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May or may not have let out a little shriek of delight to learn WHAT WENT WRONG will have a Blues Brothers episode in the near future.

As someone who is very deeply into preservation and archival work of media, this ain't it. It is one thing to have back-ups of media that is no longer easily purchased or long out of print but these are recently published, actively sold works that are directly tied to the writers and artists' income

I’m at the point in my massive house deep-cleaning and reorganizing that I’m just bingeing film podcasts. Fair warning that this will spill over into my posts.

I appreciate Dave Eggers so much for his statement which also includes what ChatGPT has done to educators: “The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago.”

Creative careers are fraught with worry. Constantly thinking your best ideas are behind you, that you're done. Raffi even has balm for adults.

Just after Mor’du was killed in Brave, one little kid yelled “YEAH!!!” loud enough for the whole theater to hear. (And got a huge laugh from everyone.)

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.

This post went viral recently on IG/FB because it was blowing Gen Z minds that this is how jobs used to work. And this is precisely how we were able to have such helpful store weirdos: Being a vacuum cleaner weirdo at Sears was a legit lifelong career!

In any other lifetime, “American president pays millions of dollars to a woman he sexually assaulted and then threatens to tax Canada because smoke can cross the border” would be such a big headline they’d bring back kids selling newspapers on the corner

lol please go work for Andrea, White Squirrel is the best fulfillment agency we've ever worked with but the problem with being so good is you're always SUPER BUSY. Help them expand!

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The US right/center has been working on this for decades. Attacks on academic freedoms, tenure, stability, moral panics about "woke" and gender studies, all while the mainstream media have published the exact same article about how dangerous university students and professors are to society.

They also supply McDonald's, Burger King, Chipotle, Subway, and Wendy's.

Taylor Farms also owns and runs Earthbound Organics, which is available in nearly every grocery store across the US

Loved this episode, especially the discussion of the bizarre movies Millennials & Gen X’ers watched as kids that are difficult to explain now. This is one of my favorite topics—so, friends, what movie did you love as a kid that no one else seems to have watched? I’ll start: (1/2)

This ultimately got so bad because the cdc stopped tracing several pathogens that aren't usually a major issue BECAUSE WE TRACED THEM. Trump's cdc is the villain of this piece and they're hoping we don't notice.

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This is from the thread I reposted earlier and the part that troubles me is if it becomes the standard to show drafts to disprove AI usage, then we’ll have to standardize what defines a draft and what’s enough of a draft to be convincingly human.

Chicago’s air quality is among the worst in the world as wildfire smoke hits. blockclubchi.co/4pHdrpf

I have another reaction: the procedure they outline is just not possible in terms of basic time cost. If this is what we have to do then open subs are going to die.

We saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe

Die mad, Andy

Just in case any of my mutuals are too young to remember the original trilogy release: this is the same brush-off bs they tried to give us then, too.

there are people who claim that Terry Pratchett would have been a TERF if he was still alive to them I say two things: 1. are you fucking serious 2. go fuck yourselves

I made a mistake not planting lettuce this year but ohhhh wow am I making up for it in cucumbers.

Listening to the (always excellent) @youaregood.bsky.social episode on Drop Dead Fred and there’s totally a surreal-80s/90s-children’s-movies-to-weird-girl-literature pipeline right

43) “Getting into fantasy/sci-fi? Here are some mandatory must–reads!“ Lol no. Shut up. Do not literally assign fucking homework to someone looking for a hobby. Recommend your personal faves, obvs, but pretending there are objective masters of the genre people are *required* to partake in is BS.

39) Track your wins. Make sure other people know about 'em. This is especially important if you're a traditionally overlooked demographic. Because if you fall for the fiction you should be modest and downplay your own accomplishments? Certain types will LEAP at the opportunity to help you w/that.

24) We should all go back to forums. Not exclusively, obviously, and not like Something Awful, but private, 20-person, passworded forums on someone's homepage. Cuz respectfully, a lot of you treat this place like only your friends read what you write. That's a mistake.

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw: If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

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“You are unique. There is only one you. And that is you there, right here, for better or worse. Except that there is no better, and there is no worse. It's just you." -Sam Neill

Despite a paper trail proving otherwise, Unbound’s administrators claimed they still owned the rights to Effin’ Birds and threatened to sue Penguin Random House if PRH paid me any royalties for my ongoing book sales. Wasn’t resolved until two months ago. They tried to bankrupt me out of spite.

I shall. I can't abide grifters, charlatans or thieves. And this creep is all three, and more besides.

I first fell in love with #Murderbot for the loving send-up of science fiction tropes, particularly those around where we draw the boundaries of humanity or personhood. Nearly 10 years later, I’ve found it to be a reminder that we, too, will survive this, as long as we have people to protect.

What can you do to lessen some suffering where you are?

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

It always strikes me as weird that you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but our libel laws are structured in such a way that you can't speak honestly about people until after they have passed. Also, it's good to be reminded to live your life so that people will not celebrate your passing.

I read this article yesterday and I have some points I'd like to address. The NYT peice does not engage meaningfully with the racism [and sexism] of the situation. No names, no investigation. But they do give plenty of space for her critics's unfounded claims. 🧵 1/x

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/