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Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Out Today - New Comic Book Day - THE NIGHT OF THE OWLS COMPENDIUM collecting the first 12 issues & all the spin-offs. Grab it & listen to our recent episode with @ssnyder1835.bsky.social about the Court of Owls, 15 Years after the first appearance: www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/scott-s...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Rob Saucedo @robsaucedo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Houston! Just in time for the spooky season, signed copies of my graphic novels WHERE WOLF and CURSE OF THE WHERE WOLF are now available for purchase at Brazos Bookstore! If you enjoy werewolves, whodunits, and wreading, grab a copy today.

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That Tony Scott Drummer Dude @tjmackey432.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After almost 2 years I finally got to meet back up with the legendary Carmelita Valdez McKoy and as expected we had an amazing time! Join us on the “𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧” of all Cult Movies episodes where we talk all things Mommie Dearest with Anthony & Matt, including what may be the coolest shower of all time!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The last entry in my One-and-Done Horrors series is John Carpenter’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Come for the world ending vibes, stay for the killer opening credits, all the Susan jokes & Jameson Parker’s card tricks. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/one-and-done... Open to free/paid subscribers!

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One-and-Done Horrors: Prince of Darkness

Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/09/2026

This can fuck off entirely.

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Bryan Christopher @evilthiccness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you’re always giving @derekdeadly.bsky.social shit for giving spoilers and then literally drop the entire plot of a movie when someone in chat just said they haven’t sent it yet. Sorry again @wickedkitten13.bsky.social 😬 @dailydead.bsky.social www.twitch.tv/dailydeadtwi...

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You Went Full Derek - DailyDeadTwitch on Twitch

Watch DailyDeadTwitch's clip titled "You Went Full Derek" on Twitch.

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𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡: 𝙰 𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙰𝚇 𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙰 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ONE LAST SHOT starring Scott Adkins is a satisfying conclusion to maybe the most ambitious series in modern indie action. Somehow they do ROPE-style filmmaking on tight budgets and schedules, and the story is engrossing enough that I forget to think much about the technical side. (Now on VOD.)

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One Last Shot | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA

ONE LAST SHOT is an event movie within the world of indie action: director James Nunn (GREEN STREET 3: NEVER BACK DOWN), writer Jamie Russell and star Scott

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Using AI to help you learn is like hiring a robot to lift for you in the weight room. It’s not simply that you don’t develop the muscles the weights were meant to exercise; your muscles actually atrophy if you do nothing but watch the robot heave away."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I told @gregsargent.bsky.social, Congress should demand answers from those responsible for diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights.

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Charles Bruce @the8thcurse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I intentionally worked the word filmatism into this review as a tribute to my favorite film critic @outlawvern.bsky.social who not only has been an inspiration and influence but was the one who first put me onto Scott Adkins and the UNDISPUTED sequels back in the day.

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Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We chat with Scott Snyder about Batman: The Court of Owls, his first major reboot, and how it all led to Absolute Batman by embracing a fallible Bruce Wayne: www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/scott-s...

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Scott Snyder on Batman: The Court of Owls: 15 Years Later

We chat with Scott Snyder about Batman: The Court of Owls, his first major reboot, and how it all led to Absolute Batman by embracing a fallible Bruce Wayne.

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My takeaway from this is that Microsoft is moving from a studio-focused model, which is where they based their acquisition decisions on what companies could just operate independently with no oversight (which was stupid) to an IP-focused model where everyone loses autonomy in service of properties.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” 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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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him for a generational wipeout of Texas Republicans

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CONTROL Resonant - Launch Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqvA...

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 10/09/2026

Today marks the beginning of our trial against Rockstar to hold them accountable for firing workers who were trying to unionise. In order for us to see this through to the end, we need your support. Please donate to and share our fundraiser for the Rockstar 31: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/wWq5Omj...

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Defend union rights: Support the Rockstar 31

Justice for 31 Rockstar employees who formed a union and were fired en masse

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What if we took the worst lessons of the Cold War and the War on Terror, chopped them up, and snorted them up our nose

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026

Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:

At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.

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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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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/09/2026

AI* has a >10%** chance to kill us all *not the AI we're working on but some other AI that we'll build for sure if you keep funding the company I work at **number I made up based on a still-theoretical technology that nobody has but we all love talking about

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To be clear, as we say in our latest Risk Report (x.com/AnthropicAI/st...), | think the risk from present models is low. What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought
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Anthropic @AnthropicAI • Aug 14
As part of our Responsible Scaling Policy, we publish regular Risk Reports. These share detailed information on the risks of our systems and how prepared we are to address them.
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday: Two different versions of Godzilla’s anatomy. I don't know the artists behind either, unfortunately!

Cutaway diagram showing the internal anatomy of Godzilla, with alien organs like lungs, heart, and energy core.

A cutaway diagram of Godzilla, showing the man in a red suit and goggles who operates the character from inside.

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🏳️‍🌈🎃Brendan Agnew🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @blcagnew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Giant in his field, RIP to a real one.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Can't help but think of this hiker-rescue story I saw earlier today

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 Al to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need.

The group said it packed supplies for an eight-hour climb, not its roughly 16-hour ascent. The climbers said Al recommended simple carbohydrates instead of fats because fats "take too long to digest."

"We relied too much on Al rather than our own critical thinking," the group told rangers.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026

"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase

CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The fired Rockstar workers are asking supporters not to boycott GTA 6, but instead, to directly support the union's legal costs as it approaches next month's employment tribunal.

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Nolan McBride @nolanmcbride.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My post about ONSLAUGHT got lost last week, but I was lucky enough to be in the first audience to see Adam Wingard’s new movie last week (thanks to @ahouseingotham.bsky.social) and it rules. He takes the HALLOWEEN influence in THE GUEST to its logical endpoint with a brutal slasher/siege flick.

Director Adam Wingard talking about his movie Onslaught in front of a theater (next to Austin King, who introduced the movie/Adam)

The Onslaught popcorn “bucket” (a box with the three killers posed on the front) and collectible cup that looks straight out of the 1990s.

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Austin the 🎃 King @ahouseingotham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am an ok producer and @kbd.ink is a great director and with that (and many collaborators), we made another short

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rockhaggis @rockiewarantz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Man fuck

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

important reminder that donating to swing seat state legislature candidates is the best way to stop these fascist weirdos

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F This Movie! @fthismovie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New podcast! @patrickbromley.bsky.social is joined again by @tysonlegg.bsky.social to talk about the time Arnie went Horror in END OF DAYS: www.fthismovie.com/2026/08/ftm-...

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FTM 835: END OF DAYS with Tyson Legg

Celebrate Y2K with Patrick and Tyson Legg.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"There was no public outcry. No one mobilized to protect these children. There was no media coverage. Disabled kids have continued to endure shocks and abuse while the rest of the world looked away."

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is monstrous

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 17/08/2026

People talk a lot about names you see in the credits that guarantee a good time at the movies, and there's never been a name that did that more than Screaming Mad George.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today, we learned that "Screaming Mad" George had passed away earlier this year. To celebrate his legacy, I've posted my in-depth interview with him from Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume 1: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/remembering-... I was able to make this post public, too. 🖤

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Remembering "Screaming Mad" George

Hi, everyone. Tonight, I got word that the legendary "Screaming Mad" George had passed away back in February this year, which devastates me for so many reasons. He was an incredibly kind person who wa...

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Bob Rose @thundergruntbob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NEW SCRIPT PODCAST. The new Spider-Man made almost a billion dollars in its opening weekend so @jamie-nash.bsky.social , Jimmy and Me had a legal obligation to talk about the script since "BLOCKBUSTER" is in our title. listen wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1650931217

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026

Hellllllll yeah. www.criterion.com/films/36058-...

Cover art for the Criterion version of KPop Demon Hunters

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NEW: CWA union members have inflated a giant rat and deployed a wall of red flags representing laid off Xbox workers outside the Bethesda office in Rockville. The protest was timed to coincide with a visit from Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who is apparently at the studio today.

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