Elon Musk would not know how to handle the Gremlins

X is fast becoming a Republican echo chamber, thanks to its Musk-Trumpification. And everyone else is fleeing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/29/elon-musk-x-republican-democrat-twitter-election/

We haven't talked enough about this https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-lebanon-pager-attacks-b2644731.html

Everyone else: searching Bluesky for all their 2019 Twitter friends

Me: searching Bluesky for all the people who commented on my 2005 Blogger blog

“The turbulence that Trump is about to unleash – alongside pain and cruelty and hardship – is possible because that’s where we already live: in information chaos… we’re through the looking glass.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/a-new-era-dawns-americas-tech-bros-now-strut-their-stuff-in-the-corridors-of-power

So, this is how it starts https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1855119856649355729?s=19

Capitalism's gonna capitalise
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/07/sales-dystopian-books-trump-election-handmaids-tale-on-tyranny

"The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation."
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/?s=09

Oh hell no. No. No.
https://www.ign.com/articles/new-movie-in-the-works-set-in-david-cronenbergs-the-fly-universe-that-wont-be-a-remake

Vote. Please

Devastated! 😩
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr4n2490r9o

And so we invented pornography.

#ACCELERATE
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/?s=09

#Threads is on BBC Four tonight, 22:20! This is only the 4th time the film has been broadcast on TV. Don't miss it! A milestone of British cinema, 2024 is its 40th anniversary. It remains one of the most chilling & politically astute films ever produced
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02kgkkg

Don't Trust the Kids

I watched #TheSubstance. I was extremely underwhelmed. I found it empty & predictable. Its (visual) style was overemphasized so much, it felt like being hit over the head. This went for various plotpoints too, which were often repeated as reminder callbacks, as if trying to explain them to a child.

The Israel pager & walkie-talkie attack is one of the scariest, most demented things that's happened in my lifetime. It's difficult to process, and terrifying to draw out the logical implications.

Mind absolutely blown by this factoid 😲 https://www.instagram.com/p/C_bqpxBux8i/?igsh=MmdtdnJrcDM2ZGN0

One of the most important, and just best, films of all time. Strange that Guardian wants to preempt the original air date by over a week (23rd September is the actual 40th anniversary) but I am here to celebrate #Threads greatness nonetheless
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/15/threads-nuclear-apocalypse-bbc-tv-drama-40-years-on-mick-jackson-interview

What are some of your favourite uses of generative AI? (Art related or otherwise)