JWZ's RADICAL PAGE
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| 2 days ago | OlderWelp, that's it for vaccines, then. Great job everybody |
Still eagerly waiting for someone to tell me where I can go meet my localBlade Runnerat one of my city's famedOpen-Air Drug Markets. I assume COVID vaccines will remain harder to get than heroin for the foreseeable future. Threat Model: Led by Vinay Prasad and Martin Makary, the US FDAannouncedTuesday that Covid vaccines willno longer be available for most Americans, only allowing access to adults over 65 and people with at least one high-risk medical condition. There areno exceptions for in-home caregivers, including those who care for disabled children, those with cancer, and the elderly. In line with a popular false conspiracy theory, the FDA hasrequired Covid vaccine makersto expand warnings about risks of heart harms, which are rare.One day after the US FDA said it would require new clinical trials for approval of annual Covid-19 boosters,Moderna was compelled to withdraw its applicationfor US approval of itshighly successful, outperforming combined flu-Covid shot.Great Barrington Declaration backer Jay Bhattacharya delivered his first town hall speech as NIH head this week, triggering a mass walkout whenhe told the assembled NIH scientists that Covid was created in the US by NIH. |
big brother, conspiracies, corporations, doomed, firstperson, grim meathook future, plague |
| 3 days ago | Natasha Jay:Carson Hill: |
I found video, June 2024:"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping." There is no reporting on this from non-Musk-Fanboy sites, and there's nothing on theVicksburg Newssite, but this video was on their Facebook. Remember kids,. |
big brother, conspiracies, corporations, doomed, firstperson, mpegs, pranks, sprawl |
| 4 days ago | Avelo Airlines quashed a boycott campaign over its polarizing decision to operate federal deportation flights. |
"Polarizing". Never change, NYT. Seth Miller, a New Hampshire lawmaker, placed billboard ads protesting Avelo Airlines' decision to operate flights for ICE. Avelo accused him of trademark infringement. Seth Miller, an independent aviation journalist and state lawmaker in New Hampshire, began the campaign last week with advertisements on two billboards near Avelo's busiest airport urging travelers to avoid the airline. The ads, near Tweed New Haven Airport in Connecticut, featured a modified Avelo logo and the message: "Does your vacation support their deportation? Just say AvelNO!" Days later, a lawyer for the airline sent Mr. Miller a letter saying he had violated Avelo's trademark. Mr. Miller said the airline had also persuaded the billboard operator, Lamar Advertising, to take down the ads. In response, he sued the airline Friday afternoon in Nevada, where the airline is incorporated, asking a court to affirm that he was only exercising his freedom of speech. |
big brother, billboard, copyright, corporations, doomed, pranks |
| 4 days ago | Today in Landfill Capitalism | This is a fun tale of largely-unsuccessful reverse engineering of a bricked and abandoned rental bike, but who could have predicted this nightmare except everybody. | bike, computers, conspiracies, corporations, doomed, mpegs, sprawl |
| 5 days ago | Power tools | Week three of my neighbor's interminable construction project, whatever it is. So another day of finding music that synergizes well with power tools when played. I guess we'll start today withThe Hammer Party. Hope they enjoy it. | firstperson, music |
| 5 days ago | SpamAssassin | TIL that SpamAssassin does not match any 'body' rules if the body is text/html base64. WTF. | computers, firstperson, mail, security, spam |
| 5 days ago | Recent movies and TV |
Freaky Tales (2025): I have watched thisthree times. It is four interleaved stories, happening simultaneously in 1987, and the first one is a bunch of Gilman punks absolutely eviscerating some Nazis. If you aren't already in, I can't help you. It is"Pulp Oakland". The attention to detail is fantastic. Whoever made this....was there. Also the Easter eggs! The cameos! The film references!Chef kissall the way through. This is now both the Second best punk movie, and the second best Bay Area movie, I will not be taking questions. Andor: I have already gushed about Andor, and if you read this at all I'm sure you're already watching it, but. It sticks the fucking landing. It is the most powerful piece of antifascist cinema I have seen sinceCasablanca. As I said before, most Star Wars TV media follows the pattern of, "What if these two action figures I owned when I was a child fought." And then Andor comes out of the gate with,"The only rational response to fascism is violent insurrection." And it doubles down on that at every opportunity.("Oh, here are three episodes about Privatized Prison Slavery and the fundamental weakness of the Panopticon! Buy some toys!") How did Disney let this antifa show slip through,twice? Also. I am absolutely mortified that none of the reviews I read even acknowledged the scene where the Space French were being slaughtered while singing SpaceLa Marseillaise. FFS, read a book. (Look I know it's in black and white but if you haven't seenCasablancawatchCasablanca. It is genuinely excellent and you will understand so many jokes that went over your head before.) The Gorge (2025): The first half is a surprisingly sweet long-distance romance between two snipers, but once the monsters show up, it's absolutely terrifying. Really great creature design. Perhaps a bit over-explained toward the end, but still a fun ride. Cold (2025): A short film where Wynonna Earp contracts both menopause and zombie-ism, it's fantastic. Improbably Poppy (2025): I had lost track of Poppy for a while, because her turn to metal wasn't very interesting to me, but she's started doing a "variety show", sorta, on her youtube channel and it is absolutely insane and brilliant. I hope she keeps going. Shrinking (2023): I initially ignored this because of my rule against shows about doctors, lawyers or cops, but someone said it reminded them a bit ofThe Good Place, and that's not right, but it's also not wrong. If is pitched as a show about psychologists and their zany patients but really it's about messed up people trying to do better, and it's just kind of sweet. Also the jokes are filthy. There's a line it one episode that might be its mission statement: "You realize that the villain in your story is just a person who made a big mistake". Twilight of the Warriors, Walled In (2024): Relentless martial arts ass-kicking set in the 80s in Kowloon Walled City. The stunts and effects are great, and the environment is a gorgeous apocalypse. "We spent $1 each on our wigs because the whole budget was wire removal and matte paintings" The Electric State (2025): I havelongbeen a fan of Simon Stålenhag and the character design in this mimicked his art very well, and that was almost enough for me. But, asPitch Meetingsaid, "Oh it's based on a graphic novel. But that sounds like reading. So we just ignored all that and made a Marvel movie." So yeah. "Worst Chris". Bloody Axe Wound (2024): It's the 80s, and an alternate universe where slasher movies are true, and the guy they're based on is a sad single dad who wants his daughter to go into the family business. Pretty cute. The unreality of the situation is kind of glossed over but that's fine. Companion (2025): The trailer triesreallyhard not to give away the big spoiler (I guessed it within the first 5 minutes), but anyway, a woman goes on vacation with her shitty boyfriend and ends up murdering the absolute fuck out of his really shitty friends. It's fun. The Monkey (2025): Killer organ grinder monkey toy. Nothing far afield fromyour expectations, but fun andreallygory. The Studio (2025): Did you wake up today and say to yourself, "You know what I'm looking for? Another story about the difficult lives of multimillionaire entertainment industry bureaccrats." There is nothing that Hollywood enjoys more than climbing up its own ass, and this is more of that. I will grudgingly admit that there were a few cringey laughs, but by the time I got to episode 3, I had that same feeling I get when I realize I've thoughtlessly eaten an entire bag of Doritos. "Why did I do that to myself? Oh, my stomach." This is trash. Hacks S03: Still loving this. One might accidentally categorize them together, but this is the diametric opposite ofThe Studio. This show actually loves its topic. The Studiohates itself and hates everything about it. In the Lost Lands (2025): Milla Jovovitch is an immortal witch on a quest through the future wasteland and either you've already decided to watch it, or you've already decided absolutely not to. Mickey 17 (2025): Sad-sack gets a job on a spaceship being repeatedly killed and re-printed, then teams up with his Evil Twin to save The Bugs. The billionaire who owns the ship is Bruce Banner doing his Musk impression. It's pretty fun. Ash (2025): Locked room alien parasite story that borrows a lot fromAliensandThe Thing. It's very good looking: the visual style is cool, almost all reds and greens, and noir-ish lighting choices. The story is told in flashback because it hinges on an amnesia plot, which I always find to be eyerollingly lazy writing. Great squishy effects, though. And the Medbot is amazing, star of the show. So... not great, but points for style. Death of a Unicorn (2025): Honestly I was pretty drunk and I barely remember this but I think it was pretty funny. Unicorns fuck up some douchebags. Though if you're looking for a unicorn movie, you should go withUnicorn Storeinstead. Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League (2025): I try to limit this list to movies that I actually recommend, and limit the inclusion of movies that are only here for dunking on, but... wow. This is one of the worst things I have ever seen. Now, it is obviously doinga bit, and I'm not in on the joke. I assume the stilted dialog, breathless exposition, and karaoke interludes are references to trash anime from the 80s that I never saw... but like"X-Men '96", if you are ironically imitating something that was awful, you're still making something awful. Being crap on purpose is still being crap. Murderbot: Boring. Just like the book. I only read the first one because it was boring. But I am already sighing that the existence of this show will result in more replies -- every time Irefer to a Waymo or a Swasticar as a murderbot-- from someone herp derp referencing the show because that's so clever. I have watched the first two episodes and already unsubscribed. |
firstperson, movies, reviews, tv |
| 7 days ago | Surgeon General | So apparently we're getting a"Holistic Wellness Influencer"for Surgeon General. And I am once again begging this administration toof mediocre Frank Miller comics from the early 90s: | big brother, comics, conspiracies, doomed, firstperson, grim meathook future |
| 8 days ago | Pascal's Weiner |
If Roko's Basilisk is real, then wouldn't it be a certainty that you wouldbe being tortured in a Hell Dimension? It would be infinitesimally unlikely that, out of the billions of copies of your mind, you'd be experiencing theonethat was not.
Oh. Oh. Oh no. |
computers, doomed, firstperson, mad science, religion |
| 8 days ago | DNA Lounge: Wherein a GWARtifact is unearthed |
Just last week someone posted a previously-unseen 10 minute video of one of GWAR's performances at DNA Lounge inMayorNovember 2004! You will now crumble to dust as I remind you that that was21 years ago. We would love to have them back, but they seem to be playing much larger venues these days. Even back then, we were kind of small for them, but it may have been more about the size of the stage than the attendance. They had a few props they had to leave out of the show because they literally would not fit. Oh yeah, also their music videos forWar PartyandWomb With a Viewwere filmed at that November show at DNA Lounge. Anyone have higher quality versions of these videos? |
dnalounge |
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