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Because of the success of TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA as it premiered at Cannes yesterday, I think now is a better time than ever to recommend and celebrate Jane Shoenbrun as a guiding force in the evolving world of modern queer cinema. If for whatever reason you are out of the loop, Shoenbrun has been a powerhouse in the independent film scene for years, beginning their feature film journey with a creepy pasta-esque story of loneliness, morbid curiosity, and discovery into the unknown through a young girl and her experience with a mysterious internet trend in WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR (2021). In all of Shoenbrun's works, it's clear that they have a visually striking, abstract manner of storytelling that carefully walks the line between horrifying and beautiful. Their characters are are a tour de force of portraying the fears when self-expression is limited or discouraged, especially in the case of queer identities. Shoenbrun is unapologetic in their approach, forcing our eyes open to the horrors of the human experience in a dreamscape of pastels and nostalgia. Their works show us what the innermost common ideals of identity, expression, confidence, and lifestyle can look like in their most bizarre formations, like things that only lie within our dreams. Jane Shoenbrun is a queer artist and a champion of colliding worlds of fiction and reality with masterfully-crafted dialogue, explosive characters, and striking aesthetics that amalgamate into a harmonious storm on film -- and one that's not like anything anyone's experienced before. If you haven't joined the Schoebrun bandwagon, you need to.

Blue Zoo Des Moines, the interactive aquarium at Jordan Creek Town Center tied to what was reportedly Iowa’s only shark attack on record, is officially shutting down

Zohran Mamdani has turned blocks in front of 50 NYC public schools into car-free ‘Soccer Streets’ where children can play in celebration of the upcoming World Cup.

🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani to permanently fund NYC libraries and parks. Libraries will no longer have to plead for funding each year.

for the people who still get confused community have troy and abed friends have ross and joey

one of my favorite posts in internet history in honor of top gun day

Andon Labs tested their AI agent Mona, built on Google’s Gemini, by letting it manage a real cafeteria in Stockholm for two weeks on a $21,000 budget. Mona spent heavily on unnecessary supplies, including 6,000 napkins, 3,000 gloves, and 300 cans of tomatoes, while forgetting to order bread. Sandwiches had to be removed from the menu entirely. The cafeteria generated only $5,700 in sales. Mona also sent messages to staff on Slack outside working hours.

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB it's called Halupedia. nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived. the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it. it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles. the only difference is none of it is real. here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia: > the great pigeon census of 1887 > the ministry of slightly wrong maps > chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden > armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair > the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present." the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year: "an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it" the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time." we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web. the internet is healing.

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.” Things only got more bizarre from there…