene in the beginning of the movie. The two scenes are so obviously in conversation with each other…

A defense of the sex scene in Steven Spielberg's Munich. 20 years ago I wrote this piece. It was not really anything close to a consensus opinion, and still isn't. I'm proud of it.

You know who ELSE didn't have to explain his mysterious resurrection

it's Cosmo's moon

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

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Seen a few Q&As in the past month with filmmakers releasing their movie with Netflix, and have been enjoying the different ways they manage to get in a passive aggressive dig at their studio with effusive praise for the theatrical experience.

I saw Wake Up Dead Man last night and all I can say is, when can I see Wake Up Dead Man again

It can still be spooky this weekend btw, the jack o’lanterns haven’t rotted yet! (It’s also not Christmas music-time yet, come on now, that starts on Thanksgiving day.)

Does the OP think this is… impressive? Good? Like… never be the same, how? They’ll be bad? Like this is?

It should take at least 8 months from theatrical release day to be able to stream something. Maybe longer.

A Dracula that’s not a vampire

Utterly fantastic

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for. Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

"That cog will be turning the rest of my life. I love Star Wars," he says. "And if some day it makes sense to come back to it, for both of us, it would be the most wonderful thing in the world."

I’m hardly an expert on these things but I bet $120 Million would be considered less of a ‘gamble’ if the movie was allowed to play in theaters for longer than 6 days or whatever. 🤔

stealing paintings from museums will soon be considered just another tool in the artist's toolbelt

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Haha that’s me in the flannel shouting “yes!!” when he said “fuck AI”

“Thank you …good night …buenos noches …and fuck AI.” – @realgdt.bsky.social

“Thank you …good night …buenos noches …and fuck AI.” – @realgdt.bsky.social

Embarrassed to say I slept on @realgdt.bsky.social’s Cabinet of Curiosities when it came out, but we’re watching now - and holy fuck? Last night was The Autopsy with F. Murray Abraham, and it’s a fucking *masterpiece*. Absolutely queue it up if you’re looking for some solid horror filmmaking!

He was out of bubble gum, what else was there to do!

I’ve been following and reading a lot of tech writers for years, mostly the ones who cover Apple stuff. It’s been exceptionally disappointing to see how in the bag for AI shit they are, but I suppose it shouldn’t be very surprising. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...