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Ok it’s not one hour of Zemo dancing, but I’ll take it. And the YT comments are better:

“Many Bothans died to bring us this beat.”
“Sir, we have located the Rebel bass.”

This isn’t the first time this song has appeared on Andor — it’s an “intergalactic hit” called Niamos! written for the show by composer Nicholas Britell, who lives in this galaxy and was also responsible for the Succession theme song. (via @moleitau.bsky.social)

Tags: Andor · dance · music · Nicholas Britell · Star Wars · TV · video

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The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025. “The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650.”

Vystery is a game where you click/tap to enhance sections of an abstract image and try to guess what it is in the fewest moves possible.

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan spend the night in the Upper East Side with Mike and Claire as they rewatch Ridley Scott’s 1987 crime thriller ‘Someone to Watch Over Me’—starring Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, and Lorraine Bracco Podcast Manager: Craig Horlbeck Video Producers: Ronak Nair and Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There are two ways to consider a forced divestiture of Chrome by Google, as the U.S. Department of Justice has, for months now, been requesting after Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled that Google has illegally maintained its monopoly in web search. One is from a business perspective...

Om Malik: Some of us are old enough to remember that the reason Mark renamed the company is because the Facebook brand was becoming toxic, and associated with misinformation and global-scale crap. It was viewed as a tired, last-generation company. Meta allowed the compan...

My friend Jodi wrote a pretty thorough crash course on how Canadian elections work (and how they compare to US elections). “In Canada, the election or campaign period must be at least 37 days and no more than 51 days.”

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Well this is just wonderful: Studio Ghibli has uploaded hundreds of high-resolution still images from almost all of their films, including all of the major ones: Princess Mononoke, Sprited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, The Boy and the Heron, Howl’s Moving Castle, etc. etc. The images are labeled “solely for personal use by individual fans to further enjoy Studio Ghibli films” and people are urged to “please feel free to use the images within the bounds of common sense”. Head to the list of Ghibli movies and click through to each film to find & download the stills. (via open culture) Tags: art · movies · Studio Ghibli 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

I Just Got Into Harvard. My MAGA Grandparents’ 6-Word Reaction To My Acceptance Devastated Me. “We are not your culture war — we are your kids. We are the future.”

This is a lovely little short film about the many snowy owls that migrate down from the Arctic and settle at Boston’s Logan airport and the man who safely captures & relocates the owls away from the airport. I love this story about what a fierce hunter the snowy owl is...

Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge: Meta has laid off an unspecified number of employees in its Reality Labs division, a company spokesperson confirmed. The cuts affected teams working in Oculus Studios, Meta’s in-house games division for Quest headsets, as well as some...

Aaron Pressman, writing earlier this month in The Boston Globe, “Why I Abandoned Google Search After 27 Years — and What I’m Using Instead”: The UK now requires travelers from America to obtain an electronic travel authorization, or ETA. I wasn’t sure of the exact name o...

A new game from the creator of One Million Checkboxes: One Million Chessboards. “Moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. There are no turns. You can move between boards.”

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“There are other meat-eating caterpillars that “do lots of crazy things, but this takes the cake,” said study author Dan Rubinoff with the University of Hawaii at Manoa.” I, for one, think it’s cool when bugs wear other bugs.

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60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, in last night’s closing statement:

“Stories we’ve pursued for 57 years are often controversial: lately, the Israel-Gaza war and the Trump administration. Bill made sure they were accurate and fair. He was tough that way.”

“But our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways. None of our stories has been blocked, but Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism requires.”

“No one here is happy about it. But in resigning, Bill proved one thing: He was the right person to lead ‘60 Minutes’ all along.”

Every single executive at Paramount should be ashamed, starting at the top, with the loathsome and cowardly Shari Redstone.

Link: cbsnews.com/video/bill-owens-60-minutes-video-2025-04-27/

Silenced Science Stories is a collaboration between scientists and artists to tell the stories of scientific experts who have been affected by the Trump regime’s purge of their ranks. We are organizing an illustrated series of portraits and stories of scientific experts whose work is being affected by federal budget cuts and mass firings. We have over 30 science artists who are volunteering to create these features to communicate the careers and the important scientific research of federally employed and funded scientists. If you’d like to get involved, they are looking for both artists and scientists with stories to tell. You can read more about the project in Physics Today. (via jonathan hoefler) Tags: 2025 Coup · art · Donald Trump · illustration · politics · science

Scientists have invented (or discovered?) a new color called “olo”. “Verifying that [the] participants had indeed seen a novel color was tricky. Only one person witnesses the experience of color: the person who sees it.”

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Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts. “Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support.”

A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right. “Leaders in the far right conceal their true nature to present a more acceptable version to potential voters, donors and sometimes their own members.”