Jacob Castillo

"I didn't fire 1000 people I flooded the market with once in a lifetime talent" is truly brilliant word salad, absolute LinkedIn brainrot.

If there's one thing Ted Cruz cares about, it's his ability to get in and out of an airport in record time when shit goes down

A comment like this would have sunk the administration of any past president. They’d write entire pages about it in American history books. But now it’s just another day in the news cycle.

Autumn Durald Arkpaw is the first woman EVER to win Best Cinematography at the Oscars. See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

the Oscars is fake and unimportant unless the movie i like sweeps

Ryan Coogler becomes the second Black filmmaker to ever win Best Original Screenplay at the #Oscars He joins Jordan Peele, who was the first.

in a conservative’s ideal america it’s mandatory to identify as a christian but illegal to actually live as jesus taught.

Really curious about the ideological make-up of Latino Democrats.

a major—but entirely predictable (and predicted)—escalation nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/…

US adults’ optimism about their future life has fallen to 59.2%, the lowest ever, per Gallup.

Only thing worse than a Cybertruck jump-scare is a Sysco delivery truck jump-scare

Bad Bunny said “God Bless America” then brought out the flag of EVERY country in the American Continent to remind gringos the world doesn’t revolve around YOU

I was hiking a mountain and got lost, so i asked a stranger where we were, he pointed at this casting and that's when I knew, we were at the peak

MCU slander has reached a new level dude lmfao

@PresGeorgie @seraphel_ Legend of Korra served this critique pretty well by establishing that Aang’s pacifism led to all the major issues in Republic City. That’s also a constraint of the franchise in general: most consequences aren’t really felt in a single Avatar’s lifetime—they’re often passed on.

@seraphel_ The show would be improved by a critique of pacifism rather than it being necessary in that scene. You can still have Aang decide to be a pacifist, but it feels like the other avatars were just ill informed and didn’t know about energy bending rather than having a real conflict.

atla is a great example of how censorship works against a story. it's not that aang being pacifist goes against the theme, it's that he couldn't ever not be pacifist even if he wanted to, because of the broadcast standards. so rather than a real moral choice, it feels cheap

@RodrigoSafdiye @pretty_sarlin Exactly, but who fixed it? and why?

@pretty_sarlin Every line between 2 fixed points is straight....

Phew he's safe.

A newly restored version of the original version of ‘STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE’ will be released in theaters on February 19, 2027 (Source: starwars.com/news/star-wars…)

For the Gen Z folks out there, this kinda stuff is what it was like all day every day when Obama was president.

The Netflix-Warner deal is a horror movie. And not like OG Scream or Sinners. This is like the Human Centipede part 23. On a long haul flight. In the middle seat. 1. The price of getting Netflix with no ads was $7.99 a decade ago. Now it is $17.99 (inflation would make it $10.92). This is not the behavior of a company that is scrambling to compete for your business. Because it's *the* juggernaut in streaming -- it has over 300 million subscribers, more than two times the subscribers as HBO Max and Disney+, which both have around 125M. 2. What is keeping the price of Netflix from getting even higher? You guessed it, HBO Max and Disney+. I don't know if they're stealing existing folks from Netflix, but when people have 17 bucks to spend on a subscription, their two clearest choices are Netflix.. and HBO Max. In other words, their clearest competitor is a Warner property... And don't take it from me, take it from the former CEO of Warner Media, Jason Kilar (below): “If I was tasked with doing so, I could not think of a more effective way to reduce competition in Hollywood than selling WBD to Netflix." So get ready for subscription prices to go up. 3. This also going to hurt your local movie theater, if you still have one. That's because Netflix does this thing where it will lock down an amazing movie, screen it in a few theaters to qualify for the Oscars and other awards, but release it simultaneously (or a few weeks after) on streaming. They did this with Roma. And no, even if you're *Scorsese* (the Irishman) or *Guillermo del Toro* (Frankenstein) even you will only get three to four weeks on the big screen before your knees are kicked out from under you. Who does this help? Netflix. Who does this hurt? The local movie theater where you had your first date, where you watched Jurassic Park (sorry, I'm old), where you take the kids over Christmas. And guess who specializes in making movies for the big screen? Yep, Warner Brothers: Dune, Barbie, the Minecraft Movie (iykyk), Superman. As @matthewstoller explained, "a theater needs a certain number of new releases to be profitable, and are very close to that line right now." 4. And it's not just going to screw over your local movie theater. This thing is going to hurt all of the independent writers, directors, and producers that make the most interesting stuff. Hollywood works at its best when there is a whole ecosystem of independent folks making new shows and movies and pitching them to the big guys for distribution. The film festival circuit? That's *why you go on that circuit* -- to get your cool new, out-there movie in front of execs who can buy it and distribute it. I was in Los Angeles a month ago, and that whole system is just long gone. Why? A huge part of the reason is Netflix. They cut sweetheart deals with huge names (Adam Sandler), and consistently spend their money on that and their own in-house folks. 'No one is buying' at the festivals; 'now they make you do all this stuff for free before you can even pitch them on something'. This is the kind of thing people are saying. 5. What's to be done here? Normally, the Department of Justice would intervene and block the merger. But I'm not staying up for that. I think this is the time for California Attorney General Rob Bonta to step in and move first. He's strong, the folks who work in these industries are *his* constituents -- and if you think this would be a nice thing for a bunch of wealthy people, go see how much the production crews and makeup artists and background actors earn in Hollywood. This is the time for him to define his legacy as someone who stands up for consumers.