Jake Cole

Anthropic? The woke AI company?

I think about 70% of the reason that Ornette gets a flattering portrait in Burns’s 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 Haden’s bass.

Re-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 I’m back in my early-Aughts teens but with everything pushed into total freakshow maximalism

Democracy was killed in a darkness-involved shooting

Maybe the only writer I would compare to Toni Morrison in both prose style and the impact of it.

I prob don’t need to re-read the earlier books in Marilynne Robinson’s 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 God’s punishment for the waste of WWI and no one learned anything

Which of course doesn’t mean they won’t 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

News media has been gushing over footage of airstrikes (“it’s like a video game!”) 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.

The Iraq War AUMF vote destroyed multiple political careers and, via Hillary Clinton, helped decide at least two presidential elections. Congress’s big takeaway from that experience was to stop holding votes on wars.

This 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

I 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 US’s 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.

Lear and Hamlet justly get focused on as centuries-ahead-of-the-curve psychological portraits but they are also the logical endpoint of Shakespeare’s savage political depictions of royalty as, at best, benign dictators and at most often ossified, corrupt isolatoes and addled youth waiting their turn

The day before starting a war with Iran, the Secretary of Defense was focused on removing trans scouters from the Boy Scouts.

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It must have absolutely killed Marsalis and Crouch for even one passing reference to jazz’s affiliation with hip-hop to make it into Burns’ 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?...

The Mr Peanutbutter party banners gag from Bojack remains undefeated

Fitting that in America’s final form, the epicenter of evil will be a private golf resort for wealthy pedophiles.

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

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...

“TACO” 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

Presumably they had to cut footage of Crouch using gay slurs to talk about Cecil Taylor

Fully Jokerfying, I began to find crime…humorous…

A review of Jazz (2001) I knew from the moment that Wynton Marsalis had the first word in this that I would take issue with Ken Burns’s Jazz. I make no bones about the fact that I consider Wynton Marsalis to be the most mali...

Profoundly frustrating experience of highs and lows canceling each other out. Par for the course with me for Burns letterboxd.com/jakepcole/fi...

The US is assisting Israel’s one and only military strategy “target schools and hospitals” bc the walls are closing in on both countries’ sex trafficking power brokers. It’s as simple as that and neither even tried to create a different justifying narrative.

Before I spend the rest of the day spiraling I’ll get out that I finished Ken Burns’s 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.

Schumer 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.

Schumer is currently attempting to draft a statement that doesn’t fully give away how thrilled he is by this.

One of the fundamentally dumbest books I’ve read in a while. A guy who dresses like a Jazz Age dandy and drives a restored awooga horn-ass jalopy’s idea of sci-fi

If David Zaslav comes out of this looking like a mastermind…the only acceptable action by Ellison can be found in the Bushido

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.