“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Sorry, Baby was so highly recommended. But, oy. I haven’t been so incensed by a movie since The Whale. She’s who Lena Dunham mocks. (Also, zero research into how academia works. Just zero.)

In the wake of "chastened" debates on film theory, what would a reinvigorated theory of film look like? Marc Furstenau reviews the Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, edited by Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social. Link in bio! Find more from Furstenau: carleton.ca/filmstudies/...

Oscar Isaac says he is open to returning to STAR WARS but is doubtful about Disney after they suspended Jimmy Kimmel. “I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great”

now trump gets to be like “we don’t know what the shutdown was about, democrats just held the country hostage for 2 months for no reason” and he would be sort of correct

Separate Tables (1959), for moral maturity.

Traitors UK talking about Alan (a gay who, like me, came up during predominant AIDS era) as “having gone undetected” is so tone deaf.

lol

Been wrong before but demolishing part of the White House while prices rise, the government is shut down, and health premiums are about to go through the roof? Might break through

TFG posting literal AI shit gave more attention to the protests than any major news platform. Totally insane.

Absolutely massive crowd here in Boston for the rally!

Only one King! (Vidor)

Culture might seem a less consequential right than free assembly+ its infringement makes less spectacular news than repressive violence. But the repeal of the right to culture is grave. honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today! hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production." www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Important piece from Marshall. Dismantling kleptocracy is the most urgent goal, & anti-monopoly policy must be part of that. The problem we face, as I tackled last week, is that with very few exceptions, U.S. anti-monopoly policy has been antitrust, & has ranged from weak to counterproductive.

Diane Keaton created new ways for women on screen to laugh, think, cry, age, and, yes, dress. She was flinty and vulnerable and so much everything all at once. I, for one, wouldn’t be me without her.

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Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

You know he’s picturing Yul Brynner.

So do we know why Hegseth just summoned hundreds of generals and admirals to a meeting in VA??

Pernille on Netflix (Porni is the real title and titular character, but I guess that was off-putting) is THE show. Writer-star Henriette Steenstrup is everything.

Yeah, if you've not yet deleted your academia*edu account, now is seriously the time. The terms of service and AI-generated "podcasts" are so gross.

Superman (2025): the first one that feels like he and Lois actually fuck?

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology." This video's framing is great.

The Morning Show is back. Such a great cartoon. Marion Cotillard is 50???

It’s so sick, but I had a blip of jealousy for Germans in the 1930s who didn’t have such a clear precedent emblazing their immediate futures before them.

Anyway, J Lo’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is okay unless you’ve ever heard someone else sing it.

This whole thing may have finally, finally, undone my impulse to look at social media too often.

Only Murders in the Building fortifies with delight. It’s medicine. Of course you might say that about anything with Dianne Wiest.

The follow-up I need is for someone to ask the timeline of how this Deep State plan worked. Who is the mastermind who in 2003 realized the guy who used to be Donald Trump would start a reality show next year that would springboard him to the presidency, and launched a nefarious two-decade long con

Flown thrice the last few weeks and a guy next to me watched the new Top Gun. Men aren’t doing well, if it wasn’t obvious. (Yes, still doing the 700 mile commute to App State.)

thanks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social for introducing me to this movie poster, featuring a tagline that made me hyperventilate with laughter

This week's Directed By Women Viewing Guide highlights some selections premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival over the next week and a half.

Burkina Faso has passed a law criminalising homosexuality.

over 25% of United Auto Workers nationwide are ACADEMIC WORKERS! friday, join a UAW phone bank against cuts to science research form.jotform.com/252308957361...

The Women was released on this day in 1939. Praise be.

I did this the other day for each and every one of the 15 or so titles of mine it stole. Let's do this!

News of *that* engagement came out before a class yesterday, and I casually mentioned that I just don’t understand her popularity. Found out today that a student broke out in severe hives over my comment! That fandom is terrifying!

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

"the nature of the change from Twitter to X. It is owned and directed by a far-right actor who bought it specifically to elevate and amplify right-wing messaging. You might as well argue that people should join the Republican Party in order to redirect it to less extreme terrain"

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

I literally spent my first year freshman year fighting for this and just like that these assholes are taking it away.

Every single Democrat needs to internalize this: ICE is a politicized operation that our tax dollars are paying for. If Dem leaders don’t use every single legislative tool in their disposal to rein this in (ie shutting down this govt over funding) they aren’t doing their jobs.

Me, preparing my arsenal.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Me, preparing my arsenal.

AI "thinks." AI "hallucinates." AI has "psychoses." AI discourse is the ONE PLACE metaphor thrives. It's so dumb.

This lament is dead on. There's a war on expertise, and, beyond that, what conditions expertise: human care.