Uncle Space Ghost
@unclespaceghost.bsky.social
Greetings! I'm Space Ghost! One half of @filmnerds.bsky.social
Have strong opinions on filmmaking, the film industry, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Carolina Hurricanes, and a lot else besides.
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Have strong opinions on filmmaking, the film industry, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Carolina Hurricanes, and a lot else besides.
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I'm a freelance writer for sports & film, with a particular focus on film history. Also host a long-form film history podcast Revenge of the Film Nerds with the incomparable @blackkrystel.bsky.social
Huge proponent of media preservation. Here to help.
I'm a freelance writer for sports & film, with a particular focus on film history. Also host a long-form film history podcast Revenge of the Film Nerds with the incomparable @blackkrystel.bsky.social
Huge proponent of media preservation. Here to help.
Just watched The Counselor, and I gotta say, Cormac McCarthy really is the master of nothing happening in two hours despite graphic displays of violence.
A ★★★½ review of The Counselor (2013)
A film packed full of philosophy and scenes of actors talking to one another dramatically about the nature of life while a drug deal they're enabling goes South. Despite the fall of these people from ...
boxd.it
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Just watched The Counselor, and I gotta say, Cormac McCarthy really is the master of nothing happening in two hours despite graphic displays of violence.
Not sure that, "The Kevin Patullo will continue until morale improves," is a particularly good approach.
Point in fact, not cutting Patullo loose likely puts Sirianni's job at a much higher risk, because the problem now isn't merely the play calling; it's Nick's blindness to how bad it's become.
Point in fact, not cutting Patullo loose likely puts Sirianni's job at a much higher risk, because the problem now isn't merely the play calling; it's Nick's blindness to how bad it's become.
Nick Sirianni says, “We’re not changing the play caller.”
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Not sure that, "The Kevin Patullo will continue until morale improves," is a particularly good approach.
Point in fact, not cutting Patullo loose likely puts Sirianni's job at a much higher risk, because the problem now isn't merely the play calling; it's Nick's blindness to how bad it's become.
Point in fact, not cutting Patullo loose likely puts Sirianni's job at a much higher risk, because the problem now isn't merely the play calling; it's Nick's blindness to how bad it's become.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Narrowing this down to the 5 wild animals I've physically been closest to.
Capuchin Monkey
American Bison
Kangaroo
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Humpback Whale
Narrowing this down to the 5 wild animals I've physically been closest to.
Capuchin Monkey
American Bison
Kangaroo
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Humpback Whale
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Narrowing this down to the 5 wild animals I've physically been closest to.
Capuchin Monkey
American Bison
Kangaroo
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Humpback Whale
Narrowing this down to the 5 wild animals I've physically been closest to.
Capuchin Monkey
American Bison
Kangaroo
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Humpback Whale
The offense clicking for an AJ Brown TD, only to have Elliot miss the PAT afterward, is so on the nose it's painful.
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The offense clicking for an AJ Brown TD, only to have Elliot miss the PAT afterward, is so on the nose it's painful.
Thinking this will ultimately be the epitaph of the 2025-26 Philadelphia Eagles
Only Kevin Patullo makes this feel insurmountable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Thinking this will ultimately be the epitaph of the 2025-26 Philadelphia Eagles
I'm just throwing this out there: Only being down 7 with these team stats is an incredible position to be in. The Bears should be leading by 20+.
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I'm just throwing this out there: Only being down 7 with these team stats is an incredible position to be in. The Bears should be leading by 20+.
The level of panicking I am seeing from Eagles fans is inconsistent with a 10-3 deficit.
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The level of panicking I am seeing from Eagles fans is inconsistent with a 10-3 deficit.
As someone who played the sport in HS, if you're a young man reading this: Don't give into the peer pressure to be out on that field. Football will wreck your body and brain far too young.
You, the young man reading this, deserve more than a horseshit sport that uses you up.
You, the young man reading this, deserve more than a horseshit sport that uses you up.
To a far greater extent than any other pro sports league, the NFL is an injury lottery. Injuries are such a huge and it seems growing part of the sport that teams rise or fall largely on whether their key players happen to remain healthy or not.
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
As someone who played the sport in HS, if you're a young man reading this: Don't give into the peer pressure to be out on that field. Football will wreck your body and brain far too young.
You, the young man reading this, deserve more than a horseshit sport that uses you up.
You, the young man reading this, deserve more than a horseshit sport that uses you up.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
System of a Down
Sevendust
Slipknot (1st ever MSG show)
Fatboy Slim
Wynton Marsallis
System of a Down
Sevendust
Slipknot (1st ever MSG show)
Fatboy Slim
Wynton Marsallis
introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
Gorillaz
Flying Lotus
Mef & Red
Cool Kids + Pac Div + Q-Tip
Hiatus Kaiyote
Gorillaz
Flying Lotus
Mef & Red
Cool Kids + Pac Div + Q-Tip
Hiatus Kaiyote
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
NKOTB (Magic Summer Tour)
Soul Asylum
Rilo Kiley
Ben Folds (Five)
Less Than Jake/Blink 182
NKOTB (Magic Summer Tour)
Soul Asylum
Rilo Kiley
Ben Folds (Five)
Less Than Jake/Blink 182
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
System of a Down
Sevendust
Slipknot (1st ever MSG show)
Fatboy Slim
Wynton Marsallis
System of a Down
Sevendust
Slipknot (1st ever MSG show)
Fatboy Slim
Wynton Marsallis
Society as a whole declined when it became difficult to find Iron Chef reruns on cable.
(This is related to my theory that the cancellation of Soul Train led to the 2008 Housing Market Collapse and Great Recession.)
(This is related to my theory that the cancellation of Soul Train led to the 2008 Housing Market Collapse and Great Recession.)
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Society as a whole declined when it became difficult to find Iron Chef reruns on cable.
(This is related to my theory that the cancellation of Soul Train led to the 2008 Housing Market Collapse and Great Recession.)
(This is related to my theory that the cancellation of Soul Train led to the 2008 Housing Market Collapse and Great Recession.)
Art
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Art
My Prediction: Red Bull will find two drivers who dramatically overperform expectations in the RBs.
They will put a driver who dramatically overperformed in 2025 into the 2nd Red Bull seat, and that driver will immediately suck.
F1 media will pretend it's a mystery why the 2nd Red Bull sucks.
They will put a driver who dramatically overperformed in 2025 into the 2nd Red Bull seat, and that driver will immediately suck.
F1 media will pretend it's a mystery why the 2nd Red Bull sucks.
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My Prediction: Red Bull will find two drivers who dramatically overperform expectations in the RBs.
They will put a driver who dramatically overperformed in 2025 into the 2nd Red Bull seat, and that driver will immediately suck.
F1 media will pretend it's a mystery why the 2nd Red Bull sucks.
They will put a driver who dramatically overperformed in 2025 into the 2nd Red Bull seat, and that driver will immediately suck.
F1 media will pretend it's a mystery why the 2nd Red Bull sucks.
NO! DO NOT IMAGINE THE EVENT HAPPENING AGAIN! IT WILL CAUSE DISTRESS! THE EVENT IS IN THE PAST!
REMAIN INDOORS!
REMAIN INDOORS!
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
NO! DO NOT IMAGINE THE EVENT HAPPENING AGAIN! IT WILL CAUSE DISTRESS! THE EVENT IS IN THE PAST!
REMAIN INDOORS!
REMAIN INDOORS!
I feel this so much as a guy with long hair. I grew out my hair in the first place not because I wanted to present any one way, but because the longer it got, the more I've felt like "me".
Do for yourself the little things that fulfill who you want to be.
Do for yourself the little things that fulfill who you want to be.
1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I feel this so much as a guy with long hair. I grew out my hair in the first place not because I wanted to present any one way, but because the longer it got, the more I've felt like "me".
Do for yourself the little things that fulfill who you want to be.
Do for yourself the little things that fulfill who you want to be.
Stop people pleasing
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Stop people pleasing
I swear I will stop posting about Gen AI today, but as a final point, if the appeal to a person is that Gen AI gives them a final product that makes them feel like an artist, they do not understand art. Art is *the process* of creation, not the final product. I pity anyone who forgoes that joy.
"My parents couldn't make me a musician but AI can" is about as perfect as can be.
Pre 2000, Virtually every incredibly talented musician in rock & blues has a story of saving for a crappy instrument, learning by sitting in their bedroom playing to records, & playing terrible gigs for no money
Pre 2000, Virtually every incredibly talented musician in rock & blues has a story of saving for a crappy instrument, learning by sitting in their bedroom playing to records, & playing terrible gigs for no money
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I swear I will stop posting about Gen AI today, but as a final point, if the appeal to a person is that Gen AI gives them a final product that makes them feel like an artist, they do not understand art. Art is *the process* of creation, not the final product. I pity anyone who forgoes that joy.
A corollary to my last thread: This will never happen because of the cost of upscaling. Most GenAI companies cannot profit without charging users $20-30 per input.
In short, Altman either doesn't understand elastic demand, or he's so autocratic he believes individual spending will be dictated.
In short, Altman either doesn't understand elastic demand, or he's so autocratic he believes individual spending will be dictated.
Exclusive: OpenAI has projected 220 million people will be paying for a basic ChatGPT subscription by 2030 as it follows Slack’s and Spotify’s business playbook.
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OpenAI Projected at Least 220 Million People Will Pay for ChatGPT by 2030
To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used to increase paid users. It’s hooking up most of its users—which now number more than 800 million—with ...
thein.fo
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A corollary to my last thread: This will never happen because of the cost of upscaling. Most GenAI companies cannot profit without charging users $20-30 per input.
In short, Altman either doesn't understand elastic demand, or he's so autocratic he believes individual spending will be dictated.
In short, Altman either doesn't understand elastic demand, or he's so autocratic he believes individual spending will be dictated.
This is an important lesson in framing, because the bad faith in LLM/Gen AI discourse primarily stems from proponents, who use the language of rape to push the product (Ex: "GenAI is here to stay whether you like it or not"). Yet here, bad faith is presented as something only introduced by critics.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is an important lesson in framing, because the bad faith in LLM/Gen AI discourse primarily stems from proponents, who use the language of rape to push the product (Ex: "GenAI is here to stay whether you like it or not"). Yet here, bad faith is presented as something only introduced by critics.
Casablanca is lightning in a bottle regardless of age. I showed this to a Gen Z audience in 2024, many of whom are deeply skeptical of classic films, And other than The Battle of Algiers, I don't think I've ever engaged in a more enthusiastic post-film discussion.
11/26/42 Casablanca!!! D: Michael Curtiz, w/Bogie, Bergman, Rains, Henreid + +
More:
@noahisenberg.bsky.social book/ @noahgittell.bsky.social rev: lareviewofbooks.org/article/immi...
@scotttobias.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2022/no...
@pamhutch.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/cas...
More:
@noahisenberg.bsky.social book/ @noahgittell.bsky.social rev: lareviewofbooks.org/article/immi...
@scotttobias.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2022/no...
@pamhutch.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/cas...
Casablanca at 75: why we’re still quoting Hollywood’s most quotable film
In film, TV and even real-life tragedy, Casablanca’s immortal dialogue and gestures of defiance have taken on an extraordinary afterlife.
www.bfi.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Casablanca is lightning in a bottle regardless of age. I showed this to a Gen Z audience in 2024, many of whom are deeply skeptical of classic films, And other than The Battle of Algiers, I don't think I've ever engaged in a more enthusiastic post-film discussion.
In the dictionary of idioms under, "Let's see who has the last laugh."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In the dictionary of idioms under, "Let's see who has the last laugh."
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Probably not the best way to start the day but I am ranting on Instagram
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Probably not the best way to start the day but I am ranting on Instagram
People who won't raise a hand to help someone out of there's nothing in it for them. This esp pisses me off when it's stuff like a mom needing to get her stroller up a staircase. Can't fathom how people can just walk past that situation and not at least ask, "Would you like a hand?"
12. What is a common behavior you see in public that immediately tells you everything you need to know about a person?
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
People who won't raise a hand to help someone out of there's nothing in it for them. This esp pisses me off when it's stuff like a mom needing to get her stroller up a staircase. Can't fathom how people can just walk past that situation and not at least ask, "Would you like a hand?"
Movies in the 1990s rocked because they were simple: You learned the premise, you were in.
A group of hackers led by Gary Busey attempting to steal state secrets, and the only man who can stop them is Wesley Snipes through the power of skydiving.
Congratulations! You now want to watch Drop Zone.
A group of hackers led by Gary Busey attempting to steal state secrets, and the only man who can stop them is Wesley Snipes through the power of skydiving.
Congratulations! You now want to watch Drop Zone.
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Movies in the 1990s rocked because they were simple: You learned the premise, you were in.
A group of hackers led by Gary Busey attempting to steal state secrets, and the only man who can stop them is Wesley Snipes through the power of skydiving.
Congratulations! You now want to watch Drop Zone.
A group of hackers led by Gary Busey attempting to steal state secrets, and the only man who can stop them is Wesley Snipes through the power of skydiving.
Congratulations! You now want to watch Drop Zone.
I have always felt my film analysis working on @filmnerds.bsky.social improved tenfold from the moment I released the notion that I *had* to have definitive rankings. Now I stake my flag in the ground for certain favorites (Apocalypse Now, All That Jazz) but mainly try to judge enjoyment in a vacuum
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I have always felt my film analysis working on @filmnerds.bsky.social improved tenfold from the moment I released the notion that I *had* to have definitive rankings. Now I stake my flag in the ground for certain favorites (Apocalypse Now, All That Jazz) but mainly try to judge enjoyment in a vacuum
It was only a matter of time. Expect this to take off as a successful sales tactic in film, writing, and music as well.
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It was only a matter of time. Expect this to take off as a successful sales tactic in film, writing, and music as well.