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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 1d

oh fuck all the way off with this

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 1d

I would, however, take great joy in an outcome where Ben, Kari, and Indy get invited to next year's Academy Awards, because I dunno, guys: they deserve it.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 1d

it's impossible for me to think of the recent "FYC: Indy" campaign as anything other than a cutesy bit, though I'm not against it; it's just that, ignoring the definitional hoops the pooch has to jump through to make the cut, he had no idea that he was in a movie, as Ben and Kari mention here.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 11d

I did in fact e-meet GOOD BOY's Indy for a blink before he trotted off camera. He is a dog; he has better things to do. Humans don't, so Ben Leonberg and Kari Fischer and I had a good chat about Stephen King, John Carpenter, and animal companionship without him, for @thedailybeast.bsky.social.

Meet Indy the Dog, Star of the Buzzy Horror Movie ‘Good Boy’

The hottest star in cinema right now is a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever named Indy—and we landed an interview.

www.thedailybeast.com

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 1d

“This Is the Scariest Movie Shark of the Year”

"Da dum," but in an Australian accent.

“This Is the Scariest Movie Shark of the Year”

"Da dum," but in an Australian accent.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 1d

5 Gems From IFFBoston ’25

Look, better six months late than never, guys.

5 Gems From IFFBoston ’25

Look, better six months late than never, guys.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 2d

psa for my fellow guys who are dudes: women really like it when you express genuine interest in their wants and needs and preferences and pursuits and hobbies and such! it’s a big green flag! be curious! ask them about themselves! cmon cmon

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d

Also kind of telling that we’ve evolved from “men asking pick up artists for tips on getting women” to “men asking computers for tips on getting women” and continue to completely ignore asking women what they like

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have artwork?

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 2d

he doesn’t even get the Dr. Manhattan quote right, either , which is either the saddest or scariest part

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 3d

To drive the point home: BEAST OF WAR does this better than any movie since JAWS; and also does it *nearly* as well as JAWS, where open water shapeshifts suddenly into death with fins, a'la Bruce attacking Brody in the Orca's cabin as it sinks.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 4d

It's the way that one minute, there is water; and the next, there is a gaping maw jammed full of blades sharp enough to make CutCo look like they're selling butter knives. From nothing comes death. All you'll find in the ocean is teeth and hunger.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly? I want to see the two of them make another horror film again. That's all!

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 3d

As in, you can pick up on the panic Ngo brings into the film as its author via its technical qualities, and which is then enhanced by Tran's performance. They dovetail like she's picking up his script and putting her own author's stamp on it.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 3d

CONTROL FREAK: ***1/2. I rather liked this more on a revisit than my first go-round; the pacing remains asperous, but the elements that work exemplify what happens in a horror movie when a director and their lead's subconsciouses bleed together. The exercise gains overwhelming sensational effect.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 4d

It's the way that one minute, there is water; and the next, there is a gaping maw jammed full of blades sharp enough to make CutCo look like they're selling butter knives. From nothing comes death. All you'll find in the ocean is teeth and hunger.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 4d

There is truly nothing more frightening than the ocean. Look, I've got nothin' on any of nature's apex predators, but I *think* I have a decent shot of surviving run-ins with bears or cougars. If I'm in the water and a shark decides on Italian-American for dinner, I'm fucked.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 4d

I like the year’s other notable shark films (HOT SPRING SHARK ATTACK, DANGEROUS ANIMALS) quite well; my feelings for BEAST OF WAR, on the other hand, are a smidge more effusive. Mechanical shark! It’s terrifying!

This Is the Scariest Movie Shark of the Year

Don’t watch “Beast of War” if you have plans for a beach vacation.

www.thedailybeast.com

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 5d

Very close on a DNA level to that recent piece contextualizing Taylor You Know Who’s fight for her masters as a contemporary thing, with Prince coming up as an aside; this is why we need culture and media literacy.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 5d

Author had it coming, I think, and you don’t need to feel bad; he wrote a bad thing and he should feel bad about it instead.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 5d

Corollary to this: the folks who think we actually deep down inside long to use AI? They would TOTALLY drink the piss.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 5d

She’s just so *natural*. There is a casual ease to her every line read and gesture in almost every single one of her performances. She was born for the big screen.

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 6d

man sees Farmer Stinky Thumbs Arbuckle dying the wool, he‘s GOT to get himself a look at that

andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 6d

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, even though I detect a whiff of personal experience from his Tweet

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 8d

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 8d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 6d

hard same on both counts, Kevin, but from what I can decipher, it appears Dinesh is admitting that he watches farmers fuck their sheep

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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