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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 21h

Truly the metal guy equivalent of bringing up hair straighteners

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On the left: President Trump false claims of violent crime in Chicago (as prelude for laying a pretext) On the right: Most recent official stats showing Chicago success in back-to-back years of historic reductions in violent crimes

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very similar to my feelings about INK come to think of it…

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Coming back now that I’ve seen the film to say: I’m with you! Though to me it’s less Hansen, more the way it builds to [CENSORED ENDING] as if it were a salacious plot twist and not a real, deeply uncomfortable tragedy. It’s self-aware (form matching content) but still left a bad taste in my mouth.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I watched it! Looked like a million bucks, cinematography was the best part.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My dumbest recurring bit with my friend at TIFF was calling this “Y Three Mama Tambien.” This feels like as good a place as any to share that

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My final, supersized TIFF dispatch is now live on Decoding Everything! I wrap up the festival and its major awards, reflect a bit on my humbling experience this year, and give reviews of personal faves POSSIBLE LOVE, CLUB KID, and TENDER LOVING CARE, alongside other notable titles.

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TIFF 2026 Dispatch #3: 'Club Kid', 'Possible Love', the People's Choice Awards, and other highlights

Stephen David Miller concludes his coverage of the 51st annual Toronto International Film Festival.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was mixed at best on the new Rachel Morrison movie LOVE OF YOUR LIFE, but I do want to thank her for making Fleetwood Mac’s “Seven Wonders’ my official festival jam.

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David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Always love it when @sdavidmiller.bsky.social goes long on the Toronto International Film Festival. Today at Decoding Everything, Stephen breaks down some much anticipated films, including INK and WILD HORSE NINE. Read/susbcribe www.decodingeverything.com/tiff-2026-di...

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TIFF 2026 Dispatch #2: Ink, Elsinore, and Wild Horse Nine

Stephen David Miller continues his coverage of the 51st annual Toronto International Film Festival.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My favorite genre of iPhone app is “used to do one thing extremely well & everyone used it, spends a decade piling on inexplicable redesigns and features, now barely does that one thing.” Venmo, Ultimate Guitar. I don’t understand what motivates this self sabotage, but I love it.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

P.S. It turns out in the haze of sleep deprivation, I never posted my first dispatch: BEING HEUMANN (charming), YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER (wildly inventive), THE DEBUT (delightful), and TANGLES (heartbreaking).

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TIFF 2026 Dispatch #1: The Debut, Your Mother Your Mother, Being Heumann, and Tangles

Stephen David Miller kicks off his coverage of the 51st annual Toronto International Film Festival.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My second TIFF dispatch is now live on Decoding Everything! I cover Danny Boyle’s disappointing INK, Andrew Scott’s incredible performance in ELSINORE, and my favorite film of the festival so far: WILD HORSE NINE.

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TIFF 2026 Dispatch #2: Ink, Elsinore, and Wild Horse Nine

Stephen David Miller continues his coverage of the 51st annual Toronto International Film Festival.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m at the Toronto International Film Festival right now, and they have this ad that plays before every screening where people quote movie lines back and forth at each other. I thought “hey, when is the Movie Quotes Guys ever going to happen?” Then I checked my feed and it had just dropped.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was pleasantly surprised by how great he was at the intro and Q&A routine. Personable, self-aware, and also actually answering the questions without going on some filibuster — a rarity at TIFF!

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Can’t wait to catch this next week!

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Gift to my future self this Friday: Every time I get an email I don’t care about, I’m taking the extra few seconds to unsubscribe rather than just swipe it away.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this is excellent

stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable. (You probably won’t even get the kudos of looking like a cool ally, because you’re still ultimately talking about Harry Potter. Sorry about that.)

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Free Atlantic op-ed template! Title: Progressives Must Reject X Outline: * X is a leftist who criticizes Israel [1 par] * Certainly, criticizing Israel is lorem ipsum. However, many [no citation] fear X is antisemitic [1 par] * We must reject antisemitism [6 par] * Ergo, we must reject X [1 par]

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Here's his argument: * Anti-semitism is bad. El-Sayed and Piker both claim to be against it. * But that claim only matters if you actually disavow anti-semites in your party. * Therefore, El-Sayed needs to disavow Piker. Do you see the glaring assumption buried in this argument?

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Adele M. Stan @addiestan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This story isn’t getting nearly enough attention. Trump regime wants to jail him for 5 years. Has implications for all of us. "U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

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U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk (Gift Article)

Samuel Tunick, who faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search, called the government’s peering into people’s private lives “creepy.”

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 22/08/2026

[drunk as hell trying to remember joanna newsom's name] natalie harp

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I still occasionally edit typos from reviews I wrote on my blog in the mid 2010s

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

(Obvious disclaimer that a straight cis married dude is not the best equipped to unpack this, and certainly there are a ton of other ways you can read the film!)

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Basically playing in the sandbox of your own hangups, orchestrating a life that can use them / derive joy from them. I think the third person nature of it, the mildly exhibitionist desire to be seen, and to be seen naughty / blood-splattered / irreverent fits so well as the end of a three film arc.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

To me, the progression of Schoenbrun’s work goes something like: * There’s a gap between inside and outside * That gap can be intensely painful if not addressed * Even if you never fully close the gap, you can own it by *playing* within it. Amplify the third person. Give in to the chase.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s been months since I caught TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIAMSA in a sleep deprived stupor, so my memory is hazy. But I’m surprised I haven’t seen much written about its relationship to camp — specifically, the way that performance can be a way of owning “otherness.”

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Obviously people are embarrassed about how they talked online. It was a self-conscious moment: everyone was clumsy for a few weeks, trying to navigate difficult shit at a time when isolation made social media feel like they were “in the public eye.” Is that what we’re whining about 6 years later?

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This isn’t some grand act of historical revisionism. It was the text, available to anyone who had even the barest desire to engage with the material. And I hate the idea that we’ve collectively agreed that the laziest, most hand-wavey interpretation of this stuff is accurate and must be atoned for.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Defund the police” always meant “redistribute funding to others trained to serve people rather than brutalize them.” “How To Be An Antiracist” was always about supporting policies that result in fairer outcomes, not a call to shed crocodile tears about being white.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’d love for a progressive critic of “Woke 1.0” to explain which positions exactly they want to disavow. Meaning the substance behind certain movements, not the fact that the internet doesn’t interpret language in the spirit it was meant & in hindsight you wish your slogans had been better crafted.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Last week I realized you were about to get to the Joelle / Too Much Fun section, which I remember being my favorite part of the novel, and felt positively giddy. Makes me kinda want to reread IJ myself and see how it holds up…kinda.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As someone who read IJ in undergrad, made DFW’s short fiction basically my whole personality, then learned more about him as a person & the stereotypes my loving him fed into and ran headlong in the opposite direction: reading these weekly updates has been such a treat!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is one of those rare uncontroversial use cases of AI: a mind-numbing task which it can absolutely crush, and which no salaried employee (to my knowledge) has a desire to do by hand. But for some reason, no one seems to want to spend the -- I'm gonna generously 3 hours -- it would take to do it?

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In a world where LLMs can trivially update documentation, why is it that every major product on the planet has Support and FAQ pages which reference menus / buttons / tabs that have been renamed or no longer exist?

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I try to stay up to date on whatever movie is about to drop, and no idea this even existed!

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We’re nearing the point where you can cover Guys Guys — the sort of people who tell their wife unsolicited stories from the podcast. (I do this on a weekly basis)

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

(Of course, this isn’t just a human nature problem. Like Elon and “Full Self-Driving”, AI companies have encouraged this total abdication of thought, whatever perfunctory disclaimers they toss out to the contrary.)

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is the same curse we worried about in the early self driving days: the moment you even resemble automation, people will take their hands off the wheel. A tool that should have reduced cognitive load around stuff that didn’t matter, has been used to fully remove cognition. Now no one is driving.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Meanwhile, big companies hold board meetings where AI-generated PowerPoint slides are used to communicate AI-drafted strategies, using jargon neither the speaker nor the audience understands. Emails are sent out with multi-paragraph updates saying nothing, read by no one.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The common refrain in industry is that AI is turning every software developer into a Product Manager and QA engineer — yet the net effect is products hitting the market that have clearly been designed and tested by no one. What was meant to make you efficient instead became a crutch.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For every 10% improvement in technology, people get 50% lazier in their dependence on it. This is the curse of AI—tools which have clear uses (faster software dev & research loops, processing unstructured data) but have instead become an excuse to outsource creativity, attention, and thought.

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Stephen David Miller @sdavidmiller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

With the release of TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, I hope the world will finally understand why I’ve been listening to Counting Crows’ “A Long December” on repeat for the last 3 months

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