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Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · 6h

Cult Film Review: In The Mouth of Madness (1994)
Cosmic horror without the Lovecraft
@scifiromance.bsky.social has our look back at the movie at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/10/cult...

Cult Film Review: In The Mouth of Madness (1994)

Cosmic horror without the Lovecraft This month, just in time for Halloween, the Criterion Channel launched a John Carpenter retrospective....

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 17h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 1h

I'm a "glass is half-full" kinda guy, so let's look at the upside of the Riyadh Comedy Festival: We never, ever have to even pretend to take any of these "anti-woke" "free speech warriors" seriously, ever again.

New from me at @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

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Will Anti-Woke Comedy Recover From the Riyadh Festival?

Any event that includes comedy’s biggest names is going to attract attention — but the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which kicked off on Sept. 26 and continued through Thursday, is disproving the adage that...

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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 1h

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa."

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 12h

For instance: Die Hard. As @mattsinger.bsky.social and others have noted, the entire premise is that McClane is not the kind of person who would ordinarily be in that situation. If he foils a terrorist plot every few years, he's just another superhuman action hero.

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 3h

The trouble with books is you actually have to read them

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Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 1d

Over the past three weeks, I've edited about 80 minutes of video essays. I'm very proud of the three that I've put out, with a huge shoutout to the support of the team at @secondwindgroup.com.

First of all, I talked about the "Conjuring" franchise.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xToL...

Is The Conjuring Secretly Hollywood's Second Most Successful Shared Universe? | The Backdrop

YouTube video by Second Wind

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Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 1d

On my way to #TronAres, and idly thinking about how the entire point of the ending of “TRON: Legacy” was that the older generation needs to let their children have the future, rather than allowing those kids to be haunted by their monstrous computer-generated digital ghosts.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21h

Miles beside the point, but has anyone ever taken a *good* picture of Kash Patel? Has LITERALLY ANY attempt to capture his visage for posterity ever not been utterly fucking ludicrous?

Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 21h

🚨A quarter of all FBI agents have been assigned to immigration enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 17h

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Au Togo, les autorités brandissent la menace d'une plus grande censure du discours en ligne

Au Togo, les autorités réitèrent leur désir de contrôler le discours en ligne pour restreindre l'usage des réseaux sociaux dans un contexte de confrontation politique intense

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 17h

Join this online bookclub discussion with Nikki and Tanya about my novel SHIGIDI. I'll make an appearance and talk about supernatural heists at the British museum, African gods, belief and sex as sources of power, plus more. It'll be fun.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 17h

Comment from me is superfluous.
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The AI valuation bubble is now getting silly | Nils Pratley

The broad parallels are genuinely close to the madness of the late-1990s dotcom bubble

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 17h

Parents' rights is just a way of saying you think your kids are your property and they aren't people, just vessels for indoctrination, and buddy, kids are people.

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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 15h

The Matrix story is incomplete without the sequels.

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 17h

☝️Is there a sci-fi movie that you defend tooth and nail, but you feel a little alone in loving it?

When you're sad because you spent three hours defending a movie and clearly you're the only person in the world who likes it.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 23h

Can't pick what to get with your free bookshop shipping? THE SHAMSHINE BLIND is a good choice if, for some reason, you're looking for a story about people toppling a theocratic conspiracy to energize you

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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 15h

Somehow I doubt it.

Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 15h

I met the people who helped me win a Hugo.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 21h

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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 16h

With Spanish spelling, even if you've never been to Jujuy, Chuquisaca, Copiapó, Guainía, Alajuela, Camagüey, Tungurahua, Sensuntepeque, Jaén, Retalhuleu, Ebibeyín, Nacaome, Querétaro, Boaco, Coclé, Ñeembucú, Piura, Utuado, Cotuí, Paysandú or Anzoátegui, with one look you know exactly how to say it.

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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 17h

No respectable language should have this happen. Spelling reform now!

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 19h

No matter what's happening in the world, what fires we're putting out, how much it matters if we lose, we'll always have to deal with this during lunchbreak.

An online commenter says: Apparently you failed to read the article you references [sic]. Tucker Lieberman responds: I am the author of the article I referenced.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 19h

Happy belated bookday to @freyamarske.bsky.social’s CINDER HOUSE, which asks “what if Cinderella were a GHOST” and then proves that that is (literally) a burning question. A perfect book for a rainy afternoon; full of heart, yearning, and love for these wonderful and limited things called bodies.

Cinder House

Check out Cinder House - <p><b>Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske</b><b>—a queer Gothic romance perfect for fans of Naomi ...

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 23h

are we really, as a species, abdicating everything that has made us unique to a vast network of machines programmed to statistically determine what we will say, do, or make, and spit back at us what we want to hear - or, worse, what they have “learned”?

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 21h

Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie on what writers have that #AI doesn’t: “Empathy. When you have empathy for the audience, when you can be the audience, that’s where the real process of filmmaking begins.”

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