James Perrin

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

How to quit Spotify This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

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Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.

A new NY state law requires retailers to disclose when a "price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." What personal data?? Why a particular price?? There's a lot of unanswered questions, but the disclosure is attached to eggs and toilet paper: www.wired.com/story/algori...

The Traitors UK season 4 premieres Jan. 1 on BBC. Episodes 2 and 3 will air on the following Friday and Saturday. #TheTraitors

Legion of Doom facing off against the JLA

Alex Ross - bad seeds and purehearts

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using worke...

Companies that use AI regularly turn to overseas workers to train their algorithms, often because the labor is cheaper. But the nature of Flock’s business—creating a surveillance system that constantly monitors U.S. residents—means that footage might be more sensitive than other AI training jobs.

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build its Surveillance AI Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using worke...

New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people
www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...

Celebrity Traitors UK just dropped in the US and though it might not be the best season I’ve seen, it’s without a doubt the most hilarious.

MODOK!!

Steve Englehart, Herb Trimpe, and Jack Abel - interior splashin’ in Incredible Hulk 167 (1973), on one of King Kirby’s weirdest designs.

The Secret Agent movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert This is one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive.

"Once in a while, you see a movie that doesn’t feel made, but extracted from a dreaming mind. It won’t go to you and hand over its meanings. You have to go to it." I reviewed The Secret Agent, my favorite film of 2025. Haunting, beautiful, profound. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on November 28, 1997.

The Great Beatles Documentary That’s Nearly Impossible to See (Legally)

Good morning! I took the opportunity of the BEATLES ANTHOLOGY's streaming debut to write about THE COMPLEAT BEATLES, the (imho) far superior Fab Four doc, and why, because of the ANTHOLOGY, it's so hard to see.

Gift link, no paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/m...

It Was the Photo That Changed the Course of History. The Story Behind It Might Be All Wrong. A new Netflix documentary calls into question the story behind the image that changed the course of history.

A new Netflix documentary makes a compelling case that the story behind one of the most important photographs of the 20th century isn’t what we thought it was. Does that matter?

Users Flee Musk’s X as Reddit Overtakes Platform in Popularity X has slipped among U.S. users while Reddit soars in popularity, new research finds.

Despite making a raft of changes, new research found that Musk's X has slipped in popularity among Americans.

Happy Thanksgiving!

'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.

'The dig team at the Ness, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the British Isles, are not revealing what they believe the find to be until more work is done.

But they say it is like nothing else ever found at the site – and may not even be Neolithic.'

'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

Charles M. Schulz at the drawing table

“All the loves in the strip are unrequited; all the baseball games are lost; all the test scores are D-minuses; The Great Pumpkin never comes; and the football is always pulled away.”

— Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) #BOTD

After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.

Can’t wait for the final Tribal Council moment when Sage reveals to the jury that every time she said she was off farting, she was actually planning their blindsides

It would make Kristie Bennett look like child’s play #Survivor49

Apple TV pulls The Hunt over plagiarism accusation The Hunt is (not) on.

Apple TV pulls The Hunt over plagiarism accusation

The move toward settlements and licensing agreements, distasteful as it no doubt seems to many artists, represents a safer path. And so long as artists can opt out of their work being included, the most obvious direct harm to individuals can be avoided. Still, you can probably imagine what lesson the tech industry will take from this development. Just as Google learned with books, or YouTube did with Viacom, it rarely pays to ask for permission — and forgiveness often comes more cheaply than you would guess.

Record labels had the chance to stand up for copyright against AI scrapers — but now they're folding www.platformer.news/suno-warner-...

OpenAI Says ChatGPT Not to Blame in Teen’s Death by Suicide OpenAI defended itself against a lawsuit accusing ChatGPT of coaching a 16-year-old to kill himself, saying the chatbot directed the teenager to seek help more than 100 times.

“OpenAI defended itself against a lawsuit accusing ChatGPT of coaching a 16-year-old to kill himself, saying the chatbot directed the teenager to seek help more than 100 times.”

I teased this last night in What I’m Hearing but now confirmed: Paramount WILL release Rush Hour 4 after prodding from Trump on behalf of Brett Ratner. Distribution deal. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar is lining up financing. Get ready for the dumbest possible state-controlled media.

Vince Shlomi, the ShamWow Guy, is running for a House seat from Texas, as a Republican, with a mission to "destroy wokeism"

That's got to be one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

I wrote about the beautiful TRAIN DREAMS, and how one change from its source material turns the film into a timely argument against complicity, inaction, and ignoring crimes done to our neighbors, esp. when they look different from us. SPOILERS. @vulture.com:

www.vulture.com/article/trai...

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

Seven Things You Might Not Know About Cranberries - JSTOR Daily They're red, tart, and mostly eaten at Thanksgiving. Love them or hate them, here are seven things you might not have known about the humble cranberry.

Seven Things You Might Not Know About Cranberries

They’re red, tart, and mostly eaten at Thanksgiving. Love them or hate them, here are seven things you might not have known about the humble cranberry.

JSTOR Daily

daily.jstor.org/seven-things...

85 years ago today, November 22nd, 1940: All Star Comics 3: the first appearance of the Justice Society of America! Under a cover by E. E. Hibbard!