@Alexandra6132 @xenocryptsite As someone who has recently got into Miami Vice, how does that not make the list? It seems to me like the first “modern” television series
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Haines Hoag
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@xenocryptsite I saw someone do a tweet listing a bunch of shows that she considers essential viewing. The Prisoner and Columbo were the only shows older than the 90s
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I haven't seen it myself...TV maybe unfortunately doesn't seem to have this sort of LetterBoxd culture where people feel obliged to watch the classics.
Carljob 🇵🇸 🇮🇪@bornposting
watched more hill street blues. people need to get onto this show. get some tiktok edits of it going
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@DjsokeSpeaking What about NJ and VA? Much tougher but I don’t think Dems can be picky currently. I don’t see why VA wouldn’t have stood if the election dates had been followed correctly. Probably only nets 2 vs 4
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@HainesHoag CO, CA, NY
Theoretically IL and you could do PNW seats as well but those are tougher
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2026 should be a blue enough year for Ds to still win the house. But between now and 2028 if Ds don’t maximally redraw where they can it could get much tougher
Dj@DjsokeSpeaking
Does go to show how much state courts matter though VA’s court ruled 4-3 to overturn an election result on technical process Florida’s constitution explicitly bans partisan gerrymandering, but I doubt that map will face the same scrutiny
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@ChazNuttycombe Wouldn’t count out NJ. Pre-Callais it would be a tough lift but I wouldn’t rule it out now
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Oh and MD they'd also need to gerrymander that in time to be able to be competitive.
Most Americans are gonna live in a gerrymandered district by the 2029 election.
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Would agree, the US House is probably gonna be a ~Toss-Up this year despite the nat'l environment likely being bluer than 2018. VA-1, NC-1, OH-9, PA-8 are the likely tipping points and they're all Trump +6 or more.
Zachary Donnini@ZacharyDonnini
Boy oh boy. The redistricting war is shaping up to be a major win for Republicans. That means the U.S. House is very much on the table in 2026. Our forecast will update soon to reflect the new landscape, we'll be hard at work today.
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@xenocryptsite Right, but to what extent can you generalize Letterboxd ratings/statistics vs just throw them away as a biased subsample of the actual movie-watching population? I’m not sure where that line is
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@HainesHoag Well and the intersection is "critical and population evaluation...among people who log things on LetterBoxd".
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@xenocryptsite It’s interesting because presumably the split between past hits and what is watched on Letterboxd can be broken down into 1. critical and popular evaluation of films 30 years later (some age well, others terribly) and 2. the age/gender demographics of Letterboxd + viewing habits
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@MattZeitlin There’s also something slightly uplifting about the fact that Claude is so enamored with Mark Fisher, especially over CCRU buddy and Silicon Valley idol Nick Land
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mark fisher was a brilliant man whose work will endure for generations; however, it is also really funny that one of his most widely read essays is a 4,000 word defense of the political intelligence and importance of russell brand
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Need 20 seconds on Henry Jaglom
Dan Diamond@ddiamond
Oscars producers tell @THR they're going to expand the "In Memoriam" segment of the show to do a tribute "worthy" of those who passed away. This year's list is particularly long — includes Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, and tragically Rob Reiner.
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@jamesd0wns He had 70 points before the shenanigans started, but sure, discredit his career performance
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@Thorongil16 Let’s generalize based on one of the most idiosyncratic counties in the nation! Great work, folks!
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I am watching The Magnificent Seven, which is a much better use of time then watching the SOTU.
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@maiamindel Watched it for the first time last night and was a little disappointed. Stellan Skarsgard felt like he wasn’t really acting? And while it was shot beautifully I didn’t get the sense it was doing anything daring. Bugonia still my clear favorite of the Oscar nominees
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The perfect awards gold trio of much less politically controversial than the other choices, about actors and filmmaking, and an intimate family drama where the drama isn't intractable enough for there to be no reconciliation
✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi@roxana_hadadi
settled now fully into my take that the continued success of SENTIMENTAL VALUE in a field of international films all devoted to discussing urgent political issues (IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, THE SECRET AGENT, THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB) is a sign of deeply pervasive cultural cowardice
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@xenocryptsite A good way to do the same thing with movies is go to cable TV (if you have it). I watched a 1948 western last week called Bad Men of Tombstone and I would never have found that even looking the list after list on Letterboxd
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So I think there are plenty of ways to be proactive and un-sorted in (almost) any information environment, but you have to, you know, do it, which is the hard part.
Benjy Sarlin@BenjySarlin
I think about this a lot, via Becca Rothfeld. A newspaper, and within it a good book section, is one of the last bastions against being unthinkingly sorted into your own algorithmic cul-de-sac.
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@xenocryptsite Don’t forget the optimistic theme of Blow Out, which is centered around the bicentennial!
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Yeah pop culture was very optimistic in 1976.
Ben Crew@BenjaminCrew1
This may just be nostalgia brain talking but it is fascinating to look back at the hopeful vibe of America's Bicentennial in 1976 and compare it to how the 250th is shaping up to be.
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@Robot_Bastard @xenocryptsite Neal Stephenson did something similar in Anathem! He still introduced a lot of new words but his preface explained that by “potatoes”, he didn’t mean potatoes exactly, but a tuber somewhat akin to it. Actually important since we get a bit of Earth/other world interactions
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@xenocryptsite David Drake put a foreword in all of his "Leary" books about "obviously when the characters say 'feet' or 'meters' they're using some far-future term, just assume that's what's happening and don't worry about it, the point is that the societies use different units of measurement"
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Eh I don't mind it. Because I think over-concern with this is why I've read about a million fantasy books lately with a climactic "shocking" reveal that they're actually descended from spaceships from Earth or whatever.
elina 🔮 🍉@bogwitchbooks
One of my pet peeves in high fantasy books is using certain words or phrases that have no place in a fantasy setting that isn’t earth. I don’t know if that makes sense but it drives me INSANE
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@kirk_bado @jamesd0wns I think you mean cavalry instead of calvary
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@maiamindel Yeah when I’m at my desk in front of a screen all day I can’t necessarily get away with pulling out a book, but some sort of Kindle option is viable
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@HainesHoag That's true but tbf I do think that a lot of downtime (especially commutes on public transportation) can fit in reading time if you're not on your phone. I also spend a lot of time on coffee shops, etc for various reasons
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