That Film Nerd with the Book

Was thrilled to stop by @kneelbeforeblog.co.uk to chat about “Iron Man 2” as part of their “Road to Doomsday” series. It’s a really fascinating, dysfunctional film that has a host of interesting ideas, but no idea how to resolve them. LISTEN: pod.link/aHR0cHM6Ly9h...

This is the read. Because this and crypto are what this has all been about.

“Activated by the sight of sweet, bulbous me” is fucking incredible.

This has perhaps the highest ratio of quality of writing to complete lack of any reason this writing should exist that I’ve ever seen. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

Some quick busride home thoughts on #Clayface. Which is a perfectly serviceable film that is perhaps condemned by virtue of the far more interesting fingerprints you can see in the clay. boxd.it/gSeT2j

I can't stand shit like "Clear". Hearing how they work just makes my blood boil.

Excellent piece by @jamellebouie.net

Yup. I particularly enjoyed how Lanterns represented desire for the ring as a corrupting influence, much like the One Ring to Rule Them All.

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

"You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor."

This is what the internet was supposed to be all the time.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.

This is... too big a wormhole to fall down on a Wednesday morning, but REALLY interesting.

“Waiting for the End of the World:” Elvis Costello’s ‘My Aim Is True’ on its 49th Anniversary

Today I saw the term "ai aren'tists" for the first time and I rather like that.

this is very funny and also because I am old, I am reminded of the guy who did a blog in the gawker comments section

Exit, pursued by a fucking bear

MACBETH: I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield To one of woman born. MACDUFF: Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped. MACBETH: Fuck.

“Then yield thee, fucking coward.”

So many incredibly funny responses here!

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

we have a generation of trickle down economics we can look at now, it should just be accepted truth at this point that it doesnt work and the people who implemented it should never work in politics or the financial sector ever again

i think the political ideology that gave us the iraq war and the great recession and brexit and trump and the iran war has been thoroughly discredited at this point

A lot of us hardly knew Charlie Kirk even existed, before he died.

Why is 'lb' the abbreviation for 'pound'?

"Iran has imposed a strategic defeat on America without a single Iranian soldier firing a rifle. Hegseth obsessing over soldiers’ physical fitness in 2026 is like a European general fixating on his troops’ horsemanship in 1940."

And they say it’s hard to find new music.

Two-Falk

This is a really good piece from @carolinesiede.bsky.social about the changing structure of modern television seasons, where the third episode takes on much greater import. www.avclub.com/lanterns-epi...

I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust what Big Tech says in its promises to a local community.

Massive AI infrastructure is being built out across the US, and it’s probably coming for your state. There’s one place where the data center occupation already arrived – 20 years ago. So if you want to know what it will look like... www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

This is the correct position.

such giddy joy about trucks shearing themselves in half. this is pure hater energy. @reportermatt.bsky.social

🥹 it’s been so nice to see that an existential conversation about art, tech and humanity is resonating

Floored by the reception to yesterday’s Vergecast. @davidimel.com and @vicmsong.bsky.social were inspired by @lopatto.bsky.social’s amazing piece to have a conversation about what it means to be human and give a shit (my words). Edited beautifully by producer Josh Cajas.

The Trump Tax on American families — As Republicans shrug 🤷🏼