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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 5m

"republicans weren't racist in early aughts"

[laughs in post-9/11-brown-person]

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 17h

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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[UNOFFICIAL] Now Playing on Criterion 24/7 @upnextcriterion.bsky.social · 14m

Now playing (09:00 AM PST):
"Evil Does Not Exist" (2023)
By Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Runtime: 106 min.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 23m

However, I'll add that if you want to make a revolutionary film, spending $140 million and having your lead actor take a chunk of that for himself is going to limit you.

THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR was made for peanuts and still resonates more with me than DiCaprio making lame pronoun jokes.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 27m

This has nothing to do with the quality of the films, as much as I want to illustrate who the industry and journalists do PR work for and who they won't report the truth about unless forced to do so.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 29m

After trying to spin SINNERS' box office earlier as disappointing, the trades tried to spin the box office of OBAA as promising after declaring PTA should clear his mantel for Oscars.

Now that this is published, I guess white people in Hollywood are steeling themselves for a SINNERS Oscar sweep.

‘One Battle After Another’ Projected to Lose $100 Million Theatrically as ‘Smashing Machine’ and Others Also Struggle Due to Oversized Budgets

Why "The Smashing Machine," "One Battle After Another" and other buzzy films are failing to make a profit at the box office.

variety.com

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 41m

The paint can sequence from the latest episode of SLOW HORSES is still making me laugh this morning.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 3h

My review of this week's Slow Horses, which featured an amazing bit of black comedy at the end:

Slow Horses recap: Season 5, Episode 4: 'Missiles'

An attempt to foil an assassination leads to a slapstick masterclass

alansepinwall.ghost.io

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 18h

She also spent a considerable amount of time on Donald Trump’s Truth Social account and on Rapid Response 47 on Twitter.

NOT shocking that the staffer of guy who DMd classified war plans to a journalist is wildly careless with her “important work” in public.

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 18h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 1h

Might be time for people to reacquaint themselves with the story of Enron.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

Nvidia is paying OpenAI to buy Nvidia chips. The money is going out of one pocket and into another.
This "vendor financing" is what has analysts concerned about AI reaching bubble territory. Bryan McMahon explains what's going on.
prospect.org/power/2025-1...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

prospect.org

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 2h

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

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

“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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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 3h

Beyond this idiot being blind, making Mozart Black and suggesting Salieri’s jealously is also connected to his racism would make this material even more relatable to people today.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 5h

a skull full of soup.

cinesthetic. @TheCinesth.... 13h
Teaser trailer for 'AMADEUS' starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany has been released.

Graham Linehan @Glinner 7h
How would you like to see Amadeus again, except this time Mozart is black?
Me neither! Yet here it is!

Clara @Americana Mama79 6h
That guy is black?

Graham Linehan @Glinner 6h
Apparently not but the point rrrremains!

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 13h

What's this? An actually reasonable, explanatory, clearly understandable take on what AI can and can't be reasonably expected to do (and how the "AI" that works has actually been in tools for years already)?

GOSH

Anyways this is real good

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:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

movieweb.com

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 11h

Putting Marilyn Monroe into GAME OF THRONES shows how little fucking creativity anyone involved in AI has. Nothing original or interesting to say. No new images to inspire us. No perspective or point of view about anything. Just a fucking hash of crap you used to watch in the past.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h

No it isn’t stop complying in advance

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 12h

I'm more interested in what he posted on forums before he became vice president.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

lol can you *imagine* the kind of stuff in JD Vance group chats. (i mean, yes very easily)

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 12h

College me never would've survived in the film/tv business. Current me, it's easy to see why I survived and most of the people I went to school with didn't last.

When you outgrow film school nonsense, some of those ideas which crept into online cinephilia the last decade or so, you learn a lot.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 1d

17. How is the college you different from current you?

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 15h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 13h

To everyone who ever asked me why I don't own a car:

CNN @cnn.com · 14h

New car buyers can expect to shell out an average of more than $50,000 for the first time, according to a report from Kelley Blue Book. https://cnn.it/4odLnaO

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 13h

This was actually the video they were forced to watch:

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13h

The more GOP officials and right-wing hacks try to spin and pivot from their Young Republican leaders praising Hitler and racism and gas chambers for their enemies, the more it puts the story in the spotlight.

Keep at it!

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 13h

Why does she think she's important enough to write a book about herself?

Look forward to seeing it in the bargain bin with Jake Tapper's last book.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 14h

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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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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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