"I don't care"

"Carey said he had wanted Parker's support for legislation requiring staff in state and private facilities to report incidents of suspected abuse or neglect of vulnerable people to a 911 operator." "Disability rights advocate says state senator with violent history shoved him at New York Capitol." https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/disability-rights-advocate-state-senator-violent-history-shoved-110313486

why patients hospitalized longer?

uganda, "factors significantly associated a longer LoS (length of stay) among our study participants included; being admitted in a hospital without caregivers (adjusted coefficient [aCoef]: 14.88, 95% CI 7.98-21.79, p < 0.001), a diagnosis of schizophrenia (aCoef: 10.68, 95 %CI 5.53-15.83, p < 0.001), being separated or divorced (aCoef: 7.68, 95% CI 1.09-14.27, p = 0.023), and increase in money spent during the admission (aCoef: 0.14, 95% CI 0.09-0.18, p < 0.001)." https://www.mentalhealthdataprizeafrica.aphrc.org/repository/pape41515/length-of-stay-of-hospitalized-patients-at-tertiary-psychiatry-facilities-in-uganda-the-role-of-caregivers-presence

False Claims Act

"two central assertions at the heart of his book were false: that Prozac was a safe and extraordinarily effective drug, with no major side effects; and that, even more remarkably, it could make you “better than well.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-anecdotes-sell-drugs-on-peter-kramers-listening-to-prozac/

TV

Jon Stewart, "pharma lobbyist cannot buy a senator a panini." "through the p.a.c." can pay for pro-psych new york senator kirsten gillibrand. https://youtu.be/hhBn9k-F56U

podcast

new york city mayor wants a mental prison for at least 2,000 people with aromatherapy (in addition to deadly poisons) and claims, at 20 minutes, it won't be "abusive." https://wgci.iheart.com/featured/angela-yee/content/2024-05-16-1119-way-up-with-angela-yee-full-interview-mayor-eric-adams-addresses-lifeg/
What is a.o.t.? https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/74ijhk5qn5qpnmx7/CC_AOT_final.mp3

addiction

australia, "Tasmanian Government tabled the Sentencing Amendment (Alcohol Treatment Order) Bill 2024 (The Bill) in the House of Assembly." Why not throw tobacco smokers into rehab? https://www.miragenews.com/parliament-tables-bill-for-alcohol-dependence-1236135/

female hormone

"Increased prolactin levels were found in AN-FEP (antipsychotic naïve first episode psychosis) patients." https://archive.is/680gK

personal experiences

May 17 10:45 AM mother touched my left hand.

"I don't care"

"Carey said he had wanted Parker's support for legislation requiring staff in state and private facilities to report incidents of suspected abuse or neglect of vulnerable people to a 911 operator." "Disability rights advocate says state senator with violent history shoved him at New York Capitol." https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/disability-rights-advocate-state-senator-violent-history-shoved-110313486

why patients hospitalized longer?

uganda, "factors significantly associated a longer LoS (length of stay) among our study participants included; being admitted in a hospital without caregivers (adjusted coefficient [aCoef]: 14.88, 95% CI 7.98-21.79, p < 0.001), a diagnosis of schizophrenia (aCoef: 10.68, 95 %CI 5.53-15.83, p < 0.001), being separated or divorced (aCoef: 7.68, 95% CI 1.09-14.27, p = 0.023), and increase in money spent during the admission (aCoef: 0.14, 95% CI 0.09-0.18, p < 0.001)." https://www.mentalhealthdataprizeafrica.aphrc.org/repository/pape41515/length-of-stay-of-hospitalized-patients-at-tertiary-psychiatry-facilities-in-uganda-the-role-of-caregivers-presence

False Claims Act

"two central assertions at the heart of his book were false: that Prozac was a safe and extraordinarily effective drug, with no major side effects; and that, even more remarkably, it could make you “better than well.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-anecdotes-sell-drugs-on-peter-kramers-listening-to-prozac/

TV

Jon Stewart, "pharma lobbyist cannot buy a senator a panini." "through the p.a.c." can pay for pro-psych new york senator kirsten gillibrand. https://youtu.be/hhBn9k-F56U

podcast

new york city mayor wants a mental prison for at least 2,000 people with aromatherapy (in addition to deadly poisons) and claims, at 20 minutes, it won't be "abusive." https://wgci.iheart.com/featured/angela-yee/content/2024-05-16-1119-way-up-with-angela-yee-full-interview-mayor-eric-adams-addresses-lifeg/
What is a.o.t.? https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/74ijhk5qn5qpnmx7/CC_AOT_final.mp3

addiction

australia, "Tasmanian Government tabled the Sentencing Amendment (Alcohol Treatment Order) Bill 2024 (The Bill) in the House of Assembly." Why not throw tobacco smokers into rehab? https://www.miragenews.com/parliament-tables-bill-for-alcohol-dependence-1236135/

female hormone

"Increased prolactin levels were found in AN-FEP (antipsychotic naïve first episode psychosis) patients." https://archive.is/680gK

personal experiences

May 17 10:45 AM mother touched my left hand.

Edit: I meant the title to be playful because I know no one has even heard of the group haha
JYPE's roll-out and pre-debut content for their new boy group, NEXZ, has been A+. As the designated "dance" company of the Big 3, they've put an emphasis on the group's stellar dance and performance talent in a really fun and unique way. They fit right in with the performance powerhouses of Twice, Stray Kids, ITZY, and NMIXX.
If you haven't heard of them or seen any content yet, don't worry. I'm here to break down how much every piece of content has ramped up my excitement for this group's debut and hopefully, inspire some kpop fans to give these guys a chance.
This group was formed on Nizi Season 2 and consists of six Japanese members and one Korean member (who grew up almost exclusively in Japan). The way the content has been dropping, the rapid fluency of Korean by every member, and where they've been promoting (including a currently airing MNET debut show!) are pointing to JYPE debuting the group for the Korean market first or simultaneously with a Japanese debut. The pre-debut single, Miracle also has a Korean Vers.. The song gives a taste of everyone's vocal and performance skills. The maknaes, Yuki and Hyui, have really gorgeous vocal tones but every member's vocals get a moment to shine on the track.
Starting this year, JYPE has started dropping special choreographed pieces by famous choreographers that highlight how strong the entire group is in dance. So far, only 4 videos have dropped but I want to take a moment to talk about each one:

• NEXZ Archive Kirsten Choreography Drop

The first video to drop features choreography from SW2's winner and leader, Kirsten of Jam Republic. I admit that I find quite a few of the moves to be recycled/uninspired but I appreciate how much she gave each member a moment to shine. Yu's bboying made my jaw drop. I hadn't seen him showcase that before but he killed it. The entire floor work sequence that preceded it was really clean and visually interesting. When Kirsten comes in, the group shifts to a powerful accompaniment to call attention to her entrance and pivots to a playful atmosphere by the end.

• NEXZ Archive Alexx Choreography Ring-a-ling

My favorite choreography video, hands down. The song choice, the styling, the VIBES -- truly immaculate. If you're only going to watch one thing about NEXZ, I really hope it's this video. From Yuki's strong aura and move up to center position in the beginning, Haru's saucy, vibey moves that prove why he's NEXZ's dance leader, to the turn into leader Tomoya's playful and eye-catching movements that are somehow tightly controlled, big, and clean...this choreography truly encompasses everything that is special about the group. Alexx's choreography plays on both the obvious and subtle musicality of the song and every moment is imbued with, for lack of better words, strength and sass. I think I've watched it every day since it's come out, to be quite honest.

• NEXZ Archive RENA Choreography U Tell Me

Choreographed by another SW2 contestant, Rena of Tsubakill, this dance is definitely more hip-hop orientated. Tomoya (in the Supreme hat) personifies this choreography, in my opinion. This moment being the prime example! You can really start to see how good the most technically proficient dancers (Haru, Tomoya, Hyui and Yuki) of the group are as they tackle different styles of dance. The "weaker" dancers, Seita and So Geon, really shine as well. The growth from just a few months is astonishing if you go back and pay attention. Personally, this choreography ultimately lacks impact. I find Rena's entrance at the end and the subsequent choreography to be a little lackluster.
NEXZ Archive J-HO Choreography Tambourine
This performance only dropped a few days ago, from yet another Just Jerk member, J-HO. Maybe I just prefer Just Jerk's choreography style because this performance is my second favorite of the set. The whole performance is so powerful but everyone makes the moves look easy. Yu, in the blue jacket, immediately catches in your eye in the beginning. The stand-out moment, for me, is this entire sequence ft. center Haru effortlessly moving up and hitting every beat with book-ends Yu and Yuki. The whole group breathes and moves as one. This is kpop dance at some of its' finest -- and the group hasn't even debuted yet.
Just one of these videos would have made me sit up and take notice of this group but every video and behind-the-scenes (and hopefully, more to come) has me seated in anticipation for what comes next for NEXZ. We've seen some pretty incredible 5th gen kpop BGs debut...I'm both nervous and hopeful for what's to come. If you've made it this far, let me know what your thoughts are! I would love to find some other people to gush about the group with!

Inspired by recent events in the news and upcoming events in April, I want to share what I’ve learned over the years going on archives and tumblr blogs; it's a reliable whisper network but it’s not infallible so feel free to correct where I’m wrong. And be prepared to grieve more if you’re a millennial or a zoomer. I wish Steve Burns could be here right about now.
Okay so starting from the top, we have Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle, the enigmatic creators of the show. They very much fit the Dan Schneider in that they wield a lot of power where they’re at and seemed to have fostered a toxic work environment. While there hasn’t been much information on them, comments on older forums don't paint a pretty picture. Their departure from Disney after 30 years has gotten people similarly abuzz.
As for the work environment? Oh boy. Much like recent shows put on blast, KP had a bad habit of sneaking in inappropriate jokes; Kim’s black dress and Ron’s reaction, the ejaculation joke in Homecoming Upset, the mud wrestling, Kim getting on her knees in front of Josh Mankey, and so on. Not only was this something that had no place in a kid’s show, it hid a seedier underbelly.
Yep, the writers and animators were problematic. For one, several artists who worked on the show would end up doing porn using the show’s art style. A notorious artist named Jab has stated that he worked for Disney and made KP comics of a similar nature. The writers were not all better, usually trying to submit scripts with plots like Kim’s dad wanting to marry her with complete earnest. One writer even took his scripts for the show and posted them on Adult Fan Fiction. Several other crew from shows like Proud Family, American Dragon and Fillmore has referenced it in the past.
This kind of unprofessionalism leaked to the cast as well. Following off several testimonies from Friedle’s behavior, it should come off as no surprise that he was a bit of a dick to his co-stars. He acted very cocky about himself, often making sexist and racist comments to his co-stars. Nicole Sullivan was a vocal KiGo shipper and would have share explicit fanart with the cast and crew. Kirsten Storm was alienated with these antics and would cut ties with Disney to pursue a career in soap operas. All the jabs at Bonnie were intended to be directed at Storm.
Christy Romano is an especially tragic case. While she recognized what a toxic environment, it seems she got along with it and internalized it, which lead to some problematic behavior both past and present.
There’s also several other miscellaneous such as suffering Avatar’s casting mistakes and bouts of sexism in the writing but that's the gist of it. LSMark made a good point in his review and I repeat it here altered: no matter how good of a show you think Kim Possible is, if it meant less people got hurt and less children were involved in unsavory acts, maybe we shouldn’t have a Kim Possible at all.

1. Cillian Murphy told the Irish Post, "I guess I’m not very good at being a ‘personality,’ and I’m not very comfortable doing the red carpet thing, or the chat show scenario."
2. Busy Philipps detests how much she's expected to spend for red carpet appearances. She told Page Six, "The film company or this production company is only going to pay this percentage of your hair, makeup, and wardrobe, so then you have to make up the rest. So then you are a thousand dollars out of pocket, and at the end of the day, it’s like, ‘What am I doing?’ Sometimes I think I should just show up a mess at one of these things as a protest."
3. Gabourey Sidibe told People, "I like when red carpets are over. I hate red carpets in general. I don’t understand them."
4. Victoria Beckham told the Sunday Times, "I just can’t wait to get down the carpet and be done with it. I don’t know if it’s the years of being photographed and the criticism, but I just feel exposed and vulnerable and uncomfortable, and I can’t be myself."
5. Duetting a TikTok slideshow of his "rare" red carpet appearances, Ed Sheeran said, "I just look mad awkward, don't I? I hate red carpets."
6. On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Zach Galifianakis said, "You kind of have to feign this excitement. And then you have to, you know, answer questions that...I find the questions are boring, and so I try to liven it up a bit."
7. Carey Mulligan told the Radio Times, "I was — and am — not great at having my photo taken and doing red carpets. When I was a bit younger, it used to paralyze me with fear. I used to get to the end of a red carpet in tears — awful."
8. On Power 105.1, Queen Naija said, "To be honest with y'all, I don't like, like...I don't like red carpets. I don't... My feet be hurting!"
9. Adele told Vogue, "I hate the red carpet. I don’t feel insecure, I just feel like, Oh, I don’t want to do this. I literally get a stomach cramp."
10. Kirsten Dunst told Lucky, "I hate red carpet photographs! It's such flat lighting! They take away my cheekbones — I just become a moonface."
11. Daniel Craig reportedly told the German version of OK! magazine, "Bruises and sprains belong to the job just as well as the red carpet does. And actually, I don't know for sure which of those is more painful to me."
12. Anna Kendrick told Company, "Oh my God, no, I hate [going to premieres]. It's literally the worst thing in the world, but I'm trying to get better at it."
13. Zayn Malik told GQ, "I did go [to the Met Gala], but I didn't go there to be like, 'Yo, take me serious.' I was taking the piss! I went there as my favorite Mortal Kombat character, Jax. The Met Gala is not necessarily anything that I ever knew about or was about. But my [former] stylist…would say to me, 'This is really good for you to do.' And no matter how strong you are mentally, you can always be swayed to do certain things. Now, it's not something I would go to."
14. Rene Russo told the Telegraph, "I [fucking] hate red carpet dressing. I know they're going to say I look like [shit] whatever."
15. Jeff Daniels told Jimmy Kimmel Live, "The red carpet is a gauntlet… There is so much ambition on the red carpet you need to shower afterwards. And there are so many microphones."
16. And finally, FKA Twigs told NME, "I used to hate doing red carpets, whereas now I just look at it like a performance [where] I just think that I’m really fab."

Link to article

Rotten Tomatoes: 88% (from 26 reviews) with 8.20 in average rating
Metacritic: 73/100 (12 critics)
As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie. It's structured like this: quote first, source second. Beware, some contain spoilers.

With the precision and length of its violent battle sequences, it’s clear Civil War operates as a clarion call. Garland wrote the film in 2020 as he watched cogs on America’s self-mythologizing exceptionalist machine turn, propelling the nation into a nightmare. With this latest film, he sounds the alarm, wondering less about how a country walks blindly into its own destruction and more about what happens when it does.

-Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter

One thing that works in “Civil War” is bringing the devastation of war home: Seeing American cities reduced to bombed-out rubble is shocking, which leads to a sobering reminder that this is already what life is like for many around the world. Today, it’s the people of Gaza. Tomorrow, it’ll be someone else. The framework of this movie may be science fiction, but the chaotic, morally bankrupt reality of war isn’t. It’s a return to form for its director after the misstep of “Men,” a film that’s grim and harrowing by design. The question is, is the emptiness that sets in once the shock has worn off intentional as well?

-Katie Rife, IndieWire: B

It’s the most upsetting dystopian vision yet from the sci-fi brain that killed off all of London for the zombie uprising depicted in “28 Days Later,” and one that can’t be easily consumed as entertainment. A provocative shock to the system, “Civil War” is designed to be divisive. Ironically, it’s also meant to bring folks together.

-Peter Debruge, Variety

I've purposefully avoided describing a lot of the story in this review because I want people to go in cold, as I did, and experience the movie as sort of picaresque narrative consisting of set pieces that test the characters morally and ethically as well as physically, from one day and one moment to the next. Suffice to say that the final section brings every thematic element together in a perfectly horrifying fashion and ends with a moment of self-actualization I don't think I'll ever be able to shake.

-Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com: 4/4

A movie, even a surprisingly pretty good one like this, won’t provide all the answers to these existential issues nor does it to seek to. What it can do, amidst the cacophony of explosions, is meaningfully hold up a mirror. Though the portrait we get is broken and fragmented, in its final moments “Civil War” still manages to uncover an ugly yet necessary truth in the rubble of the old world. Garland gets that great final shot, but at what cost?

-Chase Hutchinson, The Wrap

Garland’s Civil War gives little to hold on to on the level of character or world-building, which leaves us with effective but limited visual provocation – the capital in flames, empty highways a viscerally tense shootout in the White House. The brutal images of war, but not the messy hearts or minds behind them.

-Adrian Horton, The Guardian: 3/5

Civil War offers a lot of food for thought on the surface, yet you’re never quite sure what you’re tasting or why, exactly. No one wants a PSA or easy finger-pointing here, any more than you would have wanted Garland’s previous film Men — as unnerving and nauseating a film about rampant toxic masculinity as you’ll ever come across — to simply scream “Harvey Weinstein!” at you. And the fact that you can view its ending in a certain light as hopeful does suggest that, yes, this country has faced countless seismic hurdles and yet we still endure to form a more perfect union. Yet you’ll find yourself going back to that “explore or exploit” conundrum a lot during the movie’s near-two-hour running time. It’s feeding into a dystopian vision that’s already running in our heads. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, etc. So why does this just feel like more of the same white noise pitched at a slightly higher frequency?

-David Fear, Rolling Stone

Ultimately, Civil War feels like a missed opportunity. The director’s vision of a fractured America, embroiled in conflict, holds the potential for introspection on our current societal divisions. However, the film’s execution, hampered by thin characterization, a lackluster narrative, and an overreliance on spectacle over substance, left me disengaged. In its attempt to navigate the complexities of war, journalism, and the human condition, the film finds itself caught in the crossfire, unable to deliver the profound impact it aspires to achieve.

-Valerie Complex, Deadline Hollywood

So when the film asks us to accompany the characters into one of the most relentless war sequences of recent years, there's an unusual sense of decorum. We're bearing witness to an exacting recreation of historical events that haven't actually happened. And we, the audience from this reality, are asked to take it all as a warning. This is the movie that gets made if we don't fix our sh*t. And these events, recorded with such raw reality by Garland and his crew, are exactly what we want to avoid at all costs.

-Jacob Hall, /FILM: 8.5/10

Those looking to “Civil War” for neat ideologies will leave disappointed; the film is destined to be broken down as proof both for and against Garland’s problematic worldview. But taken for what it is — a thought exercise on the inevitable future for any nation defined by authoritarianism — one can appreciate that not having any easy answers is the entire point. If we as a nation gaze too long into the abyss, Garland suggests, then eventually, the abyss will take the good and the bad alike. That makes “Civil War” the movie event of the year — and the post-movie group discussion of your lifetime.

-Matthew Monagle, The Playlist: A–

while it does feel opportunistic to frame their story specifically within a new American civil war — whether a given viewer sees that narrative choice as timely and edgy or cynical attention-grabbing — the setting still feels far less important than the vivid, emotional, richly complicated drama around two people, a veteran and a newbie, each pursuing the same dangerous job in their own unique way. Civil War seems like the kind of movie people will mostly talk about for all the wrong reasons, and without seeing it first. It isn’t what those people will think it is. It’s something better, more timely, and more thrilling — a thoroughly engaging war drama that’s more about people than about politics.

-Tasha Robinson, Polygon

Still, even for Garland’s adept visual storytelling, supported by daring cuts by Jake Roberts and offbeat needledrops, the core of Civil War feels hollow. It’s very easy to throw up a stream of barbarity on the screen and say it has deeper meaning and is telling a firmer truth. But at what point are you required to give more? Garland appears to be aiming for the profundity of Come And See — the very loss of innocence, as perfectly balanced by Dunst and Spaeny, through the repeating of craven cycles is the tragedy that breaks the heart. It is just not clear by the end, when this mostly risky film goes fully melodramatic in the Hollywood sense, whether Garland possesses the control necessary to fully capture the horrors.

-Robert Daniels, Screen Daily

As with all of his movies, Garland doesn’t provide easy answers. Though Civil War is told with blockbuster oomph, it often feels as frustratingly elliptical as a much smaller movie. Even so, I left the theater quite exhilarated. The film has some of the best combat sequences I’ve seen in a while, and Garland can ratchet up tension as well as any working filmmaker. Beyond that, it’s exciting to watch him scale up his ambitions without diminishing his provocations — there’s no one to root for, and no real reward waiting at the end of this miserable quest.

-David Sims, The Atlantic
PLOT
In the near future, a team of journalists travel across the United States during the rapidly escalating Second American Civil War that has engulfed the entire nation, between the American government and the separatist "Western Forces" led by Texas and California. The film documents the journalists struggling to survive during a time when the government has become a dystopian dictatorship and partisan extremist militias regularly commit war crimes.
DIRECTOWRITER
Alex Garland
MUSIC
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Rob Hardy
EDITOR
Jake Roberts
RELEASE DATE

• March 14, 2024 (SXSW)
  
• April 12, 2024 (worldwide)
  

RUNTIME
109 minutes
BUDGET
$50 million (most expensive A24 film so far)
STARRING

• Kirsten Dunst as Lee
  
• Wagner Moura as Joel
  
• Cailee Spaeny as Jessie
  
• Stephen McKinley Henderson as Sammy
  
• Sonoya Mizuno as Anya
  
• Jesse Plemons as Unnamed Soldier
  
• Nick Offerman as the President of the United States
  

Rotten Tomatoes: 88% (from 26 reviews) with 8.20 in average rating

Critics consensus: Tough and unsettling by design, Civil War is a gripping close-up look at the violent uncertainty of life in a nation in crisis.

Metacritic: 74/100 (13 critics)
As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie. It's structured like this: quote first, source second. Beware, some contain spoilers.

With the precision and length of its violent battle sequences, it’s clear Civil War operates as a clarion call. Garland wrote the film in 2020 as he watched cogs on America’s self-mythologizing exceptionalist machine turn, propelling the nation into a nightmare. With this latest film, he sounds the alarm, wondering less about how a country walks blindly into its own destruction and more about what happens when it does.

-Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter

One thing that works in “Civil War” is bringing the devastation of war home: Seeing American cities reduced to bombed-out rubble is shocking, which leads to a sobering reminder that this is already what life is like for many around the world. Today, it’s the people of Gaza. Tomorrow, it’ll be someone else. The framework of this movie may be science fiction, but the chaotic, morally bankrupt reality of war isn’t. It’s a return to form for its director after the misstep of “Men,” a film that’s grim and harrowing by design. The question is, is the emptiness that sets in once the shock has worn off intentional as well?

-Katie Rife, IndieWire: B

It’s the most upsetting dystopian vision yet from the sci-fi brain that killed off all of London for the zombie uprising depicted in “28 Days Later,” and one that can’t be easily consumed as entertainment. A provocative shock to the system, “Civil War” is designed to be divisive. Ironically, it’s also meant to bring folks together.

-Peter Debruge, Variety

I've purposefully avoided describing a lot of the story in this review because I want people to go in cold, as I did, and experience the movie as sort of picaresque narrative consisting of set pieces that test the characters morally and ethically as well as physically, from one day and one moment to the next. Suffice to say that the final section brings every thematic element together in a perfectly horrifying fashion and ends with a moment of self-actualization I don't think I'll ever be able to shake.

-Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com: 4/4

A movie, even a surprisingly pretty good one like this, won’t provide all the answers to these existential issues nor does it to seek to. What it can do, amidst the cacophony of explosions, is meaningfully hold up a mirror. Though the portrait we get is broken and fragmented, in its final moments “Civil War” still manages to uncover an ugly yet necessary truth in the rubble of the old world. Garland gets that great final shot, but at what cost?

-Chase Hutchinson, The Wrap

Garland’s Civil War gives little to hold on to on the level of character or world-building, which leaves us with effective but limited visual provocation – the capital in flames, empty highways a viscerally tense shootout in the White House. The brutal images of war, but not the messy hearts or minds behind them.

-Adrian Horton, The Guardian: 3/5

Civil War offers a lot of food for thought on the surface, yet you’re never quite sure what you’re tasting or why, exactly. No one wants a PSA or easy finger-pointing here, any more than you would have wanted Garland’s previous film Men — as unnerving and nauseating a film about rampant toxic masculinity as you’ll ever come across — to simply scream “Harvey Weinstein!” at you. And the fact that you can view its ending in a certain light as hopeful does suggest that, yes, this country has faced countless seismic hurdles and yet we still endure to form a more perfect union. Yet you’ll find yourself going back to that “explore or exploit” conundrum a lot during the movie’s near-two-hour running time. It’s feeding into a dystopian vision that’s already running in our heads. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, etc. So why does this just feel like more of the same white noise pitched at a slightly higher frequency?

-David Fear, Rolling Stone

Ultimately, Civil War feels like a missed opportunity. The director’s vision of a fractured America, embroiled in conflict, holds the potential for introspection on our current societal divisions. However, the film’s execution, hampered by thin characterization, a lackluster narrative, and an overreliance on spectacle over substance, left me disengaged. In its attempt to navigate the complexities of war, journalism, and the human condition, the film finds itself caught in the crossfire, unable to deliver the profound impact it aspires to achieve.

-Valerie Complex, Deadline Hollywood

So when the film asks us to accompany the characters into one of the most relentless war sequences of recent years, there's an unusual sense of decorum. We're bearing witness to an exacting recreation of historical events that haven't actually happened. And we, the audience from this reality, are asked to take it all as a warning. This is the movie that gets made if we don't fix our sh*t. And these events, recorded with such raw reality by Garland and his crew, are exactly what we want to avoid at all costs.

-Jacob Hall, /FILM: 8.5/10

Those looking to “Civil War” for neat ideologies will leave disappointed; the film is destined to be broken down as proof both for and against Garland’s problematic worldview. But taken for what it is — a thought exercise on the inevitable future for any nation defined by authoritarianism — one can appreciate that not having any easy answers is the entire point. If we as a nation gaze too long into the abyss, Garland suggests, then eventually, the abyss will take the good and the bad alike. That makes “Civil War” the movie event of the year — and the post-movie group discussion of your lifetime.

-Matthew Monagle, The Playlist: A–

while it does feel opportunistic to frame their story specifically within a new American civil war — whether a given viewer sees that narrative choice as timely and edgy or cynical attention-grabbing — the setting still feels far less important than the vivid, emotional, richly complicated drama around two people, a veteran and a newbie, each pursuing the same dangerous job in their own unique way. Civil War seems like the kind of movie people will mostly talk about for all the wrong reasons, and without seeing it first. It isn’t what those people will think it is. It’s something better, more timely, and more thrilling — a thoroughly engaging war drama that’s more about people than about politics.

-Tasha Robinson, Polygon

Still, even for Garland’s adept visual storytelling, supported by daring cuts by Jake Roberts and offbeat needledrops, the core of Civil War feels hollow. It’s very easy to throw up a stream of barbarity on the screen and say it has deeper meaning and is telling a firmer truth. But at what point are you required to give more? Garland appears to be aiming for the profundity of Come And See — the very loss of innocence, as perfectly balanced by Dunst and Spaeny, through the repeating of craven cycles is the tragedy that breaks the heart. It is just not clear by the end, when this mostly risky film goes fully melodramatic in the Hollywood sense, whether Garland possesses the control necessary to fully capture the horrors.

-Robert Daniels, Screen Daily

As with all of his movies, Garland doesn’t provide easy answers. Though Civil War is told with blockbuster oomph, it often feels as frustratingly elliptical as a much smaller movie. Even so, I left the theater quite exhilarated. The film has some of the best combat sequences I’ve seen in a while, and Garland can ratchet up tension as well as any working filmmaker. Beyond that, it’s exciting to watch him scale up his ambitions without diminishing his provocations — there’s no one to root for, and no real reward waiting at the end of this miserable quest.

-David Sims, The Atlantic
PLOT
In the near future, a team of journalists travel across the United States during the rapidly escalating Second American Civil War that has engulfed the entire nation, between the American government and the separatist "Western Forces" led by Texas and California. The film documents the journalists struggling to survive during a time when the government has become a dystopian dictatorship and partisan extremist militias regularly commit war crimes.
DIRECTOWRITER
Alex Garland
MUSIC
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Rob Hardy
EDITOR
Jake Roberts
RELEASE DATE

• March 14, 2024 (SXSW)
  
• April 12, 2024 (worldwide)
  

RUNTIME
109 minutes
BUDGET
$50 million (most expensive A24 film so far)
STARRING

• Kirsten Dunst as Lee
  
• Wagner Moura as Joel
  
• Cailee Spaeny as Jessie
  
• Stephen McKinley Henderson as Sammy
  
• Sonoya Mizuno as Anya
  
• Jesse Plemons as Unnamed Soldier
  
• Nick Offerman as the President of the United States
  

SOURCE: https://www.codesmith.io/blog/community-update-doubling-down-on-remote-learning-timeless-pedagogy-frontier-tech
EDIT AND BREAKING: CONFIRMED LAYOFFS OCCURRED VIA FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT (SEE THE END)
DISCLAIMER: The following is my top to bottom analysis and personal opinions. I always disclose this and hopefully it's not boring. These are my personal opinions. I've not new to the sub and I have been giving my opinions on bootcamps for almost two years now, daily, from the FAANG angle, and also having worked with hundreds of bootcamps grads. I'm the co-founder of an interview prep mentorship platform that works with people with 1+ years of SWE work experience, so I don't consider it a competitor to any bootcamps, but disclosing so you know a bit about who I am.
SUMMARY:

1. This is not amazing news for Codesmith, it means enrollment has declined dramatically to warrant this kind of consolidation
2. BUT! I'm happy to see they've done so with creative changes and improvements. I have been pushing them for changes for a year now and they answered the call with changes and I appreciate that.
3. The market is the market and you can't change the market, so I hope it's not too late. I also hope there is just enough hiring that Codesmith can survive until the market improves because if the market won't hire enough entry level engineers from 12 week bootcamps, there's nothing anyone can do even if the alumni are incredible.
4. I love the new co-working space idea, curious to see how that plays out!
5. New workshops on new topics: again, appreciate changes! I don't think doing these topics for a couple weeks will help people get jobs, but I love that they are trying to help more people and alumni get more value for their tuition dollars even after they leave.
6. Excited to see Future Code in NYC! I wish the timing was better - it's going to cost a ton to build out a new program and curriculum for people who have zero programming experience, and based on the consolidation of cohorts, I can't imagine they have a ton of money to invest in it, but I have NO idea and I hope they do because this can be an INCREDIBLE program to help a lot of people get into tech who otherwise wouldn't be able to.
7. This sounds like a large number of instructors and mentors are no longer needed after these changes roll out, so I'm also curious how the instruction team will change, or if there are larger layoffs happening. EDIT: there were confirmed layoffs, but unknown who.
8. GIVEN ALL THESE CHANGES - THE UPCOMING CIRR OUTCOMES, GOOD OR BAD ARE MUCH LESS RELEVANT because they are from a program 1-2 years ago that looks nothing like what they are talking about Codesmith today. This is frustrating because they have been sitting on H2 2022 outcomes using the current CIRR standard for six months now and never published them, and when they finally expect to publish them, they won't matter anymore
9. Leveraging alumni is a good strategic move because the Codesmith community is so strong. Getting alumni to come back and teach for under their market value will get support for alumni who want to give back. That said, the alumni I know won't lead lambs to the slaughter and I wouldn't expect alumni to cheerfully pat students on the back and tell them they will be ok. Bringing in industry views might destroy the positive and controlled ecosystem inside Codemsith with realistic and pessimistic ones that staff will have to acknowledge. An industry engineer won't let you get away with saying your OSP was 10 months of work experience, and that even by saying that you won't compete with people just laid off with years of real experience.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I'm pausing (but not removing) my recommendation to consider going to Codesmith for the time being until we find out the ramifications of all this and where it lands. I've tried to message people who I've recommended go there in the past week with the post and recommend you consider the impact of the changes on your own. And if I missed you hopefully you read this message here. This doesn't mean whatsoever that you shouldn't consider Codesmith or that I don't recommend it at all anymore, I just can't tell anyone to 1-1 to go there right now given these large sudden changes until I find out more about the day to day details. TLDR: You should still consider going, but if I told you something in the past week like "you should strongly consider Codesmith over X" then I can't stand by that right now until I learn more.
ANALYSIS:
(numbering to make it a bit easier to discuss)

1. "mirror the experience of the communities for which they are creating"

According to this 7% of 2023 roles were onsite and 36% were hybrid. So I think having a NYC onsite as one out of (previously) FIVE options, the other 4 being remote, makes a lot of sense. I would suspect that finances and having a $70K (note: unconfirmed number shared with me by someone claiming to work there, but makes sense based on evaluating similar leases in the area) a month lease in Manhattan has something to do with it... just costs too much when you can't fill a cohort :(
That said, I LOVE the new co-working space ideas so that people can still meet in person less frequently but get some face time and in person collaboration.
It's notable that they are abandoning Los Angeles - the OG home of Codesmith - for SF. I think it's a good move, but I'll note that they might find a lot of pushback from Silicon Valley engineers. I might go to some events myself because I live most of the time in SF, but I haven't talked to an engineer in person here that doesn't staunchly disagree with the way Codesmith grads present their projects as "mid level and senior" work and they might not find the same kind of support here that they have in less tech-focused cities.

2. "over 3000 of our residents have built careers solving problems at the leading edge of technology"

I'm curious if over 3000 got jobs or if over 3000 graduated? Just adding up their CIRR numbers that would mean like well over 1000 should have gotten jobs last year and Codesmith said here there have been in the 500s. The data they have shared in a past info session that contained the entire count of all students had a bit over 3000 students listed, but not PLACEMENTS. Minor detail but I want to make sure people get the right data. This job posting said 5000 grads.
This post is about layoffs and massively shrinking the program, so I don't

3. "Serge Vartanov, Principal Software Engineer at Tinder (where they’ve hired “half a dozen” Codesmith grads and mostly in senior roles) says he’s not surprised that “Codesmith grads end up at Meta, Google, Amazon, and Netflix.”

I'm not sure where this came from, but if he's talking about DOWN THE ROAD, maybe. In people's reported roles out of Codesmith, the data I've seen (which again, is illustrative and not verified but comes from Codesmith and seems legit) , show under 100 grads going to Meta, Google, Amazon and Netflix combined out of allegedly 3000 plus above. Which would be a small edge case and not the norm. Maybe Codesmith has more data that's different than this and maybe this data is lacking, but just calling this out as a personal opinion/interpretation on the various pieces I can gather.
Similarly who are the people placed at Tinder directly from Codesmith and what were their roles. Serge himself was placed as a Senior there, but a couple others I found were not titled Senior and were titled lower... perhaps why "half a dozen" is in quotes. Makes more sense if people were hired there in their second and third roles as seniors, consistent with what I see in my day to day as well.

4. "The results have been submitted to CIRR for imminent release"

That's good, CIRR's President was replaced (it's not longer Rachel Martinez) and it seems a bit messy right now.
If the standards changed in 2024 CIRR: PLEASE PUBLISH THE 2024 STANDARD WELL BEFORE THE OUTCOMES COME OUT SO WE CAN EVALUATE THEM! Surprise here's our new outcomes with these new standards attached comes across as sketchy to me, but that's just my opinion.
More importantly, they will be for people who did Codesmith in 2022 - 1-2 years ago! All of these changes are like a new program, and whether they are good or bad they just don't really matter in this new world.

5. "Our core programs: which will be the Part-Time Remote and Full-Time Remote."

Curious what the time zone will be to work for everyone.
EDIT: 7:30am PST to 5:30am PST/10:30am EST to 8:30pm EST Monday to Saturday

6. "Adding coworking spaces in our main hubs in SF and NYC"

Love this change, curious to see how it goes and how they will manage them, who will use them, but it's a cool idea to try.
Codesmith events have long been the way they do marketing - they don't do online ads at all, and I think in person events can be very effective.

7. "But it’s a new reality to have a tech downturn at all (it’s unprecedented since 2008 and 2001)."

I'm glad they are acknowledging it. Eric K has been saying in info sessions how he's lived through 2001 and 2008 and this is nothing like those downturns... well maybe it's not. Eric K has been starting off sessions with statements like 'I just got off a call from someone with a $130K offer'.... great for them, but maybe not something you tell prospective students if that was an edge case of top 25th percentile of placements and like 60% of people (this is a guess, number is not known) are getting placed.
On the positive side, I'm happy to see Codesmith finally acknowledge that the market is bad for entry level engineers and Codesmith's approaches aren't working anymore and it's time to make significant changes. I offered feedback for almost 2 years now about issues with Codesmith - I know the times were better and this feedback was perceived as attacking something that's working, but the feedback was 100% valid and I'm a nothing-is-ever-good-enough-type person. All I heard back was that Eric K and Will staunchly defended Codesmith internally and acknowledge none of my feedback. Hopefully we can all move past this now that we see the consequences of not making changes and adapting and if you spend more energy defending than listening.

8. "Timeless Pedagogy"

Curious more what "smaller groups" means. The cohorts were fairly small, but I love the idea of smaller groups than 36 people.
Mentorship "don" - I'm surprised people don't have dedicated mentors, I thought every junior had a senior and vice versa. Perhaps this is a alumni or Codesmith staff.

9. Future Code NYC program

Still waiting to hear more about this but from what I've seen in the past this is a great program! The past versions were for people with NO PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE, so this is an interesting diversion for Codesmith. Their current curriculum obviously won't work and they won't be able to use the same job hunting techniques anymore. So I'm curious to see how this plays out.
Given the fact that they are shrinking cohorts and financial constraints, it seems a bit risky to invest in a new program that I would expect to require more investment to get going and develop all the new curriculum and strategies, but the mission is important and it's great to see Codesmith supporting more diversity amongst residents.

10. "Frontier Tech"

Calling Next.js and Typescript "frontier tech" is a bit dated to me haha.
But very nice to see AI and ML being integrated. Integrating into 12 weeks of curriculum is tough. These are deep topics that I think require 12+ weeks to develop a useful experience in, BUT getting some exposure early on is great.
"New curriculum focused on System Design, Data Structures, and Algorithms alongside workshops to further job search strategies.": those are very important things! My mentorship platform focused exclusively on those and it takes most people who start where Codesmith grads end months to get really good at these topics, so I'm very curious to see where this comes into play. Maybe they can present new spins on things. I have a team of people who have built interviews at FAANG, taught interviewers at FAANG, and we have a ton of experience in these areas, so I'm going to be keeping a very close on eye on this area.

11. "Curated Community"

"New alumni joining the faculty" - every single faculty except one person is an alumni of Codesmith already, so not sure what this means. Maybe just that they are committing to this approach?
"Deepening connections with hiring partners and bringing alumni leaders back as mentors" - so the mentorship program I run has signed paperwork with 3 of the canonical FAANG companies to call them "partners" in various capacities, I would be curious who Codesmith's partners are. You can't call someone a partner because you have an alumni there, so I would push them a bit on that and push for more on what the partnerships are.

12. LAYOFFS OCCURRED ON WED FEB 28th

I confirmed via an alumni reach out that layoffs were reported by Eric Kirsten directly. The number of people was not specified and the roles were not specified, other than Eric reaffirming support for current students and for job hunters.
I'm not sure how this all plays together with the announced changes, which seem to cost more money.
The Future Code program alone will cost a ton of money to run properly because it's a completely new entry skill bar that they have no experience teaching.

SFF here means all speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror, alternate history, magical realism etc).
The following SFF books will be published in the U.S. in February 2024. Other countries may differ.
If you know of others, please add them as comments below. If I've made any mistakes, just let me know, and I'll fix them up.
The published book formats are included with each entry (mostly hardcover and/or trade paperback with the occasional ebook). This information is obtained from the isfdb website which lists one format type for each entry but mostly omits ebook entries. If it's a new hardcover and/or trade paperback book, it's very likely that an ebook is also coming out at the same time.
If you are using the Chrome browser, you might find the Goodreads Right Click extension useful, to find out more information on books that you are interested in:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goodreads-right-click/fbicpmopjallgdpklipffmihodimmcbe?hl=en
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Key
(A) - Anthology
(C) - Collection
(CB) - Chapbook
(N) - Novel
(NF) - Nonfiction
(O) - Omnibus
(R) - Reprint
(YA) - Young Adult and Juvenile
[eb] - eBook
[hc] - Hardcover
[tp] - Trade Paperback
​
February 1

• Blood Rage (The S. P. E. A. R. Mission Files 3) - Ileandra Young (N) [tp]
  
• Doorway to the Stars - Jack McDevitt (CB) [hc]
  
• Dragon's Belle (Magic, Fur and Claws 1) - Eve Langlais (N) [tp]
  
• Ghost Town - R. E. Ward (N) [tp]
  
• Roxy and Coco - Terese Svoboda (N) [tp]
  
• Smoker on the Porch - Dom Watson (N) [eb] tp
  
• The Bad Weather Friend - Dean Koontz (N) [hc]
  
• The Blood Fountain (Mark of Valliath 3) - M.H. Woodscourt (N) eb
  
• These Things Linger - Dan Franklin (N) [tp]
  
• This Impossible Brightness - Jessica Bryant Klagmann (N) [tp] [hc]
  
• Traitor's Bargain (The Lenticular 2) - Keith Stevenson (N) [tp]
  
• We Ate the Dark - Mallory Pearson (N) [tp]
  
• Woe to the Stargazers - Alex Shipper (N) eb
  

February 5

• Fool’s Bond (System Apocalypse: Kismet 2) - Tao Wong and David R. Packer (N) eb
  
• Just Stab Me Now - Jill Bearup (N) [eb] [tp]
  
• The Price of the Mountain Lily - Liana Brooks (CB) [tp]
  

February 6

• All This Twisted Glory (This Woven Kingdom 3) - Tahereh Mafi (N) [hc]
  
• An Angel Called Peterbilt (Assiti Shards Universe Novels) - Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett, Gorg Huff (N) [hc]
  
• Awake - Christopher Krovatin (N) (YA) [tp]
  
• Beggar's Sky (Rich Man's Sky 3) - Wil McCarthy (N) [hc]
  
• Beyond Enemies - Marisa Wolf (N) [tp]
  
• Breakers of the Code (Thunder on the Plains 2) - Erin Hunter (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Bride - Ali Hazelwood (N) [tp] [hc]
  
• Clarion Call (Ravensong 2) - Cayla Fay (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Crucible of Chaos (Court of Shadows) - Sebastien de Castell (N) [eb] hc
  
• Death System (Zombicide) - S. A. Sidor (N) [tp]
  
• Equimedian - Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (N) [tp] [hc]
  
• Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories - GennaRose Nethercott (C) [tp]
  
• George R.R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle: A Novel in Stories edited - George R.R. Martin (Editor) (N) [eb] hc
  
• Ghostlord (Wildlord 2) - Philip Womack (N) [tp]
  
• Gunflower - Laura Jean McKay (C) [tp]
  
• Infinity Alchemist (Infinity Alchemist 1) - Kacen Callender (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Legacy of Temptation (Demonica Birthright 1) - Larissa Ione (N) [tp]
  
• No Filter - Kelley Skovron (N) (YA) [tp]
  
• No Man's Land (Rowan 2) - Davis Bunn (N) [hc]
  
• No Time Like Now - Naz Kutub (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Off the Rails (Mihi Ever After 3) - Tae Keller (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Pangu's Shadow - Karen Bao (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Party Crashers - Jennifer Torres (CB) (YA) [tp]
  
• Past Crimes - Jason Pinter (N) [hc]
  
• Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright (N) [tp]
  
• Resting Witch Face (Stay a Spell 5) - Juliette Cross (N) [tp]
  
• Rise of the Green Flame - Bernard Mensah (CB) (YA) [tp]
  
• Simul (Momenticon 2) - Andrew Caldecott (N) [hc]
  
• Tales from the Rain: Early Weird Fiction - Mark Howard Jones (C) [tp]
  
• Tales of the Celestial Kingdom (Celestial Kingdom 3) - Sue Lynn Tan (C) [eb] [hc]
  
• The Burning Land (Talmont 1) - David Hair (N) [hc]
  
• The Cursed Rose (The Bone Spindle 3) - Leslie Vedder (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• The Dolphin Dream - Debbie Dadey (CB) (YA) [tp] [hc]
  
• The Drift - C. J. Tudor (N) [tp]
  
• The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat - Camille Gomera-Tavarez (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• The God Machine 2 (The God Machine 2) - Emergencycomplaints (N) [tp]
  
• The Holy Terrors (Holy Terrors Mysteries 1) - Simon R. Green (N) [hc]
  
• The Last Days of Lilah Goodluck - Kylie Scott (N) [tp]
  
• The Sea at the End of Everything - Emily McCosh (N) [tp] [hc]
  
• The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories - uncredited (A) [hc]
  
• The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett (N) [hc]
  
• The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf 3) - Richard Swan (N) [hc]
  
• The Wrath (Rise of the Warlords 4) - Gena Showalter (N) [hc]
  
• Traitor’s Tome (Death’s Disciple 2) - Emma L. Adams (N) [eb] [hc] tp
  
• Winston Chu Vs. the Wingmeisters (Winston Chu 2) - Stacey Lee (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• You Glow in the Dark - Liliana Colanzi (C) [tp]
  
• You're Breaking My Heart - Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich (N) [hc]
  
• Your Shadow Half Remains - Sunny Moraine (CB) [tp]
  

February 9

• A Bit of Luck - Lisa Mangum (A) [hc] [tp]
  
• Tales from Ancient Egypt - Jamila Gavin (CB) (YA) [tp]
  

February 10

• Imperator (The Great Hearts 5) - David Oliver (N) eb

February 12

• City in the Dragon’s Eye (Dragon Reich 1) - Jordan Loyal Short (N) eb
  
• Demoniacs (The Revolutionary War 1) - Craig Cormick (N) [tp]
  

February 13

• A Flame in the North (Black Land's Bane 1) - Lilith Saintcrow (N) [tp]
  
• Among the Living - Tim Lebbon (N) [tp]
  
• An Education in Malice - S. T. Gibson (N) [hc]
  
• Boy of Chaotic Making (Whimbrel House 3) - Charlie N. Holmberg (N) [tp]
  
• Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben Vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Cho Rou (N) [eb] [tp]
  
• Convergence Problems - Wole Talabi (C) [hc]
  
• Dangerous Allies (The Forgotten Five 4) - Lisa McMann (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear - Robin Wasley (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Deprivation - Roy Freirich (N) [tp]
  
• Dread Detention (Creatures & Teachers) - Jennifer Killick (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Jubilee - Stephen K. Stanford (N) [tp]
  
• Leon Levels Up - Paul Coccia (CB) (YA) [tp]
  
• Medea - Eilish Quin (N) [eb] hc
  
• Not Your Crush's Cauldron (Supernatural Singles 3) - April Asher (N) [tp]
  
• Plastic - Scott Guild (N) [hc]
  
• Projections - S. E. Porter (N) [hc]
  
• Rebel Skies - Ann Sei Lin (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• RJ The Astronaut - Jon Turney (N) eb
  
• The Age of Magic - Ben Okri (N) [tp]
  
• The Blueprint - Rae Giana Rashad (N) [hc]
  
• The Book of Doors - Gareth Brown (N) [hc]
  
• The Book of Love - Kelly Link (N) [hc]
  
• The Boyfriend Wish - Swati Teerdhala (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• The Briar Book of the Dead (All the Murmuring Bones Universe) - A. G. Slatter (N) [tp]
  
• The Dragon Soldier's Good Fortune - Robert Goswitz (N) [tp]
  
• The Eternal Ones (The Gilded Ones / Deathless 3) - Namina Forna (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• The Fox Wife - Yangsze Choo (N) [hc]
  
• The Frame-Up - Gwenda Bond (N) [tp]
  
• The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti 2) - Malka Older (N) [eb] [hc]
  
• The Princess Protection Program - Alex London (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden (N) [hc]
  
• Those Who Dwell in Mordenhyrst Hall - Catherine Cavendish (N) [tp]
  
• What Feasts at Night - T. Kingfisher (CB) [hc]
  
• With a Little Luck - Marissa Meyer (N) (YA) [hc]
  

February 14

• Prince of Shadows (Stories of Gereon 3) - Camilla Vavruch (N) eb

February 15

• Troubadours and Space Princesses (LTUE Benefit Anthologies 6) - Jaleta Clegg, Joe Monson (A) [tp]

February 20

• A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea 1) - Hafsah Faizal (N) [hc]
  
• Blind Spots - Thomas Mullen (N) [tp]
  
• Bumps in the Night - Amalie Howard (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Daughters of the Lamp - Nedda Lewers (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Demon's Rage (The Bloodwood Saga 2) - David Estes and Ben Galley (N) [eb]
  
• Disciples of Chaos (Seven Faceless Saints 2) - M. K. Lobb (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Escalators to Hell: Shopping Mall Horrors - Jennifer Jeanne McArdle, Michael W. Phillips, Jr. (A) [tp]
  
• Exit Black - Joe Pitkin (N) [tp]
  
• For the Stolen Fates (In the City of Time 2) - Gwendolyn Clare (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Gone with the Witch (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries 5) - Angela M. Sanders (N)
  
• Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth 1) - Kristen Ciccarelli (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• I Do Not Eat Children - Marcus Cutler (CB) (YA) [hc]
  
• Island Witch - Amanda Jayatissa (N) [hc]
  
• Leopard's Hunt (Leopard 15) - Christine Feehan (N)
  
• Medusa (The Myth of Monsters 1) - Katherine Marsh (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Night for Day - Roselle Lim (N) [tp]
  
• Ours - Phillip B. Williams (N) [hc] [tp]
  
• Remedial Magic (A Course in Magic 1) - Melissa Marr (N) [tp]
  
• Servant of the Lost Power (The Arisen Worlds 3) - Kay Kenyon (N) [hc] [tp]
  
• Sun of Blood and Ruin - Mariely Lares (N) [eb] [hc] tp
  
• The Bad Ones - Melissa Albert (N) [hc]
  
• The Bezzle (Martin Hench 2) - Cory Doctorow (N) [hc]
  
• The Diablo's Curse - Gabe Cole Novoa (N) [hc]
  
• The Oracle - Ari Juels (N) [hc]
  
• The Shadow of Perseus - Claire Heywood (N) [tp]
  
• To Cage a God (These Monstrous Gods 1) - Elizabeth May (N) [hc]
  
• Twice Lived - Joma West (N) [hc]
  
• Vangie's Ghosts - Paul Di Filippo (N) [tp]
  

February 21

• Johnny Talon and the Goddess of Love and War - W. B. J. Williams (N) [eb] [tp]
  
• The Billabong Trail - James Chambers (CB) [tp]
  
• The Ordeals of Ornland (The Kiynan Chronicles 3) - Eric P. Callibot (N) eb
  

February 22

• Eynhallow - Tim McGregor (N) [tp] [hc]
  
• Reaping Demons (Scythe & Souls 1) - Eve Langlais (N) [tp]
  
• Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction - Robert Lloyd, Joan Passey (NF) [hc]
  
• The Chronicles of Earth (The Edinburgh Doctrine 3) - CL Jarvis (N) [eb] tp
  

February 24

• The Bastard Heirs (Riverda Rising 2) - Helen Rygh-Pedersen (N) [eb] [hc] tp

February 27

• A Fate Inked in Blood (Saga of the Unfated 1) - Danielle L. Jensen (N) [tp] [hc]
  
• A Haunting in the Arctic - C.J. Cooke (N) eb
  
• Battery Life - Brennan Gilpatrick, Gregory Lang (N) [tp]
  
• Beasts and Baking (The Weary Dragon Inn 4) - S. Usher Evans (N) [hc] [tp]
  
• Bored Gay Werewolf - Tony Santorella (N) [hc] [tp]
  
• Born of Scourge - S. Jean (N) [eb] tp
  
• Compass and Blade - Rachel Greenlaw (N) [hc] [tp]
  
• Daughter of the Bone Forest (Witch Hall Duology 1) - Jasmine Skye (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Epitaph (Halo) - Kelly Gay (N) [tp]
  
• Fate Breaker (Realm Breaker 3) - Victoria Aveyard (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Fathomfolk (Drowned World 1) - Eliza Chan (N) [tp]
  
• Firewall (Picard) - David Mack (N) [hc]
  
• Ghost Island (Detective Jessica Niemi / Ghosts of the Past 4) - Max Seeck (N) [tp]
  
• In Ascension - Martin MacInnes (N) [eb] [tp] [hc]
  
• Kindling - Traci Chee (N) [hc]
  
• King Nyx - Kirsten Bakis (N) [hc]
  
• Lore of the Wilds (Lore of the Wilds 1) - Analeigh Sbrana (N) [hc]
  
• Maiden, Mother, Crone - Joanne Harris (C) hc
  
• Momo Arashima Breaks the Mirror of the Sun (Momo Arashima 2) - Misa Sugiura (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Moon of Turning Leaves - Waubgeshig Rice (N) [eb] [hc]
  
• Redsight - Meredith Mooring (N) [hc]
  
• Serpentus (The Relics of War) - A.J. Calvin (N) [eb] hc
  
• Snowglobe (Snowglobe 1) - Soyoung Park (N) [hc]
  
• So Eden Sank to Grief - Eric Reitan (N) eb
  
• Sterling Fierce and the Lost Dragons (Sterling Fierce 1) - Lori Tchen (N) (YA) [tp]
  
• Tangled Magic (The Unicorn Legacy 1) - Kamilla Benko (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• The Book of Ile-Rien: The Element of Fire & The Death of the Necromancer (Update and Revised) - Martha Wells (N) [eb] [tp]
  
• The Butcher of the Forest - Premee Mohamed (CB) [tp]
  
• The Lady in Glass and Other Stories - Anne Bishop (C) [hc]
  
• The Last Bookwanderer (Pages & Co. / Tilly 6) - Anna James (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• The Moorings of Mackerel Sky - MZ (N) [hc]
  
• The Other Valley - Scott Alexander Howard (N) [hc] [tp]
  
• The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter Vol. 1 - Yatsuki Wakatsu (N) [eb]
  
• Tomorrow's Children - Daniel Polansky (N) [tp]
  
• Villains' Realm (Kingdom Keepers Inheritance 2) - Ridley Pearson (N) (YA) [hc]
  
• Weyward - Emilia Hart (N) [tp]
  
• Where the Dark Stands Still - A. B. Poranek (N) (YA) [hc]
  

February 29

• Ancient Tides Ashore - Mike Robinson (N) [tp]
  
• Queen of Hearts (Empire of Shattered Crowns 4) - May Freighter (N) [eb] tp
  
• Redsight -Meredith Mooring (N) [eb] [hc]
  

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Edit1: Added in books from Rob J. Hayes' February 2024 list of self-published fantasy books, that I didn't already have (tag #rjhspb).
Edit2: Added in books from the February io9 SF/Fantasy list that I'd missed (tag #io9).
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Archive
Previous "SFF books coming ..." posts have been collected here. (Thank you mods).
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Main Sources

• Forthcoming books at https://www.isfdb.org/fc.cgi
  
• Upcoming Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books listed at Risingshadow: https://www.risingshadow.net/library/comingbooks
  
• Rob J Hayes' monthly blog posting on new self-published books: https://www.robjhayes.co.uk/blog/
  
• io9's monthly list of new sci-fi and fantasy books.
  
• Locus Forthcoming Books https://locusmag.com/forthcomingbooks/
  
• Publisher "new" and "Coming Soon" web pages such as: https://publishing.tor.com/coming-soon/ and https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/imprint/orbit/
  
• Reviews of ARC books by various users in this sub.
  
• Other occasional posts to this sub announcing up-n-coming books.
  

Would you consider the 1980 film The Offenders Lost Media? This is a no-wave film by Beth B. and Scott B. Kirsten Bates, Adele Bertei, Lydia Lunch, Robert Smith, Bill Rice, and Diego Cortez perform in the film. The tagline for it was, “A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.” They first screened the film in segments at Max’s Kansas City. They used what money they got from each screening to finance filming more scenes. The film is a satire about a group of people who kidnap a woman named Laura played by Adele Bertei and her abusive father Dr. Moore, played by Bill Rice. Outside of that, I could not find a lot of details on the plot.
The film has been digitally restored by The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) but has not been released in its restored state. I tried looking at MoMa’s site. It was listed as being online, but it only said “Not On View” on the page it was supposed to be on. This is what was said about the film on MOMA’s site. I will post a link to the site below.
"The Offenders. 1980. USA. Written and directed by Beth B, Scott B. With Adele Bertel, Bill Rice, John Lurie. 2K digital restoration by The Museum of Modern Art. Funding provided by The Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation. Lab work by Gamma Ray Digital. 100 min. To Save and Project presents the world premiere of Beth B and Scott B’s The Offenders in MoMA’s new digital restoration, carried out in consultation with the filmmakers and drawn from the film’s original Super 8 elements, acquired by the Museum in 2017. From the late 1970s through the early ’80s, the Bs were the most illustrious punk couple on the Downtown New York 8mm filmmaking scene. Their no-budget, DIY works confronted disturbingly prescient themes of social instability, the abuse of power, and terrorism. Described as “a savage satire of society’s distortions,” The Offenders was the Bs’ first feature, an episodic melodrama centred on a daughter’s kidnapping and her abusive, controlling father. Shot at Club 57 and other Lower East Side locations, the film featured a cast of 16, a cross-section of edgy young multimedia artists who made Downtown their home, including Diego Cortez, Laura Kennedy, Johnny O’Kane, Ann Magnuson; the musicians Lydia Lunch, Evan Lurie, Pat Place, and Kristian Hoffman; the performance artists Judy Nylon and Gerard Hovagimyan; the photographer Marcia Resnick; and the art critic Edit deAk. The film’s serialized production, which relied on the profits from work-in-progress screenings at Max’s Kansas City to pay for another week of shooting, was recognized as an innovative crowdfunding effort of its time."
I spoke to No Wave archivist Joshua Moore in a no wave Facebook group if he has seen the film, and this is what he said about it.
“Nope. 99% of The B's movies were never released officially on the home video circuit. They were, or even still are doing screenings of these films from time to time. Bootleg VHS copies were heavily traded/circulated during the 80's and 90's but they haven't been seen around lately. I know some sources that you can get them from provided you have other rare films to offer in trade. If you don't, it's SOL until someone uploads it on YouTube or Beth B releases it. I found a couple College Libraries that have one or two of their films (not this one) but you can only view in house for obvious reasons. One thing we can hope for is that maybe there will be some official releases in the pipeline because Beth B signed a deal with Kino/Lorber for the Lydia Doc.”
I have looked everywhere for this film. I looked at the Internet Archives. I could not find any streaming services that had it. The only thing I could find was a short clip on YouTube. I looked for the film on Kino Lorber because I found a trailer, they made for a collection of films made by Beth B. but only found a page that talked about screenings of the film. There wasn't anything listed when I looked. Here are some links for information on the film.
The Offenders. 1980 MOMA
The Offenders MOMA - Not on view.
The Offenders. 1980. (1980 film) Wikipedia)
The Offenders — 1980 The AV Club
The Offenders IMDb
The Offenders Filmpop
The Offenders (Rare Lydia Lunch Movie) (Clip) (1980) The clip is from an old VHS bootleg of the film, so the quality isn't very good.
The Offenders Letterbox Someone on Letterbox said they saw the film on MOMA but I wasn't able to find it.
UCLA Library The Offenders/Votex This is something that talks about a screening of the film.
Kino Lorber
The Films of Beth B – Collection Trailer This trailer looks like it might contain some segments from the film. The only collection of films I could find by her was Sex, Power, and Money: Films by Beth B. It didn't look like it had the film in it.
All the other websites I found said the same thing as the sites I listed.

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This thread will serve as an archive for fancams from the Tour. Please share whatever videos you come across on social media, even though filming is forbidden, so we might not get a lot of fancams.
❌ Please do not reupload as your own. It's disrespectful to the owners of the fancams who shared them with us.
🆕 0212 Seoul Broadcast 0112 Seoul FANCAM

Collab Stages

• Opening (Stronger) - 4K CAM, Fancam, Fancams, Funky Y Cam / Cam2, Nob Cam, Lia Kim Cam
• Smoke - 4K CAM, CAM2, Fancam
• Click Like - CAM2, Fancam, Cam2
• Swipe - 4K CAM2, CAM2
• Twerk - 4K CAM, CAM2, Fancam
• Ending (Rush) - 4K CAM
• Goodbyes - Fancam

Battles

0112 Seoul

• Redlic vs Sayaka - Part1 / Ver.2, Part2 / Ver.2, Sayaka Cam
• JJ vs Mina Myoung - Part1, Part2
• (Special) Halo/Chocol vs Rihey/ZSun - Fullcam, Fancam, Cam2 (Redlic😂)

0212 Seoul * Capri vs Rena - Part1, Part2+3, Part3 * Audrey vs BabySleek - Part1, Part2, Part3, 2+3 * (Special) Waackxxxy vs Lip J - Part1, Part2, Part3 / Ver.2
0312 Seoul * Bada vs Redy - Part1, Part2+3 * Yumeri vs Yoonji - Full * (Special) Lia Kim vs Hyojin Choi - Full
0912 Busan * Soll vs Minah - Soll, Minah * Waackxxxy vs Momo - Part1, Part2, Part3, Full * Chocol vs Yeni Cho - Part1, Part2, Full * Harimu vs Vessi - Part1, Part2, Part3 * Cera vs Funky Y - Part1+2, Part3 / Part1, Part2+3 * Emma vs Akanen - Part1 / Part1+3, Part2+3, Part3
1612 Daegu * Chocol vs Yumeri - Part1, Part2, Part3. Full * Yoonji vs Nob - Full, 2+3 Nob * Dohee vs Minny Park - Full, Part1, Part2, Part3 / Part3 * Cera vs Halo - Part1, 2+3 Halo, 3 Cera * JJ/Gooseul vs Sowoen/Cheche - JJ/Gooseul, Sowoen/Cheche * Mini vs Locker Zee - Part1, Part2, Part3
2312 Incheon * Lusher vs Haechi Wang - Full / Full / Full (from stage), Part2 HW, Part3 HW * Debbie vs Mina Myoung - Full, Part3 / Part3 * JJ vs Harimu vs Vessi - Full * Locker Zee vs Naro - Part1, Part2, Part2+3 * Buckey vs Emma - Part1, Part1+2, Part2, Buckey Cam, Full (from stage) * Yeni Cho vs Bada - Part1, Part3, Full Bada, Full (from stage)
2512 Suwon * Cera, Funky Y, Redlic vs Biggy, Nob, Vessi - Mannequeen, LadyBounce, Full 3v3, Biggy vs Cera / Ver2 * Amy vs Lusher - Part1, Part1+2, Part2+3 * Harimu vs Audrey - Full / Ver2 * Halo vs Mini - HQ CAM, Full / Ver2 / Ver3 * Lia Kim vs Locker Zee - Full / Ver2 / Ver3, Part1, Part2, Part3, Part2+3 (from stage), Full (from stage) * Minah/Tatter vs Momo/Yumeri - Part1, Part2, M/T Individual, M/Y Individual
3012 Gwangju * Chocol vs Bada - Part1, Part2+3, Part3 / Ver2 * Downy vs Nob - Part1, Part2+3 / Ver2 * Waackxxxy vs Yoonji vs Cera - Full, Waackxxxy, Yoonji, W+Y, Cera. All (from stage) / Ver2 / Ver3 * Dohee vs Mini - Part1, Part1+3, Part2, Part3 / Ver2 * Yeni Cho vs Funky Y - Part1, Part2, Part3, Part2+3 / Ver2 * BabySleek vs Lia Kim - Part1 / Ver2, Part2 / Ver2 / Ver3, Part3 / Ver2 / Ver3 / Ver4

1Million

• Shut Down - 4K CAM, Fancam, Dohee Cam
• Bang Bang - 4K CAM, Fancam

BEBE

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• Cockiness + S&M - 4K CAM, Fancam

DeepNDap

• Bills, Bills, Bills / Chili - 4K CAM, Fancam, Cam2
• The Baddest Female - Fancam
• Jam - Fancam

Jam Republic

• Flawless / Baby Boy / Bow Down - 4K CAM, Fullcam, Fancam, Kirsten Cam / Cam2
• Jele / Angels in Tibet - Fancam / Gwangju Kirsten/Ling ver

Lady Bounce

• Crazy Out There - Full
• Baby Back Home / Ratata - 4K CAM, Fancam, Cam2, Cam3, Capri Cam

Mannequeen

• Express / A Little Party - 4K CAM, E Fancams, Fancam, ALP Fancam, Cam2, Cam3
• Judas - Fancam
• EZ - Fancam

Tsubakill

• Good Kisser / 16 Shots / Yozm Gang - Fancam, Cam3, Cam2, Cam4, Rena Cam
• Show You Can - Fancam, Cam2
• Daegu Sayaka/Yumeri/Momo - Opening, Yumeri, Sayaka, Momo, Hey Mama 1, Hey Mama 2

Wolf'Lo

• Show Me What You Got / Arson / Coup D'etat - 4K CAM, Fancams, Fancam, Cam2, Chocol Cam / Ver.2
• Creep / Move Shake Drop / Finder - 4K CAM, Creep Fancam, MSD Fancam, BabySleek Focus
• Broadcast ver. CUT

Comments of this type were the bulk of what I got:
"That could be tough. The patients in the last decade of the hospital's operations were pretty severely impaired, though there was the children's program. I was there from 1987 until it closed. I'm in this episode of At Cam."
Went down the rabbit hole and it turns out that At Cam is a YT audio miniseries from 2020 where former CSH employees are interviewed. I guess I'm watching that to get a better picture of what conditions were like inside CSH, but that still doesn't answer my questions of what it was like for patients inside CSH.
Anyways, here are some more comments I got:
"I am reading a book called They Call Them Camisoles-free download if in first link, courtesy of the CSUCI archivesIt’s written by Kirsten Anderberg and Wilma Wilson. It’s a great book with stories from patients"
"You might want to contact the University they have the Library full of history and patients. Most of the people have moved on or were so imparied they died."
"California changed the the laws and regulations of physical containment therefore some folks that chose not to voluntarily admit and were not Seen as a “ threat to others or themselves “ did not enter treatment. Many of the clients that I worked with were nonverbal and had severe cognitive disabilities. Interviewing past clients would be, quite a challenge."
So I guess I'm going to take the advice of contacting the assisted-living/nursing homes in the county and seeing if the people there know any former patients of Camarillo State Hospital who would be able and willing to be interviewed.
Sigh.

Welcome to This Week In KPOP, a collection of everything you may have missed during the past week on kpop.

September 16, 2023 - September 22, 2023

TOP 10 STORIES

#	Votes	Thread	Comments
1	(+2547)	All 7 BTS Members Renew Contracts With BIGHIT MUSIC	328 comments
2	(+2277)	Red Velvet To Make Comeback With Third Full- Length Album In November	175 comments
3	(+1749)	Loossemble Preserves Group Name… Wins Lawsuit over Blockberry	88 comments
4	(+1609)	YG Entertainment has reportedly delayed BABYMONSTER's debut, amid BLACKPINK's contract renewal controversy	399 comments
5	(+1531)	BTS SUGA will begin his required military service on Sep 22	102 comments
6	(+1484)	ITZY Lia to take a prolonged rest due to health concerns	81 comments
7	(+1290)	Stray Kids members Hyunjin, Lee Know and Seungmin involved in minor traffic collision	101 comments
8	(+949)	YG Entertainment Briefly Responds To Reports Regarding BLACKPINK Members’ Contract Renewal	378 comments
9	(+888)	LOOSSEMBLE's debut album 'Loossemble' has surpassed 50,000 physical sales on Hanteo	34 comments
10	(+851)	TWICE's Nayeon Sparks Controversy After Legal Win Against Her Mother's Ex-Boyfriend	200 comments

TOP ANNIVERSARIES

#	Votes	Thread	Comments
1	(+740)	Happy 6th Anniversary to LOONA ODD EYE CIRCLE !	16 comments
2	(+609)	Happy 15th Anniversary to IU!	17 comments
3	(+140)	Happy 3rd Anniversary to BDC!	7 comments

TOP 10 PERFORMANCES

#	Votes	Thread	Comments
1	(+944)	[Performance] NAYEON (TWICE) - NO PROBLEM (feat. Felix of Stray Kids) (Band Live Clip)	48 comments
2	(+476)	[Live] Pre-Debut Stage: VCHA - Y.O.Universe @ KBS Music Bank (230922)	66 comments
3	(+418)	[Song Cover] D.O. (EXO) & Lee Suhyun (AKMU) - Rewrite The Stars (orig. Zac Efron & Zendaya - The Greatest Showman OST) + Fry's Dream (orig. AKMU) @ KBS The Seasons: Long Day, Long Night with AKMU (230922)	32 comments
4	(+261)	[Song Cover] (G)I-DLE Yuqi - ghost town (orig. JVKE)	6 comments
5	(+235)	[Song Cover] Kep1er Chaehyun & Huening Bahiyyih - Truly (orig. Younha)	15 comments
6	(+192)	[Performance] EL7Z UP - CHEEKY (M2 Relay Dance)	5 comments
7	(+142)	[Performance] PURPLE KISS - 7HEAVEN (M2 Relay Dance)	1 comments
8	(+133)	[Song Cover] NewJeans Hyein - Slow Dancing (orig. BTS V) @ By Jeans (230920)	5 comments
9	(+104)	[Performance] BTS V - Slow Dancing (Band Session)	0 comments
10	(+101)	[Live] D.O. (EXO) - That's Okay @ KBS The Seasons: Long Day, Long Night with AKMU (230922)	4 comments

TOP 5 DANCE CHALLENGES

#	Votes	Thread	Comments
1	(+203)	ZEROBASEONE (ZB1) Gunwook, Yujin, Zhang Hao - Smoke (orig. Dynamicduo, Lee Youngji) (Choreo by Bada Lee) Dance Challenge (230917)	21 comments
2	(+156)	TXT (TOMORROW X TOGETHER) Yeonjun & Kirsten (SWF 2 JAM REPUBLIC) - 'Back for More (with Anitta)' Dance Challenge (230922)	10 comments
3	(+125)	ARTMS Choerry - Sugarcoat (orig. KISS OF LIFE Natty) (Dance Challenge) (230917)	2 comments
4	(+121)	ZEROBASEONE (ZB1) Matthew & Ricky - 'Booty Wurk' Dance Challenge (230916)	5 comments
5	(+110)	PURPLE KISS Yuki (with woo!ah! Nana) - 7HEAVEN (Dance Challenge) (230916)	1 comments

TOP DISCUSSIONS / FEATURES

#	Votes	Thread	Comments
1	(+149)	America2Korea - Episode 20 - "Team Evaluation Rankings" - 230918 - (Live Episode Discussion)	89 comments
2	(+138)	America2Korea - Episode 22 - "The Final Members" - 230921 - (Live Episode Discussion)	125 comments
3	(+103)	America2Korea - Episode 21 - "The Grand Finale Begins" - 230920 - (Live Episode Discussion)	115 comments
4	(+69)	The K-Pop Music Videos Rate!	1 comments
5	(+26)	/kpop Top Ten Tuesdays Results Thread: Golden Child (2023)	1 comments
6	(+24)	What Are You Listening To? - September 20, 2023	15 comments
7	(+21)	Weekly Discussion (Sep 18, 2023 – Sep 24, 2023)	8 comments

MUSIC SHOWS

Date	Performances	Discussion Thread	Winner
20230916	Music Core	Thread	AKMU
20230917	Inkigayo	Thread	AKMU
20230919	The Show	Thread	JAECHAN
20230920	Show Champion	Thread	V
20230921	M!Countdown	Thread	V
20230922	Music Bank	Thread	V

 

NEW RELEASES

Day	Artist	Album Title	Type	Music Video	Streaming
16th	T5 (TREASURE)	MOVE -JP ver.-	Japanese unit debut digital single	MOVE -JP ver.-	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	KARDI	City of Wonder	World Expo 2030 Busan collaboration single	City of Wonder	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	Rothy	[THE SEASONS VolⅡ. 2] ReːWake	KBS 'The Seasons' remake single	Reflection of You In Your Smile (orig. Shin Seung Hun)	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
17th	Boramiyu, SUNNYSIDE MJ	Love Diary	Re:born Project+ single	Love Diary	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
18th	Park Hyunho (ex-XENO-T Seogoong)	123 go!	digital single	123 go!	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
	D.O. (EXO)	Expectation	mini album	Somebody	Spotify / Apple Music / YouTube Music
19th	EVNNE	Target: ME	debut mini album	TROUBLE	Spotify
	HELLO GLOOM (IMFACT Ungjae)	Heaven On Earth	digital single	Heaven On Earth	Spotify
20th	FAVE1	Sirius	Japanese single album	Sirius	Spotify
	Lacuna	John	digital single	John	Spotify
	Rolling Quartz	Fearless	digital single	Fearless	Spotify
	Jeong Dong Won	Collection of props Vol.1	special mini album	Monologue / If	Spotify
	Roa (Rocking doll)	SKIP OUT	digital single	SKIP OUT	Spotify
	TEMPEST	Into The TEMPEST	single album	Vroom Vroom	Spotify
	Yuju	DALALA	digital single	DALALA	Spotify
21st	An Shinae (The Barberettes)	Respect	solo debut digital single	Respect	Spotify
	FERRY BLUE	FREE	digital single	FREE	Spotify
	FANTASY BOYS	NEW TOMORROW	debut mini album	NEW TOMORROW	Spotify
	Hoody	Sailing	full-length album	Lonely	Spotify
	Yim Siwan (ZE:A), Winter (aespa)	Win For You	SM Classics project single	Win For You	Spotify
22nd	GEMINI	Love Sick	mini album	Attention (feat. DAWN, BLASÉ)	Spotify
	The Rose	DUAL	full-length album	Wonder	Spotify
	AB6IX	B:COMPLETE (2023)	remake mini album	BREATHE (2023)	Spotify
	BewhY	Holy Toast	digital single	Holy Toast	Spotify
	Kim Yohan (WEi)	Blue in You	remake single	Blue in You (Duet With CHEEZE) (orig. Kim Hyun Chul, Lee So Ra)	Spotify

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