a truly weird movie that lands fascinatingly as a statement on faith being inexplicable and contradictory and sometimes torturous. easily the most interested i've ever been in an Aronofsky, have not stopped thinking about it this whole week
Watching Aronofsky's Noah, and why are we not all talking about this all of the time?
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
a truly weird movie that lands fascinatingly as a statement on faith being inexplicable and contradictory and sometimes torturous. easily the most interested i've ever been in an Aronofsky, have not stopped thinking about it this whole week
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There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
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The blast radius of how much this is going to suck is going to be huge. Best practice for creatives in Hollywood, for crude self interested reasons alone, is to stay as far away from whatever the fuck is going on at Paramount as possible
David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:
“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The blast radius of how much this is going to suck is going to be huge. Best practice for creatives in Hollywood, for crude self interested reasons alone, is to stay as far away from whatever the fuck is going on at Paramount as possible
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Nearly one million of Gaza’s 1.1 million olive trees have been destroyed—bulldozed by Israeli forces, left to die from thirst, or trapped behind military lines. In his new report for Drop Site, Gaza journalist Mohamed Suleiman reports from Al-Mawasi and Khan Younis, where farmers are enduring...
October 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Nearly one million of Gaza’s 1.1 million olive trees have been destroyed—bulldozed by Israeli forces, left to die from thirst, or trapped behind military lines. In his new report for Drop Site, Gaza journalist Mohamed Suleiman reports from Al-Mawasi and Khan Younis, where farmers are enduring...
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VAN GUNDY: I don't get it. Why does he sing like that? And why is he seemingly always on a boat? Seriously, who let him sound like that?
JACKSON: Personally I find Cameron Winter's warbling vocals to be a refreshingly novel spin on the showmanship of the classic rock frontman.
BREEN: SGA ... BANG!
JACKSON: Personally I find Cameron Winter's warbling vocals to be a refreshingly novel spin on the showmanship of the classic rock frontman.
BREEN: SGA ... BANG!
October 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
VAN GUNDY: I don't get it. Why does he sing like that? And why is he seemingly always on a boat? Seriously, who let him sound like that?
JACKSON: Personally I find Cameron Winter's warbling vocals to be a refreshingly novel spin on the showmanship of the classic rock frontman.
BREEN: SGA ... BANG!
JACKSON: Personally I find Cameron Winter's warbling vocals to be a refreshingly novel spin on the showmanship of the classic rock frontman.
BREEN: SGA ... BANG!
You can listen to D'Angelo's entire studio album discography in the better part of an afternoon, with the notable caveat that you will then be constantly listening to these songs for the rest of your life
October 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
You can listen to D'Angelo's entire studio album discography in the better part of an afternoon, with the notable caveat that you will then be constantly listening to these songs for the rest of your life
An excellent writeup (as you can always expect from alx) about one of the inarguable great titans of music
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
An excellent writeup (as you can always expect from alx) about one of the inarguable great titans of music
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I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik
Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik
Recent killings have dazed the world and provoked condemnation. But little is said about the calibre of Palestinian journalism, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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the people need a SUMMER OF SAM blu-ray
July 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
the people need a SUMMER OF SAM blu-ray
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Sat down with Brendan Gleeson last week to talk fundraising, the craft, the Coens, and so much more. Biggest interview I've ever done and maybe the most philosophical. #Speirgorm
dublinpeople.com/news/arts-cu...
dublinpeople.com/news/arts-cu...
The radical empathy of Brendan Gleeson
An Oscar-nominated movie star, an Irish cultural ambassador, so what really makes Brendan Gleeson tick? We sat down with the Dublin acting icon to find out
dublinpeople.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Sat down with Brendan Gleeson last week to talk fundraising, the craft, the Coens, and so much more. Biggest interview I've ever done and maybe the most philosophical. #Speirgorm
dublinpeople.com/news/arts-cu...
dublinpeople.com/news/arts-cu...
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March 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Israeli forces arrested Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' in the occupied West Bank after settlers beat and injured him, according to his colleague
‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
The film is an Oscar-winning documentary collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.
aje.io
March 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Israeli forces arrested Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' in the occupied West Bank after settlers beat and injured him, according to his colleague
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
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In this week's Directed By Women Viewing Guide I am recommending a pair of new restorations from a trailblazing Lebanese filmmaker, one of my fave films from last year that is now on streaming, three more streaming gems, an Oscar-winning short film & the films of a husband-and-wife documentary team.
I'm not going to change.
Weekly Directed By Women Viewing Guide
oldfilmsflicker.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
In this week's Directed By Women Viewing Guide I am recommending a pair of new restorations from a trailblazing Lebanese filmmaker, one of my fave films from last year that is now on streaming, three more streaming gems, an Oscar-winning short film & the films of a husband-and-wife documentary team.
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“A Different World” (1987 NBC) is now on Netflix, and the HD upscale is... not good.
The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy.
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The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“A Different World” (1987 NBC) is now on Netflix, and the HD upscale is... not good.
The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy.
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The show was shot and mastered on video in 4:3. The version on Netflix is cropped to 16:9, and has significant ML sharpening and odd softening. The show looks both over-crisp and gauzy/dreamy.
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Israel says it is stopping the entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza
Israel says it is stopping the entry of all aid and supplies into the Gaza Strip
The prime minister's office did not elaborate on the decision but warned of “additional consequences” if Hamas does not accept what Israel says is a U.S. proposal for an extension of the ceasefire.
apnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Israel says it is stopping the entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza
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It's here - the best films of 2024. A long read!
alexlovendahl.com/2025/02/26/t...
alexlovendahl.com/2025/02/26/t...
The Top 24 Films of 2024
Let’s talk about Megalon.
alexlovendahl.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It's here - the best films of 2024. A long read!
alexlovendahl.com/2025/02/26/t...
alexlovendahl.com/2025/02/26/t...
not really the mediocre part but the Denzel Tony Scott movies rip because they're more insane than most other studio movies but Denzel is such a charismatic presence that you just buy whatever he's saying
I have so much admiration for actors who make a thoroughly mediocre script sound almost like something people would say
February 21, 2025 at 4:26 AM
not really the mediocre part but the Denzel Tony Scott movies rip because they're more insane than most other studio movies but Denzel is such a charismatic presence that you just buy whatever he's saying
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Congress is pushing bills to silence criticism of Israel, punish activism, and criminalize boycotts. Here’s what you need to know: mondoweiss.net/2025/02/what...
What anti-Palestinian legislation to look out for in the new Congress
Mondoweiss spoke with Lara Friedman about Trump’s pro-Israel Executive Orders and the anti-Palestinian legislation people should be watching in the new Congress.
mondoweiss.net
February 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Congress is pushing bills to silence criticism of Israel, punish activism, and criminalize boycotts. Here’s what you need to know: mondoweiss.net/2025/02/what...
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Update: three months later and this number has only gotten lower with just 20 films on Netflix US from before 1980, with the exceeding majority being classic Indian films and only a random few being Hollywood productions (The Wiz and The Sting the biggest titles).
There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc
February 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Update: three months later and this number has only gotten lower with just 20 films on Netflix US from before 1980, with the exceeding majority being classic Indian films and only a random few being Hollywood productions (The Wiz and The Sting the biggest titles).
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the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
February 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone