Currently reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler 📚
First-contact novel, but with octopuses who have developed language and culture. Also there‘s a lonely android and cautionary tales about not »rogue« AI, but corporate AI working as intended. Could not be more my shit.
thinking of switching up my personal style
Christmas tradition.
Benoit Blanc is just an incredible character. He could be so one-note, he doesn‘t need to be interesting really, but Johnson and Craig keep making these small, brilliant choices, and Johnson knows exactly how much to give us to make it fun to just kinda…think about the guy. 🍿
Happy waiting for your parents to go to bed so you can start watching Glass Onion to all who celebrate.
You ever randomly remember how »Emily in Paris« is supposed to be pronounced and get angry?
I like that it was SO forgettable that I can‘t even really care about how it tried to fuck with what The Last Jedi did. Like, I honestly keep forgetting it exists, it just doesn’t feel like a real movie, so for me Broom Boy can just be the final shot of all of Star Wars forever.
5 years on, this remains a miracle of a movie. It‘s nice that that is the one thing we can all agree on and never had to fight over.
Love Vern‘s Way of Water review. I disagree with most of it, I think the movie is okay-ish at best, but I enjoyed reading someone see a lot of stuff in the movie I didn‘t see. 🍿 outlawvern.com/2022/12/1…
Find den Barbie-Teaser kind of lame tbh. Diese Kubrick-Referenz und wie sie am Ende ihre Puppen kaputt hauen, das ist mir alles zu kalkuliert, zu ironisch. Zu sehr darauf aus, Leute anzusprechen, die das Konzept »Barbie« erstmal lächerlich finden.
War natürlich klar dass das sowas wird aber es wäre so viel interessanter würde der Film sich komplett ernst nehmen.
oh no
cannot stop listening to this on repeat youtu.be/A8-9Li1z6…
When the company that powers your nervous system decides to ‘pivot.’
Cory Doctorow on neurological implants and the right to repair
Great, important piece on Long Covid and similar diseases that gets at the heart of the issue, which is that the distinction between diseases that are ~real~ and those that are ~all in your head~ is bullshit to begin with.
Nach [redacted] Monaten Post-Produktion endlich fertig: Die zweite Folge von Doomscroll’d. Diesmal starten wir innerlinken Beef, reviewen einen 16 Jahre alten Film & sagen euch wer der most fuckable Soziologe ist. gwb.url.lol/idiocracy
Kleiner Text über Fern Brady bei Taskmaster und Improv und gute autistische Repräsentation: sebastianmoitzheim.de/this-is-w…
Love this: »Towards Neurodivergent Marxism« by Robert Chapman
are they tho cause that sounds like the most depressing thing conceivable
One last Fern Brady on Taskmaster clip for the road, this made me cry laughing yesterday. I’m gonna miss this cast so much. As an autistic person trying to be funny on stage sometimes, this was nothing less than inspirational.
Apple Music Replay just fucking roasting me and my basic bitch taste you could tell this is the shit I listen to just from looking at me for one human second.
Great video essay on »the autistic horror of Don‘t Hug Me I‘m Scared« youtu.be/EZ7cStxqg…
Paris Marx on the »dangerous philosophy« of longtermism and effective altruism. Elon Musk’s useful philosopher - New Statesman
‘Keep the con going long enough to cash out’ is the central operating tenet of Silicon Valley, and the best way to do that is to build a cult, a closed information loop that creates a separate reality tunnel so the people shoveling cash at the project never guess that failure is possible. Every collapsed Crypto exchange and shitcoin is a variation of this story.
Can’t quite put my finger on it but of all the Twitter alternatives making the rounds now Hive has the most cop vibes. Just feels like a website for narcs, don‘t know what to tell you.
He‘s red and calling a living thing »YouTube Red« is funny to me, don‘t know what to tell ya
cause he’s a bug
A friend who now hates me used to call the mess of cables in my apartment a »fire hazard«, and this boy looks like he should be a fire boy but he‘s inexplicably an electricity boy. Honestly, my finest work.
no idea
The Pokémon is called »Yungoos« and Young Goose in Topgun Maverick is played by Miles Teller.
My dad is called Ralf and I think this boy‘s name kinda sounds like that?
For my whole childhood I thought that was a mouth, but 3D Pokémon has proven it‘s supposed to be a nose, so now everytime I see this boy I think of Harlan Ellison‘s »I have no mouth and I must scream«.
no idea on the next two. bird boys are the hardest to name that is a known fact
Exceptionally dumb even for me. The description says something like »it‘s stronger than it looks« and I thought »you know what else is stronger than it looks an ant«.
cause autocorrect always correct‘s »fucking« to »ducking«
what else am i gonna name a donkey?
may or may not update this later.