Matt Drance
@drance.bsky.social
I have the benefit of heighten pattern recognition
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HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends
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After Hitler, Our Turn: Federal Bureaucracy Edition
Describing the Trump administration as “efficient” and “effective” is ridiculous, making up a fictional version to say that people who want government to build good things, not only destroy, harm, and do corruption, should see Trump as a model.
Describing the Trump administration as “efficient” and “effective” is ridiculous, making up a fictional version to say that people who want government to build good things, not only destroy, harm, and do corruption, should see Trump as a model.
There is such a thirst in some progressive centrist circles that they will look at the Trump administration as a model to get things done. I think its worth addressing the argument. This is from Mark Dunkelman, author of the widely praised "Why Nothing Works."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
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Opinion | What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
After Hitler, Our Turn: Federal Bureaucracy Edition
Describing the Trump administration as “efficient” and “effective” is ridiculous, making up a fictional version to say that people who want government to build good things, not only destroy, harm, and do corruption, should see Trump as a model.
Describing the Trump administration as “efficient” and “effective” is ridiculous, making up a fictional version to say that people who want government to build good things, not only destroy, harm, and do corruption, should see Trump as a model.
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FFC reviews: DIE MY LOVE (2025) + KEEPER (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/die-...
Die My Love (2025) + Keeper (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
DIE MY LOVE***½/****starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Sissy Spacekscreenplay by Enda Walsh & Lynne Ramsay and Alice Burch, based on the novel by Ariana Harwiczdirected b...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
FFC reviews: DIE MY LOVE (2025) + KEEPER (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/die-...
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Just got retained to write a booklet for an upcoming release I'm pretty excited about. You can do that, you know. Hire me to write for your physical media.
a cartoon of a fox wearing sunglasses and a hat holding a cane
ALT: a cartoon of a fox wearing sunglasses and a hat holding a cane
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December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Just got retained to write a booklet for an upcoming release I'm pretty excited about. You can do that, you know. Hire me to write for your physical media.
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if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?
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In the spirit of gratitude and giving, here are five stories that remind us of the power of community and how ordinary people can spark extraordinary impact. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed reporting them.
These 5 stories show people building connection, power and hope
These Wisconsin Watch stories remind us of how ordinary people can spark extraordinary impact.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
In the spirit of gratitude and giving, here are five stories that remind us of the power of community and how ordinary people can spark extraordinary impact. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed reporting them.
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“I don’t know just exactly how to say this, but my perspective for people has changed”
‘Just plain old Larry’: A Wisconsin man’s testimony about gender-affirming care went viral. Here’s his story.
Milwaukee retiree Larry Jones, 85, came to a legislative hearing supporting a ban. He changed his mind after hearing from transgender youth.
wisconsinwatch.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
“I don’t know just exactly how to say this, but my perspective for people has changed”
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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The great @realgdt.bsky.social zooming in to @ucdenver.bsky.social to talk to my film students. So grateful.
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The great @realgdt.bsky.social zooming in to @ucdenver.bsky.social to talk to my film students. So grateful.
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Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
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"Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we memorialize the members of our community we have lost over the past year."
"Advocates for Trans Equality has made a crucial contribution by building a digital memorial, the Trans Remembrance Project": www.transremembrance.org
#USA #Suicide #Weapons
"Advocates for Trans Equality has made a crucial contribution by building a digital memorial, the Trans Remembrance Project": www.transremembrance.org
#USA #Suicide #Weapons
The Lives We Lost: A Digital Memorial Full of Life and Humanity
In the premature deaths of our trans comrades, Advocates for Trans Equality has extracted insights and understanding, both for our community and for the entire country.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we memorialize the members of our community we have lost over the past year."
"Advocates for Trans Equality has made a crucial contribution by building a digital memorial, the Trans Remembrance Project": www.transremembrance.org
#USA #Suicide #Weapons
"Advocates for Trans Equality has made a crucial contribution by building a digital memorial, the Trans Remembrance Project": www.transremembrance.org
#USA #Suicide #Weapons
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Bill is the preeminent John Hughes expert. I learn something every single time he writes about him.
Sadly, won't be covering the 4K upgrade of Criterion's THE BREAKFAST CLUB (it's a beaut), but I did post 7,426 words about the film and disc when the Blu-ray came out, and the special features are identical across the two releases. filmfreakcentral.net/2018/04/the-...
The Breakfast Club (1985) [The Criterion Collection] - Blu-ray Disc - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
***/**** Image A+ Sound A Extras A starring Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos written and directed by John Hughes by Bill Chambers Necessity is the mother of invention, ...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Bill is the preeminent John Hughes expert. I learn something every single time he writes about him.
“No matter how unhinged the position you’ve taken, or paid someone marginally credentialed to sketch out on your behalf—“Can Woman Think?: We Investigate,” “Is the Negro a Man: A Reconsideration”—that opinion will, by virtue of such provenance, possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times.”
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“No matter how unhinged the position you’ve taken, or paid someone marginally credentialed to sketch out on your behalf—“Can Woman Think?: We Investigate,” “Is the Negro a Man: A Reconsideration”—that opinion will, by virtue of such provenance, possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times.”
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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This story in the Boston Globe that quotes @ethanz.bsky.social reminds me of the fascinating story over the last decade of how to moderate dopers who cheat their way onto the leaderboards of online sports platforms like Strava (1/n)
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/01/b...
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Why Strava, Letterboxd, Beli, and other niche social media apps are having a moment - The Boston Globe
The apps serve as both a personal diary and a tight-knit social network that some users prefer over larger sites networks that they believe have grown toxic.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This story in the Boston Globe that quotes @ethanz.bsky.social reminds me of the fascinating story over the last decade of how to moderate dopers who cheat their way onto the leaderboards of online sports platforms like Strava (1/n)
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/01/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/01/b...
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Meta earns about $7 billion a year on scam ads, report says - mashable.com/article/meta... madness...
Report: Meta earns about $7 billion a year on scam ads
Meta reportedly made a lot of money off of fraudulent ads, according to the company's own internal documents, a new report claims.
mashable.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Meta earns about $7 billion a year on scam ads, report says - mashable.com/article/meta... madness...
Line after extraordinary line in here from Judge Ellis. Thank you Heather for reporting.
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Line after extraordinary line in here from Judge Ellis. Thank you Heather for reporting.
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"Your HR just rejected 45 women over 40 using AI…out of 47 applicants. You didn’t notice because the algorithm said ‘not qualified.’ And you didn’t bother to double-check. AI doesn’t eliminate bias. It automates it at scale."
#bias #psychology #sociology #equality
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#bias #psychology #sociology #equality
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The Algorithm Holds a Ugly Truth
Sometimes It's Our Bad Institutional History of Bad Habits.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"Your HR just rejected 45 women over 40 using AI…out of 47 applicants. You didn’t notice because the algorithm said ‘not qualified.’ And you didn’t bother to double-check. AI doesn’t eliminate bias. It automates it at scale."
#bias #psychology #sociology #equality
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#bias #psychology #sociology #equality
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How can we know if a law or policy has chilled people’s free expression? Can we use science to find out?
Excited to join @penney.bsky.social, author of a new book on Chilling Effects, & @katygb.bsky.social on Dec 10th to discuss the science of civil liberties
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Excited to join @penney.bsky.social, author of a new book on Chilling Effects, & @katygb.bsky.social on Dec 10th to discuss the science of civil liberties
knightcolumbia.org/events/the-s...
The Science of Chilling Effects
knightcolumbia.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
How can we know if a law or policy has chilled people’s free expression? Can we use science to find out?
Excited to join @penney.bsky.social, author of a new book on Chilling Effects, & @katygb.bsky.social on Dec 10th to discuss the science of civil liberties
knightcolumbia.org/events/the-s...
Excited to join @penney.bsky.social, author of a new book on Chilling Effects, & @katygb.bsky.social on Dec 10th to discuss the science of civil liberties
knightcolumbia.org/events/the-s...
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FFC interviews Ellen Greene, star of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and the new short film BEATRIX IS INVISIBLE, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/11/audr...
Audrey, Too: FFC Interviews Ellen Greene - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
by Walter Chaw I was a full-grown man before I understood completely the grace of Audrey. Audrey, as interpreted by the legendary Ellen Greene in Frank Oz’s big-screen adaptation of the Off-Broadway m...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
FFC interviews Ellen Greene, star of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS and the new short film BEATRIX IS INVISIBLE, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/11/audr...
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If I said the last of the great twentieth century British film directors died last night, and very few people even remembered him by the time of his death... would you know what I'm talking about?
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tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
Crying for Freedom: Peter Watkins at 90
Radical British filmmaker Peter Watkins was briefly tipped by the BBC before The War Game made him a controversial pariah. But he persisted — and now, at 90, he is a hero of liberated, formally remark...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
If I said the last of the great twentieth century British film directors died last night, and very few people even remembered him by the time of his death... would you know what I'm talking about?
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...