Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine)

My ex kept her college syllabi and she had one for a class on post-9/11 cinema and I’m curious if it discussed this series at all (despite the first one debuting before 9/11).

I had never heard of these books and as the essay notes this type of thinking wasn’t necessarily new in far right circles but these books certainly helped play a part in further seeding the soil for mass fantasies of revanchist violence

The books that helped plant the current violent, obscene brand of Christian nationalism in the public consciousness www.typebarmagazine.com/left-behind-...

"9/11 reshaped Final Destination by rapidly and irrevocably reconfiguring audience sensitivity and receptivity to certain themes." www.typebarmagazine.com/insecurity-t...

I THINK one of the things we're really seeing is a continent, maybe industry-wide shift away from full-time employees and towards gig/codev work. And that transition looks like layoffs across the board even from studios that just had big successes.

its very funny that there is now a claim that code is cheap because like.. you're still paying devs and now you're paying Anthropic too if you were a solo dev, code used to be free, you weren't paying yourself, but now you pay Anthropic code is actually more expensive now lol

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

rollercoaster tycoon, official website (2002) web.archive.org/web/20021120...

Parents, check your kids' Halloween candy. They might have something good.

“We all bet we’d get to destroy the Amazon and workers‘ rights, our shareholders are furious“

Maybe stop bitching about your own little problems for a second and help me find out where my wife hid the goddamn Halloween candy.

this is happening because big tech customer support basically doesn't exist and desperate people are asking ChatGPT what to do. ChatGPT is sending them to journalists

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

our inboxes are insane places right now

And if they’re billing by usage then the AI companies have a strong financial incentive to make the models be as wasteful as possible with code (and everything) so the end user has to pay more.

[TRANSLATION: Skydance is doing a soft layoff, before going forward with the formal one.]

Sports will eventually become “which team is better at trying to throw the game for the interests of organized gambling”

they deserve what they're gonna get from this

Taking dumps is body horror

This is what Love Lies Bleeding got right about the 80s: everything in the 80s wasn’t neon and bright colors and crazy prints. Everything was fucking Brown

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

I know they're very popular and I even think some of them do decent work, but I tend to block most of the big-name video clip journalists on here because they're farming outrage as much as they're informing

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

I've struggled sometimes with my published work because I'm not sure I ever felt connected to much of it. This story is just me to its very core.

Two THOUSAND dollars