“When we think of love, we think of romance and happily-ever-after fairy tales. By telling this story, I want to invoke something different — the radical power of seeing, understanding, and showing up for another human.”
The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast. You can’t see...
The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast. You can’t see laser shots and X-wings wouldn’t turn like that in space, but “it’s more fun this way”.
Things Become Other Things & A Physical Education
Fun day today: two of my online pals have books coming out. First is Craig Mod’s Things Become Other Things, a memoir of a walk (and a life) in Japan and on a childhood friend who didn’t have the same opportunity.
Photographer and essayist Craig Mod is a veteran of long s...
A history of music album art. “Before most people owned a TV...
A history of music album art. “Before most people owned a TV set, Steinweiss’s album covers were affordable multi-sensory entertainment. Looking at the album cover & listening to the music created an experience that was more than the sum of its parts.”
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part Two) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan
The Rewatchables is what gives a movie lover his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. In Part 2, Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan run through the categories for George Lucas’s ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’. Manager: Craig Horlbeck Video Producers: Ronak Nair, Jack Sanders Audio Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ (Part One) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a trio of Ringer movie lovers Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan use the force to get their galactic leader Bill Simmons to revisit one of the most iconic films of all time, George Lucas’s ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher. In Part 1, the guys break down why they love the movie, how it got made, and the enormous impact it had on Hollywood at the time and to this day. Manager: Craig Horlbeck Video Producers: Ronak Nair, Jack Sanders Audio Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions
Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, and gravitational waves.
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New Language for Slavery and the Civil War
Drawing upon the work of colleagues, historian Michael Todd Landis proposes new language for talking about slavery and the Civil War. In addition to favoring “labor camps” over the more romantic “plantations”, he suggests retiring the concept of the Union vs the Confederacy....
Mr. Beast Saying Increasingly Large Amounts of Money. “The work is intended...
Mr. Beast Saying Increasingly Large Amounts of Money. “The work is intended to distill the content of the most popular YouTuber in the world down to one of its core motifs: the promise of the next number being even bigger.”
Early 20th Century Advertisements for the Queen City Printing Ink Company
I love the colorful illustrative style of these adverts for the Queen City Printing Ink Company done by Augustus Jansson in the first decade of the 20th century.
Tags: advertising · art · Augustus Jansson · illustration
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For decades, US companies have “cast aside the goal of addressing a...
For decades, US companies have “cast aside the goal of addressing a legacy of discrimination for the vague idea of diversity – an idea that was always destined to fail, and an idea many corporations never truly believed in”.
How Soderbergh Elevates an Ordinary Scene in Black Bag
In this episode of Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak takes a look at a simple scene from one of my favorite recent films and shows how director Steven Soderbergh makes it sing.
Like Spielberg or Fincher, Soderbergh is a master craftsman, who can translate a scene from page to screen with the confidence of a seasoned pro. You feel that confidence when you watch his movies, and it’s both relieving and engaging.
I thought Black Bag was great (and great fun) — it’s got a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is streaming on Peacock in the US.
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Tim Friede has been bitten by 200 poisonous snakes and his antibodies...
Tim Friede has been bitten by 200 poisonous snakes and his antibodies are being used to create a broad antivenom. “He’s willingly been bit some 200 times by all manner of venomous snakes — black mambas, taipans, cobras, kraits and many others.”
The Courts Must Stop Presuming Donald Trump is a Regular President. “Much...
The Courts Must Stop Presuming Donald Trump is a Regular President. “Much of our law […] depends on the courts thinking that they can trust the president to comply with orders, and to be honest and truthful in court.”
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Turns 50. Watch It Free on YouTube.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail premiered in theaters on April 3, 1975. 50 years on, it remains one of the finest comedy movies ever (though it is definitely not everyone’s cup of tea). If you’re a fan, you can catch it for free on YouTube (with ads, not sure about region restrictions) or in select theaters in North America. You can also stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video, Pluto TV, Roku Channel, Plex, and a few other free movie services. (via open culture)
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“At the heart of [Trumpist] policies is soft eugenics thinking – the...
“At the heart of [Trumpist] policies is soft eugenics thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving healthcare and services from the vulnerable, then you can let nature take its course and only the strong will survive.”
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies. “He started telling...
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies. “He started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God — and then that he himself was God.”
Listen Later
My thanks to Listen Later for sponsoring last week at DF. Listen Later is a super simple, super useful service that turns articles into podcast episodes. When you sign up, you get a custom email address to send articles to; every article you forward to your Listen Later addr...
Jia Tolentino: My Brain Finally Broke. “The phone eats time; it makes...
Jia Tolentino: My Brain Finally Broke. “The phone eats time; it makes us live the way people do inside a casino” and with IRL current events like Trump & Gaza, “a chill sets in at some point, then a grimness, then a detachment”. Yes, all of this.
📄 FeedCity
I made a new thing: a feed reader called FeedCity, available at https://feed.city. The main reason for adding yet another feed reader to the already huge pile, is that I couldn’t find an existing one with the features I’d like to have. Here’s how FeedCity is different, I believe: