Market research based on the Fantastic Four movie. Maybe people are looking favorably at retro-futurism these days.

Tomorrowland was a mess, but perhaps ironically before its time.

…from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience.

My sweet summer child have you never seen a toddler with an iPad?

I would like to write today about what it is that I find so frustrating and toxic about [Ezra Klein]'s approach, and how if we are going to escape from this horribly fraught time, we are going to defeat the current dominant cultural belief of supremacy with a vision of unified human solidarity, and that means we are going to have to be better than Ezra.

👨‍🍳🤌

And wait, it’s not just cute.

The way out of our present age of political violence is not scolding “we have to live here with one another,” at those who are not threatening anyone’s life, at those whose very existence supremacists refuse to accept. Rather the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them “no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can’t do that, then you have a problem with us, too.” It’s turning to those who just aren’t comfortable with trans people and saying “we don’t negotiate about people’s rights over here, and if you want to see how hard we’ll fight for you against the billionaires and bosses who are robbing you blind, watch how hard we fight for them. If hating trans people is so important to you that you’re willing to get robbed to death to secure it, we aren’t the party for you.”

You know what? I think that message might just build a coalition.

Benny Safdie doesn’t make box-office-numbers kinds of movies.

Besides, Johnson’s producing it. It’s his money. He wanted Oscar bait and got Oscar bait.

So, about that…

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084139878/reading-rainbow-is-getting-a-reboot-but-without-levar-burton

After the original show was cancelled, Burton signed a contract with WNED / Buffalo Toronto Public Media to develop stuff for the Reading Rainbow brand. He did a Kickstarter, raised $5M and talked to Netflix about making a series but reportedly didn’t get Buffalo Toronto Public Media’s OK first, so they sued him. They eventually settled with Burton abandoning the Reading Rainbow brand name.

Burton is still out there promoting childhood reading but not using the Reading Rainbow name.

This is your casual reminder that Lemmy was built to support RSS. Just look for the RSS logo on the top of any community’s list of posts:

And for those pining for the old days of Google Reader, I have been a huge fan of Newsblur.

So uh, realistically what can someone do in this scenario?

Spread the word. Let people know this is happening. Your allies, your conservative relatives; everyone.

Here’s the link to the actual interview, not a summary news article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF6Fsg2_5xM

Degenerates only want one thing and it’s disgusting fucking.

Testing replies and edits…

Acceleration, temperature, body configuration (positioning), pain, balance and hunger are all related to touch in one way or another.

Time, however, is legit. Along with emotion. Maybe you could call the 6th sense cognition?

More extracts from that same podcast:

In each case, right up until the moment I received evidence to the contrary, all this misinformation, these supposed facts, felt true to me. I had believed them for decades and I had accepted them in part because they seemed to confirm all sorts of other ideas and opinions floating around in my mind. Plus they would have been great ways to illustrate complicated concepts, if not for the pesky fact that they were, in fact, not facts.

That’s one of the reasons why common misconceptions and false beliefs like these spread from conversation to conversation and survive from generation to generation and become anecdotal currency in our marketplace of ideas. They confirm our assumptions and validate our opinions and, thus, they raise few skeptical alarms. They make sense and they help us make sense of other things.

I have a song for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMoYgKO3dD4

A short list of things you didn’t realize were false, stolen from the most recent episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast (on Intellectual Humility, Sept 14 2025):

• “The original 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds lead to a mass panic.” – It did not. However, rumors of a panic spread via newspaper op-eds about how it was a bad idea to get your news through any other medium besides newspapers. Citation: https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-the-infamous-radio-broadcast-did-not-cause-a-nationwide-hysteria.html
• “You can boil a frog in a pot by gradually raising the temperature of the water.” – This doesn’t work; frogs just jump out when they get uncomfortable. Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
• “Lemmings march off cliffs to their deaths because they blindly follow one another.” – They don’t. Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#Misconceptions
  • “…but I saw it in a Disney documentary!” – Nope. Turns out the filmmakers paid local kids to capture a bunch of lemmings, spin them around to make them dizzy, then manually threw them off cliffs and filmed it. Citation: https://hyperallergic.com/545742/white-wilderness-disney-nature-documentary/

Honestly it doesn’t matter if ABC returns Kimmel and his show to air. The exercise (fascist politicians exerting their influence through the oligarchy to punish critical speech) has served its purpose (to be a chilling effect on anyone with the mind to speak truth to power).

It’s a stern tug on the leash.

This is why independent media is so important, and we need a lot more of it.

Sadly this doesn’t seem to be working (as of Mon Sept 22 2025, 01:11 AM UTC).

Update (Wed Sept 24 2025 17:17 UTC): It works!

The gender expression fuckery was ahead of its time.

west hollywood indeed

Rich enough to outrun consequences.