• cartwright •

Under construction : My favourite literature pieces of all time.

@gnocchidrive Can you upload “The Measure of A Man” (2015)?

@gnocchidrive Do you have this? boxd.it/oJ0i

Sometimes, there's beauty in staying where you are, in standing still while the world around you keeps moving.

Letterboxd is functioning exactly as it should and gives its users the precise experience they want, which is antithetical to everything tech companies believe in

That scroll to find your year of birth is becoming increasingly offensive smh

Cinema is a medium of voyeurism and fetishism and I wish we'd be less in denial about this. An unbelievably tame director at that even

‘There is nothing “higher status” than excelling joyfully at what you do.’

“The people who will win are those who can remake themselves again and again: to summit one peak, descend it, and then hike up the next.”

Absolutely loved reading this piece. Here are certain quotes that stuck with me;

Jos, Nigeria btw

Studios should not be allowed to buy a movie review app. It’s a huge conflict of interest that will prey on the general public’s desires for superficial recognition as studios tend to reward positive pr seen with influencers.

The beautiful intoxication of language.

9/9 As one commander put it, "God has helped us, and so will AI." Full report, short summary and key excerpts: casp.ac/reports/ai-ena… NYT story: nytimes.com/2026/07/10/us/…

3/9 For context: Boko Haram is among the world's deadliest jihadist terrorist organizations; and its faction Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is among the Islamic State’s most active affiliates globally.

2/9 Over 2025–26 I conducted 57 in-person interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members about the group’s use of frontier AI from 2023 up to mid-2025. I found that Boko Haram's factions use frontier AI systems (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek) in combat and day-to-day operations.

how i experience films is so important to me

If you liked something at 14 you’ll like it again 14 years later. It’s got its hooks in you and you’ll never escape

Weekend mood: Hirokazu Kore-eda.

there's a rare kind of intimacy in cinema that asks for nothing except to be felt