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sesmith.lol
Electrifying development on EelTok @erinbiba.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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papapishu.bsky.social
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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bill-of-lefts.bsky.social
the two people alive most likely to be the actual biblical Antichrist are the president and Mr Beast
bigjoel.bsky.social Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 2d
In Mr Beast’s new video, a woman is alone for two weeks on a platform in the sky. and each day, a balloon is released at an inopportune moment for her. And if she fails to shoot the balloon with an arrow, they take a small portion of the platform that is her home
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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moviessilently.bsky.social
(Pops head up)

You don't have to hand it to Woodrow Wilson because horrible people hate him for the wrong reasons. You can just hate him for the right reasons.
December 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
This is just gutter white nationalist agitprop from Stephen Miller. A good time to read our deep dive into Miller's ideological fanaticism (see below)
December 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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dynastydave.bsky.social
Might fuck around and get some psychology books.

Books on trauma, emotional maturity/intelligence, ethics, existentialism, etc..
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀

LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
The Epstein Files, everybody!
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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polphilpod.bsky.social
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media

my latest for @newrepublic.com

newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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amandamull.bsky.social
So many northeastern libs in elite circles are sooooo squishy and embarrassed by themselves, which was a strange thing to encounter after spending the first 25 years of my life in the South, where being left of center requires you to at least have the courage of your convictions
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6d
i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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jbendery.bsky.social
NYT columnist David Brooks wrote an op-ed a few weeks ago titled, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out,” lamenting people are too focused on the Epstein scandal + saying "the QAnon mentality has taken over."

Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...
David Brooks Said ‘Count Me Out’ Of Epstein Story, Then Wound Up In Epstein Photos
There's no indication The New York Times columnist did anything wrong. But wow, the timing of his column and the photo dump is unfortunate!
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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rincewind.run
what if, hear me out, the agency we have tasked with doing things like "tracking down mass shooters" was doing that instead of serving as foot soldiers for the new gestapo
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d
Anyway, no worries, Kash Patel is on the job, and half of FBI agents are working immigration enforcement donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
More recent data suggests that these numbers are increasing, with nearly half of FBI agents in major field offices, and about one-quarter of all FBI agents, now working on immigration enforcement.
December 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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kleinman.bsky.social
Sloppy redactions are remarkably easy to sleuth around, have fun out there
unusualwhales.bsky.social Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 6d
BREAKING: Justice Department is reportedly rapidly redacting the Epstein files before release tomorrow, per CNN
December 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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jacobgeller.com
Honored as always to contribute to @sightsoundmag.bsky.social list of "The Best Video Essays of 2025." Here are my favorites of the year.

www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Video essayist on YouTube and Nebula who often uses video games as a springboard to speak about larger topics of art, philosophy, and politics. His first book, How a Game Lives, is available now from all major booksellers. This year, I’ve been thinking about the different generations of mainstream YouTube video essayists. While the first wave of YouTube essayists may have been inspired by film, television, and/or written essays, many popular 2025 creators are young enough that they grew up alongside the video essay. This younger cohort has been presented a goal that didn’t previously exist! While the first generation of essayists may have turned to YouTube in an attempt to ‘do something’ with their film and philosophy degrees, younger creators may indeed pursue certain fields of study with the goal of disseminating this knowledge as a video essayist. While the goal of becoming a YouTuber can result in a passion for algorithmic success over academic rigor, this new generation is also willing to push the boundaries of the familiar form, creating more ambitious and stylistically striking projects. "Trans Day of Vanishing by Lily Alexandre The best video essay of the year, Alexandre’s work melds text and form in a dizzyingly ambitious trip through an unspeakably awful question: should trans people reduce their social visibility in an act of self-preservation? The essay itself, shot in extreme widescreen, builds a sense of paranoia – Alexandre herself only takes up a fraction of the scene and the urban landscape, cold and artificially lit, stretches out beyond her. It’s a testament to the video’s magnitude that Alexandre literally being tear gassed on the streets of Montreal is only its second most striking scene. The most striking is when she taps into the feed of a public surveillance camera, finding production quality in the constant, unwilling scrutiny she lives under." The 25 Best Films of 2024: A Video Countdown by David Ehrlich A countdown of the best films of 2024, sans traditional script or voiceover, seems outside the realm of typical video essay. And yet, Ehrlich’s 23-minute montage isn’t just a countdown but a conversation made through editing, a weaving together of hundreds of cinematic motifs from an entire year. The montage finds constant moments of delight in juxtaposition: the overture features scenes of Anora, Megalopolis, Dune, Challengers, and dozens more all choreographed together to a song from The Greatest Showman. I Saw the TV Glow functions as a meta-framing device throughout the montage – Justice Smith looks directly into the camera and intones “I watched these tapes over and over again, but they never got old.” The choice of musical accompaniment is, also, revelatory. In one standout sequence, Ehrlich introduces Nosferatu alongside Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’, only to continue the song through his next pick, The Beast, finally climaxing alongside Dion with Challengers. The track is hilarious, yes, but also exactly captures the thematic core of each film. However, it’s the finale of the piece that cements it as Ehrlich’s best work so far. The crescendo seems to come early; after Anora (his #3 pick), the montage escalates into an ecstasy of scenes and sounds and emotion set to an epic rework of Madonna’s ‘Like a Prayer’. And when it seems the montage can rise no higher… it doesn’t. It crashes back down to Earth with the sparse harmonica of Springsteen’s The Promised Land and Ehrlich’s final two picks, No Other Land and Nickel Boys. An impossible level of craft throughout. Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective by Noah Caldwell-Gervais Much as series protagonist Alan Wake can’t help but spiral around his own universe of autofiction, Noah Caldwell-Gervais is helplessly drawn back to developer Remedy’s series of games. Having previously covered Alan Wake, Max Payne, and Control on his channel, Gervais now revisits each along a gargantuan journey to understand the layers of meaning woven throughout Alan Wake 2. Although the runtimes of many video essays have ballooned over the years, only Gervais is capable of keeping his writing on-target and engaging for nearly 200 minutes straight. And as Alan Wake 2 snakes through the themes of nearly every Remedy game, longtime fans of Gervais’ channel will see how this retrospective engages with many of his defining interests: Horror and noir, self-loathing writers, King’s Dark Tower series, goofy Rock and Roll stars. Gervais’ channel seemed incomplete without an essay on Alan Wake – and Alan Wake 2 itself seemed incomplete without an analysis by Gervais. Finally, both are settled.
December 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
There's an unsurprising tendency across leaders in the tech world (games included) to see art as merely part of something's production line, a box that needs to be ticked before copies can be sold. It's why AI is often justified as something that saves time, or saves money. But with art, that process is the point. The themes and ideas artists draw on, the way they iterate through those ideas with sketches, the work itself is what creates art. There are no shortcuts.
December 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
I mean we've always said this is exactly what they mean by it. Because it is. See the front cover of "Irreversible Damage". They have never been subtle.
December 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social
Maybe it "doesn't feel like Christmas anymore" because for the past 25 years culture warrior crybabies have been sucking all the fun out of it. Getting mad at Sbux cups and people for saying "happy holidays". And celebrating the holiday as statement rather than having good will towards man.
December 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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minnmax.com
This year MinnMax is using our reaction stream for The Game Awards to raise money for the Somali Museum of Minnesota.

People aren't "garbage".

Please donate/share to help the museum's mission of connecting Minneapolis with the beauty of Somali art, dance, and history. www.givemn.org/story/12p1xe
December 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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louiseseamster.bsky.social
I’m just going to have to keep sharing this way-too-prescient 2017 essay
medium.com/@jamesbridle...
Something is wrong on the internet
I’m James Bridle. I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want…
medium.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
Still, there is nuance to all the awards hype. Though “Sinners” looks to be a major Oscar player, that voting body has never nominated Jordan for his acting or Coogler for his directing — indeed, no Black filmmaker has ever won in the latter category. Asked to join the academy in 2016, Coogler declined the invitation. “It’s not out of animosity,” he told me, noting that he’s stretched thin with commitments to his film school and unions. “And I’m not good at judging things, bro. The act of ‘Hey, pick the best thing’ is very stressful for me, even when there’s no stakes involved.” He is more drawn to the everyday elements of his career than to the glamorous ballrooms. “People see the tuxedo, they see the red carpet, but it’s real blue-collar folks making these movies happen,” Coogler said, adding that he truly fell in love with filmmaking once he understood that, at its core, it’s a job. A photo of Ryan Coogler
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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oldsquida.bsky.social
Santa Clara County supervisors “voted unanimously to restrict federal immigration officials from using county-owned or controlled property — such as parking lots, vacant lots or garages — to stage enforcement operations.”

paywall free: archive.ph/2025.12.10-1...
This county just created the Bay Area’s first ‘ICE-free zone’
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to create what is believed to be the Bay Area’s first official “ICE-free zone.”
www.sfchronicle.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."

This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.

pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink) Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM