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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I thought my sister said "Nixon in five!" when she answered the phone, when she'd actually said "Nicks in five!"

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Yes. Because we know Trump wants to make sure this comes back into the news cycle. 🙄

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

New Signal Loss episode. The first half discusses the debacle that was the DoorDash Grandma Oval Office press conference. The second half discusses the marketing of The Drama (light spoilers - just go see it.) open.spotify.com/show/6zsBnCU...

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Signal Loss Episode 3: Ghosts Stuck in the Shell. I discuss chat bots as a closed system, and how they difer from closed communities like Facebook groups. Later, I break down the rhetoric of Trump's "Open the Fuckin' Strait" tweet. open.spotify.com/show/6zsBnCU...

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Ghosts Stuck in the Shell

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I wish backstories and worldbuilding had stayed out of the blockbuster sphere and where they justly belong: in doorstop books that the nerdiest fans devour and everyone else can ignore

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I know it's been said, many times, many ways, but Ilhan Omar is actually a fairly normal House member who codes as radical simply by virtue of being a brown hijabi woman in America

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We are exiting the golden age of disinformation. Anxieties remain high as AI is perceived as an ontological threat to the category of truth. What comes next? New Signal Loss essay. open.substack.com/pub/robingra...

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Ghosts (Stuck) in the Shell: Towards a New Era of Information Technology

AI anxiety is diffuse. Hallucinations are seen as a threat to the ontology of truth. But we are now beyond the peak of viral misinformation. What comes next?

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Social media companies are losing lawsuits. The truth is, addiction at the hands of the algorithm is only part of the story. Also, the Trump administration's shifting rhetoric for justifying war with Iran. Listen now, and enjoy the drift. open.spotify.com/show/6zsBnCU...

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Signal Loss # 2: Midiagnosing Social Media, Misdiagnosing Crisis

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Recent lawsuits frame social media as the cause of mental illness, but social media is not a new system. Social media is the language of the commodity, internalized and reproduced by individuals. New Signal Loss: open.substack.com/pub/robingra...

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Signal Loss #2: Social Media and the Language of the Commodity

Recent lawsuits frame big tech platforms as a singular villain. The reality is far more diffuse and unstable.

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Signal Loss #1 is up. The removal of Shy Girl, AI authorship, and a crisis of meaning. Plus: Wuthering Heights (1939) and how adaptation rewrites the text. open.spotify.com/episode/6crr...

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Signal Loss Episode 1: The Death of Authorship; Wuthering Heights and the Problem of Adaptation

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

There were non-sci fi options the week before Christmas 1984, including a movie that had opened a few weeks earlier and was still doing gangbusters at the box office: Beverly Hills Cop

Newspaper movie listings for AMC Theaters in December 1984

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Twenty two years later, Birth is still the most anti-commercial movie to receive a wide release by a Hollywood studio this century. It does nothing to reassure the audience, resting in a permanent state of unease. The cinematic equivalent of chewing on ice - a landmark film.

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The accusation a book was generated by AI is impossible to verify. The consequences are material. We have moved beyond the death of the author. open.substack.com/pub/robingra...

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Signal Loss #1: The Death of Authorship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Signal Loss.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Catherine O'Hara? Are you fucking kidding me? Fuck this year.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Make it viral.

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Roddy Doyle was an absolutely terrible choice to be the chair for The Booker. Flesh winning feels like the two white guys on the panel decided to go for the least literary, most masculine of the books.

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Even ATN News isn't covering Cheney's passing right now.

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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Thomas Pynchon should write the novelization of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER.

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Bad news for people who like water-themed titles on their Booker Shortlist...

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Devin @devincf.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I've been doing little videos over at TikTok, Instagram and YouTube shorts. Here's the latest one, about the mystery avatar in HBOMax's SUPERMAN collection.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 16/09/2025

Hasn't aged one bit.

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Devin @devincf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

GamerGate Never Ended, or, Looks Like I Picked The Wrong Week To Start Playing HELLDIVERS II www.patreon.com/posts/gamerg...

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GamerGate Never Ended, or, Looks Like I Picked The Wrong Week To Start Playing HELLDIVERS II | Cinema Sangha

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Devin @devincf.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Saw video of today's shooter and guessing he's 764 or similar group. They're purposefully ideologically incoherent & are accelerationist nihilists. Nothing in his manifesto or painted on his guns will make logical sense together. The media won't understand this. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/764_(or...

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764 (organization) - Wikipedia

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 24,1948

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1-SLUGGO AND NANCY ARE OUTSIDE ON A VERY HOT DAY.
SLUGGO: HEY, NANCY--AIN'T TH HEAT AWFUL TODAY?
P2-NANCY: NOT AT ALL ---IN FACT, I FEEL A BIT CHILLY
P3- NANCY IS SITTING IN FRONT OF A BILLBOARD ADVERTISEMENT
THE ADVERTISEMENT IS FOR COOGAN’S
OIL CO. THE PICTURE ON THE BILLBOARD IS A WINTER SCENE WITH A YARD COVERED WITH SNOW, A SNOWMAN ,SNOW COVERED TREES AND A HOUSE WITH SNOW ON THE ROOF

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This is as excited as I could possibly be about a blu-ray announcement. Dr. McKendry and Elric Kane are the two best people to do a commentary. The movie that I double featured Halloween '96 with Scream, and made Scream look mid by comparison. A fucking classic Carpenter film. Top three.

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Amber T @amber-tee.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Always a treat

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Mulholland Dr. just keeps feeling more and more tragic as time goes on.

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

My favorite thing about all these New York Times movie lists so far is the vast amount of people who correctly included David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DRIVE as one of the best movies of the 21st Century. It is objectively an all-timer. 🙏🏼

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two women are sitting next to each other talking on a telephone .

ALT: two women are sitting next to each other talking on a telephone .

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Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The 24-Hour Summer Movie Mind Melter will take place tomorrow (June 28th) starting at 11:00 AM (EST) at www.secretcinematheque.com. Thanks to everyone who helped me set up my streaming site! Which is depressingly expensive! So tune in to make it all worthwhile!

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Secret Cinematheque

Home of the 24-Hour Summer Movie Mind Melter

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Porn sites have known this was coming for a while, with some already have implemented AI verification technology. At least, that's uh... What I hear. Anyways, even if they try to build a great southern firewall, they can't stop VPNs any more then the CCP.

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks." Bob Keeshan #BOTD Keeshan as Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody show

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Leticia García 🇵🇸 @ms-golightly.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Joan Crawford. Attitude.

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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

M3GAN 2.0: TERMINATOR 2 for the TikTok generation (and regrettably not in a good way). Baffled at why one would make a sequel to what was a fun little horror romp without Akela Cooper returning to write it, but this is the disappointing result 📽️ My review: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

M3GAN in M3GAN 2.0 wearing bright pink tech glasses while staring down an adversary as she prepares to either dance or do battle.

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Has there ever been a show with so much space between single sessions?

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I just watched a fascinating documentary called Q (2023) about three generations of women impacted by a matriarchal sect of Islam. It's both highly personal, and a highly artistic expression within the non-fiction film form. It leaves Criterion Channel at the end of June - watch it!

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Something about 80s HBO makes me nostalgic for a time that was just before my own. Having unedited movies just play on tv still feeling like a cool luxury is something that still seems magical to me.

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Something about 80s HBO makes me nostalgic for a time that was just before my own. Having unedited movies just play on tv still feeling like a cool luxury is something that still seems magical to me.

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Robin Youngman @robinyoungman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

youtube.com/live/sSAWcUd... This is totally fascinating and you should watch it now before the hearing is over. The debate is really important and raises a lot of questions about soft power.