Keri Ferencz

Poltergeist art. "It knows what scares you."

Poltergeist screenshot.

As is only proper, I'm dedicating this month on exp. to scary games! First up for subscribers we go way back to what I believe is the very first horror film to video game adaptation: Poltergeist for TRS-80 CoCo(!) expzine.com/2025/10/07/p...

Pre-order exp. 2602: expzine.com/current-issue/

Absolutely don't do it. Energy and water costs are doubling for home and business owners in some US cities that have centers.

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush? Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

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Book with two spines

The Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö is releasing a special edition of Orwell’s 1984. The book cannot be read, on account of having two spines. The “double bind” is a protest against censorship across the world: malmo.se/boundbookspr...

Jane Austen. Spike Lee. MrBeast. “Modern Family.” The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog search tool lets you see which creative works tech companies may have used to train their generative-AI models: https://theatln.tc/vQSlfiyC

Nationalism is complex at best but big flag time always gets me at the Dome.

Every time you use stupid ChatGPT, a thing that I once saw get a long multiplication sum wrong, it uses ten times as much electricity as searching the same thing on Google and the server cooling systems mean each use consumes half a litre of water.

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

YouTube video by Taskmaster Write And Perform A Song For A Stranger - FULL TASK

Loved last season but S5 is the all-timer for me. Bob Mortimer! Sally Phillips and her gonzo “special cuddle”! The greatest musical task ever: m.youtube.com/watch?v=emz6...

Desperate to start the new TM season! Such a balm for all the real-life insanity!

No it fucking doesn’t

A reminder share.google/OwIEPAiBqPNp...

If you haven't watched ANDOR yet I recommend you watch ANDOR. You don't have to be a huge STAR WARS fan. It's simply very, very, accidentally relevant to our times.

But balance it out by also watching something fluffy, like GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW or some Nat Geo show about cute baby animals.

Sound on for an instant 90s nostalgia kick.

Easy (and right!) to be up in arms about AI “actors,” but don’t forget: it’s also an energy-sucking climate destroyer.

OpenAI Unveils Opt-Out Policy For Its Sora Video Generator OpenAI has revealed it will freely incorporate copyrighted material into its Sora model unless rights holders formally opt out.

All artists need to know: OpenAI’s new Sora video generator will use copyrighted work by default unless rights holders opt out. Artists and studios may need to act to protect their creations.
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As if Toronto’s vibe hasn’t been eroded enough, now we’re losing the Imperial?! Pour one out.

Listen, Mountainhead was not a good movie, but if it taught us one thing it’s something like this is a terrible fucking idea.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have.

I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

FUCKING FINALLY. now let's stop shipping arms to israel already @mark-carney.bsky.social

found this unexpectedly delightful

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

I'll keep it simple:

More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

exp. 2602 cover.

exp. 2602 contents preview.

Pleased to announced that exp. 2602, a new #zine in my exploration of the 1970s releases for the Atari 2600, is available for pre-order NOW at our new online store! Read more: expzine.com/2025/09/16/a...

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

This weirdly makes me feel better about my scrambled egg brain? Must be something to do with the protein…

Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda and Sally Field in Runaway Nuns. With Timothée Chalomet as the locksmith and all the guys from Conclave as lazy casting for the Church leaders

When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% — please don’t tell me bans don’t work, because I don’t want to hear it.