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Irwin Schwab

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He/Him. NM Born. MA Raised. Bi-racial. Educator. Introverted extrovert. Music. Books. Comics. Movies. TV. Games. 1/5 of Deprogrammer Cult. https://deprogrammercult.bandcamp.com

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Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · Jan 17

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 12h

Let me be clear. I'm really glad Jim Lee said this. But we're one more Zaslav firing away from Zaslav thinking he knows better than everyone else and that AI is the future.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 12h

In 1990, a group of Black women took on one of America's largest corporations in a battle for a historic Black school. 25 years later, the've reshaped how we fund, teach, and preserve Black history

The Auntie Fascists: How a Group of Black Women Defeated Walmart, Lost Cause and the Erasure of Black History

When a group of retirees hatched a plan to save their historic Black school, they had no idea that they were creating a blueprint for legislators, museums and historic sites across America.

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Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 12h

I think that's fair.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 12h

TMNT: Turtles In Time meets Wolfenstein.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 12h

I have a great pitch for Wolfenstein III.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 12h

Or....attention MachineGames.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 12h

I will immediately pre-order as soon as it's announced.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 12h

The only good part of this is some indie developer is hopefully going to go, "What a great idea!!!!".

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 12h

This is because they got so burned on NFTs.

Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 13h

Jim Lee promises that DC will never use AI, saying "AI doesn't dream, feel, or make art."

Iconic Artist Jim Lee Takes Firm Anti-AI Stance at DC Comics

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Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 12h

This in a way reminds me of a lot of the reviews of del Toro's Frankenstein.

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 14h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 12h

Memories.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 14h

I hope they both personally called Ryan Coogler and thanked him for saving their jobs.

Warner Bros Motion Pictures Chairs Michael De Luca & Pamela Abdy Re-Up Contracts; WBD CEO David Zaslav Celebrates

Warner Bros Motion Picture chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy have re-upped their deals with the film studio.

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Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 14h

Oh.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 14h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 15h

It's amazing tis is where we are. Even QT, famous for anti-heroes and morally ambiguous characters up until Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained, says it clear and unambiguously. Nazis are bad. Slave owners are bad.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 15h

I would have played the shit out of this with the same joy and horror I played Wolfenstein.

Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16h

Life would have been better never knowing what I'd lost because of these racists. Because this might kill me.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 16h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 16h

She's right, regardless of her MAGAness.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 5d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h

Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said. n.pr/4nOvwQs

Research on metal-organic frameworks gets the chemistry Nobel Prize

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 19h

Trans rights protect EVERY GENDER. Just like the rights black people fought for protect EVERY RACE. Including white people! Y'all are enjoying the spoils of someone else's hard work every damn day.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 19h

If a company can fire Lisa at will because of who she is, then it can fire me. And I suppose that doesn't register to people who don't have random-ass bigots with a truckload of power deciding they just don't like that you exist, but I need you all to figure it out before the country falls apart.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 19h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 21h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 1d

Nicole Kidman was one of my very first crushes. A girl who rode a BMX bike when I was like 8 was the coolest thing ever.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 1d

Keith Urban is an idiot.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 1d

MORE. FREE. TUITION.

Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 1d

This makes me so proud as an alumnae.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

UMass Boston enrolls record number of in-state freshmen

It’s the first year the public university is offering free tuition for Massachusetts residents from households making $75,000 or less. UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco said the school is ...

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Irwin Schwab @blacaucasian.bsky.social · 1d

The minute she said "Let's do the fucking news" is when I would have tendered my resignation, if I hadn't tendered it already.