Anthropic? The woke AI company?
01.03.2026 12:34 β π 30 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0Anthropic? The woke AI company?
01.03.2026 12:34 β π 30 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0I think about 70% of the reason that Ornette gets a flattering portrait in Burnsβs Jazz is because of the story Charlie Haden has of Leonard Bernstein being so mesmerized by their legendary breakout residency at the Five Spot that he jumped on stage and put his ear to Hadenβs bass.
01.03.2026 00:18 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Re-normalized celebrations of image disorders spurred by utterly garish drugs and cosmetic procedures, wars for oil now dispensing with any justification, another economic crisis. It really feels like Iβm back in my early-Aughts teens but with everything pushed into total freakshow maximalism
28.02.2026 23:19 β π 103 π 21 π¬ 5 π 2Democracy was killed in a darkness-involved shooting
28.02.2026 23:14 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Maybe the only writer I would compare to Toni Morrison in both prose style and the impact of it.
28.02.2026 23:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I prob donβt need to re-read the earlier books in Marilynne Robinsonβs Gilead series to finally read Jack, but I am anyway, and I paused getting to an early passage of Gilead where the reverend recalls the Spanish flu and muses it was Godβs punishment for the waste of WWI and no one learned anything
28.02.2026 22:53 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Which of course doesnβt mean they wonβt do it anyway bc the golden plan is to use AI (or the mirage of it) to destroy jobs until all that is left for humans is tilling fields and dying for ratings
28.02.2026 22:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0News media has been gushing over footage of airstrikes (βitβs like a video game!β) since the first Gulf War but boots on the ground becomes impossible to broadcast fast bc it speeds up how much we the stupid plebs hate this.
28.02.2026 22:29 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0The Iraq War AUMF vote destroyed multiple political careers and, via Hillary Clinton, helped decide at least two presidential elections. Congressβs big takeaway from that experience was to stop holding votes on wars.
28.02.2026 20:42 β π 213 π 49 π¬ 5 π 3This trailer was appended to seemingly every VHS of that year. I lost count of how many times I saw it before getting to whatever my mom or grandparents had rented
28.02.2026 21:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I had to look away from the gym TVs because I started to get so mad. They had one (1) person say that this would only complete the USβs slide into a pariah state and then every other guest was a deep state demon saying not to waste this golden opportunity for regime change.
28.02.2026 21:48 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Lear and Hamlet justly get focused on as centuries-ahead-of-the-curve psychological portraits but they are also the logical endpoint of Shakespeareβs savage political depictions of royalty as, at best, benign dictators and at most often ossified, corrupt isolatoes and addled youth waiting their turn
28.02.2026 19:40 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0The day before starting a war with Iran, the Secretary of Defense was focused on removing trans scouters from the Boy Scouts.
28.02.2026 17:13 β π 2005 π 540 π¬ 50 π 10It must have absolutely killed Marsalis and Crouch for even one passing reference to jazzβs affiliation with hip-hop to make it into Burnsβ doc but props to whomever picked this clip specifically of Ron Carter laying down a simply filthy yet nimble bass for MC Solaar youtu.be/e7jR1lYllO8?...
28.02.2026 19:19 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Mr Peanutbutter party banners gag from Bojack remains undefeated
28.02.2026 19:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fitting that in Americaβs final form, the epicenter of evil will be a private golf resort for wealthy pedophiles.
28.02.2026 15:52 β π 2748 π 741 π¬ 13 π 8Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city β you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders.Β You will be safe here.
28.02.2026 17:50 β π 9647 π 1388 π¬ 48 π 82
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
Like fucking clockwork bsky.app/profile/schu...
28.02.2026 15:51 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βTACOβ worked for like three weeks 10 months ago and like anyone could have predicted it enraged him so much that now he triples down on being the cornfield vanishing toddler from Twilight Zone
28.02.2026 14:57 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Presumably they had to cut footage of Crouch using gay slurs to talk about Cecil Taylor
28.02.2026 14:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Fully Jokerfying, I began to find crimeβ¦humorousβ¦
28.02.2026 14:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Profoundly frustrating experience of highs and lows canceling each other out. Par for the course with me for Burns letterboxd.com/jakepcole/fi...
28.02.2026 12:21 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The US is assisting Israelβs one and only military strategy βtarget schools and hospitalsβ bc the walls are closing in on both countriesβ sex trafficking power brokers. Itβs as simple as that and neither even tried to create a different justifying narrative.
28.02.2026 11:52 β π 50 π 13 π¬ 1 π 0Before I spend the rest of the day spiraling Iβll get out that I finished Ken Burnsβs Jazz and seeing the entire final hour of this Wynton Marsalis-shaped doc celebrate the genre-saving contributions of Wynton Marsalis was so shameless I could only laugh.
28.02.2026 11:40 β π 49 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0Schumer is on the record stating his perceived number-one job is maintaining unconditional support for Israel among the American left. And because he is Chuck Schumer, a supermajority of registered Dems and independents now see Israel for what it is and will no longer go down with this suicide pact.
28.02.2026 11:35 β π 15 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0Schumer is currently attempting to draft a statement that doesnβt fully give away how thrilled he is by this.
28.02.2026 11:23 β π 36 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0One of the fundamentally dumbest books Iβve read in a while. A guy who dresses like a Jazz Age dandy and drives a restored awooga horn-ass jalopyβs idea of sci-fi
28.02.2026 11:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If David Zaslav comes out of this looking like a mastermindβ¦the only acceptable action by Ellison can be found in the Bushido
28.02.2026 02:36 β π 56 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.
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