I’m ecstatic to announce that Eleanor & Frank Perry’s brilliant & controversial film “Last Summer” has been beautifully restored to its 1969 theatrical cut. Premiere screening Sunday 3/29 at the American Cinematheque’s Areo Theatre. Q&A with stars Barbara Hershey & Bruce Davison!
Thank you, yes that's what I'm recalling too! I just went back to China for the first time since 2020, and hadn't used WeChat much in the interim but am again now and was confused by this time limit
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
Question for China folks - am I crazy or did WeChat used to allow voice messages LONGER than 60 seconds? Back in the day I seem to recall sending/receiving messages that were WAY longer. Am I misremembering?
"you're currently living through one of the largest positive technological revolutions in modern history - solar and batteries replacing fossil fuels - and you're hearing more about chatbots because the people who run our country make money selling oil" --@mtsw.bsky.social
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is everyone on glue
It does not escape me that this illustrates the Trump/GOP/neo-Nazi apparatus working precisely as China is assumed to work.
It’s a little more complicated in China, and it’s a little more complicated here—but the distinction used to be obvious and, if this pattern holds, that is no longer true.
I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.
meanwhile, war rages on at home.
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“Alberto Gutierrez was taken by ICE agents on January 9 in Echo Park. According to the family, Gutierrez began to feel seriously ill last Friday, and his repeated requests for medical attention was denied. Gutierrez died around 1:00 am on February 27. He was the sole provider for his wife and son.”
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
The Ones Who Vibe Code In Omelas
What "it's a distraction" people fundamentally need to understand about fascism is that fascism's entire mode of operation is diverting popular anger/anxiety/despair into channels of violence against the Other (both internal and external).
It's not flailing, it's the whole strategy.
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
What's missing? The public. Decisions about whether AI can surveil American citizens or autonomously deploy lethal force are being settled in a contract dispute. No Congress. No democratic deliberation. No accountability. We've outsourced questions about the use of force to a corporate negotiation.
Breaking News: Abolish ICE student walkouts across California are happening right now! These protests are being led by the grassroots CA Youth Unite movement
lol jfc PLEASE all they did was not agree to have their software directly enable fucking WAR CRIMES! No cookie for Dario!
i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services
There is no reform, there's no body cams, there's no amount of anything that is going to fix this. Abolition is the BARE MINIMUM.
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Relatedly, here is a tiny GoFundMe for rent relief for families in a mobile home park. They’re not asking for much. Please let’s get it fully funded.
2/25 UPDATE: Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social is, by my count, the 16th sitting Member of Congress to support abolishing ICE.
He is also the first Member of Congress to upgrade from the asterisked category on my tracker to being all-in on abolishing ICE
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To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.
I think about this all the time
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
