Martin Tsai 🔜 #Sundance
@martintsai.bsky.social
critique de cinéma. mots dans sight and sound, awards watch, screen anarchy, los angeles times etc.
camarade de national critics institute et power of diverse voices. membre de galeca, aaja et nlgja. il/le
ouvert au travail: martin.tsai@nyu.edu
camarade de national critics institute et power of diverse voices. membre de galeca, aaja et nlgja. il/le
ouvert au travail: martin.tsai@nyu.edu
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“Whishaw delivers the 55 pages of monologue with the impressive illusion of spontaneity.”
– Martin Tsai, Sight and Sound bit.ly/47utCi1
"Peter Hujar's Day" is now playing at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social and @filmlinc.bsky.social
#filmsky
– Martin Tsai, Sight and Sound bit.ly/47utCi1
"Peter Hujar's Day" is now playing at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social and @filmlinc.bsky.social
#filmsky
omg i’m going to be in the december issue
i know some of y’all have 1,000 s&s bylines but THIS MEANS THE WORLD TO ME
i know some of y’all have 1,000 s&s bylines but THIS MEANS THE WORLD TO ME
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“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.”
January 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.”
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John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think?
Publisher: No notes.
Publisher: No notes.
January 11, 2026 at 8:54 PM
John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think?
Publisher: No notes.
Publisher: No notes.
omg this mayor is GIVING
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin on Saturday announced an initiative to install more public bathrooms across the city.
January 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM
omg this mayor is GIVING
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After a West Virginia shelter dog named Dawson escaped from his gated enclosure and then used his teeth to open the front door on Jan. 4, a search began.
January 11, 2026 at 7:01 PM
After a West Virginia shelter dog named Dawson escaped from his gated enclosure and then used his teeth to open the front door on Jan. 4, a search began.
i have seen more cishet women discussing this show than the gays
“At this point, to talk about ‘Heated Rivalry’ is to talk about the sex in ‘Heated Rivalry,’ which is plentiful, quite explicit, and, I’ll say it, pretty hot,” Naomi Fry writes, about the hit series. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/R7Ihc_
The Delicious Anticipation–and, Yes, Release—of “Heated Rivalry”
The show, a sexy romance between two closeted hockey players, began on a small Canadian streaming platform, but has become a huge, unexpected hit.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
January 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
i have seen more cishet women discussing this show than the gays
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The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
January 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 11, 2026 at 2:39 AM
NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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The SPEAKER implies.
The LISTENER infers.
The DUDE abides.
The LISTENER infers.
The DUDE abides.
January 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The SPEAKER implies.
The LISTENER infers.
The DUDE abides.
The LISTENER infers.
The DUDE abides.
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What the heck is going on here
January 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
What the heck is going on here
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This is fucked up!
Veteran San Francisco firefighter denied cancer treatment by insurance
A retired San Francisco firefighter and his family are pleading with San Francisco officials to intervene in what they describe as a matter of life and death.
share.google
January 11, 2026 at 8:43 AM
This is fucked up!
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There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.
This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that 🧵
This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that 🧵
January 11, 2026 at 7:53 AM
There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.
This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that 🧵
This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that 🧵
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timely reminder to everyone including myself to stop wasting time bloviating on here and go outside
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
January 7, 2026 at 10:53 PM
timely reminder to everyone including myself to stop wasting time bloviating on here and go outside
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“New video from 12/2025 shows that a vehicle was indeed weaponized at the site of an ICE enforcement action.”
No word on the condition of the victim or if that was even ICE or if they even give a shit that a crime was committed.
Fuck the police, too; they are worthless.
#FuckICE #Resist #Pinks
No word on the condition of the victim or if that was even ICE or if they even give a shit that a crime was committed.
Fuck the police, too; they are worthless.
#FuckICE #Resist #Pinks
January 11, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Now two countries have blocked Grok over the ability to create non-consensual intimate images: Malaysia and Indonesia
Musk’s Grok AI Blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia Over Sexual Images
Indonesia and Malaysia restricted access to Elon Musk’s Grok AI over the weekend, becoming the first countries to ban the artificial intelligence system over its generation of sexual content.
www.bloomberg.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Now two countries have blocked Grok over the ability to create non-consensual intimate images: Malaysia and Indonesia
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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
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Don't engage with it; just report it and block.
January 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Don't engage with it; just report it and block.
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This is a good read partly because the author explains how LLMs actually work in a clearer way than most do
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
www.theatlantic.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM
This is a good read partly because the author explains how LLMs actually work in a clearer way than most do
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Respectable middle-class white people actually have no idea how dangerous this situation is, how vulnerable they are, and how complicit they have been in creating these conditions.
I guess they'll figure it out?
I guess they'll figure it out?
January 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Respectable middle-class white people actually have no idea how dangerous this situation is, how vulnerable they are, and how complicit they have been in creating these conditions.
I guess they'll figure it out?
I guess they'll figure it out?
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LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.”
@letterman.bsky.social $PSKY
youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...
@letterman.bsky.social $PSKY
youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...
January 10, 2026 at 8:26 PM
LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.”
@letterman.bsky.social $PSKY
youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...
@letterman.bsky.social $PSKY
youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...
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More proof that traditional media is out of touch:
The level of pearl clutching over Mayor Jacob Frey dropping a well-deserved f-bomb versus the outrage over the murder of Renee Nicole Good
The level of pearl clutching over Mayor Jacob Frey dropping a well-deserved f-bomb versus the outrage over the murder of Renee Nicole Good
WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature?
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
January 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
More proof that traditional media is out of touch:
The level of pearl clutching over Mayor Jacob Frey dropping a well-deserved f-bomb versus the outrage over the murder of Renee Nicole Good
The level of pearl clutching over Mayor Jacob Frey dropping a well-deserved f-bomb versus the outrage over the murder of Renee Nicole Good
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I don’t see how every question in a Tim Homan interview isn’t about how he accepted a bribe in an FBI sting and nothing happened to him. What other bribes has Tom Homan accepted?
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 3:08 PM
I don’t see how every question in a Tim Homan interview isn’t about how he accepted a bribe in an FBI sting and nothing happened to him. What other bribes has Tom Homan accepted?
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There are good journalists out there who grasp that we are living in an emergency moment, at the mercy of serial liars, bigots, and government thugs. They are steady. They are clear-eyed. They understand what is needed. And they have been right exponentially more often than the "calm down" crew.
January 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
There are good journalists out there who grasp that we are living in an emergency moment, at the mercy of serial liars, bigots, and government thugs. They are steady. They are clear-eyed. They understand what is needed. And they have been right exponentially more often than the "calm down" crew.
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There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >
January 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >