It's so funny that The Pitt is just a completely standard early 2000s medical drama, but because streamers have spent a decade dismantling everything that worked about television, doing normal tv is an absolute revelation to execs
In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent.
In 17 tests, Grok generated images after being told they would be used to degrade the person.
www.reuters.com/business/des...
Le Fou 15.
I am now very curious about @filmcrithulk.bsky.social's take on the new Frankenstein.
In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again they had killed his entire family as psychological torture meant to break him. When he walked up the stairs of his home today, his wife rushed into his arms, with his children and parents beside her - alive, waiting, delirious with joy and relief.
Incredibly gross.
How did Guillermo del Toro’s new Frankenstein film take inspiration from the Hunterian Museum?
@realgdt.bsky.social
Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
WOW....👀👀👀
the inverse of this is how much of politics is now just accepting that you have to vote for people who hate you, so your best option is to vote for people who hate other people more than they hate you
“When you expect them to act consistently or have a coherent set of moral values, you are projecting your own competency onto them. And if you are projecting your own grownass adult worldview onto them, you are not seeing them clearly.”
my argument was this - include his awfulness when speaking about his work AND include the often-overlooked women around him who were themselves great and interesting artists, most notably Dora Marr.
Hayao Miyazaki and Jim Henson both had a firm grasp on the universal truth that children absolutely understand the divide between fiction and reality but enjoy stories that play with the margins because they would also like to play with those margins.
It's cool and good to do that!
I'd also say that copyright ends immediately upon the creator's death, but my worry is that this would incentivize a bunch of Boeing-style corporate murders
My quick lazy fix for copyright is that it can't be signed over to another to another entity. You made it, it's yours. You can give others a non-exclusive right to use it temporarily or permanently but you still have the right to do whatever you want with it too.
Fred Gray, who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., is still alive and still has a legal practice in Tuskegee.
Cops are legally allowed to lie to you. If you lie to them, you get in trouble.
You have nothing to gain and everything to lose by talking to cops. Just don’t do it
“Why can’t Keith Haring just be memorialized as an American artist, instead of a gay one?”
HMM NATE MAYBE BECAUSE AMERICA LEFT HIM TO DIE DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE WAS GAY
White people I grew up with shifted from coded-racism-in-private polite-in-public to racist-in-public when Obama started campaigning. It wasn’t just Boomers, it was Gen X too. A lot of the “edgy” jokes turned out to be authentic which actually wasn’t that surprising.
There's now an unofficial transcript for Tortoise's latest episode on the Neil Gaiman sexual assault allegations. Many thanks to reddit user ErsatzHaderach!
The ep features "Claire", who first spoke out on the Am I Broken podcast in July.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Marx was wrong about a lot, but he was so fuckin right in The Eighteenth Brumaire when he said the ruling and white-collar classes will always choose brutality over leftism
Not my baffled ass composing Hallelujah
An illustration I would guess from the 1920s there's a signature down the bottom that I can't make out it might be that the image is flipped and is a name beginning with a big p there it is an image of a young woman sitting on some rocks by the ocean smoking a cigarette and holder he's wearing long black gloves that come up halfway upper arm a black and white striped outfit with billing bell bottom pants and I think you call that a halter top no I don't know what's the word and a giant Sombrero style hat with all in white with a black circle around the crown and around the room she looks tray chic
Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
