Thrash is a terrifying movie about the real-life danger of the savage, ruthless predators that unapologetically terrorize communities with grisly mass-death and mayhem.
And also about sharks.
Scientists: "Across the planet, permafrost is estimated to hold about 1700 billion tons of carbon, roughly three times the amount currently present in the atmosphere."
Big Oil CEO [holding a flamethrower to a glacier]: "Not for long!"
While studying at MIT, cognitive scientist Adam Haar Horowitz discovered how to control dreams. Then the advertisers started calling...
From "You Need This" the new documentary from Ryan Andrej Lough and Adam McKay.
“The hypothesis that thawing of permafrost could release sufficient climate forcing gases not only to continue but to accelerate climate change is one step closer to being confirmed by the results we are publishing today.”
It’s funny they call it a “hypothesis” - it’s a simple fact that if a massive new reservoir of heat trapping gas suddenly gets loose, it will accelerate warming.
North America only for the moment 😕
While studying at MIT, cognitive scientist Adam Haar Horowitz discovered how to control dreams. Then the advertisers started calling...
From "You Need This" the new documentary from Ryan Andrej Lough and Adam McKay.
Scientists: "Across the planet, permafrost is estimated to hold about 1700 billion tons of carbon, roughly three times the amount currently present in the atmosphere."
Big Oil CEO [holding a flamethrower to a glacier]: "Not for long!"
Spoiler alert: Yes. In fact, $1B of total net worth is now the minimum requirement to get into heaven. 😜
New Episode of #doyouevencare with comic Kylie Vincent is out now!
"[You Need This] understands that the true scandal is not that people like stuff. It is that an entire economic order has learned to colonize even our most private inner life, until the difference between desire & demand, selfhood & branding, dreaming & shopping, begins to disappear..."
But seriously: "using the sun would lower your energy (and lots of other) costs while avoiding catastrophe, your elected officials are ripping you off, and the oil industry is lying to you" isn't exactly a depressing story 🤷♂️
And what reason even is there to report the news and inform the public other than selling advertising!
"Voluminous empirical data show that most of the public cares about climate change... But this overwhelming majority does not realize it’s a majority, partly because its existence is not reflected in most news coverage. In other words, they have been a silent majority but also a *silenced* majority"
Math lady meme: "If war and pollution are profitable... and the system prioritizes profit with no accountability... and the lawmakers with the power to change the system can legally be bought and bribed by profits... but continued war and pollution are destroying everything..."
It's not hard to see where this leads. This system isn't long for the world, one way or another.
"The excess profits come from the pockets of ordinary people… as well as from businesses incurring higher energy bills. Dozens of countries have cut fuel taxes to help, meaning those nations… are raising less money for public services."
We pay. They profit. Then we pay some more.
Disaster response expert @samlmontano.bsky.social: "In the same way that we look to hold oil companies responsible for spills or workplace accidents... I think the approach of looking to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for climate damages makes a lot of sense."
The film’s most alarming segment is about the next frontier of advertising: your dreams. Adam Haar Horowitz, a scientist at MIT, warns of the emerging practice of “targeted dream incubation” in which companies engineer ads into the subconscious through audio and video clips — and, they note, Coors had already tested it publicly in the lead-up to Super Bowl LV to manipulate people to buy their beer. It’s a new incursion so preposterous it was a gag on Futurama twenty-seven years ago. That the final frontier of producing consumer desire could be our subconscious is a scarier thought than any horror film could provoke.
"That the final frontier of producing consumer desire could be our subconscious is a scarier thought than any horror film could provoke." 💯 @jacobinmag.bsky.social
"[You Need This] understands that the true scandal is not that people like stuff. It is that an entire economic order has learned to colonize even our most private inner life, until the difference between desire & demand, selfhood & branding, dreaming & shopping, begins to disappear..."
This is just some niche wonky science on whether or not civilization as we know it is still around in 18 mos.
“Oh... did you feel that?” 😬😂
Not your typical narration from Serra Naiman in 'YOU NEED THIS' the new documentary from @ghostpanther.bsky.social
Only available to rent/buy - not via any paid streaming services. (Can you believe none of the big streamers picked it up 🤔😆)
$4.99 on independent platform grasshopperfilm.com, also available on the Apple TV and Prime Video stores.
"The section about how brands are using recent research to incept ads within [our] dreams stands out for its reckless goal of gaining entry into the most intimate of private spaces. It’s perhaps the most striking aspect of a stomach-churning tour through the excesses of unconstrained consumerism."
Written and Directed by Ryan Andrej Lough and produced by Adam McKay, YOU NEED THIS is now available to rent or buy in North America on Apple TV, Prime Video, and at (independent platform) Grasshopper Film.
watch.grasshopperfilm.com/films/you-ne...
“Oh... did you feel that?” 😬😂
Not your typical narration from Serra Naiman in 'YOU NEED THIS' the new documentary from @ghostpanther.bsky.social
Want to hear a little dirty talk? 🌶️🤐🤤
New episode of #headlinenewds ft. Bree Essrig. Do not watch this ⬛⬛⬛ video in a US government facility!
@ghostpanther.bsky.social new climate-disaster shark movie drops TOMORROW on Netflix!
Climate-fueled hurricane storm surge + sharks + a trapped pregnant woman = 🍿😱!
Disasters: Not just for the movies. THRASH star Phoebe Dynevor spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her real-life experience with climate disasters.
New episode of Do You Even Care with the one and only @michaelburns.bsky.social talking philosophy, protest movements and dirty banks — now live!
When @michaelburns.bsky.social asks to be nerdy for 24 seconds, you say YES!💡🤓🦏
In the 26 seconds it takes economist Juliet Schor to walk down the aisle...
YOU NEED THIS | Now streaming | watch.grasshopperfilm.com/films/you-need-this
