By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit.

Got myself a Criterion Channel subscription

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

How many people in your life are still rooting for you, despite the fact that you are somewhat unlikable? Consider that next time you are at the cinema.

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Almost nobody in the UK knows about A Charlie Brown Christmas so the soundtrack is a very easy Christmas music win

Re-muscle-memory-ing guitar after several years of Excellence In The Field Of Joint Inflammation and man - very weird feeling to just not have capacities anymore that you think of as having just put away for a bit

Kojima getting ready to scan Denis Lavant

This is INSANE

Godard is everywhere for those with eyes to see

What I've learned from writing a novel is that you should always be writing a novel, it's a permanent get-out-of-jail- free card, it gives you this excellent moral and lifestyle high ground you'd never get anywhere else

Adrian Martin on why 75% of tweets about film are fundamentally misguided

Company: “We are going to switch from an algorithm to an AI ☺️” - “Does it work better?” Company: “No 🥰” - “Does it use less electricity?” Company: “Also no 😝” - “Does it cost less to maintain?” Company: “Not at all! 🤪” - “So… why?” Company: “IT IS INEVITABLE!”

Asad Haider’s work hugely impacted my thinking on race, capitalism, identity politics. His book Mistaken Identity cut through noise at a loud moment in these debates, a clarifying intervention at a moment rife with distraction. I interviewed him in 2018.

Asad Haider wrote a wonderful essay on Stuart Hall for @thepointmag. It is well worth revisiting, and not only as a testament to how much we have lost with his untimely passing. My condolences to Haider’s family and friends.

Devastating news about Asad Haider. He was an inspiration - Viewpoint dug up buried treasures of Marxist theory, not as an end in itself but to enrich our political imagination, as his PhD thesis and his book on race and class brilliantly showcased

Damn rip Frank Gehry. I got into architecture back in university when I saw this house discussed in Jameson's Postmodernism and did a bunch of reading just to work out what on earth he was going for here.

funny how when i rate something lower than my friends on letterboxd, i’m exhibiting a rare, higher level discernment, and when i rate something higher, i’m demonstrating a more textured, holistic appreciation than most;

New BAN sounds kinda somewhere between mid 00s Enslaved and the Alcest records where Neige is interested in metal again. I'm missing the dissonance but it's pretty great nonetheless!