Angelica Jade Bastién

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Few people actually read and STUDY Black women intellectual's work or take it seriously. I believe if they did, their work would be much better.

The conversations about love, relationships, ABUNDANCE etc... are all theorized in Black feminist scholarship.

Increasingly I think a major function of “masculinity” IS its crisis — a vehicle for the dominant & dominating group to justify focusing their social attentions primarily on themselves

Film Review: ‘The Teacher’ offers a stirring look at resistance and resilience in the occupied West Bank While the world’s attention is now focused on the genocide in Gaza, Farah Nabulsi’s film “The Teacher” offers a powerful story of resistance and resilience in the occupied West Bank.

While the world's attention is now focused on the genocide in Gaza, Farah Nabulsi’s film "The Teacher" offers a powerful story of resistance and resilience in the occupied West Bank.

I don’t think we know enough just yet to understand how this will affect NPR and PBS but both received a very small percentage of their budgets from the CPB. This will however have an immediate effect on local public radio and TV affiliates, esp in rural & Indigenous areas

More info here (gift 🔗)

apocalypses are slow. we’ve been taught to expect a sudden onset, a single catastrophic event, an immediate ending. but it’s the incremental, gradual, interminable removal of all the elements that comprise a polite society.

there is little that separates the AI-altering of film argument from pan and scan we successfully defeated two generations ago.

film has leaped and bound across generations… should new technology retroactively erase authorship? care? artistic considerations? it’s a feckless game

a fundamental argument of the AI-modified “wizard of oz” at the sphere is that it makes it more accessible for younger audiences.

arguably the most watched film of all time for its artistic achievement must be altered away from artistic intent to become ~even more~ accessible?

somebody please take in this sweet mama cat my heart has broken.

I think step one to getting laid is being capable of considering the fact that many women and enbies also like to fuck, actually

And the unique focus on getting men laid in a way that they enjoy is just patriarchy

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Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “It makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped by Jeffrey. She had this evil smirk on her face. And she enjoyed it.”

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GIVE THIS WOMAN FIVE BUCKS. COME THE FUCK ON.

I KNOW YOU GOT FIVE BUCKS. IF I HAD FIVE BUCKS YOU HAVE FIVE BUCKS.

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This is my first started review ever. Feels nice. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

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Whew I feel the same way!

Epstein and Oedipus A few years ago, when American culture was melting down over the concept of “trigger warnings”, I asked my mother about them.

I really loved this incisive and emotionally astute piece. open.substack.com/pub/kaitlyng...

There’s lots of little details in the film that still bug me and make me wonder if Gunn has the juice to bring an intriguing new cinematic universe to fruition. (I don’t think he does.)

It is weird time for fandom across the board. That’s very much true.

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I’m getting this piece about the moral absolutism defining people’s pop culture consumption and Superman as well as my first Movies That Fuck column lightly edited by a valued friend today. So they’ll be up before the end of the week.

I said I wouldn’t write in-depth about Superman. But in continuing to get rather intense reactions to my mild, brief note about it I decided to write about how loser-like superhero movie fandom and why. I think it’s odd how people are so wedding their identities to their media consumption.

the film series on hurricane katrina i co-curated for MoMA film begins one month from today 🤯 the full program notes are now live: www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

The entire Trek fandom should be pro-Palestine because it’s literally Bajor

It’s so damn good. Thanks for encouraging me to check it out.

Alaa sent me this video and asked me to share it. she is a really brave and kind person who is trying to do anything she can for her kids. please donate if you can, and share/repost if you’re not able.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

Given ICE brutality, it's unusual to get video evidence of how they operate. But here's chilling documentation that shows the indiscriminate and violent approach that ICE takes to arrests - here, including a US citizen: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating