So Americans are paying a foreign oil company to shut down clean energy projects here at home, using money that was never supposed to be spent this way, with zero strings attached. That is illegal, unethical, and a scandal hiding in plain sight.

MY SON JOHN, amazing film that could not be more perfectly calubrated to illuminate the incoherence of right wing american ideology

*overlooking the horrific and brazen war crimes
**thinking past almost unimaginable economic devastation
***unless a likely federal AI bailout involves repurposing existing data centers for mass surveillance anyway

what i'm saying is my brain's been simmering in the boiling pot of reality too long

what kind of "-pilled" is it to think war in Iran is Actually Good* b/c it will hasten an AI bubble pop, which will be Actually Good** b/c it will bankrupt Oracle, which will be Actually Good b/c Trump's ability to retain power against popular backlash hinges on Oracle's mass surveillance program***

dismantling ACORN was Obama’s biggest mistake

noooooooo

i love ebay

Sam Altman

Paddy McAloon

Sam Altman looking like Temu Paddy McAloon lipsynching “Appetite” at Sanremo in 1986

I agree with this and it's something for which community groups should already be developing concrete plans. I think reparations are already due.

rogue states led by war criminals

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

The Homosexuals, Hearts in Exile [UK, Art Punk] (1978)

The Homosexuals, Hearts in Exile [UK, Art Punk] (1978)
https://redd.it/u1zdq6
https://youtu.be/vgPoHUajcY4

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Working Week - Venceremos (We Will Win) (1984) full 12" Single YouTube video by sipsun8

did you know robert wyatt and tracey thorn duet on a latin jazz/sophisti-pop anthem written in solidarity with the victims of the pinochet regime? didn’t think so m.youtube.com/watch?v=cNTd...

Joseph Losey’s ACCIDENT
Emmanuel Bourdieu’s POISON FRIENDS and Arnaud Desplechin’s MY SEX LIFE

i think it’s pedagogical malpractice NOT to teach at least a few that students will hate! I always try to teach at least one that everyone will stand together in loathing for the right reasons. Hating films in a rigorous, principled, prosocial way is something we should be modeling for students!

drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Family Fodder, Film Music [UK, Art Pop] (1981)

Family Fodder, Film Music [UK, Art Pop] (1981)
https://redd.it/u1fzo7
https://youtu.be/jDNs6wOvK7E

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Rachel's Live at Lounge Ax 1997-07-23 : Rachel's : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Rachel'sJuly 23rd, 1997Lounge AxChicago, ILUSARecording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.Lineage: Master DAT > Tascam DA30mkii >...

listened to this 1997 Rachel’s show last night, really beautiful recording archive.org/details/ajc0...

farocki if you want tomas’ trio? the matrix and ghost in the shell seem like the most significant ones missing here, but putting in a word for colossus: the forbin project, demon seed, and yes, AI.

screening on 16mm for free this friday at block cinema at northwestern! www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2026/...

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That’s a relief to hear i suppose! i’d much rather this place be an outlier…

i’m laughably old-school about this but it feels like younger profs and graduate students i encounter have largely given up the idea that screening is a core pedagogical element of film studies, which is slow disciplinary suicide to my mind

it’s not always university officials who are cutting these. a lot of faculty at a certain university i work at have given up on the idea of dedicated screening. there’s a lot of excusemaking about student schedules but frankly i think it’s largely out of laziness

this film is too insane for me not to love it. especially impressed by the strobe/eeg machine that induces multi-layered psychic eavesdropping into states of possession. also the sick Goblin-mode Morricone score