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Jake Cole

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Freelance critic and terminally online figure. Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jakepcole/

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · Nov 19

You know what, we do movie prompts all the time and I enjoy them but where my real heads at, 1 like = 1 favorite heavy metal album

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 26m

Another killer Criterion slate and I think the first World Cinema box where I haven’t seen any of the inclusions. All of them sound fascinating www.criterion.com/boxsets/8451...

Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 5

Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project has maintained a fierce commitment to preserving and presenting masterpieces from around the globe, with a growing roster of more than ...

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 1h

Thought you’d want to look at this one: thereveal.film/interview-ke...

Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen

The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 1h

AI adopting the Moviepass model but at about 50x the revenue/cost discrepancy per user is incredible.

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 23h

'Sora cost $20 a month & subscribers can generate an unlimited number of AI videos... this costs (Sora owners) OpenAI "at least $5 per 10-second video"'.

Journalists, please ask more questions about how this tech could ever in a million years make a profit?

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 23h

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 2h

🦋 Announcing for pre-order… 🦋

Little White Lies 110 – The Frankenstein issue.

A hand-crafted shrine to @realgdt.bsky.social’s masterwork of imaginative and personalised literary adaptation.

Cover screen print by LWLies’ art director @boglio.bsky.social featuring Oscar Issac and Jacob Elordi.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 17h

Emailing Mark Zuckerberg personally that Orion isn’t even visible that time of year in every prefab deepfake porn until Zuck rips all the cables out of a server farm like he’s killing HAL

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 17h

lol Neil Degrasse Tyson, in our desperate hour, we need you to kill this shitty tech with your star position filibustering

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 18h

Vince Neil on the phone as we speak ordering a new boat.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 18h

From hair metal to Nine Inch Nails to hip-hop, if you walk into a strip club and hear something you know it’s a hit.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 18h

There’s no way we don’t eventually get something written in ink mixed with her blood

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly a more accurate bellwether of where the culture actually is than the top 200.

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 18h

a little late but what an innovation lol www.billboard.com/lists/top-10...

Billboard launched the debut strip club chart in August, and will continue to track the top-played strip club hits each month throughout the year.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 18h

The single most successful political project of my lifetime has been the image rehabilitation of pit bulls, you can have the most suburb-brained conservatives in a foaming-mouth frenzy on this issue.

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Mark Curnell @books4maphead.bsky.social · 1d

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 18h

The books you read that you hate are just as valuable a use of your time as the ones you love. You’ll find out more about your tastes and what writing can teach you by being able to spot the antithesis of it than you will stumbling toward a personal canon with nothing to contrast the good against.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 19h

Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.

Peter Giunta participates in a CNN-POLITICO Grill discussion at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah my immediate response to that was the biggest “citation needed” of my life

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19h

we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 23h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 19h

Honest to god no one has ever had this much naked contempt for their fans. Just looking at each of them and cartoon-style watching their head dissolve into a giant, steaming roast turkey.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 19h

I really thought when he finally got run out of town I’d never have a reason to specify which one ever again bc ofc we’d only be talking about the good one from now on

Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 19h

Scott Walker?! <comically rubs eyes and takes a second look at the wall calendar to check what year it is>

Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 19h

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 19h

Truly wild to argue for incrementalism in 2025 when not only all those infinitesimal crumbs but the last 50 years of social progress writ large has been obliterated in less than nine months.

Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 19h

This draws an added contrast between Ahab and the captain of the Samuel Enderby who lost an arm to the whale but is pretty chill about it to Ahab’s rage. Also puts a new spin on earlier mentions of Ahab being “dismasted.” HOW did I miss this?

Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 20h

Embarrassed that it took 6 reads of Moby Dick to realize when Ahab’s leg leg breaks and Ishmael says it injured his groin and insinuates something similar happened back on mainland and maybe put him in his current mood, that Melville’s implying Ahab is so mad bc maybe he’s impotent now

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 21h

17. The Confection (dir. @christopherbell.bsky.social, 2025)

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The Confection

The Confection What if your friend died in the stupidest way possible? Review on letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-confection/

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 21h

Compared to Confederate apologia, everyone gets a pretty clear portrait in school of Nazis as monsters, but as ever I think a world of good could be done not by putting them over as supervillains but fundamentally as losers. Huge fucking losers with no step 2 to any plan beyond blitz violence.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 21h

Is it a hot take to say that BM is Questlove’s best work on record?