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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's one pre-1970 film clip in the sizzle reel for the new parent company of Warner Bros. and Paramount, two century-old film studios. And 60 logos, but no TCM... www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EG... #FilmSky

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Skydance

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Nicolle Lamerichs @nicolleness.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We need to talk about cutewashing for a minute. Read more here about its impact, for better or worse. (I loved working on this short read and created some custom memes for it too!!!) nicollelamerichs.com/2026/10/02/o... #cuteness #media #marketing

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.

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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a Christian Nationalist revival meeting masquerading as a defense department speech...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

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Kathrin @puzzledpeaces.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm always struck by the absolute fucking JOYLESSNESS of it all. They don't want to browse and explore and spend time actively pursuing a hobby they might enjoy. Instead, they want to click 5 times and then go "Behold my stuff" to an empty room because they have no actual friends.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...

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DOGE vs. Civic Tech

As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 24/09/2026

Liege of all loiterers and malcontents, Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of shows should be one season only. A good skill to cultivate is to know when to bail on a show, which I've done with all of these after a couple of seasons. At some point, even shows that started really well have nothing new to say.

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WIRED @wired.com · 23/09/2026

Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology. www.wired.com/story/popes-...

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The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs

Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 22/09/2026

it melts my brain that Meta is blocking ads that even engage with feminism while allowing AI slop of children getting horribly beaten futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism

The parent company behind Facebook and Instagram is prohibiting ads promoting a theatrical adaptation of a Virginia Woolf novel.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.

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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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Max Read @maxread.info · 15/09/2026

i don't like that i feel like we're all getting dragged against our will into an all-media all-the-time LessWrong thread, an insanely annoying and disorienting experience that most people do not have sufficient experience or mental preparations to deal with

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 09/09/2026

85 years ago today, US Senators attacked Hollywood for making anti-Nazi movies. It didn't turn out like they'd hoped, of course. Below is an excerpt from my book on the hearings, called Hollywood Hates Hitler, that was released in 2020. chrisyogerst.substack.com/p/85-years-a...

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85 Years Ago: US Senators Investigated Hollywood’s Anti-Nazi Activity

Isolationism and America Firsting Took Aim at the Movies

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Most folks were ready to be relatively respectful of Charlie Kirk in death but then the U.S. government tried to make him a holy martyr beyond criticism and the very generation they'd cultivated to believe the funniest thing you can say is that which is not allowed got the message loud and clear.

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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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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026

Sure, a monopoly can reduce prices - but as soon as it eliminates its competitors and captures its government, it's going to raise those prices, safe in the knowledge that a company that's too big to fail is too big to jail: pluralistic.net/2024/08/14/t...

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Pluralistic: The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street (14 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Incredible sentence.

Indeed, while Jordan became a reclusive prisoner to his iconic status, Barkley lived to be out among the masses, and his nightclub hopping led to more than one mano a mano face-off with loudmouth fans. “Let there be no conflict in America,” Barkley said in 1997, after he tossed an obnoxious heckler through a plate-glass window in an Orlando, Fla., bar.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/09/2026

I think one of the reasons I'm an AI skeptic beyond all the environmental and meta economic harms it perpetuates is that AI writing is still dogshit, repetitive, and boilerplate. I can't imagine ever using it to help me with actual writing, nor should it be designed to do so.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026

If the post-Trump internet isn't a post-American internet, it'll only be a matter of time until the next crisis, and the coming years will give Big Tech even more chances to worm its tendrils into the world's governments, firms and households, making that crisis be even *harder* to survive. 58/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026

Trump's chuds and freaks are not bound by these constraints. They're perfectly happy to do Gunboat Diplomacy 2.0: Cloud Diplomacy, where everything from your smartphones to your payroll records can be seized at the click of a mouse, and your country had better fall in line. 48/

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The USFS said the climbers told them they had used an artificial intelligence platform, YouTube videos and AllTrails to plan the trip. They said they relied on AI to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need." 🙃

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Three Mount Shasta climbers rescued after relying on AI to plan climb

Three novice climbers were rescued from Mount Shasta on Sunday after becoming lost, running low on supplies and spending an unplanned night in Mud Creek Canyon,

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WIRED @wired.com · 02/09/2026

Experts say the summer of sickness is the result of chronic underfunding in food safety systems, gaps in federal food policy, and recent cuts to the country’s public health infrastructure by President Donald Trump’s administration. www.wired.com/story/why-sa...

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From Salmonella Eggs to Diarrhea Lettuce, Why This Has Been a Sick Hot American Summer

While Trump administration cuts have contributed to the epidemic of foodborne illnesses this summer, there are also deeper issues that make the American food supply chain susceptible to parasites and ...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A country actively hostile to science has enabled Drexel to close a 200-year-old museum for “financial reasons”. I personally refuse to believe they had no choice but to do this. Money always flows in the direction where priorities are set. This is devastating.

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Millions of Americans may not receive their mail ballots in time, or at all, because of a secretive, court-defying system being rushed into place by the Trump administration. Two months before the midterms. This isn't by chance. It's a blatant attempt to steal an election. Share this everywhere.

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USPS rush to implement Trump order could cause ‘catastrophic failure’ of mail voting, whistleblower claims

A whistleblower claims in a new report that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has embarked on a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s mail voting order ahead of the midterms,…

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

August 31st/September 1st

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Scott Marks @scottemarks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I wish I wrote this.

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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

40 years of the life of a British man

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton's passing is effortlessly proving that if you spend your life being nice and kind and generous instead of mean and cruel and selfish, then apologists for mean cruel selfish bullies won't have to go around scolding people for cheering when you die, because there will be no cheering.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst

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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Lost Princess of Oz [1917]

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

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