Dear god let this man cook.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
~Howard Zinn

If 6 episodes of dystopian tech wasn't enough:
youtu.be/j-XmloBTDes?...

Currency built on...nothing. Nothing but hype, deregulation, cults of personality and arrogance. This great clip under 10mins gives you a taste of how blatantly deranged crypto and the 'stock market' have become.

#cryptoocurrency #crypto
youtu.be/bRu-oEo1Tlo?...

At this point, studying sci-fi and dystopian fiction is probably our best shot at predicting the next decade.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Watching the Porco Rosso English dub for the first time, realised it's Michael Keaton voicing Porco...and now all I can hear is fucking Batman. 😭

And this is just the impact in one state.

love it when i am a humanist who believes our only hope is to become a multiplanetary society and have lots of babies and also i cut off all funding to starving infants and NASA

I love fruit and vegetables so much. They taste nice. This is some kind of masochism or disordered eating.

If you need help sanely processing and understand the legal implications of what's happening in the US right now - Leeja Miller (and @somemorenews.bsky.social) is the GOAT: youtu.be/agBVxcnpsIY?...

An unqualified former Fox host, accused in an affidavit of being "abusive" toward his second wife, of being perpetually drunk, and allegedly screaming "Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!" just got confirmed as the US Defense Secretary (!) by a tie-break vote in the Senate.

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

Birb Noble #art

[Paper dragon room]
I want to draw more dragons this year, so the first painting of the year has to start off strong

Israel: Hamas did mass rapes on October 7th!

UN: Ok, can we come investigate?

Israel: No, because then you’ll see all the rapes we’ve been doing to the Palestinians we keep hostage!

(Seriously)

I often think about how, in a sane society, once we realised AI tech was taking off, we would've regulated it to be used solely for scientific problems like sequencing cancer cells, or running simulations we can't safely run with humans — and fully banned it for wider public or commercial use.

How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.

This is your reminder to go watch Tom lipsynch to Umbrella (again, because we've all seen it at least a hundred times and it's still bloody amazing and sexy af).

youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Whether you're a fan of The Abyss or Cameron specifically, this 2 (possibly 3) part series is awesome. I've watched several BTS on The Abyss, and somehow KoloKino still had more gems about the production I'd never heard before.

youtu.be/46Y9OPWci1c?...
#filmmaking #theabyss #scifi