Shaz Bennett
@shazbennett.bsky.social
Director. Writer. Fighter.
Queen Sugar, Billions, Bosch, Ordinary Joe, Animal Kingdom, Rescue HI Surf
Queen Sugar, Billions, Bosch, Ordinary Joe, Animal Kingdom, Rescue HI Surf
Message to Michael
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Message to Michael
Michael Kenneth Williams (November 22, 1966 - September 6, 2021)
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November 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Message to Michael
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Steve Jobs, for example, said “think different” and made new products often built off the best characteristics of the old ones. What he did not do is employ the hackish jazz hands, “make things go boom” approach. To be fair, this works if you are 4 years old.
a man in a suit and tie is holding an apple in front of an apple logo and a sign that says think different
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding an apple in front of an apple logo and a sign that says think different
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Steve Jobs, for example, said “think different” and made new products often built off the best characteristics of the old ones. What he did not do is employ the hackish jazz hands, “make things go boom” approach. To be fair, this works if you are 4 years old.
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Pelosi: "Trump is the worst president of the United States that American children have ever had in terms of their health, education, a clean, safe environment in which they can thrive - including safety from gun violence - the economic security of their families and a future that is fair and just."
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Pelosi: "Trump is the worst president of the United States that American children have ever had in terms of their health, education, a clean, safe environment in which they can thrive - including safety from gun violence - the economic security of their families and a future that is fair and just."
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Pelosi: "President Trump is the biggest con job in American history"
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Pelosi: "President Trump is the biggest con job in American history"
loved this film and this conversation!
a beautiful script written during the Sundance they didn't get into!
How One Scene Narrowed The Search For The House In ‘Hedda’: “Can We Drop A Chandelier In Your Home?” – Contenders Los Angeles deadline.com/2025/11/hedd... via @Deadline
a beautiful script written during the Sundance they didn't get into!
How One Scene Narrowed The Search For The House In ‘Hedda’: “Can We Drop A Chandelier In Your Home?” – Contenders Los Angeles deadline.com/2025/11/hedd... via @Deadline
How One Scene Narrowed The Search For The House In ‘Hedda’: “Can We Drop A Chandelier In Your Home?” – Contenders Los Angeles
Hedda writer-director Nia DaCosta explained on the criteria they presented property owners when scouting the location for the 1950s-set film.
deadline.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
loved this film and this conversation!
a beautiful script written during the Sundance they didn't get into!
How One Scene Narrowed The Search For The House In ‘Hedda’: “Can We Drop A Chandelier In Your Home?” – Contenders Los Angeles deadline.com/2025/11/hedd... via @Deadline
a beautiful script written during the Sundance they didn't get into!
How One Scene Narrowed The Search For The House In ‘Hedda’: “Can We Drop A Chandelier In Your Home?” – Contenders Los Angeles deadline.com/2025/11/hedd... via @Deadline
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AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI.
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI.
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
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“Despite everything that’s happening in the world and everything around us and any frustration or helplessness we feel or betrayal we feel, we have to remember it’s also all right to feel the joy of being alive and feel the joy of your own possibilities,” Patti Smith says on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Opinion | Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
Life lessons from the “Godmother of Punk.”
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November 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“Despite everything that’s happening in the world and everything around us and any frustration or helplessness we feel or betrayal we feel, we have to remember it’s also all right to feel the joy of being alive and feel the joy of your own possibilities,” Patti Smith says on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
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In “Wake Up Dead Man,” Rian Johnson has tried a fiendishly difficult type of whodunnit: an “impossible crime” story. The danger of this kind of story is that, he says, the endings “are inevitably a little bit of a letdown.” Will he stick the landing? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pfmvvB
Rian Johnson Is an Agatha Christie for the Netflix Age
The director revived the cozy mystery with “Knives Out.” In a new sequel, can he find his way to the end of the maze?
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In “Wake Up Dead Man,” Rian Johnson has tried a fiendishly difficult type of whodunnit: an “impossible crime” story. The danger of this kind of story is that, he says, the endings “are inevitably a little bit of a letdown.” Will he stick the landing? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pfmvvB
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I think we all know that the Ai rewrite of the New Testament as prompted by studio algorithms and audience test screenings has Pilate pardoning Jesus, apologizing for the misunderstanding and crowning him King of the Jews at the royal palace. Also, add a hot love interest for the Savior.
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I think we all know that the Ai rewrite of the New Testament as prompted by studio algorithms and audience test screenings has Pilate pardoning Jesus, apologizing for the misunderstanding and crowning him King of the Jews at the royal palace. Also, add a hot love interest for the Savior.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative.
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
deadline.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative.
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
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Trump's social media meltdown today is pure porn. Not just for Dems or progressives, but for anyone sentient who knows innocent people don't spend months calling something a hoax and then, in the end, claiming their enemies are complicit in the same said hoax.
Spittle and flopsweat as he types.
Spittle and flopsweat as he types.
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Trump's social media meltdown today is pure porn. Not just for Dems or progressives, but for anyone sentient who knows innocent people don't spend months calling something a hoax and then, in the end, claiming their enemies are complicit in the same said hoax.
Spittle and flopsweat as he types.
Spittle and flopsweat as he types.
WTAF?!?!
NEW: Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
And despite expert concerns about potential disaster, the US government is on board.
And despite expert concerns about potential disaster, the US government is on board.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
WTAF?!?!
Can't get home for the holiday?
Blame the Republicans.
Do your damn job @GOP
Shutdown flight cuts at 40 of the busiest US airports will be phased in apnews.com/article/gove...
Blame the Republicans.
Do your damn job @GOP
Shutdown flight cuts at 40 of the busiest US airports will be phased in apnews.com/article/gove...
Shutdown flight cuts at 40 of the busiest US airports will be phased in
Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are among 40 of the busiest across the U.S. where flights will be cut due to the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Can't get home for the holiday?
Blame the Republicans.
Do your damn job @GOP
Shutdown flight cuts at 40 of the busiest US airports will be phased in apnews.com/article/gove...
Blame the Republicans.
Do your damn job @GOP
Shutdown flight cuts at 40 of the busiest US airports will be phased in apnews.com/article/gove...
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OMMMMMMMGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
LINA KHAN is on Mamdani’s transition team????????
LET’S GOOOOOO
LET’S GOOOOOO
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
OMMMMMMMGGGGGGG!!!!!!!
Woah.
We've covered how Meta Ray-Bans could have been worn by CBP during ICE raids, how it's being modded for facial recognition, and how it's being used as a spy tool.
Every time Meta argues: What is the difference between Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and an iPhone?
SO yeah—here's a guide for Meta's PR team:
Every time Meta argues: What is the difference between Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and an iPhone?
SO yeah—here's a guide for Meta's PR team:
What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Woah.
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The GOP talking point this morning was “this only happened in Blue States” but…
Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard dealt the GOP a significant blow in Georgia — prying statewide seats from Republican incumbents on the Georgia Public Service Commission.
Johnson and Hubbard became the first Democrats to win a non-federal statewide election in Georgia in nearly 20 years.
Johnson and Hubbard became the first Democrats to win a non-federal statewide election in Georgia in nearly 20 years.
In upset, Democrats win in PSC races that could affect Georgia Power bills
Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard won statewide elections, defeating Republican incumbents, for seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission.
www.ajc.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The GOP talking point this morning was “this only happened in Blue States” but…
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“Separation, for us, is more than just physical distance. For me, my father’s absence left me carrying a heavy load of duties & responsibilities that no one my age should ever have to bear.”
Israel’s restrictive border policies have separated many families, including Ahmad Abushawish’s own.
Israel’s restrictive border policies have separated many families, including Ahmad Abushawish’s own.
Families left behind in Gaza: The silent pain of separation
As some Palestinians in Gaza are evacuated for medical treatment or education abroad, the families they leave behind struggle in their absence
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November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“Separation, for us, is more than just physical distance. For me, my father’s absence left me carrying a heavy load of duties & responsibilities that no one my age should ever have to bear.”
Israel’s restrictive border policies have separated many families, including Ahmad Abushawish’s own.
Israel’s restrictive border policies have separated many families, including Ahmad Abushawish’s own.
This!!
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This!!
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Last November, 43 rhesus macaques escaped from Alpha Genesis, one of the country’s biggest breeders of primates used in scientific experiments. Ava Kofman writes about the fraught circumstances and politics surrounding the monkey jailbreak.
The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights Movement
A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of uncompromising activists and MAGA loyalists is demanding that all lab animals be set f...
www.newyorker.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Last November, 43 rhesus macaques escaped from Alpha Genesis, one of the country’s biggest breeders of primates used in scientific experiments. Ava Kofman writes about the fraught circumstances and politics surrounding the monkey jailbreak.
I love LA for MANY reasons but instaneous fireworks on the ready for the Dodger wins in my neighborhood— top of the list!🧢💙💙💙💙
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I love LA for MANY reasons but instaneous fireworks on the ready for the Dodger wins in my neighborhood— top of the list!🧢💙💙💙💙
“Billie Eilish has a net worth of about $50M so it's a bit about 20% of her net worth. Imagine if Larry Ellison, 2nd richest man in world and worth billions, did even 10%. We would be able to eradicate world hunger.”
www.teenvogue.com/story/billie...
www.teenvogue.com/story/billie...
Billie Eilish to Billionaires: "Why Are You a Billionaire?"
And yes, Mark Zuckerberg was in the room.
www.teenvogue.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
“Billie Eilish has a net worth of about $50M so it's a bit about 20% of her net worth. Imagine if Larry Ellison, 2nd richest man in world and worth billions, did even 10%. We would be able to eradicate world hunger.”
www.teenvogue.com/story/billie...
www.teenvogue.com/story/billie...
