Companion
Watched 12 August 2025
has nothing new to add in terms of sci-fi, lazily adding an iphone app on top of all the basic robot tropes. barely qualifies for the horror or comedy tags. could have been a fun Love, Death and Robots short
Watched 12 August 2025
has nothing new to add in terms of sci-fi, lazily adding an iphone app on top of all the basic robot tropes. barely qualifies for the horror or comedy tags. could have been a fun Love, Death and Robots short
Rewatched 8 August 2025
ELBOW ROCKET
Maxwell Neely-Cohen:
We are on the brink of a dark age, or have already entered one. The scale of art, music, and literature being lost each day as the World Wide Web shifts and degenerates represents the biggest loss of human cultural production since World War II. My generation was continuously warned by teachers, parents, and authority figures that we should be careful online because the internet is written in ink, and yet it turned out to be the exact opposite. As writer and researcher Kevin T. Baker remarked, “On the internet, Alexandria burns daily.”
Watched 12 April 2025
Sure, it has some issues, but what can I say, I’m a sucker for spaceships with CRT monitors and a good acid vagina humomorph baby coming of age story
Watched 21 January 2025
I would have been way more excited about this movie from the get go if only the marketing mentioned why Mrs. Harris goes to Paris (obviously because of her ADHD)
Wonderful talk about pixel fonts by Marcin Wichary.
Played 6–29 June 2024 on Nintendo Switch
Direct and engaging, with a nice digestible length. But I can’t help but feel like the Metroid formula needs to shed some legacy baggage.
Watched 1 February 2024
[ominous music playing]
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Watched 21 November 2023
A beautiful puzzle box. Pieces fitting together so satisfyingly, I could practically hear the clicking sounds.
Watched 6 May 2023
I really wish this series could just be its own thing outside the “marvel” “universe”
Watched 22 April 2023
Creative team really should have given more control to whoever pitched “t-rex with big burly arms”
Taylor Lorenz:
When the pandemic broke out, people on TikTok and other apps began referring to it as the “Backstreet Boys reunion tour” or calling it the “panini” or “panda express” as platforms down-ranked videos mentioning the pandemic by name in an effort to combat misinformation. When young people began to discuss struggling with mental health, they talked about “becoming unalive” in order to have frank conversations about suicide without algorithmic punishment. Sex workers, who have long been censored by moderation systems, refer to themselves on TikTok as “accountants” and use the corn emoji as a substitute for the word “porn.”
“One, it doesn’t actually work,” she said. “The people using platforms to organize real harm are pretty good at figuring out how to get around these systems. And two, it leads to collateral damage of literal speech.” Attempting to regulate human speech at a scale of billions of people in dozens of different languages and trying to contend with things such as humor, sarcasm, local context and slang can’t be done by simply down-ranking certain words, Greer argues.
Andy Greenberg:
Hutchins hadn’t found the malware’s command-and-control address. He’d found its kill switch. The domain he’d registered was a way to simply, instantly turn off WannaCry’s mayhem around the world. It was as if he had fired two proton torpedoes through the Death Star’s exhaust port and into its reactor core, blown it up, and saved the galaxy, all without understanding what he was doing or even noticing the explosion for three and a half hours.
Watched 11–28 December 2022
Star Wars: we live in a society
Me: omg so true!!
Rewatched 3 December 2022
Ponyo fills my heart. It overflows.
Watched 1 November 2022
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