Gilles Nicoli
@giscoli.bsky.social
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Steven Soderbergh’s smart spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box office is so hard to predict these days, and how he built his career filming “two people in a room”
Steven Soderbergh on Black Bag
Steven Soderbergh’s smart, fun spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box office is so hard to predict these days, why he has always been fascinated by duplicity and how he built his career filming “two people in a room”.
www.bfi.org.uk
December 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Steven Soderbergh’s smart spy thriller Black Bag is the kind of mid-budget, star-led adult entertainment that has become an endangered species in cinemas. Here the director explains why the box office is so hard to predict these days, and how he built his career filming “two people in a room”
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With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium.
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
The 30 best films of 2025
With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium.
lwlies.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
With stormy seas ahead in the world of cinema, we celebrate the good and the great from another spectacular year for the medium.
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
Here's annual top 30 films of the year list: lwlies.com/top-ranking/...
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Provare a tirare le somme su Football Manager 26 probabilmente è prematuro ancora oggi, ma sono se non altro emerse ormai due tendenze che vale la pena sottolineare: una verso la rivoluzione, e un’altra verso la conservazione. Di @giscoli.bsky.social.
In Football Manager ora tutto è nuovo
Ma è anche rimasto uguale a prima (per fortuna).
www.ludicamag.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Provare a tirare le somme su Football Manager 26 probabilmente è prematuro ancora oggi, ma sono se non altro emerse ormai due tendenze che vale la pena sottolineare: una verso la rivoluzione, e un’altra verso la conservazione. Di @giscoli.bsky.social.
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These are the Essential Albums of 2025.
The Best Albums of 2025: Essential Releases
The 12 key albums of 2025.
daily.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
These are the Essential Albums of 2025.
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And the winner is… ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America has been voted best film of 2025 by our critics
Find out what Sight and Sound critics have voted as the 50 best films of the year
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America has been voted best film of 2025 by our critics
Find out what Sight and Sound critics have voted as the 50 best films of the year
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
The 50 best films of 2025
Our annual international critics’ poll of 2025's best movies shows cinema thriving in a year of troubles
www.bfi.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
And the winner is… ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America has been voted best film of 2025 by our critics
Find out what Sight and Sound critics have voted as the 50 best films of the year
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s incendiary portrait of modern America has been voted best film of 2025 by our critics
Find out what Sight and Sound critics have voted as the 50 best films of the year
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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The way that encrypted chat apps handle backups can be a loophole, so knowing how they work—and how those you communicate with use this feature—is very important. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups
Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re not careful with how those conversations are backed up,
www.eff.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The way that encrypted chat apps handle backups can be a loophole, so knowing how they work—and how those you communicate with use this feature—is very important. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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“The authoritarianism of digital modernity operates through faceless collectivity. Its commands arrive not as decrees but as design choices. Its tyrannies are those of the nudge, the notification, the algorithm.”
— @pettertornberg.com & @uitermark.bsky.social
— @pettertornberg.com & @uitermark.bsky.social
The Ascendance Of Algorithmic Tyranny | NOEMA
As today’s platforms become all-powerful, the metaphors we use to describe our digitally infused world exemplify a new, stealthier form of domination that is emerging.
www.noemamag.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“The authoritarianism of digital modernity operates through faceless collectivity. Its commands arrive not as decrees but as design choices. Its tyrannies are those of the nudge, the notification, the algorithm.”
— @pettertornberg.com & @uitermark.bsky.social
— @pettertornberg.com & @uitermark.bsky.social
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What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
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Meet the scrappy new generation of shoegaze, dream pop, and post-punk bands shaking up the seven-country strip that bridges North and South America.
Shoegaze, Post-Punk and Central America’s Echoing Melancholy
The seven-country strip that bridges North and South America is floating on waves of distortion.
daily.bandcamp.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Meet the scrappy new generation of shoegaze, dream pop, and post-punk bands shaking up the seven-country strip that bridges North and South America.
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The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general. By @jessicakiang.bsky.social
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
Hall of mirrors: the ending of All About Eve
The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general.
www.bfi.org.uk
October 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general. By @jessicakiang.bsky.social
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...
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This year has been grim for professional arts criticism. @skornhaber.bsky.social reports on the fans, stans, and influencers who are filling the gap:
The Future of Professional Criticism Looks Something Like This
Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new sources.
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This year has been grim for professional arts criticism. @skornhaber.bsky.social reports on the fans, stans, and influencers who are filling the gap:
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Le locandine memorabili di Drew Struzan
Le locandine memorabili di Drew Struzan
È morto il creatore di alcuni dei poster cinematografici più popolari e famosi di sempre, da “Indiana Jones” a “Ritorno al futuro” a “E.T.”
ilpost.link
October 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Le locandine memorabili di Drew Struzan
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New & Notable: The Australian cult band returns with a three-LP epic of tonal shifts, evolving motifs, and roiling phases.
Disquiet, by The Necks
4 track album
thenecksau.bandcamp.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
New & Notable: The Australian cult band returns with a three-LP epic of tonal shifts, evolving motifs, and roiling phases.
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“We were comfortable with the discomfort”: Six Finger Satellite’s J Ryan
Six Finger Satellite frontman and synth player J Ryan talks to @jjstannard.bsky.social about the making of the Rhode Island group’s newly reissued 1995 Severe Exposure album
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/i...
Six Finger Satellite frontman and synth player J Ryan talks to @jjstannard.bsky.social about the making of the Rhode Island group’s newly reissued 1995 Severe Exposure album
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/i...
“We were comfortable with the discomfort”: Six Finger Satellite’s J Ryan - The Wire
Six Finger Satellite frontman and synth player J Ryan talks to Joseph Stannard about the making of the Rhode Island group’s newly reissued 1995 Severe Exposure album
www.thewire.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“We were comfortable with the discomfort”: Six Finger Satellite’s J Ryan
Six Finger Satellite frontman and synth player J Ryan talks to @jjstannard.bsky.social about the making of the Rhode Island group’s newly reissued 1995 Severe Exposure album
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/i...
Six Finger Satellite frontman and synth player J Ryan talks to @jjstannard.bsky.social about the making of the Rhode Island group’s newly reissued 1995 Severe Exposure album
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/i...
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The AI doomsayers are warning of a bubble, but—at least for now—that doesn't seem to matter to AI’s biggest investors, Will Gottsegen writes in The Atlantic Daily.
The AI Money Vortex
OpenAI is worth $500 billion now. What are its investors getting back?
bit.ly
October 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The AI doomsayers are warning of a bubble, but—at least for now—that doesn't seem to matter to AI’s biggest investors, Will Gottsegen writes in The Atlantic Daily.
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Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. But these days, they seem to have a sunnier outlook. What happened?
How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. What happened?
www.newyorker.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. But these days, they seem to have a sunnier outlook. What happened?
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An optical system that induces random fluctuations in a laser beam could be faster and more efficient at generating images than conventional computers are
go.nature.com/3USWZn4
go.nature.com/3USWZn4
Machine-learning model generates images using light
An optical system that induces random fluctuations in a laser beam could be faster and more efficient at generating images than conventional computers are.
go.nature.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
An optical system that induces random fluctuations in a laser beam could be faster and more efficient at generating images than conventional computers are
go.nature.com/3USWZn4
go.nature.com/3USWZn4
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A.I. tools unlocked “the sort of creative life I only dreamed of when I was younger,” one of the creators of an A.I. sketch-comedy show said. The technology put him in mind of “the auteur culture of the 60s and 70s.”
A.I. Is Coming for Culture
We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what’s left for the human imagination?
www.newyorker.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A.I. tools unlocked “the sort of creative life I only dreamed of when I was younger,” one of the creators of an A.I. sketch-comedy show said. The technology put him in mind of “the auteur culture of the 60s and 70s.”
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Millions of people worldwide have reason to be thankful that Swedish engineer Rune Elmqvist decided not to practice medicine. Although qualified as a doctor, he chose to invent medical equipment instead.
Story of Invention: The Inkjet Printer and the Implantable Pacemaker
Rune Elmqvist's inventions changed lives. From inkjet printers to implantable pacemakers, learn how his innovations continue to impact the world today.
spectrum.ieee.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Millions of people worldwide have reason to be thankful that Swedish engineer Rune Elmqvist decided not to practice medicine. Although qualified as a doctor, he chose to invent medical equipment instead.
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The addition of a fourth guitarist and improviser adds a knotty element to Modern Nature's spare, architectural indie folk on "The Heat Warps," our Album of the Day.
Modern Nature, “The Heat Warps”
The addition of a fourth guitarist and improviser adds a knotty element to Modern Nature's spare, architectural indie folk.
daily.bandcamp.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The addition of a fourth guitarist and improviser adds a knotty element to Modern Nature's spare, architectural indie folk on "The Heat Warps," our Album of the Day.
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C’è una nuova serie del creatore di “BoJack Horseman”
C’è una nuova serie del creatore di “BoJack Horseman”
“Long Story Short” racconta la storia di una famiglia ebraica in California, e se ne parla bene
ilpost.link
August 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
C’è una nuova serie del creatore di “BoJack Horseman”
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"It's A Beautiful Place," the exuberant new record from Brooklyn art-pop duo Water From Your Eyes, is our Album of the Day.
Water From Your Eyes, “It’s A Beautiful Place”
The art-pop duo's third album is exuberant and excitable on the surface, disorienting and vulnerable at the core.
daily.bandcamp.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"It's A Beautiful Place," the exuberant new record from Brooklyn art-pop duo Water From Your Eyes, is our Album of the Day.
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"If conflicts are neatly resolved or avoided altogether, if every emotion is met with perfect affirmation, children may lose the opportunity to practice one of the most important developmental skills: learning to connect with people who are not programmed to go along with them."
Could an AI Barbie Take the Place of Real Friends?
Are AI toys the future of playtime or a risk to emotional development? A collaboration between Mattel and OpenAI raises sobering questions.
spectrum.ieee.org
August 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"If conflicts are neatly resolved or avoided altogether, if every emotion is met with perfect affirmation, children may lose the opportunity to practice one of the most important developmental skills: learning to connect with people who are not programmed to go along with them."
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A future filled with many AI personas — from the bad boy to the brown-noser — isn’t a mistake; it’s the best way to work with the technology, Phil Nolan argues.
#aipersona #ai
#aipersona #ai
Embracing A World Of Many AI Personalities | NOEMA
A future filled with many AI personas — from the bad boy to the brown-noser — isn’t a mistake; it’s the best way to work with the technology.
www.noemamag.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A future filled with many AI personas — from the bad boy to the brown-noser — isn’t a mistake; it’s the best way to work with the technology, Phil Nolan argues.
#aipersona #ai
#aipersona #ai
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New & Notable: The latest record from No Joy is a triumphant work of dreamy 90s alt rock with a black metal touch courtesy of co-producer Fire-Toolz.
Bugland, by No Joy
8 track album
nojoy.bandcamp.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
New & Notable: The latest record from No Joy is a triumphant work of dreamy 90s alt rock with a black metal touch courtesy of co-producer Fire-Toolz.