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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Oct. 15, 1926: “Sock! Biff! Bam! Dorothy Sheehey, 17, of Brooklyn, sure treats those male annoyers rough. Alphonse De Marco, taxi driver, is said to have squeezed her in the movies. Then Dorothy began. She had Alphonse on his knees begging for mercy. He was held on disorderly conduct charge.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One DOGEr, Gavin Kliger, enabled the handover of IRS data on immigrants to DOGE. Kliger had an anti-immigrant right wing edgelord profile online. For DOGE, he was also shutting down agencies, killing life-saving grants, and firing federal employees. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...

Gavin Kliger turned up at IRS on February 13 demanding agency credentials and access to data. Kliger was at the forefront of DOGE’s crippling of multiple agencies.

He wrote the email telling USAID employees to stop coming into work.

The 25 year old was told his private stock portfolios limited him from working at CFPB, the consumer watchdog, and he needed to divest. He refused but led an attempt to fire 90% of staff. One member of the CFPB Reduction in Force team swore that: “He kept the team up for 36 hours straight to ensure that the notices would go out yesterday…Gavin was screaming at people he did not believe were working fast enough…calling them incompetent.”

He oversaw the cutting of climate grants by USDA.

He was assigned to American General Media, the parent company of Voice of America, shortly before almost all employees on leave.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Read every word of this and share it.

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 10/03/2025

The end of Whiplash except it's the Mute City theme from F-Zero.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

every time the media gets to ask Abdul El-Sayed a question they ask him to answer for something Hasan Piker said because they once did an event together. Yet the media never asks Republican candidates to answer for Elon Musk, the #1 Republican fundraiser this cycle and of all time. It's odd!

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oct 12th - While working on a documentary, Steve Zisssou's best friend, Esteban du Plantier, was eaten alive by a "jaguar shark". 📽️📅 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

4 Screenshots from the movie "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004): First, two men in matching blue uniforms stand on a boat with rocky cliffs in the background, one wearing a red beanie and holding a harpoon gun. The subtitle reads, "October 12th. Esteban and I explore the blue reefs beyond the peninsula." Second, a man is pictured swimming in turbulent water with the words "ESTEBAN WAS EATEN" overlaid in yellow text. Third, two men in formal attire sit at a long table in a grand room adorned with a mural, with one asking, "What would be the scientific purpose of killing it?" Fourth, the same scene continues as the other man responds with the single word, "Revenge."

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders

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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, it's that film! I've only ever caught the end of it coincidentally. Stanwyck doesn't miss, but I'm definitely here for her comedies and noirs (and strange loves)

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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

HathiTrust is featuring Tales of Mystery and Imagination [1923] with rad illustrations by Harry Clarke including this at the end of 'Ligeia'.

"And now slowly opened the eyes of the figure who stood before me". Illustrated plate from page 114 of Tales of Mystery and Imagination [1923]

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.

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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)

The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 06/10/2026

Following the final approval of the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger, CEO David Ellison promises "difficult decisions that affect our workforce." tinyurl.com/5n7jnxe4 That's all, folks—Skydance immediately hints at massive layoffs

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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

YouTube video by Paramount

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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Uuuuh..." "Stole it from Musk" "Oh, cool, wicked"

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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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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One-two punch delivering a new form of dramatic irony. AI: I am a genius! Audience: [sensible chuckling]

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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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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My fave so far this year is Cashier's debut EP 'The Weight'. Gotta listen to Inferno for sure.

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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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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Algorithms as they are now are a plague, and once people get the taste for attention derived from hate they just keep doubling down. It's so incredibly lame.

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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?

GDT:

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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FauxRomano @fauxromano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To be a bit hyperbolic, I think the hate for any game is overblown.

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