Chris

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

With nothing more than hard work and determination, Christine Oreskovich and Kyle Shaw created and built The Coast. It was one of the last alt weeklies standing—until it wasn’t. @timbousquet.bsky.social, editor and publisher of the Halifax Examiner, investigates: thewalrus.ca/inside-the-tech-...

49K surprisingly. 🕺

letterboxd.com/film/strictl...

YouTube video by CRITERION Ryan Coogler’s Closet Picks

Ryan Coogler's evident love for the movies he talks about makes me want to watch them all.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wz...

"Describe a favorite movie in the most misleading way possible."

Free spirited German girl and forgetful American meet cute and take road trip to Paris.

Four movie posters for my last four watched. From left to right, Murder by Decree (3 stars), Constantine (3.5 stars), Samurai Wolf (no rating), The Accountant 2 (4 stars)

I was disappointed a bit by Murder by Decree, and I have lots of love for Holmes films. Perhaps the style didn't work for me. And honestly I think I need to move Constantine up that missing 1/2 star.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Re LLMs writing term papers: the other day I saw someone say that using LLMs to write is like bringing a forklift to the gym. It's not that the weights need to go up; it's that you need to do the lifting. The doing of the work is the result, not the paper being done or the weights having moved.

‘Sinners’ Director Ryan Coogler Teases ‘X-Files’ Series Reboot, Confirms He’s Spoken With Original Star Gillian Anderson 'Sinners' writer-director Ryan Coogler says he's turning his attention to developing a series reboot of 'The X-Files' as his next project.

Sinners is a knockout so I have hope

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

The Fixer: Tony Gilroy on cracking the codes of Michael Clayton, Andor and more • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine Filmmaker Tony Gilroy speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about the long gestation period, studio doubts, sterling casting and unexpectedly enduring impact of his legal thriller masterpiece Michael Clayton. ...

Great piece with Tony Gilroy. Apparently I need to watch "Duplicity because I never gave that a chance. boxd.it/2ug

To be honest there were tears. Just the lyrics “Should pretty boys in discos / Distract you from your novel” sum up basically everything I wanted in a relationship in my 20s. I would have loved being on either side of the plea. And I’m definitely gonna blubber again for Acoustic Guitar tonight.

The band The Magnetic Fields performing on stage at Rhe Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto.

For whatever reason @themagfields.bsky.social “Come Back from San Francisco” is one of my favs. Just about moved to tears watching them perform it live.

Ted Lasso is coming back for season 4 Believe.

Ted Lasso is coming back for season 4

Smiling lady in glasses, with blonde hair. (Dr Isaacson)

Feels a good day for a thread. So I would like to introduce you to a mostly forgotten, but actually rather pivotal figure in PC history.

Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.

If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1

For someone with a moderate level of reading comprehension text is so much better at quickly transferring information than videos or podcasts. Im bothered by what seems like half the “news” in the world being posted as media only.

YouTube video by The Curious Bartender James Hoffmann - Coffee, Caffeine, World Barista Championships, Coffee Economics, YouTube

At some point I burned out on podcasts of "straight white men talking" and don't listen to many these days. But @jameshoffmann.bsky.social continues to be thoughtful and articulate and I found this discussion worth the listen (with my morning coffee).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggGA...

YouTube video by NineInchNailsVEVO Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug

David Lynch's passing calls me to recall "The Perfect Drug," written for Lynch's Lost Highway, a personal NIN fave, though I'd not ever seen the video for it, it's amazing in a real "More goth, no, more goth than that, what part of 'more goth' do you not understand" sort of way

youtu.be/dn3j6-yQKWQ

This drug is the 'breakthrough of the year' -- and it could mean the end of the HIV epidemic That's the title that Science magazine is bestowing upon the medication called lenacapavir — a twice yearly injectable that prevents infection by the HIV virus.

Or, for example, fund making this accessible for the people of sub-Saharan Africa and possibly remove HIV/AIDS from the planet.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Dear rich people. More of this, less oligarchy.

YouTube video by PlayStation Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games

Pretty sure @druckmann.bsky.social stuck that @petshopboys.co.uk track in this Cowboy Bebop-vibing, early-digital-tech-loving trailer so he can charge whatever he wants when the game comes out and I 👏🏻 Will 👏🏻 Pay 👏🏻 It 👏🏻
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLGy...

Neo - Kermit
Trinity - Miss Piggy
Morpheus - Sam the Eagle
Cypher - Fozzie Bear
Tank - Bunsen Honeydew
Dozer - Beaker
Switch - Scooter
Apoc - Swedish Chef
Mouse - Animal
Agents Brown + Jones - Statler + Waldorf
DuJour - Janice

(Just noticing a disturbing lack of female-coded Muppets🙄)

Pick one movie, keep one actor, the rest are Muppets.

The Matrix.
Keep Hugo Weaving.

YouTube video by NPR Music The Magnetic Fields: Tiny Desk Concert

I unexpectedly came across this new Tiny Desk concert from @themagfields.bsky.social today. And discovered they are touring for the 25th anniversary of one of my favourite albums! Tickets bought, flight booked. Can't wait.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnFQ...