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Aleš Kot

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immigrant / mutant / writer / director projects @ HBO / Blumhouse / United Artists / PKM reps @ WME pronouns: they / them

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe.
wsj.com
Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com · 17/12/2025
Neon Genesis Evangelion by Ian Bertram
Neon Genesis Evangelion by Ian Bertram
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And yet. Flowers through the concrete. Under the paving stones, the beach.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The thing every industry hates the most is its incapability to fully capture & contain the creative impulse. An industry is designed to replicate, generate more of itself at maximum efficiency, no matter how seemingly varied the copies. AI is the latest expression of that urge.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Haha, this fucking sucks.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One of the most important filmmakers of the last fifty years. Maybe half a dozen stone cold masterpieces (Cure, Pulse, Bright Future, Charisma, Tokyo Sonata...) and about twice as many plain excellent films. Go check him out.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But the best music always changes you, always forms you. The list of most formative albums between years 20-30 would look a lot different
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Keeping it from year 10 to about year 20.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
no one should use this thing but I just cannot stress enough that you have to stay away from it if you’re a practicing attorney
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
David Alfaro Siqueiros – Collective Suicide (1936)
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Some people move their soul in ways that move others towards their own. This book is a good place to get to know her a bit more. RIP.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 24/08/2026
"The record is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress."
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The Ocean Hasn't Been This Hot in 125,000 Years, Alarmed Researcher Suggests
Ocean surface temperatures are also steadily creeping up, hitting the hottest point since records began this month at 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Watching Lino Brocka's films all weekend long. Vital, revitalizing.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
somanyofus.com
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So Many of Us: Recognizing Abuses of Power
We are a collective of people from across the world who were targeted by Warren Ellis, a comics and television writer from the UK.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
They deserve each other. Comics won't break your heart, but if you're not careful, the small-hearted, gelatine-spined men in comics will do their best to try.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/08/2026
Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.
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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Chavez Ravine: An Unfinished Story is a community-curated collection that features oral histories and photographs documenting the neighborhood lives of those who lived where Dodger Stadium now sits." library.lmu.edu/archivesands...
library.lmu.edu
Chavez Ravine Community Archive - Loyola Marymount University
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Filmed in 1984, I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes was released in 1989, the year of the subject's death. Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, Love Streams." www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbvP...
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I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - the Man and His Work (1984)
YouTube video by Kâmera Libre
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“It was an execution,” a prosecutor told CNN. “It was a summary execution. And it is that simple.”
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The first paragraph of Michael Mann's script for HEAT.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Despite the alleged split between manual and remote labor, remote workers have always also been manual laborers. Every virtual task is performed by a person with a nervous system, a threshold for pain and exhaustion, a circadian rhythm." www.e-flux.com/journal/164/...
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Against the Clock: Remote Work, Stolen Sleep, and the Limits of Extraction - Journal #164
Elvia Wilk writes that the film Sleep Dealer shows what happens when the 24/7 economy treats the body clock as an inconvenience to be overcome.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Didn't realize John Berger put the entirety of WAYS OF SEEING online for free, but it sure seems he did: www.ways-of-seeing.com
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Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Ways of Seeing by John Berger is a seminal text based on the 1972 BBC series of the same name, which explores the role of art in western civilization and how it has shaped how the world is seen.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Industrialized art is built to remove us from the world, communal art is made to bring us closer to it. The tension between the two modes and the willingness to engage with both inform every sphere of art-making.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Adam Hamawy, a surgeon who became a hero of the pro-Palestine movement after treating patients in Gaza, is heading to Congress after winning a Democratic primary in southern New Jersey"
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The Man Who Saved Tammy Duckworth’s Life Is Heading To Congress
Republicans had attempted to brand Adam Hamawy as a “terrorist.”
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Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Together, our voices will be heard! Sign our #DHWU petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/da... 🐴✊
Graphic for Dark Horse Workers United which states “the herd will be heard”, featuring the DHWU logo under. All of this is surrounded by 3 lines on top and bottom.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"Eventually, though, what's left of the free press will have to reckon with the fact that the far-right fringe is now the modern world's governing elite — and openly declaring an intent to repeat the 1930s. That's a story."
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"In the U.S. today, translations make up a meager three percent of total book publications." ... "The market has its landlords" www.thedriftmag.com/the-translat...
thedriftmag.com
The Translation Trap
The unnamed narrator of Valeria Luiselli’s 2011 novel Faces in the Crowd is a young Mexican woman living in Brooklyn and working, as many F-1 literary types do, at a small translation press.
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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
HELL YEAH!! Sending all my love and support for the workers at Dark Horse Comics. Most of the comics I've worked on have been published by DH and none of it would be possible without the highly skilled workers seeing these projects through to the end.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/05/2026
It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Very excited to go see IS GOD IS and I LOVE BOOSTERS in theater in the next few days, maybe even as a double bill.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Not many things more lovely in a filmmaker's life than reading multiple fantastic film and pilot scripts by friends, lately at a rate of pretty much one per week.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The Waves Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Wuthering Heights But that's too easy because that's just the three I probably return to the most often? So three more: Sula Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Água Viva
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"What has wickedness got to do with it?" www.commentary.org/articles/gar...
commentary.org
The Pevearsion of Russian Literature
Legend has it that Grigory Potemkin, the chief minister and lover of Catherine the Great, decided to impress her with the prosperity of lands newly conquered by the Russian Empire.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s alleged role in guiding FSU shooter
The lawsuit claims that the shooter carried out his attack using instructions and advice provided by ChatGPT.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 11/05/2026
It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System."
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Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System
Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS, which was only discovered last year, has been visible to stargazers in the northern hemisphere for weeks now.
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
There's no reason it should ever be gone! Just like any formal choice it's about it being in sync with & the best way to play with the content so they can become one and the same thing. Like any other successful iconic form, it's going to be imitated by many, but that won't make it less useful
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Lucretia Martel spitting bars...
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"Those who don’t have the truth tend to over-perform it. ... I’m completely convinced that the dominant narrative form is a kind of war model—it pushes the idea of protagonist and antagonist, of conflict. ... But human experience doesn’t work like that." mubi.com/en/notebook/...
mubi.com
Other Ways of Seeing: Lucrecia Martel on “Our Land”
The Argentina director discusses her long-gestating documentary: a courtroom drama that expands into a broader history of dispossession.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 02/05/2026
This is devastating. Just devastating. "Many observers rightly warn that Callais threatens minority representation in Congress. But minority voters' power on school boards and city councils is no less consequential and may be at even greater risk."
slate.com
Here’s Proof of Just How Bad Voting Rights in America Are About to Get
The Voting Rights Act was one of the most effective laws in American history.
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Something Is Happening to America's Moral Code
A New York Times podcast hosted Hasan Piker and a New Yorker staff writer for a discussion of lawbreaking, which they both endorsed as resistance to tyranny.
By Graeme WoodAtlantic Magazine writer Graeme Wood: "It is possible to kill children legally, if for example one is being attacked by an enemy who hides behind them."
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Aleš Kot @aleskot.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Ha ha. Yes. Yes!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7J...
youtube.com
The Vampire Lestat | Official Trailer | Premieres June 7 on AMC & AMC+
YouTube video by amc+
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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:
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