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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 43m

Love this movie right up until the end, where it breaks the plausibility threshold by suggesting that there's a good cop in the upper echelons of the LAPD who doesn't approve of police brutality and will immediately expose it if it's uncovered

Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 1h

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better

Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

www.polygon.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1h

I know the whole “every accusation is a confession” thing but it’s pretty clear this is the most elitist government that’s existed in decades. It’s just 12 billionaires in a group chat sharing banned Reddit memes

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nanaslugdiva @nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app · 1h

Release the Epstein files, Mike

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 1h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

I fear that schools being willing to drop diversity programs without a fight shows how flimsy their commitment to inclusion was in the first place. People fight for things they truly believe in.

Victor Ray, a sociology professor at the University of Iowa who studies race, said in an email that OSU’s decision to interpret federal guidance in this way “reflects the real pressure universities face as the Trump administration and Republican legislators attack higher education.”

But, Ray added, it may also be exposing the true colors of many universities that were broadcasting their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion when it was politically expedient to do so just a few years ago.

“The swiftness with which these organizations have complied with legally dubious orders shows that their commitments to diversity were often paper-thin before this administration’s pressure,” he said. “In many cases, administrators with existing qualms about diversity, perhaps going too far, now have political cover to take anti-equitable actions.”

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 9h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 13h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 22h

Has anyone been fired for quoting D'Angelo?

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Tess @itstessinadress.bsky.social · 17h

So if chatGPT can now generate erotica, that means it'll be blocked by payment processors the same as human artists and writers have been, right?

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 17h

You can't just call everyone you disagree with a Nazi

[receives a note]

Ok, I'm being informed they're praising Hitler. Hard to argue with you here

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 18h

Oh ffs -- the Boston Fed President is a Black woman named Susan Collins - the first woman of color to lead any regional federal bank! Get. It. Together! 🤦🏾‍♀️

Reuters @reuters.com · 19h

Fed's Collins still favors additional rate cuts to aid job market reut.rs/4nUlPzU

Fed's Collins still favors additional rate cuts to aid job market

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Susan Collins reiterated Tuesday that rising risks to the job market support additional central bank interest rate cuts in what remains an uncertain economic environment.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 13h

We are literally at the point with the GOP that saying you love Hitler or use the n word or propose gas chambers has no consequences whatsoever.

Why won’t the media talk about what that says about the party?

Not just that these people exist, that they REMAIN WELCOME.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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nanaslugdiva @nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app · 16h

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18h

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 17h

Commentary: Airports have seen significant flight delays recently because of a shortage of air traffic controllers, who are required to work without pay during the government shutdown. Two Ohio State University aviation experts discuss the consequences ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/h...

Government shutdown is making the air traffic controller shortage worse and leading to flight delays • Ohio Capital Journal

Airports have seen significant flight delays recently because of a shortage of air traffic controllers, who have been required to work without pay during the government shutdown. Two Ohio State…

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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 18h

I said this a few weeks ago from NYFF, so let me repeat it:

AFTER THE HUNT is TURRRRRIBLE. May be the worst opening night film I've seen in 34 years of attending NYFF.

🎶 My name is Luca. My new movie is a bore. 🎶

My review is up at the Globe:

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/14/a...

‘After the Hunt’ is a jumbled mess of empty provocations - The Boston Globe

Julia Roberts stars in Luca Guadagnino's latest failed attempt to upset audiences.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 18h

I got the call around 10am, then spent the next hour and change texting with the folks I knew who also got word, and the thing that kept circling in my mind was that I couldn't think of a single comparable artist loss for Black Gen X.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 23h

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

This John Oliver segment on the disaster that is Bari Weiss does a great job of explaining why this particular grift is so bad/dangerous.

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

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 22h

Foreshadowing for next week's episode of Cancel Me, Daddy: I wrote about Bari Weiss for @xtramagazine.com

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 22h

CBS is crumbling under the weight of a billionaire and his favourite news lackey. This is emblematic of the larger issues facing U.S. media

Bari Weiss’s hiring at CBS signals a much bigger problem | Xtra Magazine

CBS is crumbling under the weight of a billionaire and his favourite news lackey. This is emblematic of the larger issues facing U.S. media

xtramagazine.com

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 21h

Even after we deal with Trump, we'll be cleaning up the mess he created for decades. Once you mainstream bigotry, it takes a long time and a lot of work to make it shameful again.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 22h

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area

there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

Protein powders and shakes, like all dietary supplements, fall into something of a regulatory gray area.

There is no federal limit specifying the amount of lead allowed in protein powders. And while the FDA requires that manufacturers keep their products free of harmful contaminants, it largely leaves it up to companies to decide what counts as harmful and test their own products for compliance.

Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs.

Today, supplements are “presumed safe unless found otherwise,” says Cohen at Harvard Medical School, and most products face scrutiny only after reaching the market—meaning unsafe or contaminated supplements can reach consumers before problems are caught.

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