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14 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Director Ryan Coogler Breaks Down Film Aspect Ratios

Filmmaker Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Creed) is a big ol’ movie dork, and it’s endearing to watch him break down all the different types of film, aspect ratios, and projection options as he explains how many ways you can watch his latest movie, Sinners, when it comes out this week. Super informative too if you’ve always wondered about the different IMAX formats and just what the heck it means when someone you love gets excited about 70mm.

Tags: film school · movies · Ryan Coogler · Sinners · video

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14 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? “The fluidity and warmth...

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? “The fluidity and warmth of human-centered thinking through the use of circles is perhaps the most elegant way anyone has ever described making a logo that resembles an anus.”

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14 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Are You Looking for Work? Are You Looking to Fill a Position?

Hey, it’s been awhile since we’ve done one of these. If you are out there looking for work, post a quick summary of what you do, what you’re looking for, and a link to your resume/portfolio/LinkedIn/contact info and maybe someone here will see it and want to hire you. Likewi...

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14 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

M. Gessen: “This is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities,...

M. Gessen: “This is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and [bring] education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.”

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14 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Unequal Rights

Heather Cox Richardson on where we are right now in terms of what type of government we currently have: Here’s the thing: Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game. You have admitted th...

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14 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Letter from a high-ranking FBI official who recently resigned. “I took an...

Letter from a high-ranking FBI official who recently resigned. “I took an oath to defend the Constitution. The unqualified leaders Donald Trump chose to lead the bureau act like they took an oath to Trump personally.”

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14 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

I was chuffed to see that KDO’s own Edith Zimmerman has a...

I was chuffed to see that KDO’s own Edith Zimmerman has a cartoon in the New Yorker today! Go Edith!

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14 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

George Monbiot: Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth...

George Monbiot: Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature. “Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes.”

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13 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

I am catching up on what happened in season one of The...

I am catching up on what happened in season one of The Last of Us by watching and reading recaps. Season 2 starts tonight on HBO & Max at 9pm ET.

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13 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

New Study Finds Average American Stands No Chance Against What’s Coming. “The...

New Study Finds Average American Stands No Chance Against What’s Coming. “The typical American is toast.”

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10 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing. “Trump’s desire to dominate others...

The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing. “Trump’s desire to dominate others is the driving psychological force of his administration.”

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10 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Busy Day at the Airport

Cy Kuckenbaker compressed five hours of landing planes into 30 seconds of video. I love this. A great example of time merge media. (via colossal, which has been killing it lately)

[This is a vintage post originally from Dec 2012.]

Tags: Cy Kuckenbaker · timeless posts · video

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10 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

All the headlines are following Trump’s messaging of a “pause”, but the...

All the headlines are following Trump’s messaging of a “pause”, but the fact is that goods imported from practically every country in the world are taxed at 10% and Chinese goods at 125%. These damaging tariffs are all Trump’s doing. Nothing is “fixed”.

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10 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds. “The...

Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds. “The milestone was powered by a boom in solar power capacity, which has doubled in the last three years.”

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09 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

What It Feels Like, Right Now. “It’s hard to focus. It’s hard...

What It Feels Like, Right Now. “It’s hard to focus. It’s hard to focus on the things in front of me, that I need to do. It’s hard to focus on the news, because it’s not just one thing, it’s a hundred things, news like fire ants…”

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09 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid. “The administration could create its...

We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid. “The administration could create its own gulags with no more judicial review than existed when Stalin did the same thing in the Soviet Union.”

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09 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

If You Heard What I Heard is a collection of Holocaust stories...

If You Heard What I Heard is a collection of Holocaust stories as told by survivors to their grandchildren. “Our generation is the last to ever hear our grandparents’ stories firsthand, in the same room, over the course of decades, directly from them.”

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09 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

From the NYT’s Overlooked obituary series: Katharine McCormick, Force Behind the Birth...

From the NYT’s Overlooked obituary series: Katharine McCormick, Force Behind the Birth Control Pill. In the 20s, she smuggled 1000 diaphragms into the US in her luggage and later funded the development of the birth control pill.

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09 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

The List Keepers, on the informal efforts to keep track of the...

The List Keepers, on the informal efforts to keep track of the toll of AIDS in the theater industry. “Sometime around 1982, McAssey had opened a pocket-size spiral-bound diary and written LOST FRIENDS at the top of a page.”

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09 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms. “Paying someone...

Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms. “Paying someone $100,000 a year to host your blog. Come on buddy. I said I hate being a businessman, but even I know that’s fucking stupid.”

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09 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

ICE director’s dream: “Squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the...

ICE director’s dream: “Squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages […] like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.” This is pure evil.

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09 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Speedrunning Economic Collapse for Funsies

Ryan Broderick on how, with the trade war that Trump’s tariffs has unleashed, we are speedrunning Brexit and other hyper-inflationary financial crises (thread) and Americans may soon find out what happens when US dollars don’t buy anything. So from my uniquely weird perspe...

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09 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

From Edith Zimmerman: Vampire Brand Crossovers. Like Nosferatuthbrush from Orlok-B....

From Edith Zimmerman: Vampire Brand Crossovers. Like Nosferatuthbrush from Orlok-B.

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08 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

The Phoenician Scheme

Ok so I’ve watched the trailer for the new Wes Anderson movie, The Phoenician Scheme, a couple of times and I still don’t know what it’s actually about? But from the looks of things, it is more of the same for people who like that sort of thing, which is lucky for me.

Also, Michael Cera might be the most Wes Anderson-coded actor that’s never before been in a Wes Anderson movie.

Tags: movies · The Phoenician Scheme · trailers · video · Wes Anderson

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08 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Which types of people aren’t big fans of “impartial” news? People who...

Which types of people aren’t big fans of “impartial” news? People who don’t have power. “The poor, those with less education, young people, and women are less likely to prefer ‘impartial’ news sources over those that align with their own views.”

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08 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

The Rules of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Cartoons

Speaking of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, animator Chuck Jones and his team were said to follow these simple rules when creating the cartoons: The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “meep, meep.” No outside force can harm the Coyote — only his own i...

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08 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Can I Teach the First Amendment If I Only Have a Green...

Can I Teach the First Amendment If I Only Have a Green Card? “[Trump’s chilling actions] also make it difficult to work out how to teach cases that boldly proclaim this country is committed to a vision of free speech that, right now, feels very far away.”

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08 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

25 Films to Help Understand the US Today

For The Guardian, the film critic Guy Lodge has complied a list of 25 films that “shed light on the US under Trump”. From the introduction by filmmaker Alex Gibney: This is a dire moment in the US. It’s a moment where there’s an opportunity for people with a lot of money to...

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08 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

Happy 10th birthday to Lit Hub, a site I’ve been reading and...

Happy 10th birthday to Lit Hub, a site I’ve been reading and linking to more frequently over the past few months. “I believe deeply in making our small corner of the internet a better place, publishing work that elevates, interrogates, and inspires…”

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08 Apr 2025 • Jason Kottke

DJ Bart Simpson & The Hood Internet

In a recent episode of The Simpsons, Bart becomes a DJ and KDO favorites The Hood Internet wrote the music and did all of Bart’s mixes. They also made a ending credits remix of some of the most memorable Simpsons songs, including See My Vest, Mr. Plow, Do the Bartman, We Do (the Stonecutters song), Dr. Zaius, and The Monorail Song:

(via @unlikelywords.bsky.social)

Tags: music · remix · The Hood Internet · The Simpsons · TV

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