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Project Hail Mary, Official Trailer

I read Project Hail Mary (by The Martian author Andy Weir) a few summers ago; it was fine. I suspected at the time it might make a better movie than a book and after watching the trailer, I’m excited to see this next summer. Ryan Gosling stars and Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie, produced the Spider-verse movies) are directing. Out in theaters March 2026.

Tags: Andy Weir · books · Christopher Miller · movies · Phil Lord · Project Hail Mary · Ryan Gosling · space · trailers · video

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Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The...

Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The first novel about superintelligence is actually a work of horror SF, a cautionary tale about the dangers of knowing too much.”

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The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001). “Spanning the years...

The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001). “Spanning the years 1937–2001, the collection should especially appeal to those with an avant-garde or musicological bent.”

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Ex-FBI agent on ICE masking: “Masking has always been associated with police...

Ex-FBI agent on ICE masking: “Masking has always been associated with police states. I think the masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls.”

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Scammers are using AI tools to sell spectacular-looking but non-existent plant species...

Scammers are using AI tools to sell spectacular-looking but non-existent plant species that resemble butterflies, Hubble photos, or psychedelic Jurassic Park flora.

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Cheating Expert Answers Casino Cheating Questions

Cheating expert Sal Piacente, who’s got the perfect name, accent, demeanor, and face for someone who helps casinos catch cheaters, stops by Wired Tech Support to answer reader queries about how gamblers & casinos attempt to bamboozle each other. Can slot machines be h...

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Stupid-Americans feel about Trump the way Irish-Americans felt about JFK in 1960....

Stupid-Americans feel about Trump the way Irish-Americans felt about JFK in 1960. “They love him for who he is, which is one of them, and because he shows them every day that Stupid-Americans can reach the social mountaintop.”

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Whoa, Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief, a post she...

Whoa, Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief, a post she has held for 37 years. Your reminder to watch the excellent documentary The September Issue.

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Hope Is a Risk

From Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies (Amazon):

Hope is a risk; especially when you've known what it is to dream for better and only be met with the tyranny of degradation, greed, and violent appetites. But despair is a concession. Be careful of who you let regulate your dreaming. Always remember who benefits from our hopelessness.

Hope is a risk; especially when you’ve known what it is to dream for better and only be met with the tyranny of degradation, greed, and violent appetites.

But despair is a concession.

Be careful of who you let regulate your dreaming. Always remember who benefits from our hopelessness.

Tags: Cole Arthur Riley

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“Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next James Bond film for...

“Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next James Bond film for Amazon MGM Studios, the studio announced Wednesday.” Bond + Villeneuve could be a potent combination.

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How Field Notes Went From Side Project to Cult Notebook. “One by...

How Field Notes Went From Side Project to Cult Notebook. “One by one we fired all our clients because this Field Notes thing was getting bigger and taking up more of our time…”

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Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to create The Way of Code: The...

Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to create The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding. Inspired by Laozi’s Dao De Jing, it’s Rubin’s take on intuitive programming. (I had to triple-check that this was indeed Rick Rubin the record producer…)

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This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World

Join National Geographic as they ride one of the most punishing train routes in the world, the Mauritania Railway, which travels through the Sahara Desert. One of the longest and heaviest trains in the world, the 1.8-mile beast runs from the mining center of Zouerat to th...

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The Weird Zombie Existence of the Family Circus. The long-running comic is...

The Weird Zombie Existence of the Family Circus. The long-running comic is now mostly just re-running strips from its archive, updated for modern times.

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Pathfinder: find and explore the relationships between two concepts....

Pathfinder: find and explore the relationships between two concepts.

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Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a sequel to The Social Network....

Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a sequel to The Social Network. “The new film isn’t a ‘January 6’ movie and will focus not just on the 2020 election but also Facebook’s effect on teens, preteens, violence and countries outside the U.S.”

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What Was Jim Crow?

This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to reverberate in American society and politics today. If you are an American watching this, and you had a standard social studies or history class in h...

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A blog about sci-fi interfaces in movies and TV shows with lots...

A blog about sci-fi interfaces in movies and TV shows with lots of screenshotted examples.

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How Christoph Niemann Uses AI in His Work

This is a thoughtful piece from artist & illustrator Christoph Niemann about how he’s come to use AI (tactically, sparingly) in his work: Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art. Creating art is a nonlinear process. I start with a rough goal. B...

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In case you need, like I do, some reminders on How to...

In case you need, like I do, some reminders on How to Weather the Storm. “You have opportunity after opportunity to create something lovely for yourself or others.”

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The Joy and Pain of Learning New Things as an Older Human

From an excerpt of his new book, It’s Only Drowning (Amazon), David Litt writes about the frustrating and humiliating experience of learning how to surf at the age of 35. Yet I didn’t quit. I returned to the dog beach twice more the week of my first solo session, and four m...

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A recent trend in book cover design: “It tends to lay blaringly...

A recent trend in book cover design: “It tends to lay blaringly bright type in a sans-serif font atop a painting, usually a few centuries old but not always.” See My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh.

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Noah Kalina on the observer’s paradox: “I’ve come to the unfortunate realization...

Noah Kalina on the observer’s paradox: “I’ve come to the unfortunate realization that I can’t experience anything anymore without thinking about how I’ll document it.” 🎯🎯🎯

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Chris Ware Creates Stamps For USPS

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Graphic artist Chris Ware has created a set of 20 stamps for the US Postal Service’s 250th anniversary in his iconic style.

The pane of 20 interconnected stamps show a bird’s-eye view of a mail carrier’s route through a bustling town. Laid out in 4 rows of 5, the stamps depict the story through the 4 seasons from top-left to bottom-right. The artwork also contains numerous icons representing the Postal Service.

The stamps will be available in July but you can pre-order them now from the USPS Store. (thx, caroline)

Tags: Chris Ware · design · stamps · USPS

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From Scientific American, a set of charts of vaccination recommendations for children...

From Scientific American, a set of charts of vaccination recommendations for children and adults backed by science. (Since our “government” won’t do it…so fun to live in the DIY public health era.)

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Star Wars Lofi, chill music from a galaxy far, far away to...

Star Wars Lofi, chill music from a galaxy far, far away to work & study to. Available on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, and vinyl.

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Koyaanisqatsi Trailer Recreated Using Stock Footage

Koyannistocksi is a shot-by-shot remake of the trailer for Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi using only stock footage.

A testament to Reggio’s influence on contemporary motion photography, and the appropriation of his aesthetic by others for commercial means.

(via @waxpancake)

[This is a vintage post originally from Apr 2016.]

Tags: Godfrey Reggio · Koyaanisqatsi · movies · remix · timeless posts · trailers · video

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Stop Making New Oreos. Not sure what the best part of this...

Stop Making New Oreos. Not sure what the best part of this video is — maybe the Bluetooth Oreos? (My friend the other day: “Look, PB&J Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.” Clerk: “They taste awful.”)

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Copaganda and Me. “The police are the good guys, or so I...

Copaganda and Me. “The police are the good guys, or so I thought as a kid growing up in the suburbs in the 1980s and 1990s when just about everything I knew about policing came from what I watched on television.”

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An Interview With Andor’s Creator, Tony Gilroy

Like many others, I became a little obsessed with Andor over the past few months. I was lukewarm on the first season when it came out, but a pre-s02 rewatch completely changed my tune — I think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen on television. Season 2 was almost as ...