If you have the space, means and collection: a northern Texas warehouse full of proto-Redbox VHS vending machines from the mid-1980s is being evicted. The machines are free and whatever isn't taken will imminently be scrapped. www.facebook.com/commerce/lis...

ten different men had meltdowns at me for sharing www.against-a-i.com this weekend for syllabus prep, some of them had to do long threads about it

How animals secretly ring in the New Year in Molly Brett’s (1902-90) magical woodland

A touching tribute to Mike F

cbs news is giving us a great natural experiment into what happens to your business if you marginalize your existing consumers to go after a new market that hates your product. interesting strategy

I don't know why patriot Charlie Kirk deleted this patriotic tweet about patriotic buses busing patriots to DC on Jan 6th, but the Internet never forgets. web.archive.org/web/20210107...

"Marco Rubio, we salute you!" A real thing that was said by the CBS Evening News anchor tonight.

Our local rapid response group just confirmed that Bovino is here with roughly 70 agents and their disgusting propaganda team. I'm so fucking sad and angry and tired

YAY!!

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CBS News has fully fallen, and I hope the honorable journalists left there are looking for quick, safe landing pads. I know the expectation is always “Just quit!” but that’s hard for most normal people to do without going broke. My thoughts are with all of them. This is grotesque.

Got paid AND his job back, lmao. Keep fighting these dweebs

Béla Tarr‘s advice to young filmmakers ♥️ Clip from our Q&A following THE TURIN HORSE (2011) in 35mm on 6/7/23 at the Aero.

"It’s unclear if ICE will target farm workers as it ramps up enforcement, but White House Border Czar Tom Homan told Reuters that immigration arrests will 'explode greatly next year,' and that enforcement would 'absolutely' hit workplaces." https://bit.ly/4qLfA2p

One of my favorite quotes from my interview with Béla Tarr and a photo after our Q&A at the Aero. I’ll cherish those nights hanging out with him and the American Cinematheque folks. @amcinematheque.bsky.social

NONE of these are sold out yet???? Shame on you, LA! Hi audio people you should go.

The perfect two sentence story.

Sources: Discord has filed confidentially for an IPO, working with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Salome ever so politely receives head of John the Baptist. A very clean beheading, nice job, thank you so much! By Bernard van Orley, 1514. It's his day.

Every AI idea is either "make it nonconsensual" or "own a little human of your own"

Commissions for embroidered cat portraits are open! 🍄 Join the waitlist here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Brands complain Amazon's "Buy for Me" AI-powered shopping tool features their products on Amazon without permission and shows descriptions with errors (Allison Smith/Modern Retail) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

It should be illegal for this to have made me laugh.

Oh my god, fine. Unrelenting Geese mentions lately. Christ. I'll finally listen calm down. Okay so like, The Strokes. People miss The Strokes.

Yesterday, a food delivery robot cut me off and crossed the street as my left turn arrow came on, the robot did not have the light. Took all my power to not mow it down. Death to robots.

yeah

#Mpox antibodies wane 2 years after infection or vaccination, study finds Participants with prior infection were more likely than vaccine recipients to retain some detectable antibodies. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery

we get dozens of male loneliness articles but women being sexually harassed on twitter? not a peep

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

Analysis suggests HPV vaccine protects unvaccinated people through herd immunity The incidence of cervical lesions was 50% lower in unvaccinated women when vaccination was widespread. www.cidrap.umn.edu/h...

This is not gonna end well.

If a far-right government in the US can simply overthrow any government of any country that it doesn’t particularly like – or that has something it wants – then no-one globally is safe, writes Ellie Gomersall ✍️ 🔗 www.thenational.scot/politi...

Friendly reminder that all of you should be scheduling appointments with your millennial geriatricians

Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

Just a guess but it’s probably the racism

For Epiphany, this glorious 1966 illustration of the Three Kings by the great Eyvind Earle (1916 - 2000), best remembered for his enormous contribution to Disney Animation's visual style during the 1950s, particularly Sleeping Beauty (1959).

Something interesting we're seeing in Massachusetts is that ICE is using more innocuous vehicles to blend in, likely in response to watch efforts. For example, I've seen a Dodge Caravan and Hyundai Sonata recently. The caveat is that Massachusetts is not seeing as much of a militarized presence.

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

It's becoming standard procedure across all news media to explicitly not mention in the obituary of a Republican member of congress that they voted on Jan. 6, 2021 to overturn the election

Hasn't she already picked out a house to occupy in Greenland.

Jan. 6ers make their way to the Capitol on the fifth anniversary of the Capitol attack:

Oh. Yikes. Okay so UK's gonna keep doing the thing where they just copy everything MAGA does, beat for beat.

I'm not clicking, just wanna do my bit in saying do not let them memoryhole what you know and what you saw.

Bastards.

also worth remarking that responding to "why can't AI replace you?" is a failure of framing, which @anthonymoser.com advises us that we should always Kirbyrize:

I think a key part of this scheme is robbing as much money from blue states as possible in part to make Democrats who are electeds in these states less popular by creating budget crises there.

We need to grapple with the reality that we're very close to living in a police state. "Officers repeatedly pressed her on whether she was Venezuelan, what her connection to Venezuela was, and why she had attended the protest. Plichta claimed they tried to get her to identify other demonstrators."