Colson Whitehead

I love this building, I did not know this was where they did that scene in The Godfather, and I hope they get the place fixed up.

RIP filmmaker Jonathan Kaplan, director of one of the very best movies about American teenagers, 1979’s OVER THE EDGE starring Michael Kramer, Matt Dillon, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano, & Tom Fergus. Kaplan may be better known for directing . . . More at www.instagram.com/p/DM6tC61Nqn...

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Pretty surprised to have made it this far in life with such minimal cursed relic interaction.

it’s a real testament to the intellectual traditions of these centuries-old institutions, folding to authoritarian pressure like paper in a storm and kneeling to naked financial extortion

Yep.

Just heard my dad say, "The sequel isn't as good as the original" and when I asked him what he was talking about he said, "you and your older brother”

indie rock guy releasing an album called “Allegations” to muddy the waters a bit on wikipedia

For @letterboxd.social's favorite underseen pictures of the last 25 years list, I chose Barry Jenkins' THE GAZE.

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NYC is on track to receive * 2 million * fewer international visitors this year than previously projected. Significant economic blow. Direct result of Trump’s crazy policies.

LISTEN: ‘These Were the Real Culture Wars’

I talked with @jhoberman.bsky.social about his marvelous new book "Everything Is Now," a heady journey through the 1960s NYC avant-garde, and you can hear it all here on LIT NYC, an offshoot of @thecity.nyc's FAQ NYC podcast.

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Exclusive: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.

saw a guy give really annoying advice on the career guidance subreddit so i checked his post history and it's just a bunch of threads in r/werewolf with titles like "werewolves being used as supersoldiers" and "would a werewolf bite have a different effect on an elderly person"

50 years ago
Johnny, Tommy, Dee Dee and Joey on their way to CBGBs, July 18, 1975.

Photo by Bob Gruen.

#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #ramones #cbgb #newyorkcity #history #punkrockhistory

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Amazon Invests in ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable, Which Launches Showrunner: A Tool for User-Directed TV Shows Amazon has invested in Fable, a start-up whose 'Netflix of AI' Showunner gen-AI tool lets users create scenes or entire episodes of a TV show.

Coming soon: "a service that lets you type in a few words to create scenes — or entire episodes — of a TV show, either from scratch or based on an existing story-world someone else has created.” variety.com/2025/digital...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

This is a historic horror that the United States government allows to get worse every day.

I've been thinking of writing a thing and what I've noticed is that a large part of what I would use to write the piece is no longer easily accessible. Tweets deleted, accounts gone, media outlets out of business, links rotted, companies/projects that no longer exist and didn't archive etc. etc.

A New Yorker cartoon where a guy asks ChatGPT why his energy bills are spiking

Public Progress Solutions and Zenith Research polling breakdown between Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, Jim Walden, and Andrew Cuomo

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.

Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.

I dreamt of the ox again. He's getting closer each time

House and Building History | Brooklyn Public Library [Clinton Street houses], 1946, gelatin silver print, NEIG_0136; Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.  IntroductionThe Center for Brooklyn History pro...

The Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History (formerly the Brooklyn Historical Society) can help with this

AI "Artists" getting upset when you say their slop sucks is funny, because you can be like "why do you even care, it's not like you actually made it" and get them more wet and red.

They Live (1988)

Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders --The Montreal Star, 4 Feb 1939

1939

comic panel with a guy saying "this is a fine place to have a nervous breakdown" and looking out over a landscape that could be a desert or space i cannot tell. he's got some space stuff going on with his suit though for sure

my husband sent me this but doesn't know the context. is it from a real comic

In principle, a clear-cut case for an internationally-led humanitarian military intervention would be if a country had rounded up a minority population, systematically deprived them of food, and was refusing to allow in any aid. In that hypothetical situation, everyone would agree it was necessary.

World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...

World Central Kitchen @wck.org has also been able to reopen kitchens in Gaza this week. Learn more and donate here:
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