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joecorey3rd.bsky.social @joecorey3rd.bsky.social · 20m

One of my favorite Ultra Lounge releases

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 36m

around two years ago i made the point that genAI technologies were a fascist project designed to undermine facts, truth and history and so here is some slop machine humiliating a hero of the american civil rights movement

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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joesferatu🦇🔱 @24fps.bsky.social · 37m

Andy Ngo: speaks with a fake English accent, afraid of fake cookie monster

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 49m

There's so much poetry just in hearing Daniel Day-Lewis speak as himself, and about himself. The soul of this man, to the extent it's on display here, is fascinating. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/m...

Q Is the difference here that you’d rather talk about the work with your collaborators than with someone after the fact?

DAY-LEWIS The transactions that take place between you and your collaborators are of a very particular kind, and by the time I ever get to a set, I hope that the talking is more or less over and you’re inside that world you’ve tried to create for yourself. Talking about it now is a little bit fraudulent because I’m trying to reconstruct an experience that I have very little objective understanding of. I really will try to find my way to answer anything you ask me, but I can’t be entirely sure that it’s not just a reinvention in hindsight.

Q Your father, the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, died when you were 15. You’ve said that you regret not having achieved anything of artistic significance that he could have witnessed.

DAY-LEWIS Of any kind of significance, yeah.

Q So I’ve got to think that to be able to watch your son embark on his biggest project of artistic significance thus far, and to do that alongside him, has got to be immensely satisfying.

DAY-LEWIS That’s a lovely observation, it really is. It was quite useful to me, and unique. We were both amazed that we were given this opportunity to do this thing. That quiet sense of joy ran through the entire period of time, sharing that precious time with Ronan. It was very, very special.

Q When you were young, what did acting mean to you?

DAY-LEWIS At a very early age, it seemed to me not just that there was a good chance I was going to try to have a career as an actor, but that I needed to have that career to survive in the world. The theater, when I first discovered it in boarding school, really became a sanctuary. To be in that illuminated box, I felt relatively safe from what appeared in every other respect to be a hostile and cruel environment.

Q Still, you considered forsaking it as a young man to instead become a cabinetmaker, and even as an adult, you once put your acting career aside to work as a cobbler. What appealed to you about that path?

DAY-LEWIS The craft thing almost felt like an alternative, largely because it’s tangible. In performance arts, we’re dancing with shadows and it’s a matter of taste: You like his face, you don’t like his face. But if you’re making shoes or a piece of furniture or a musical instrument, the quality of that is tangible. To me, it was an antidote to the unknown.

Q Do you consider acting a craft, too?

DAY-LEWIS I don’t really like thinking of acting in terms of craft at all. Of course, there are techniques you can learn, and I know that the Method has become an easy target these days. I’m a little cross these days to hear all kinds of people gobbling off and saying things like “gone full Method,” which I think is meant to imply that a person’s behaving like a lunatic in an extreme fashion.

Everyone tends to focus on the less important details of the work, and those details always seem to involve some sort of self-flagellation or an experience that imposes upon oneself a severe discomfort or mental instability. But of course, in the life of an actor, it has to principally be about the internal work.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

I didn't have Vic Mensa in the NYT on my BINGO card: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Pitting Us Against One Another in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 1h

All good! Thanks!

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you my friend. It’s also an honor from my end — working at Ebert with you and the team is a privilege, a pleasure and a lifeline!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

Utterly disgusting and sadly very indicative of this shameful, current moment in our history.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 1h

Jim Meigs and I were both at Video Review at the time and we went through the issue page by page and said “This is good” or “I’d change this” or what have you and about 10 years later there we were.

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 1h

And that wasn’t the first issue, this was:

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 2h

Oh no. Didn’t join up until 1996.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 2h

Pulled that trigger pre-tariffs. I've made many unwise investments. This was not one of one of them.

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 2h

I won’t mock but I will say my Sony UXP 800 all-region 4K Ultra/Blu-ray player was one of my best investments (and tax-deductible too)

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2h

The people willing to go out over their skis on this despite the fact that Weiss has zero experience running a broadcast newsroom and the reporting she has done herself has been littered with holes are just telling you they agree with her ideologically

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 6h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2h

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!”

Bari nods sympathetically.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Four out of Five

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Patek Philippe

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex and Hublot

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 3h

You two fellas ought to take in that show, I hear it’s dynamite

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 5h

Ann Althouse making a desperate sizzle reel

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 5h

“Hello, I’m Caitlin Flanagan, and you should be ashamed of your body!”

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 5h

Flanagan lobbying hard to be the new Andy Rooney

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Den Howler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 5h

Me after paying off an undercover hitman:

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social · 6h

JD Vance, Tower of Jello

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