Niko Lopez

[A24 @A24]

There's something you should know... PRIMETIME opens in theaters September 25.

[Niko Lopez @NikoLopez98]

@its_booost Have fun and break a leg!

[A24 @A24]

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Featuring Elizabeth Holmes. Only in theaters this October.

[Janus Films @janusfilms]

Calm down.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Niko Lopez @NikoLopez98]

@PupNicwoh Yes sir!

[Niko Lopez @NikoLopez98]

@isitshotonfilm The lens look like Ultra Panatar anamorphic lens.

[Niko Lopez @NikoLopez98]

@BNicholas Swole!

[Niko Lopez @NikoLopez98]

@YeenNico Happy birthday!

[Niko Lopez @NikoLopez98]

@UmbrellaEnt @2gay2lift 👀

[yeet @Awk20000]

David Pakman explains why he's not a communist or socialist

"I am a social democrat..I don't believe either system is the best way to maximize human well being and to organize society..and I believe this, looking at empirical historical data and in applying a socioeconomic analysis to these theories"

"I support getting everybody healthcare, strong unions and supportive labor, affordable education that is of high quality, progressive taxation where the wealthiest are taxed, the most serious corporate regulation, and a very strong safety net..I also support private businesses, private ownership of property and the ability to make profit in private industry for a lot of goods and services"

"There is no good reason to eliminate markets, we don't need gov planners deciding..it's completely fine to let companies compete there, let ppl start businesses and own them, test ideas, succeed and fail within the context of the market..social democracy recognizes markets are really useful tools, but markets are not the moral authorities that the right wing believes them to be"

"Socialism and communism in turn usually want to replace private ownership of major industries with worker, public, or state ownership..depending on whether we're talking about a socialist or communist model..and if u preserve socialism against public resistance, u can end up with property seizures, capital controls, restrictions on investment, limits on political opposition..a very serious authoritarian danger..the supposed stateless society requires an extraordinary powerful state"

"We've seen historically..u end up with this new ruling class made up of often corrupt, typically cronyistic and nepotistic party..for me one of the key tenets of leftism is opposing domination..that includes domination by corporations and billionaires..it also includes opposing domination by government or political parties or these self appointed revolutionaries who say I speak for everybody" 

(Via thedavidpakmanshow on YT)

[Niko Lopez @NikoLopez98]

@its_booost Break a leg, Boost!

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

The worst thing about being a pushover, interpersonally, is that it will become impossible to ever set boundaries. The people around you become used to the way you act, and entitled to everything you've ever offered them.

More often than not, they will encourage you to set boundaries or tell you it would be healthy or good to set boundaries, but almost every single time you do they will go absolutely nuclear and melt-down and pretend that any ask you make is the most unreasonable demand in the universe and that you have to return to your prior state of being a total pushover and never make a single ask of them in any way, size, shape or form that might inconvenience them in even the slightest of ways.

[soli @solisolsoli]

The New American Gothic, 2017, by Criselda Vasquez

[alan b. @inceptstellar]

bringing back this video of a 28 year old denis smoking weed

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

huh that's so weird, I wonder what his certainly justified reason is for withholding this disaster aid?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Social Network got made because Sony owed Mark Zuckerberg nothing. No studio can say that about Sam Altman anymore.

That gap explains why a finished Guadagnino film, Andrew Garfield playing Altman, can't find a buyer. The script makes Altman a pathological liar and Ilya Sutskever the idealist his board tried to protect. Strong material. The reason no one will touch it sits off the screen: the subject is now the biggest customer in the building.

Amazon developed the film, then walked months after wiring $50B to OpenAI for AWS compute. A24 passed, and A24 sits behind Thrive Capital, which holds an OpenAI board seat. Netflix, Focus, and Warner's Clockwork all carry AI bets of their own. The buyer pool maps cleanly onto OpenAI's cap table, and no one can premiere a hit piece on the company underwriting their cloud roadmap.

Here's the part worth sitting with. Vertical integration promised control: own the studio, own the pipe, own the model. The bill arrives now. A film industry fused to its own infrastructure partners cannot finance criticism of them. The merger logic became the censor.

The historical rhyme is almost too clean. United Artists was founded in 1919 by Chaplin and three fellow artists to escape exactly this kind of studio capture. That label now sits inside Amazon MGM, the company that just dropped the film to protect a tech deal. The release valve built a century ago got swallowed by the thing it was built to escape.

So Mubi and Neon are the only names left, and it has little to do with taste. They took none of OpenAI's money, which leaves them the only distributors free to tell the story of what that money does. A film about a mission captured by capital is being orphaned by capital capturing its distributors. The industry is re-enacting the plot it's too compromised to release.

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

I think @bariweiss needs to be deported from this country.