Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:
Happy birthday to Sheryl Lee, whose initially incidental #TwinPeaks casting ended up being one of the most consequential decisions in the groundbreaking series. For a keen unpacking of her role's significance, check out @courtenaycal.bsky.social LAURA'S GHOST, with a foreword by Lee. bit.ly/4cGslpk
My husband has been writing about each Bugs Bunny short with an academic eye towards history, form and comedy. This is the newest one. Check it out <3
“Both parties make a public show of how bitter their conflicts are, and how dangerous it would be for the other party to achieve power, while both prostitute themselves to the financial sector, powerful industries, and the wealthy.”
— Charles H. Ferguson, “Inside Job”
The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.
It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.
Video: ‘Homophobic’ 6-Week-Old Baby Cries After Gay Dad Tells Him ‘There Is No Mama’
Maybe we'll keep some InfoWars content up.
I hope the takeover of InfoWars by @theonion.com and @timheidecker.bsky.social that resulted from the bankruptcy brought on by Alex Jones’ evil attacks on the victims of Sandy Hook brings you as much joy as it does me.
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series
Going to teach a class in the near future where all we do is listen to Fugazi.
VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?
ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
Happy 80th birthday, Tim Curry.
You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi
Thank you for a wonderful conversation — as always!
🚨 New Episode Alert! 🚨
Episode 62: The Zone of Interest with @courtenaycal.bsky.social
We talk 'death thrifting', the banality of evil, and the historical parallels to current political events. #Sociology #popculture #moviereviews
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I always enjoy talking to the incredibly intelligent and insightful @thesociologists.bsky.social. This episode I was in my element as a historian of fascism. We recorded this a while ago, but it’s still oh so relevant.
“Zone of Interest” is one of the most important films in recent years not only because of what it can show us about the banality of evil during the Holocaust but also what it can reveal to us about what’s happening now.
Listen as a sociologist and historian go off.
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We have 8 copies of the Do the Right Thing Criterion Blu-ray. And that's the triple truth, Ruth! mzs.press/Do-the-Right...
You know who didn’t sign up for this? Bears.
Fig 1: The cover of David Lynch's large-format (i.e. coffee table sized) book Someone is in My House, collecting photos of his work from across different media. The cover shows a crimson plume of energy or liquid erupting against a black background dotted with white specks that could be stars or maybe sparks. The book is propped up against a white, subway-tiled backsplash in a kitchen. The only lighting source is a flashlight that casts harsh shadows.
Fig 2: A photo of The Art of Twin Peaks, a special issue of the independently published David Lynch fanzine Blue Rose. The issue's cover depicts Laura Palmer in her prom dress and tiara against a vibrant blue background, screaming, while the words and letters from the publication's title "The Art of Twin Peaks" frame her, and in some cases obscure her. Her right eye, for instance, looks gouged out, but it's actually a visual trick caused by a bit of one black letter falling perfectly across her eye socket. The magazine is mounted on the wall, by means unclear. The lighting is produced by a single flashlight, which casts harsh, almost Gothic shadows on the wall, the same white, subway-tiled backsplash seen in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3: A two-page spread from The Art of Twin Peaks. It shows five stylistically different fan-produced artworks, all inspired by the Twin Peaks character Audrey Horne. This display, too, is lit with a flashlight.
Fig. 4: Closeup of a page of The Art of Twin Peaks: an interview with actor Michael Horse, who played Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill of the Twin Peaks police department. In the upper left hand corner of the image is the Great Northern key chain mentioned in the original post. It's (faux) gold, with a circular finger loop and an identifying hotel room tag (Room 315) that has the approximate shape of a diamond, taller than it is narrow, with rounded edges.
In honor of Dale Cooper's upcoming b-day (April 19), @mzspress.bsky.social is having a David Lynch sale. With ANY purchase from the Lynch section, you get The Art of Twin Peaks. For $100+ we throw in a Great Northern key chain (see Fig. 4). Limit 1 per customer. Inventory:
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radiohead's let down - you know the part
Orban’s defeat also removes a major part of the far-right populist infrastructure worldwide, which I wrote about this fall: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.
Such good news. My country needs to take notes.
