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Eric Vilas-Boas

@ericvb.bsky.social
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@vulture.com writer and editor covering animation, streaming, movies, and TV | die-hard fan of hiking and physical media “there's lightning in your teeth”

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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 1h
This is why I chose to be a plaintiff in one of the AI lawsuits, alongside several literary writers, because I saw this bullshit coming for genre writers from the jump.
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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18h
I've always said "the pro-Israel American right-wing only supports Israel so they have a place to deport Jews," but I never thought they would make it quite so literal. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported. (Gift Article)
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 18h
so much has been written about the idea that AI is robbing generations of their ability to write and POTUS just... demonstrated it in an EO
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that this happened on the accord with AI companies on "super intelligence" is so pathetic newrepublic.com/post/216015/...
Only Trump Would Spell United States Wrong in an Executive Order
The president signed his name right above the obvious error.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 28/09/2026
They should do a Simpsons where Homer gets beaten up and ziptied by the IDF in front of his family lol Oh fuck wait that already happened 16 years ago:
Still from "The Greatest Story Ever D'Ohed," more properly titled "The Simpsons Go to the Zionist Entity" -- Homer is ziptied by the IDF at the airport and Marge says to him, "Homie, just tell them what they want to hear"
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The theft by a hacking group of reams of sensitive personal data involving potentially tens of thousands of former and current FBI employees is emerging as one of the worst breaches of sensitive government information, leaving the FBI rushing to protect its personnel. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026
Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
google is just completely broken now
Google search for "control resonant those meows means he's on the creatures trail"

AIO "answer": The phrase "control resonant those meows means he's on the creatures trail" appears to be an anagram.

When you rearrange the letters of those exact words, they unscramble to reveal a famous quote from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in WonderlandThe phrase "control resonant those meows means he's on the creatures trail" appears to be an anagram.

When you rearrange the letters of those exact words, they unscramble to reveal a famous quote from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

"Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time."

How it breaks down:

Original letters: c-o-n-t-r-o-l-r-e-s-o-n-a-n-t-t-h-o-s-e-m-e-o-w-s-m-e-a-n-s-h-e- -o-n-t-h-e-c-r-e-a-t-u-r-e-s-t-r-a-i-l

Anagram letters: c-u-r-t-s-e-y-w-h-i-1-e- y-o-u-r-e-t-h-i-n-k-i-n-g-w-h-a-t-t-o-s-a-y-i-t-s-a-v-e-s-t-i-m-e

The original quote is spoken by the Red Queen (in Through the Looking-Glass) or associated with the general nonsense logic of Wonderland!

Are you solving a specific word puzzle or riddle challenge, and would you like help decoding any other phrases?
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 27/09/2026
more trains? NO better roads? NO affordable housing? NO better public transportation? NO more solar+wind infrastructure? NO ^ these things that would provably make people’s lives better are expensive and would take too long data centers? NO PROBLEM, HOW MANY DO YOU WANT?
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Saw the documentary NAZA, made in secret, with interviews of members of Israel’s intelligence services testifying and showing how they created a system to perpetrate genocide in Gaza. The filmmakers and their families have been threatened by Netanyahu himself. I wrote my thoughts here boxd.it/gvDEIR
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A ★★★★★ review of NAZA (2026)
Merely a film. A film that has led Netanyahu himself to threaten the citizenship and safety of its Israeli filmmakers and even their families, simply for the act of filming veterans of Israel’s intell...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business…
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i swear if the AIs don't kill us the headline cringe will
subject line: 
Tilly Norwood Says She’d Love to Work With Tom Holland and Olivia Colman: 'But Only If It Were Their Digital Twins' on an 'AI Production'
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Following my office's demands, Ticketmaster will refund tickets for Ed Sheeran's concerts at Gillette Stadium. You filed complaints, and we took action to get your money back. Act quickly and be sure submit refund requests at least 24 hours before showtime.
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is one of the greatest honors of my life to say that I helped with @arrowvideo.bsky.social upcoming 4k release of BLUE VELVET. I wrote an essay to accompany the film. www.arrowfilms.com/p/blue-velve...
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Blue Velvet Limited Edition 4K UHD | Arrow Films
Shop Blue Velvet Limited Edition 4K UHD at Arrow Films. Free UK Delivery
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that for sure. there's also something so intellectually weak and incurious about the most "Hollywood" show ever made happening to be the only animated title on a list decided by "stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV" and I love BoJack. this is more about what's not there
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
and this isn't any shade to BoJack Horseman but... that being the only one says a lot about the voting pool they did have
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
insane
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just scrolled through it quickly and... is BoJack Horseman the only animated title on there? kind of embarrassing tbh
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
oops here's link www.garbageday.email/p/am-i-too-b...
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Am I too boring to need an AI agent?
Read to the end for a machine we must create
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
tech companies are betting we'll subcontract our lives to AI in exchange for unfettered access to our digital identities, and — shocker! — that deal pretty obviously sucks
It immediately asked for read/write permissions on my Google Suite, offering to sort my email inboxes, add things to my calendar, or organize my Google Drive. If I wasn’t interested in that, it told me it could shop for me, book dinner reservations, or, if I gave it read/write access to my computer, even do tasks on my laptop. But I didn’t need to do any of those things yesterday. And I definitely didn’t need to do any of them so badly that I was willing to risk it deleting something important, hallucinating an email to someone, or buying me something I didn’t want. So I sat at my computer, clicking around to find something for it to do, and eventually just gave up.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There just isn't a legitimate solution to this which doesn't result in thousands of people currently working in the Federal government going to prison for many years
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
if you've ever been on the fence about signing up for @dinfontay.com's boozeletter... now's the time!
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
god this is sucks what a bleak outcome for a site doing great work
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 21/09/2026
FOLKS SOMETHING HUGE IS COMING I HAVE PRODUCED A "SOUNDTRACK" ALBUM FOR @beckbook.com, OF NEW MUSIC BY AMAZING ARTISTS I GAVE THEM ADVANCE COPIES OF THE BOOK; THEY GAVE ME BANGER TRACKS "𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐄𝐒" DROPS OCT. 6, BUT YOU CAN PREORDER NOW — AND STREAM @lustytirefire.bsky.social's "ℙ𝔸ℝ𝔸𝕄𝕆𝕌ℝ"!!!
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Loser Babies: Music Inspired by Josephine Riesman's "The Last Temptation of Beck", by A Few Good Records
11 track album
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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 16/07/2026
We are still feeling the effects of these 3 movies bombing in the early 2000's. Every single "adults/teens won't watch animated movies" or "No one wants to watch a 2D animated movie in theaters" etc. can be traced back to these 3 movies bombing. I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but also not.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
striking how rapacious — but also confidently stupid — AI execs prove to be in the unredacted
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026
It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
we really are cooked damn
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I feel sorry for the fine journalists at the Washington Post who do good work for a terrible owner. I was in that fix decades ago when I worked for Rupert Murdoch for a couple years in his pre-Fox News days. And Murdoch wasn’t even the worst owner I ever worked for. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
stopthepresses.news
When you’re a good journalist working for a bad owner
Also, when you’re thirsty for news but your favorite outlet goes bad
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
good job
Comics Code Seal.The corpses of Wolverine, Colossus, Cyclops, and baby Rachel Summers mutilated and impaled on spikes in Hell.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good grief, thanks to a video on Instagram, I've just discovered that the Criterion edition of Lone Wolf & Cub (that I've had on my shelf for about 9 years) has a secret compartment in the spine containing the blueprint for the weaponised babycart..!
Criterion edition of Lone Wolf & CubSpine of the boxset.The spine opens to reveal blueprints!The blueprint for the weaponised babycart!
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Circling back here
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pretty bug @inyourculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
wait fr??
Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly ended a rulemaking process initiated in the waning days of former-governor Glenn Youngkin's administration. The rule would have limited transgender students' ability to play sports and use facilities.
But Spanberger said over the weekend the rule is now dead.
Governor Abigail Spanberger told a crowd at Virginia Pridefest Saturday she was moved by the story of a transgender child and the issues their families face.
"And I tell you I burst into tears because of the fact that I want to make members of the
LGBTQ+ community know that you have a governor that values your community," Spanberger said from the Pridefest stage.
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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I find this stuff fascinating; this is basically the animation world's equivalent of how pixel art games were designed to be played on glass tube TVs. The "imperfections" created in the process of publishing the work are part of the planned end product.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW YORK (AP) — At least three supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore is dropped over pro-Palestinian comments onstage.
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the Reacher for Emmy Host campaign begins now variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Emmys in Talks to Move to Amazon Prime Video Under New Licensing Arrangement, as the Broadcast Wheel Deal Ends (EXCLUSIVE)
The 78th Emmys on NBC was the last to air under the previous broadcast wheel deal, as the TV Academy discusses moving the show to Amazon Prime Video.
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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This situation reminds me a bit of filmmakers like Scorsese being unable to get funding from the studios anymore, because the people they'd worked with in the past are gone and for the folks who are there now, it's purely a numbers game.
For many, the news was surprising. Kojima and PlayStation have had a long relationship, with the Metal Gear Solid franchise calling the console its main home for decades. And when Kojima and MGS publisher Konami parted ways in a messy, public split in 2015, it was PlayStation that swooped in to provide the famous game designer with funding for his next game, which would end up being Death Stranding. But Bloomberg reports that many of the PlayStation executives who had developed a close relationship with Kojima over the years are no longer at the company. Seemingly, those who remain don’t see investing in Kojima’s next big game as a valuable move.
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