NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

Jim Jarmusch’s MYSTERY TRAIN tells three different stories of one night in Memphis, Tennessee—all haunted, literally or figuratively, by the spirit of Elvis Presley, and all unknowingly intersecting at the same rundown hotel. Join us Jun 8–11 for Jarmusch x3: brattlefilm.org/film-series/jarmusch-x3/

Even @slashdot.org is covered with ads for #AI. Repulsive.

It took longer than expected due to supply chain issues

PLEASE ENJOY THIS SMALL DELIGHT. youtu.be/HxZeAYwrtrI

Proton Mail. Free up to 1gb -- enough for me. Forces me to clear out junk and save attachments elsewhere from time to time, which is good. Proton Drive and VPN are also good, and then there's Proton Pass, the best password manager I've used. All free. Worth a subscription if you want more features

Gave the Spinal Tap sequel ** and that's mainly because they got Elton John to break up the self-seriousness #film #music #heavymetal #letterboxd letterboxd.com/drawnonglass...

Long before ANDOR, BABYLON 5 warned us of how fascism raises quitely and slowly until it feels “normalized.” Heck, even predicted the use of blonde-haired woman used as the “pleasant” face of the movement. And the use of “aliens” as the scapegoat.

"I'm working on a score now for a film" "Oh, really?" "Yea, it's a horror film that takes place in a retirement community. It's called Night of The Assisted Living Dead" David St Hubbins & Marti DiBergi, Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues #film #horror #heavymetal

2010: we’ll start a business that makes money by selling a product or service to customers 2026: fuck customers, our product or service makes money by being terrible but having leftover customers from when it was good

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

it's really worth visiting Google's code of conduct page as it was back in 2005: web.archive.org/web/20050204... The same URL now redirects to a page on investor earnings. investor.google.com/conduct.html no wonder billionaires hate archive dot org

not entirely surprised but also sad that the #CambridgeMA #Boston fast #vegan/#vegetarian #restaurant chain #Clover is going under (is that enough hashtags?). Last day is tomorrow from what I've seen

DON HERTZFELDT, in this the year of our oversized spoon 2026, has uploaded a HD version of Rejected to his YT channel?!?!?! OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I'M SO HAPPY HIIIIII

Of all the monuments to America's history, Plymouth Rock is certainly one of them.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

If I post videos about viruses, does that make me an influenza?

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

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I’m on Amtrak and the conductor just made the best quiet car announcement I’ve heard yet: “This is the quiet car. If you’re going to feel some kind of way when people shush you, then you should not sit in the quiet car.”

"ART said, I don’t hate anything. I am discerning in my company. My judgment in this area is impeccable" #murderbot

100% #BookSky

In honor of the Divine Miss Jones's birthday... Here's a wonderful anecdote from my 2017 Ian McShane interview, about how McShane ended up recording the bizarro opening narration of Grace's 1985 album SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM, stoned as fuck, because Orson Welles was dead: authory.com/josiezone/ci...

That's a wild development. Birth 6 lb. small and noisy. 1yr 96lb compromises furniture 2yr 1536 legally livestock 3yr 24k school closes for geotech review 9yr 400 billion, becomes a sphere, gains atmosphere 20yr gains ocean, tides, and a moon. 24yr sustains fusion 27yr gains an event horizon.

It's incredibly funny watching Millennials demonstrating that Douglas Adams's technology adoption rules remain valid decades later

She’s here. 💀 Jenny Will Eat You Now is available for pre-order wherever books are sold. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jenny-... #coverreveal #coverart #horror #JennyWillEatYouNow #debut

📽️ "Obsession" is on the list of films I'm glad to have seen but will absolutely never watch again, along with Grave of the Fireflies, Realm of the Senses and Parents. It's meant to be a #horror #film, so I guess that's a compliment

Peter Jackson adaptinge ZORK for the bigge screene

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

Not even humans know why humans do things #MurderBot

@theoatmeal.bsky.social drew an anti-ICE urinal sticker you can pee on, and we’re giving them away for free. Get yours at PeeToMeltICE.com

"He got the vehicle started again and we proceeded down the stupid tunnel into the stupid danger." #Murderbot

Happy Mother's Day

(downing pills) "What are those for?" "Cancer." "Is it... bad? " "Well, it aint the good kind" #tv #BetterCallSaul

just want to call out this at @somervilletheatre.bsky.social today. I went to the premiere at @iffboston.bsky.social and the filmmakers are coming back for the showing tonight. Highly recommended -- especially if you're #GenX or older WBCN and the American Revolution Somerville Theatre 6:00 PM

I slow clapped for myself when I thought of this.

A really magical fact is that Porchfest creates a land where the open container laws don't exist

B52s cover band bsky.app/profile/cumu...

Researchers Find Crows Smart Enough Not To Let On How Smart They Really Are https://theonion.com/researchers-find-crows-smart-enough-not-to-let-on-how-s-1844081510/

for any #SomervilleMA folks wondering, I called Kupel's Bagels in #BrooklineMA and the Elm street location and they said it's hard to pin down but it's a month or two away from opening

WisCon is a feminist inclusive SFF convention. Do you write Science Fiction and/or Fantasy? Register for WisCon. Join our community. #WisCon #WomeninSFF #Feminist #Onlineconvention #Sciencefictionandfantasy

Hackers have compromised Canvas, the learninge management system used to teache college courses. The hackeres have made the system slow, inefficient, unresponsyve, and yn manye cases ympossible to use. Studentes and Professors so far have not noticed any difference.

Just wondering, I don't really know the original series. Is there an episode of #StarTrek TOS where Chekov hides a phaser sometime early in the episode and then uses it later? #TV

#somervillema has a text alert number for #porchfest. It's Saturday rain or shine somporches26 to the number 888777 .