Daniel Carlson
@danielwcarlson.bsky.social
Lapsed film critic. Writer, reader, bearder. Seen at Crooked Marquee, Musings, Bright Wall Dark Room, Plex, several others. Sucker for ’90s country. Hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
You ever wanna scare the hell out of yourself, just turn your ringer on and go about your business. Four hours later a sound rips out of your pocket that’ll make you jump 3 feet.
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
You ever wanna scare the hell out of yourself, just turn your ringer on and go about your business. Four hours later a sound rips out of your pocket that’ll make you jump 3 feet.
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If you’re recommending dog-led horror Good Boy (2025) to your parents please make sure they don’t accidentally watch Good Boy (2023) which features a man living as someone’s pet dog
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If you’re recommending dog-led horror Good Boy (2025) to your parents please make sure they don’t accidentally watch Good Boy (2023) which features a man living as someone’s pet dog
The first time @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social described himself as half Jewish and half Italian, I thought of this because my brain is broken
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The first time @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social described himself as half Jewish and half Italian, I thought of this because my brain is broken
Bitterly hilarious that the NYT has bent over backward to help normalize his behavior in the hopes that he'll show favor to them for their toadyism, and he still hates them. Keep trying for that football, Charlie, I'm sure Lucy will hold it still this time.
Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Bitterly hilarious that the NYT has bent over backward to help normalize his behavior in the hopes that he'll show favor to them for their toadyism, and he still hates them. Keep trying for that football, Charlie, I'm sure Lucy will hold it still this time.
Always remember:
![Betteridge's law of headlines
Journalistic adage on questions in headlines
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after lan Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older. (1] [2] It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.
The adage does not apply to questions that are more open-ended than strict yes-no questions. 131 For example, "What Should We Expect From Evolving Import-Export Policy?" is an open-ended question, whereas "Should We Expect an Embargo on Widgets?" is of closed form.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kxlggazepmhqyrmswwuxunip/bafkreid42okr6onh6ke4df2qmdd5ay62vrtxgctm5mftqdyvrwsgtybuqy@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Always remember:
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If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
Movie sequels were easier to keep track of when they had numbers (2, 3, 4) instead of their own special subtitle after the colon
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Movie sequels were easier to keep track of when they had numbers (2, 3, 4) instead of their own special subtitle after the colon
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Wrote a short thing about that 5-9 nonsense.
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/your-9-5-i...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/your-9-5-i...
"Your 9-5 isn't killing your dreams."
Said an asshole
gabinoiglesias.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Wrote a short thing about that 5-9 nonsense.
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/your-9-5-i...
gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/your-9-5-i...
It's not a spoiler if it's in the opening crawl
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It's not a spoiler if it's in the opening crawl
He is dancing, dancing, he says that he will never die, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
He is dancing, dancing, he says that he will never die, Charlie Brown
My take on Variety's "best comedies" list is that the genre label is too broad to make sense; ditto "best dramas" or something similar. You want to get granular with (e.g.) best campus comedy, you might have some juice, but (e.g.) ANCHORMAN and TO BE OR NOT TO BE cannot be weighed against each other
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My take on Variety's "best comedies" list is that the genre label is too broad to make sense; ditto "best dramas" or something similar. You want to get granular with (e.g.) best campus comedy, you might have some juice, but (e.g.) ANCHORMAN and TO BE OR NOT TO BE cannot be weighed against each other
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Movie idea it’s the day of the big game and the coach is giving a speech and he says let’s win this one for our player who died in a horrible car wreck and the team captain says coach that was all of us the movie is called Ghost Team
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Movie idea it’s the day of the big game and the coach is giving a speech and he says let’s win this one for our player who died in a horrible car wreck and the team captain says coach that was all of us the movie is called Ghost Team
I watched a couple episodes of the sitcom DMV (airing on CBS, streaming on Paramount+), and I have never seen a show more designed to be passively watched on airplanes
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I watched a couple episodes of the sitcom DMV (airing on CBS, streaming on Paramount+), and I have never seen a show more designed to be passively watched on airplanes
The pilot episode of PLURIBUS is the best sci-fi movie of the decade
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The pilot episode of PLURIBUS is the best sci-fi movie of the decade
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They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
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One of the best things BlueSky lets you do is hide individual posts—not (just) mute or block users, but nuke a single post—so if you, like me, find yourself driven slowly insane seeing people post videos of El*n ostensibly to dunk on him, you don't have to live with his shit face on your screen
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
One of the best things BlueSky lets you do is hide individual posts—not (just) mute or block users, but nuke a single post—so if you, like me, find yourself driven slowly insane seeing people post videos of El*n ostensibly to dunk on him, you don't have to live with his shit face on your screen
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Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
This feels like one of those stories you're going to look at a year from now and say to yourself, "Why didn't I move more of my portfolio into cash?" **
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
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www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
🎁
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
Audiences in 1993: Wow, we sure loved JURASSIC PARK! Our favorite parts were all the wonderful characters, and the mix of suspenseful/emotional moments with deft comic relief!
Universal Studios: Got it, we’re gonna make six more of these across the next 30 years that won’t include any of that
Universal Studios: Got it, we’re gonna make six more of these across the next 30 years that won’t include any of that
November 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Audiences in 1993: Wow, we sure loved JURASSIC PARK! Our favorite parts were all the wonderful characters, and the mix of suspenseful/emotional moments with deft comic relief!
Universal Studios: Got it, we’re gonna make six more of these across the next 30 years that won’t include any of that
Universal Studios: Got it, we’re gonna make six more of these across the next 30 years that won’t include any of that
Reluctantly crouched at the starting line,
Engines pumping and thumping in time
Engines pumping and thumping in time
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Reluctantly crouched at the starting line,
Engines pumping and thumping in time
Engines pumping and thumping in time
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is the stuff my brain comes up with
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This is the stuff my brain comes up with
This might be the first Pope who stood in line for THE PHANTOM MENACE
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This might be the first Pope who stood in line for THE PHANTOM MENACE
Damn girl, are you the inexplicable swing-music revival of the mid-90s? Because you were a weird time in my life.
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Damn girl, are you the inexplicable swing-music revival of the mid-90s? Because you were a weird time in my life.
Despite sounding very much like a post and video churned out by AI, this is actually true — www.classicfm.com/music-news/p...
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Despite sounding very much like a post and video churned out by AI, this is actually true — www.classicfm.com/music-news/p...