A DRAFT OF MY THESIS IS DONE! 7 months of near constant work, 594 pages, and 160,291 words. Still lots of work to be done, edits, trims, and rewrites, but it feels good to have a draft done finally!
film criticism isn’t customer service. it’s not here to “objectively” tell you what to expect, that’s marketing. it’s perspective, interpretation, feeling. reducing it to a guide for audiences completely misses the point of engaging with art at all lmao
When you wonder why studios are more keen on influencers being given access over critics and why the line between the two is blurring, this is why. A professional soy-facer calling himself a critic telling critics how to do their job
At the zoo today: looked into a gorilla’s eyes and I saw brotherhood, kinship, family. When I looked into a snake’s eyes I saw something cold and calculating, soulless, evil.
So movie studios are abandoning the US completely and turning their full staff American workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare which just makes those workers even vulnerable to the healthcare system. While the US loses one of its iconic industries.
People also posting the photos of the Soviet Venus mission has the opposite effect on me. Genuinely terrifying to look at. Feels like something I shouldn’t be able to see and never should have witnessed (still amazed that it exists. Nice job soviets).
the fact that there is no mass Western response to the policy is making me feel insane. this policy is the most explicit act of institutionalized genocide since Cambodia, if not the Holocaust itself.
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people. https://t.co/BwiDK2wSeo