America's long commitment to the soft eugenics of allowing the system to do the killing of undesirables is fast accelerating into a Nazi-era program of hard eugenics, in which the state directly enacts mass death against those it considers unproductive/undesirable.

if you’re looking for more Munich talk, @jessehawken.bsky.social had me on his wonderful Junk Filter podcast last year for a big deep dive

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

On the new episode of @junkfilterpod.bsky.social, the film writer @brianabrams.bsky.social returns for a show about the underrated PREDATOR 2. IS it better than the original? WILL my guest abruptly quit talking to me after I suggest that perhaps it is? open.spotify.com/episode/5c3x...

People in sci-fi novels are always naming their exploratory vessels shit like ICARUS and IXION and while I am not superstitious, I would maybe go with the USS GOT-THERE-SAFELY.

There should be a Winter Olympics event based on James Bond movies where you have to ski down a mountain while being chased by guys with machine guns

Oh my god, the guy who left his girlfriend on a mountain to die had done the same thing to a different girlfriend on THE SAME MOUNTAIN.

I’d been asked to draw this but was too busy storyboarding the episode. It was the art dept graphics folk made it so everyone can calm down now

What I really noticed this time, is how much of it is a secret queer history of the clearly gay men working departments like fur and jewelry, and it it made me long for more with them.

Think we need to get away from "ChatGPT is doing this" and just state OpenAI and the people who work for the company are doing this. You can't hold a computer accountable, but you can hold those behind its creation accountable.

What the last two centuries have taught us is that capitalism is a system which exists to create and maintain oligarchy, with an oligarch defined as one who steals/hoards resources on a grand scale while blatantly transgressing social norms in the most disgusting ways imaginable to prove their power

They know the words but not the music. When they “talk like artists” they make a mockery of artistic statements and this is no accident because they resent that their movies make a lot of money and don’t get critical respect too. Scorsese’s pithy putdown of MCU movies really stung them

The best thing about nobody buying tickets to Melania is you can just make up stuff that happens in the movie and people will believe you. My favorite part is when she throws up in her purse after the hot dog eating contest

Jobs are easy. Just get a job at your dad's sticker factory, or use your family's connections to go into politics.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

One of Catherine O'Hara's greatest weirdo characters on SCTV was Sue Bopper-Simpson, the alleged daughter of The Big Bopper and co-star of Libby Wolfson's feminist theatre musical "I'm Taking My Own Head And Screwing It On Right And No Guy's Gonna Tell Me That It Ain't!", top-flight comedy imho

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blood in the water, go for all their femoral arteries

How I hope it ends for Kristi Noem

From "Napoleon's Maxims of War."

The essential contradiction of modern conservatives: Armed to the teeth and determined to project authority ... but when people yell at them from the other side of a locked door they shit their pants in terror and start screaming for the local cops to come and save them.

The wave of generative AI CEOs complaining people don't use their products is kind of disgusting. You pushed something the marketplace is rejecting and now you whine about it. What kind of capitalist are you? Oh, that's right, the deeply parasitical yet incompetent at convincing the host kind.

This is a huge crisis that we must do our part on by rejecting generative AI. The more it infiltrates our systems, the more fucked we are over time.

to me, George Miller, Frankenheimer, and Friedkin are the holy trinity of car chase directors. and McQuarrie, their heir apparent.

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Absolutely missing the point. Shut it.

Or, Heated Rivalry only exists because of CanCon requirements. Otherwise CTV/Bell/Crave would have just imported another American show. Just because it's successful doesn't mean that it isn't a product of the ecosystem it was created in.

And by "aren't doing everything right," he means kidnapping children, spraying people with bear mace at point blank range, kneeling on unarmed civilians' necks, shooting women in the face, having a leisurely meal at a Mexican restaurant and then arresting the staff, ramming random cars off the road

Feeling smart today because I did a @junkfilterpod.bsky.social about F1®: The Movie where my guest @manatee73.bsky.social and I took it seriously as a skilfully made entertainment that would appeal to Formula One obsessives (Sean) and know-nothings (me). podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/j...

This is exactly why the relationship between Canada & US is forever changed & ruined. Even if Trump goes, there's an entire establishment of Dems & Republicans who barely raised objection to so much of it. There's nothing left to trust.

I love how much they really love each other 🥲

Nazis have a bad track record fighting wars in the winter

When he was a kid, did a movie theater beat him up and take his lunch money

every day involves grappling with how embarrassing it is that the secret police are so embarrassing, just complete losers incapable of visiting the men’s room alone, who cannot comprehend why people are calling themselves bums to their faces

Ontario has managed to maintain the provincial party name “Progressive Conservative” even as the national party dropped the word “Progressive” a couple of decades ago. It sounds like an oxymoron but in Ontario, running as a hardcore right winger who wants to outlaw abortion will bring defeat

god I love Lee Van Cleef (excerpt from an interview with Alex Cox)

They are the stupidest, most hateful people alive. They have nothing worth listening to, nothing worth considering, nothing to offer except the squalid misery of their existence as an object lesson in how not to exist as a human being.

Typical bastard behaviour www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING: ICE shooter identified as Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

ICE is what's left after all the smarter, more physically fit bigoted misogynists become cops or prison guards or mall security- the absolute dregs of The Worst Guy You Knew In High School population

Consistently doubling down on everything they do because they are incapable of apologizing for wrongdoing or acknowledging they've made a mistake makes these Nazis incredibly sclerotic as politicians. If if weren't for elite capitulation we'd have pushed them into the sea by now. We still will.

NEW: MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an act of self defense. I’ve seen the video myself and I want to tell everybody directly; that is bullshit.”

Actions have consequences.

"This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying." "I have a message for ICE," Frey continued. "To ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis." www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Putting the Oscar memoriam to shame.

Guys, we did it. We invented the Commodore 64

We could all learn a lot from Finland's approach It's brilliant that they're just adding AI education to the existing media literacy curriculum www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/ar...