Michael Crider

Wildwood was amazing. Story wasn't great, a little all over the place. But the animation, good god. Nothing in stop motion has ever been so big and ambitious and beautiful. And it might never be again.

you know that Shatner and Takei will never die because neither of them would want to give the other the satisfaction

You come for the King, you best not miss.

Rumors of Netflix execs only accepting AI animation broke today, while real, interesting, passionate animation continues to absolutely explode on YouTube. (Watch Punch Punch Forever!) It gives me hope.

Dang, Wizards of the Coast. How's it feel to be bigger rich guy shitbags than well-known rich guy shitbag Jerry Jones?

Rowling *never* writes about women’s rights, workplace discrimination or the threats to women from predatory men. I tracked her posts for five months: Well over 200 hateful transphobic smears. Not a single post about women’s actual concerns or needs None

Meet the baby I’ve been cooking up for the last year. Out next summer. Pre-orders soon!

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Fun fact, Laika movies very rarely make their budgets back at the box office, but they keep putting out bangers entirely because they have the one good rich boy in the entire ecosystem.

It would be lovely if the video games industry would let the people who make the games buy food

from an FAQ EA published about the saudi deal last year aftermath.site/ea-saudi-ara...

C'mon now, it's really, REALLY hard to force pay-to-win multiplayer gambling into a game about saving and/or boning aliens.

Galactic Racer has more to say about Star Wars than you think. And maybe more than it thinks? I had a lot of fun with this one. www.pcworld.com/article/3263...

The "bad guy" ship from Master and Commander is a period-accurate, American-built French frigate. It was designed using 3D scans of the real USS Constitution in Boston Harbor. For the whole movie, in a very real sense, they are fighting Old Ironsides.

"I'm putting together a crew. Got a little job planned. You in?"

Psst, if you're checking out Steam Next Fest but you don't want to wade through all the slop, here's a handy browser extension: github.com/seeeeew/aiwa...

new tingler 'NOT POUNDED BY THE SENTIENT TESLO FLYING CAR BECAUSE IT’S OBVIOUSLY FAKE BUT I’M SURE PEOPLE WHO THINK THE PIRATES AT THEME PARKS ARE REAL AND BIRTHDAY PARTY MAGICIANS ARE ACTUAL WIZARDS ARE PUMPED.' out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNHXRGJ2/ and patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...

There are Christians who embody Jesus's Biblical commandment to love others. And there are Christians who use the Bible as a tool to force others to make the choices they deem acceptable. I have yet to meet one who does both.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

The key difference between Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk is that Holmes cost many in the ruling class a lot of money and Musk is making many in the ruling class a lot of money.

#biddyblas was a pro athlete and a model, for all those who needed to know.

Did Ukraine's strikes on data centers shut down Russian social media bots? No. That Twitter graph that went viral appears to be entirely made up. Zero evidence of any posting changes directed at influence. Yandex search crawler and finance infrastructure seems to be the biggest casualty.

if you’re a dev who’s been contacted by this guy on The Everything App, it is not me. it is a scammer. i don’t use X, don’t own sunglasses, and i’d kill myself before i appeared on a crypto podcast

I left Facebook when I saw it was elevating anti-vax bullshit in my feed. BEFORE the pandemic. Living in a rural area without a Facebook account isn't easy, but I have never regretted it.

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra is a laptop, an AI workstation, and a decent gaming laptop all in one. I divided up my long review comparing it to Arm laptops (and the Mac) and asked, do we need this if gaming laptops exist? It's long and nerdy. I hope you enjoy. www.pcworld.com/article/3258...

Star Wars Galactic Racer (2026)

AHHHHH LOOK AT ALL THE EMPTY THEATERS

every time you see a company like google boasting about its AI users, remember they're counting people like me, who simply has the same google storage add-on ive had for 15 years, only they changed its name to add "AI"

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

If you know, you know. If you don't know, treasure that ignorance. Protect it like a precious child.

If I developed lung cancer right now, and there was a cure, my shitty insurance wouldn't pay more than $16 for it. "Technology will fix this in the future" is a stupid assumption, but it also assumes you'll be rich and/or in a country that values human life when that future arrives.

If you were ever targeted by the Gamergate horde from 2024 onward, I'd love to talk to you briefly for a short section in my book! Reply, DM me, or email me at alyssamerc@gmail.com. Signal boost!!

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...