Devindra Hardawar
@devindra.bsky.social
Immigrant. Tech/movie 🇬🇾 guy. Engadget Editor. Filmcast co-host. ATL Film Critics Circle member. He/Him. devindra@devindra.org @devindra@mastodon.social
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A big reason we don’t have UBI is because it would be good for everybody. Most in charge are willing to waste a lot of money and resources specifically to immiserate people and perpetuate an underclass.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A big reason we don’t have UBI is because it would be good for everybody. Most in charge are willing to waste a lot of money and resources specifically to immiserate people and perpetuate an underclass.
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Everything sucks and we are in hell
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December 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Everything sucks and we are in hell
Finally watching Sentimental Value, and my god the idea of someone gifting their grandson Irreversible on DVD is endlessly hilarious. I laughed so loud my cat nearly leapt up to the ceiling
December 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Finally watching Sentimental Value, and my god the idea of someone gifting their grandson Irreversible on DVD is endlessly hilarious. I laughed so loud my cat nearly leapt up to the ceiling
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This piece on Pluribus and Tolkien's old applicability vs. allegory framework by @justinaclin.com is some of the best writing about Pluribus I've read so far
A Carol Column (for Christmas)
On Pluribus and Applicability
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December 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This piece on Pluribus and Tolkien's old applicability vs. allegory framework by @justinaclin.com is some of the best writing about Pluribus I've read so far
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A coffee forward venue named BEAN ME UP, BISCOTTI
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek Themed Restaurant.
What are you calling it?
What are you calling it?
ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
ALT: ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
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December 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A coffee forward venue named BEAN ME UP, BISCOTTI
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I told my story. It's behind a paywall, but here it is. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
A California National Guard pilot warned about Trump for years. Now she’s being forced out
Brynn Tannehill is a Navy-trained helicopter pilot who joined the California Air National Guard in 2023. She says she’s being kicked out for being transgender.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I told my story. It's behind a paywall, but here it is. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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Got my tickets for New Years Eve. It’s going to be a fun night!
December 27, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Got my tickets for New Years Eve. It’s going to be a fun night!
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will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
From Joe Marler’s visual-only stunts to the incomprehensible shuffling sounds Steven Bartlett recently subjected headphone users to, dodgy audio experiences are on the rise
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
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That’s so weird, did something important happen that day?
![Tucker Carlson: "What's [AOC] like?"
Matt Gaetz: "Before Jan. 6 she was incredibly chummy with Republicans, she would regularly come over to our side, sit down, hang out... after Jan. 6 she treated us all like we had horns or something."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreiagl3tmxesoqw6lydhcwey52rczco3joc2m4x3kz4yv7ojrekk6ci@jpeg)
December 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
That’s so weird, did something important happen that day?
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This review does a good job articulating why, even thought I didn’t love THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, I also haven’t been able to (no pun intended) shake it.
‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: A Woman Clothed With the Sun
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December 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This review does a good job articulating why, even thought I didn’t love THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, I also haven’t been able to (no pun intended) shake it.
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She has a Gundam and a train. spiderman has a dead uncle and a dead girlfriend.
December 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
She has a Gundam and a train. spiderman has a dead uncle and a dead girlfriend.
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It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
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This is great. Also, if you haven't seen Queen of Katwe (directed by Zohran's mom, Mira Nair), it's a fantastic, feel-good movie.
In less than a week, I will be sworn in as the next mayor of New York City. It was only possible because of the more than 100,000 people who volunteered on our campaign. Here’s a story about one of them, my mother.
December 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is great. Also, if you haven't seen Queen of Katwe (directed by Zohran's mom, Mira Nair), it's a fantastic, feel-good movie.
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Reading this from the Acela, like the fastest that we got, and which is going like 60 mph.
December 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Reading this from the Acela, like the fastest that we got, and which is going like 60 mph.
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An industry is 100% white: nothing to see here
An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die
An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die
@startribune.com finally stands up for the truly forgotten! White men! Can't make this shit up
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Opinion | You can’t be diverse if you exclude white men
Those year-end book lists that claim to be all about diversity often seem to miss this one major demographic, Annie Holmquist writes.
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December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An industry is 100% white: nothing to see here
An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die
An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die
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“Our writing was held to the same kind of standard that Lowell Bergman uses in journalism, which is that it wasn’t authentic unless it could be corroborated at least a couple of times,” Mann says. “Every line of description in the script was subject to the most rigorous kind of fact-checking.”
“What got broken here doesn’t go back together.” www.vulture.com/2019/10/the-...
20 Years Later, The Insider Is Michael Mann’s Greatest Prophecy
For all its foresightedness, the 1999 movie is also a time capsule, from a period when TV or newspaper reports could actually change things.
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December 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“Our writing was held to the same kind of standard that Lowell Bergman uses in journalism, which is that it wasn’t authentic unless it could be corroborated at least a couple of times,” Mann says. “Every line of description in the script was subject to the most rigorous kind of fact-checking.”
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If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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My latest entry in the Slate Movie Club: on defending THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB, how we’re all living in the opening 10 minutes of THE SECRET AGENT, and the importance of movies that aren’t just about telling stories. slate.com/culture/2025...
The Dark-Horse Best-Picture Contender I Still Can’t Shake
Nothing quite encapsulated life in 2025 like the surreal opening of this great movie.
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December 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My latest entry in the Slate Movie Club: on defending THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB, how we’re all living in the opening 10 minutes of THE SECRET AGENT, and the importance of movies that aren’t just about telling stories. slate.com/culture/2025...
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Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
![Excerpt from article: "The praise heaped upon a student who interrupted a class lecture to announce that she was personally offended by the instructor’s views on gender and who then proceeded to push to have that instructor fired is an illuminating contrast to the widespread vilification and punishment of college and graduate students who have protested external speakers on the basis of their views on gender. For example, students who protested a speech by a lawyer from the extreme anti-LGBTQ+ organization Alliance Defending Freedom at Yale Law School were accused of imposing a “heckler’s veto”; they were mocked, denounced, and “canceled” from consideration as clerks by several prominent, conservative federal judges. Stanford Law School students who disrupted a speech by a far-right conservative federal judge, Kyle Duncan, were similarly lambasted for their “intolerance” and similarly excluded for consideration for federal clerkships by conservative judges. These incidents have been frequently cited as examples of “snowflake students” trying to shut down discussion of topics they find personally offensive or unpleasant. In 2016, the founder of the Heritage Foundation described liberal students who protested conservative speakers as both “little snowflakes demand[ing] ‘safe spaces’ where they can be protected from words” and the “little dictators” of the campus. No one, however, has accused the anonymous Texas A&M student of being a “little dictator,” despite her hysterical and erroneous assertion that a viewpoint she found offensive—presented in a classroom setting by an expert on the subject being taught— was “illegal” and her announcement that she would be reporting the professor to the administration for that reason. None of the conservative cancel culture warriors ... have characterized her successful campaign to have an instructor fired for speech they didn’t like as “cancel culture.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uabrjr5kme2wfaskk56o2ais/bafkreifndk43t4q5zm6em756n4mspeislfiknhdk24tptqjcxp5lfkrlri@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The question of the last decade:
Why does Hollywood keep greenlighting David O. Russell movies?
Why does Hollywood keep greenlighting David O. Russell movies?
Here the much-anticipated trailer for Madden, from @primevideo.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The question of the last decade:
Why does Hollywood keep greenlighting David O. Russell movies?
Why does Hollywood keep greenlighting David O. Russell movies?
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this has been in the works for so long and I'm very very excited it's out
Our season finale, a holiday-themed musical extravaganza about cinematic video games featuring
@jacobgeller.com is out now on Nebula
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@jacobgeller.com is out now on Nebula
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Patrick (H) Willems — Can Video Games Be Cinema? (feat. Jacob Geller) – Season Finale
For our oversized holiday-themed season finale, we're playing some cinematic video games and trying to figure out what these things actually are.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
this has been in the works for so long and I'm very very excited it's out