Me, to everyone I see generating AI slop in the style of Studio Ghibli:

guy who made There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread can’t get final cut, what are we even doing here lmao

After I posted this, a few people reached out and asked if they could send me their family film slides to digitize and/or preserve. The second batch I received was from the Hartmann & Goldstein family. Many of the images look like stills from a movie.

Oh right, this is the best movie ever made. Had to remind myself

fifth and final episode of Snitch City from the The Boston Globe dropped this week — an incredible feat of reporting from max green and Dugan Arnett listen here: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investig…

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

my after work plans:

The way Coogler breaks this down in such a loving, informative and engaging way could make the general public care about cinema beyond your occasional event movie again if shown to enough people

Once again, a large number of American adults no longer know how or why things happen. They just assume that good stuff happens because it’s good, not because there’s some infrastructure or system in place to make it happen.

the headline is perhaps one of the greatest examples of media’s negativity bias in history

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: propublica.org/series/life-of…

this may be a hot take, but I do think one step in combatting AI is straight up eliminating grades. No matter what else you do or change, as long as we structure our education around getting grades, students are trained to see knowledge as a means to an end, not an end in itself.

"'Snitch City' focusses on Massachusetts, but, like other outstanding podcasts that home in on local injustices, it raises our awareness of a wider systemic problem." Thanks Sarah Larson & The New Yorker for a stellar review of SPOTLIGHT: Snitch City 🎧🎧🎧 newyorker.com/culture/podcas…

NEWS: NPR and three Colorado public radio stations sue Trump White House over effort to ban federal funding for NPR & PBS The lawsuit calls Trump's executive order "textbook retaliation" for protected free speech - threatening public radio My story npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-…

tesla: our self driving technology may screw up which is why you need to watch it vigilantly also tesla: our self-driving technology is perfect great scoop from Dana Hull 👩🏻‍💻 is on BLUESKY @danahull and Craig Trudell bloomberg.com/features/2025-…

Israel went into overdrive to deny it killed Palestinians at an aid site in Gaza on Sunday but CNN investigation “points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their way to the fenced enclosure to get food.” cnn.com/2025/06/04/mid…

I would like to remind people that Elon Musk is a monster. His legacy is dead children in the poorest places in the world.

US “democracy”, where billionaires openly brag about buying elections and demand obeisance from political leaders.

Verhoeven's America

They pointed it right at her and shot her. What the fuck is wrong with you? Stand up for your journalist