Good take on Hoppers imo. A funny movie, but it feels afraid to actually say anything substantial about environmentalism. Dr Seuss' The Lorax is a short picture book, but pulls no punches even though it's for kids. And that was 50 years ago! @popdetective.bsky.social
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Super glad to see someone like @popdetective.bsky.social eloquently put why Hoppers really didn't work for me. Media for kids can and should be better! youtube.com/shorts/YeYgk...
Short form content has its drawbacks but @popdetective.bsky.social has been absolutely on fire with YouTube shorts this week. Check them out!
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The film "Sorry, Baby" was one of my favorite films of 2025 and this short from @popdetective.bsky.social is very on point. It's a master class in balancing tone to let serious topics be serious but also let in some levity.
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Excelente como todos los vídeos de Pop Detective
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PSA: Reminder to avoid Scream 7 because the production company fired Melissa Barrera for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xMedqE/
Yes, all these AI slop posts with captions like "Hollywood is cooked" do indeed look objectively awful, but that's not the reason we should reject AI. Even if AI scenes did look good, it'd still be a disaster for artists, creativity, the environment, and humanity writ large.
Star Wars under the leadership of Dave Filoni
Fine, I’ll try out this whole short form video trend all the kids are doing. This is me testing the format. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89KxLF4/
This is because market research told them that an entire generation won’t watch anything in black & white isn’t it? Cowards.
Or just let the past die. Especially the proudly misogynistic past.
Horrified by the Epstein files?
This started when colonizers arrived in 1492. Columbus & his men trafficked Taino girls as young as 9, yet he has a federal holiday & statues. Slave "owners" like Jefferson routinely raped Black children. This horror is not new to the rulers in the Americas.
"Then just don't watch/play/buy it"
Other thought-terminating clichés:
"Let people enjoy things"
"You care about this too much"
"It is what it is"
"Here we go again"
"It's fine, bro"
"It's not that big of a deal"
How often have you seen someone say "it's not that deep" or "it's just a game/movie" on social media? Those sad phrases are examples of what are called thought-terminating clichés and they're deployed to shut down intellectual inquiry and kill curiosity.
Love Chappell but have we truly considered the cultural implications of turning absolutely everyone and everything in pop culture (regardless of their values or messages) into a machine gun-toting avatar who's dropped into a kill-or-be-killed scenario?
“A riot is the language of the unheard. America has failed to hear...that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.” - MLK Jr.
"Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873" is one of many books documenting the horrific atrocities of the California "gold rush."
Colonization is once again the top theme in board gaming. The "gold rush" set off a wave of genocide agasint Native Americans in California. The industry continues to turn a blind eye to the colonialism embedded in "Old West" themes. This 2026 game is called Gold Country designed by Reiner Knizia.
Once again, Andor is prescient
A lot of people are noticing the spread of AI sexual abuse material on X now, but it has been happening for years. Young actresses like Jenna Ortega and Xochitl Gomez fled the platform. Even celebrities say there’s nothing they can do to stop it. Misogynistic violence is the main reason I left X.
I haven't seen any consequences for this Grok "AI" horror show, not even any news coverage.
Since "AI" tech (like Grok) isn't actually intelligent, it doesn't know what kind of images it's generating. So of course it just posts stock denials whenever confronted with what it's very clearly doing
However bad you think some of these images might be, it's worse and more degrading. Even blurred, I don't feel comfortable posting them individually.
This is the Grok AI media tab on Dec/31/2025 at 12:33 AM.
Thousands of non-consensual images generated every second
In a more just world, not only would this type of sexual abuse be illegal, tech designers would have mandated built-in systems to prevent it happening in the first place.
Author Laura Bates recently wrote a book called "The New Age of Sexism" that covers this type of AI misogyny. I highly recommend the book.
I blurred out the username above because men are currently weaponizing Grok's AI image manipulation agaisnt her photos and selfies. Punishment for daring to point out what so-called "AI" technology is being used for.
