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Extra Hot Great @extrahotgreat.com · 02/10/2026
There are SO many reasons to join our paid subscribers, but this week we're highlighting "you can force us to watch something": that's how Dave In Seattle got us to cover #HalloweenIsGrinchNight. Join for as low as $4/month if you go annual ($5 otherwise) to be like him! extrahotgreat.com/club/
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Once Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 01/09/2026
23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com
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par avion @paravion.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rocky Horror today.
Playbill for the Rocky horror show on Broadway Offerings of flowers and candles in front of large poster of Tim Curry.
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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 28/08/2026
Proud to have contributed the dumbest post of Defector’s Reds Week! defector.com/the-cozy-loo...
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The Cozy-Looking Sweaters In ‘Reds,’ Ranked | Defector
My Grandma Powell was a knitter. She’s still alive, but she’s too old now to knit. Before there were YouTube tutorials, or YouTube, or the internet, she taught herself how to do it. She spent years kn...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
AWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEAH
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Embargo is up, and I can tell you that I liked THE END OF OAK STREET a lot. It's exciting/scary, also raucous/funny, also a tight hour and 39 minutes. Buy a ticket and go to the movies. Make a crowd with other people and react. It's a summer dinosaur movie, WOOOOOOO!
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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 30/07/2026
by me! www.gq.com/story/why-ca...
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Why Can't TV Finales Stick a Landing?
Some of the best-loved TV shows of our time have one thing in common: Finales that everybody hated. The nature of the TV landscape means this is unlikely to change.
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Dorinda @dorinda.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
SO MANY PERKS. And this podcast is always fun and smart and engaging, plus tip top audio and technical quality! I've been listening to it for more than a decade and I'm always happy I do.
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13/07/2026
Seriously, just read the full piece. It's short, it's bullet points — and unlike RFK Jr's HHS, it'll tell you about the treatment that's effective against Cyclosporiasis — and even where, if you're so inclined, you can buy it tonight www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
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Cyclosporiasis Is Here: How to Protect Yourself | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
Cyclospora infection is often asymptomatic, but when symptoms occur, illness is characterized by anorexia, nausea, flatulence, fatigue, abdo
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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 19/06/2026
by! me!!! www.gq.com/story/every-...
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Every ‘Widow's Bay’ Season 2 Question Currently Haunting Us
What's the deal with the curse? Who survived that finale? And just how long will Apple TV take to bring us more news from New England's creepiest island?
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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 17/06/2026
I interviewed Katie Dippold about #WidowsBay Season 1! Finale spoilers ahead!!! www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/wid...
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‘Widow’s Bay’ Creator Tells All After Explosive Finale
Katie Dippold goes deep on the Season 1 finale of her hit horror comedy show. WARNING: Spoilers ahead.
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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 05/06/2026
@rilaws.bsky.social @alisonwillmore.bsky.social @benfrisch.bsky.social @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Hello it's me your elder, not to say the anti-Apartheid guy in #Backrooms isn't a twink but even our MANLIEST straight guys DID wear crop tops in the 80s and 90s
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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 06/05/2026
To the many people who loved TWoP but don’t know all three co-founders now do a weekly podcast often featuring ex-recappers as guests: get into @extrahotgreat.com / extrahotgreat.com
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Extra Hot Great – This Week In TV Podcast
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I’m seeing too many content scraping accounts lately. You know, the ones who post “a frog a day” or whatever. They’re lousy! They steal photos, post without credit to get lots of followers & then often make money off the account. Please block them & try these real photographers instead!
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Dorinda @dorinda.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I was given a print subscription to The Onion for my birthday and cover to cover it is a damn delight!
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
if you hate or love "maxxing" please be advised that guys my age think it's funny as hell and will shortly be using it approx. 500 times a day. you will be cringemaxxing and despairmaxxing but no amount of cringe & no depth of despair will stop the guys my age from usemaxxing "maxxing." just fyi
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
These are wonderful. Also: I AM DRAGGING MY ANCHOR.
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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 08/01/2026
I'm back at @gqmagazine.bsky.social on #ThePitt, which returns for S02 tonight: www.gq.com/story/welcom...
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Welcome Back to The Pitt, America's Bastion of Medical Competence
Season 2 of the HBO Max hospital drama delivers detailed realism and high-stakes expertise. It's never been more satisfying to watch good doctors at work.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Delightful.
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Dorinda @dorinda.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Adapted by Craig Mazin! I'm seated already.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This movie is really funny and a corker of a mystery, but it’s also really deeply felt and quite moving. And as I said on PCHH, you’re going to keep thinking, “Hmm, is this movie going to have a moment where Glenn Close utterly demolishes me?” Yes. Yes, it is.
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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish
excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time. 
     When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
     If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Another good reason to never use an AI avatar or AI art ever, no matter how cute, is that the more people become accustomed to that eerie aesthetic, the easier it is to slip the fakes through.
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 14/12/2024
Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
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Megan Carpentier @megancarpentier.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.) www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 20/11/2024
Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 20/11/2024
PSA: I am not on Facebook or threads; if someone is there saying they are me, it is a scam. I don’t ask people for money, I don’t sell any kind of access to any kind of publishing services. Ever, and will never.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
I still think about what you said in November 2020 about why doomscrolling is harmful: "I have come to the conclusion that as human beings, we are just not meant to poach in other people's anxiety all the time." www.npr.org/2020/11/18/9...
A great quote from NPR's Linda Holmes: "So my suggestion is you got to hop off. You got to hop off, take breaks. The minute that it starts to make, like, your heart pound every time you pick up your phone or look at your computer or whatever, hop off. Same thing with the news. You're not going to miss anything between noon and 4 that you can't find out at the end of the day."
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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 04/11/2024
NYT tech workers are on strike for a fair contract. We are asking you to #BreakYourStreak on NYT games in solidarity. You can also support our strike fund to keep us going. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
The walkout, which began just after midnight Monday, could disrupt the New York Times’s election coverage.
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M'lyn @mlyntc.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
MERL is here!
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pearwaldorf (looking for work more slowly) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 10/10/2024
Hey if you use Firefox update it immediately, there's a zero day exploit thehackernews.com/2024/10/mozi...
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Doctor Science ❌👑 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Visually *astounding*, and also the only movie of comparable profile where the child character actually sounds like a child (because the actor made up a lot of her own lines). writers (screen or otherwise), take note! this is how kids talk!
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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 22/09/2024
Mighty Big TV -- the site that became Television Without Pity -- launched 25 years ago today, if you can FUCKING BELIEVE IT. If you miss us: first of all thank you, we love you. Secondly, we're still talking about TV together, so check out our podcast Extra Hot Great! 😘 extrahotgreat.com
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Extra Hot Great – This Week In TV Podcast
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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
When asked, “What is artificial intelligence?” Ted Chiang replied, “A poor choice of words in 1954.” To this day I think that is the only good answer to that question that I have seen.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Here is a cleansing photo of my dog, unsure of whether it’s an ears-up day or an ears-down day on the master schedule.
My dog with one ear straight up and one pinned down, so he looks like somebody is drinking from his nose with their pinky up.
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celli @aliascelli.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
I did not know how much I needed a Badly Drawn Horse today.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2024
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
WINDER, GA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed at least four individuals and injured nine others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of...
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
absolutely the thread of the day
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
If I had my way, the law would clarify over and over that if you use “AI” to generate text that you then share, you are just as liable for those words as if you simply said them yourself.
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A Sizable Hawk @wrux.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Hey it’s my favorite painting of all time! It’s at the Musee d’Orsay, and is absolutely luminous in person
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
There’s an old Irish term for someone who likes to stay home by the warmth and comfort of the fireplace (what we might today call a couch potato)... cailleach na luatha. I like to translate it (with some poetic licence) as “divine hag of the ashes”
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
US government is going to again make Covid tests available for free, starting in late September. Folks will be able to order 4 free tests from Covidtests.gov, ASPR's Dawn O'Connell says. More later.
covidtests.gov
COVID-19 Testing
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Tiny Brontosaurus @tinybronto.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Tim Walz has read the entire run of Master and Commander and can entertainingly explain the Napoleonic wars wholly through football metaphors
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
I’ve been watching fanvids since fans made them using VCRs & we circulated vids on tape. I was delighted when this Homicide vid from that era turned up online. “So Pure” by Katharine Scarritt and Pamela Rose focuses on Frank Pembleton (as seen by Tim Bayliss). archiveofourown.org/works/41403528
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So Pure [VID] - Katharine Scarritt (Thomas), Pamela Rose (pamela_rose) - Homicide: Life on the Street [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
I aired my id. And I completely understand why they could not use my original headline: “Your child does not need a comms strategy.” www.npr.org/2024/07/30/n...
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The antithesis of the Olympics: Using AI to write a fan letter
In one of Google’s Olympics ads, a dad uses AI tool Gemini to craft a fan letter from his daughter to an Olympian. But it’s the wrong approach to express admiration in a star athlete – and to instill ...
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