This reminds me of Ebert's epic review of Spawn, where he gloriously compares the film's cinematography to the work of Hieronymus Bosch and defends all manner of fart jokes: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqb3...
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1. Counterculture in American Cinema
2. Physics for Poets
3. Biblical Heritage in Western Literature
4. Drug Studies
5. Wagner (yes, an entire course on the works, writings, and reception of Richard Wagner)
It all sounds like mid-century marital advice. The pokemon displays its value, and the human makes it clear they recognize that value by spending lavish sums to acquire the object of their desire.
I'd love to learn more about that. Having only really played PG, I've always been struck by how some pokémon can only be nabbed after a few balls -- often with the lure of berries. How does agency factor into those situations? Does their desire to be caught change thru repeated attempts at capture?
A panel from an X-men comic in which Madelyne Pryor is turned into Anodyne -- a 7 ft woman with magical healing powers. In the panel, Madelyne explains to Prof X how she's changed as Scott looks on in wonder.
Scott: 🎶All I wanna do, is see you turn into, a giant woman -- a giant wooooman🎶
For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
House would've solved this in 10 minutes tops. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
There are many reasons the Blue Jays lost, but to me the most memorable will be Vlad swinging for the fences on a 3-0 pitch trying to be Joe Carter.
Blackface that exists without any actual human behind the makeup is a special kind of dystopian phenomenon
The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
Also, a lot of the hypothetical use cases people bring up about LLMs and writing assume that creative writing can be compartmentalized into high-level conceptual tasks and more rote tasks that you can farm out without losing anything substantial. This is absolutely not how writing works.
Hey #comics fans, ever wondered why the #X-men were so insistent on creating a mutant language after founding Krakoa? Take a look at this brilliant new essay from @erikas.online: campanthropology.org
ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.
Does this include those under 5? I just heard from my pediatrician that due to new AAP guidelines, they were no longer providing shots to kids under 5.
Backup Catcher in the Rye
Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
Jefferson star...oh wait
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Were I not already married (or way more polyamorous than I am), I would MARRY this author for saying the world's most sensible things about fertility policy. What if we focused on unsustainable consumption rather than population numbers? What if we talked about migration more? THANK YOU.
Home Run Derby now feels like a 1920s time-motion study. It's Taylorism: players forced to maximize efficiency so much they can barely breathe between swings. As a result they're totally alienated from the products of their labor -- can't even admire the homers they send sailing into the night sky.
Target is doubling down on the dipshittery for some reason.
Not only is it more energy efficient to simply not use AI, but it's also better to not use AI for literally every other reason, too! Critical thinking skills are down, reading and writing capabilities are down, AND the earth is on fire because you wanted a picture of yourself in studio ghibli style.
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Yeah, especially as Swamp Thing themself had only recently come to terms with the fact that they're NOT Alec.
That's a great point, never thought about that -- even if Swamp Thing does later say it's okay if she calls him Alec.
