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I have a new essay in the latest issue of @nplusonemag about the last Sundance in Park City and the future of indie film. In print, online, now unpaywalled
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“It was as though midcentury European broadcasters, surveying their decimated continent, had heard Adorno’s provocation on the barbarity of writing poetry after Auschwitz and said, well, what about singing?” —@lisa_borst
harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
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New Interview: I talked to the journalist Jasper Nathaniel about what he witnessed in the West Bank when the WaPo’s Heidi Levine & multiple Palestinians were attacked by Israeli settlers, as well as what’s been happening there before the Israeli election. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/b…
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The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar! - Karl Marx, The Civil War in France
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The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat @washingtonpost journalist Heidi Levine nearly to death. Then the IDF shot a Palestinian bystander, and aimed their guns and shoved the paramedics who were trying to treat him. All of this documented.
Earlier today, IDF and Israel Border Police forces were dispatched to an area adjacent to Khirbet Abu Falah, following a report of a violent confrontation. Foreign media personnel were present at the scene and a female journalist was injured during the confrontation. All details of the incident will be examined. Upon arriving to the scene, the forces acted to disperse the confrontation using riot dispersal means.
At another location where the confrontation took place, IDF soldiers initially fired warning shots into the air and then fired toward a suspect who ran toward them, carrying a sharp object and posed a threat to them. The confrontation was dispersed.
Israeli Police forces and forensic investigators from the Judea and Samaria District will enter the area with IDF security to collect findings and evidence, as well as take testimonies.
Violence against innocent civilians is a grave and intolerable phenomenon that requires a coordinated, multi-agency response. The IDF will work together with the relevant authorities to eradicate this phenomenon.
The IDF strongly condemns this incident. Attempts to incite friction between populations undermine security in the area.
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sadistic glee in so many articles about "Digger" taking this tone as if, written by persons who've never made a movie, will never make a movie, or probably even know anyone who has made a movie, or in fact created anything original & risky, are taking their revenge on those who make themselves vulnerable by doing so.
‘Digger’ is officially the flop of the year. The Tom Cruise–starring comedy caps off a calamitous box-office year for Warner Bros., just as Skydance is set to take over the studio Tuesday. vulture.com/article/tom-crui…
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“This highly successful and notorious talent agent starts his day by waking up at 4 AM...drinking a protein shake, and swallowing a cup of live worms.” Now online: a new installment of Last Week in End Times Cinema, compiled by @hamrahrama and @wtavlin f.mtr.cool/eju9hvluop
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Come hear me and @lisa_borst talk to @hamrahrama on 10/1 about the last year in end times cinema. Fun, laughs, good times!
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What’s with these guys and restaurant reservations? What’s this market, $30M a year? Why is every AI sales pitch now obsessed with restaurant reservations? how many people are struggling with this problem on a weekly basis? A few thousand at most? Enough with the reservations!
Instinct CEO Noah Shinn says agents will let restaurants give tables to birthdays and anniversaries over whoever clicks first
"And traditionally, because of the way that the internet has worked, at least for reservations, it's been first come first serve. So anyone that comes in, no matter how important or how not important it might be, whoever gets in first gets the reservation."
"But what if you had the ability for the agent to be able to communicate on both sides, communicate, hey, this is important. This is actually the person's spouse's birthday, the 30th birthday, a very special event is coming up."
"And the restaurant too can say, let's actually prioritize birthdays or major decade birthdays or major anniversaries or these certain people, I don't know, whatever it might be, right?"
"So now with the ability, with all of the logistical burden of having to describe exactly what your case is and what's happening and why it's important. Now we have the ability to perfectly match what does the restaurant want? What does the user want?"
"And that will result in more special events for the users being able to actually have a spot in the restaurant."
Come hear me and @lisa_borst talk to @hamrahrama on 10/1 about the last year in end times cinema. Fun, laughs, good times!
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On Thursday, October 1, join us for a conversation with n+1 film critic @hamrahrama. He’ll discuss recent bad news in movies and moviegoing with @wtavlin and @lisa_borst.
nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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In a devastating turn of events, this morning the catering truck for FBI (TV Series 2018- ) discovered that I am not actually the show's payroll clerk and will no longer serve me breakfast burritos
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Screen Slate is the world's greatest website, and it is beloved by all the best people. I think it has stayed relevant for so long because anyone who reads it can sense that it's run by people who care deeply for this scene and everyone in it.
looks cool but I wanted to make something worse that everyone would hate
Replying to @salobonavia @ScreenSlate
looks cool but i personally wanted to sort by production year so i one shotted this thing
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Netflix, the self-described “most transparent company in streaming,” is ending its biannual “what we watched” viewership reports. Now it’ll be once a year so we can’t evaluate them as often.
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Roughly 300 programs across Netflix's library have used generative AI across their production process this year, the company revealed.
“We are increasingly leveraging these tools to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost than traditional methods,” the company said. “In some cases, productions would have had to leave out key shots and sequences in the absence of GenAI technology.”
variety.com/2026/biz/news/ab…
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